Mizzou just won the Cotton Bowl

[Hoganman1]

I'm afraid expecting a coach to build a program with NIL and the portal is becoming increasingly difficult. There are probably only five or six premier coaches in the game today. Those guys can get players based on their reputation. The glory years of Spurrier happened because players came to play for him. Saban and Smart are getting a lot of talent because of who they are. Drinkwitz had a great year for sure, but can he repeat that for several seasons. Lincoln Riley is a good coach. However, he hasn't made Southern Cal a dominate team as yet. It took Dabo awhile to build Clemson into a team with two National Championships.
My point is predicting who will be the next Saban and how long it will take is a fools errand.

 

[KingWard]

I'm anticipating the opportunity to mark as intellectually incompetent those people who continue to bash Missouri as an SEC member - people who talk about how they don't belong and how they ought to be booted out. I'm talking about OUR fans, now. How dare they? The only people who look as stupid as those people talk are the ones who don't own or otherwise look into mirrors.

 

[Lurker123]

All I can say is our current pattern clearly doesn’t work. Why not try something different for a change? What is there to lose?

I have two main problems with that thinking.

It hasn't worked YET, but it has for other schools. (Not many keep losers if the average is less than 5 years)

If you can determine the coaching trajectory/ability in less time, why stick with a loser "just to try something new"? One example, would it have been good to keep Muschamp, just to try to break up the pattern?

 

[Lurker123]

What is so magic about 5 years? 6 or 7 years may turn a ''bad'' coach into the legendary coach you've been waiting for. The 5 year formula is not working for us or most other teams and has become a cycle of failure with huge payout rewards for these 5 year coaches.

There's nothing magical about any specific number of years. Each additional year helps build a resume though.

But, we should be able to determine the aptitude of the coach long before 6 or 7 years. If you can tell by year 4 or 5 that a coach won't make it, will failing for two or three more years benefit either party?

 

[Gamecock Jacque]

If you can tell by year 4 or 5 that a coach won't make it, will failing for two or three more years benefit either party?

At $6 mil per year one party definitely benefits.

 

[Spot The Ball]

And made themselves substantially better next year with portal additions. We are falling farther and farther behind in the SEC.

Hate to say this but Texas and Ok will win more SEC games than Beamer next year.

 

[18IsTheMan]

Hate to say this but Texas and Ok will win more SEC games than Beamer next year.

Well, yeah, that goes without saying