Did not know this about Missouri

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"Everyone knows about towering Mizzou freshman wideout Dorial Green-Beckham, the 6-6, 220-pounder who came to Columbia as the nation's top high school recruit. But DGB is far from the only big target James Franklin has this season. Mizzou lists 12 WRs on its depth chart; eight are 6-2 or taller. T.J. Moe, the Tigers standout do-everything guy, at 6-0, 200 is only starting WR under 6-4."

Insane. I still think we need to move Dan Skipper to TE when he gets on campus. Just saying.
 
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Haha. James Franklin the QB is a great guy. His dad is an outstanding preacher who played for Oklahoma back in the day, and even went to the NFL for a while. Very good family. I will pull for them, except for when they play us. But I have a feeling this season will be a good "welcome to the SEC" season for them.
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
Haha. James Franklin the QB is a great guy. His dad is an outstanding preacher who played for Oklahoma back in the day, and even went to the NFL for a while. Very good family. I will pull for them, except for when they play us. But I have a feeling this season will be a good "welcome to the SEC" season for them.
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Yeah, I'm with you. I'll wish Missouri well when they don't play UT. Usually don't want any good for opposing East foes. But my first cousin played WR for Mizzou and did quite well until a shoulder injury hampered what was to be a stellar SR. Yr. Coach Pinkel is a good man.

Player Bio: Sean Coffey - MUTIGERS.COM - The University of Missouri Official Athletic Site
 
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They better get some 6'4 lineman. They may take a beating and be running 2nd and 3rd string players by the time they come to Neyland. Not a Mizzou enthusiast. Most people that say Mizzou will come into the sec and go 8-4 have an agenda. Do they play bama or LSU?
 
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Donvolson said:
They better get some 6'4 lineman. They may take a beating and be running 2nd and 3rd string players by the time they come to Neyland. Not a Mizzou enthusiast. Most people that say Mizzou will come into the sec and go 8-4 have an agenda. Do they play bama or LSU?
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I'll say this. They signed 6'3 Evan Boehm (OL) who was on Auburn's radar and looks like he will play as a true freshman.

I agree that the assumptions by Mizzou fans on 8-4 (counting us as a win based on last year's results) are a little extreme. They play Alabama and Georgia early. I have a feeling by the time they get to November, they may be limping a bit and we should be in full stride.

I like Mizzou, but I hear the talking of junk by their fans all of the time. Mizzou could not even win the Big 12 when they had a great team. They have been scrambling to learn the SEC along with their fans. Its obvious that they have not learned yet, how things go in this conference. Its big boy ball in the south. There are no Kansas Jayhawks, Iowa State Cyclones, Texas Tech Red Raiders on the schedule. The only thing that I know is that I am sick of the talking and ready to get the games started.
 
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Donvolson said:
They better get some 6'4 lineman. They may take a beating and be running 2nd and 3rd string players by the time they come to Neyland. Not a Mizzou enthusiast. Most people that say Mizzou will come into the sec and go 8-4 have an agenda. Do they play bama or LSU?
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They have Alabama at home

I think they'll get 7 but hope for 0!

SELA, Vandy, UK, Syracuse are wins I think

@Fla, @UT, UGA, AZ St, @UCF, @TAM are swing games

Bama, @USCe are losses
 
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MSUDuo said:
They have Alabama at home

I think they'll get 7 but hope for 0!

SELA, Vandy, UK, Syracuse are wins I think

@Fla, @UT, UGA, AZ St, @UCF, @TAM are swing games

Bama, @USCe are losses
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Tough schedule. Atleast tougher than anything they're used to seeing for sure.
 
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I was in Columbia a couple of years ago and drove by their campus and saw that small stadium they play in. It so happens they were playing Texas that weekend when I was there visiting friends. That stadium looked about as big as UTM or little bigger but it's small compared to Neyland. They would have to make some improvements on making that stadium bigger & better for SEC fans...just my opinion. For Mizzou being in the SEC, they will be slobberknocked hard this year for sure as a wake up call.
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
Haha. James Franklin the QB is a great guy. His dad is an outstanding preacher who played for Oklahoma back in the day, and even went to the NFL for a while. Very good family. I will pull for them, except for when they play us. But I have a feeling this season will be a good "welcome to the SEC" season for them.
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It's starting to look that way; they've already lost their starting left and right guards (the latter for 1-3 weeks, the former maybe till November) as well as their top backup OL (full season) and are going to have to start a Fr. in one of those spots (4 star kid we recruited)
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
I was in Columbia a couple of years ago and drove by their campus and saw that small stadium they play in. It so happens they were playing Texas that weekend when I was there visiting friends. That stadium looked about as big as UTM or little bigger but it's small compared to Neyland. They would have to make some improvements on making that stadium bigger & better for SEC fans...just my opinion. For Mizzou being in the SEC, they will be slobberknocked hard this year for sure as a wake up call.
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Theyve already approved/have been gathering money for 1-2 stadium expansions.

The Missouri stadium is about 71,000 currently. The first expansion is expected to jump it to around, I believe the number was 75,000-76,000 with apparently another later to push into the 80,000s somewhere around 2015
 
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Was not aware ut martin accommodated 70,000. Impressive.

Iirc missouri is set to expand to 80,000 in a few years which would put them right around the middle
 
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Had a very impressive showing today. Mind you, against a nobody, but still, putting up 62 points is pretty good. 14 of them came from punt returns apparently.

They take on Georgia next week I believe. Will be a much better indicator of who they are.

Missouri vs. Georgia and Florida vs. A&M are going to be the two games to watch next week. If Missouri and A&M win, then the new guys have just busted the East wide open.
 
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