The first day of the draft went well for 2 former Tigers as Aldon Smith was selected by San Francisco with the 7th selection and Blaine Gabbert went 3 picks later to the Jacksonville Jaguars. That makes 5 first round picks in the last 3 years for Mizzou and should end the myth that the Tigers and Coach Gary Pinkel can't get players drafted. Throw in some later round pickups like William Moore and free agents such as Chase Daniel and we're getting a nice representation from the black and gold. Will it help recruiting? I really don't see how it can't help to. All kids want to go to the next level and think that the only thing that would stop them would be poor coaching. That just shouldn't be a problem anymore, and next years draft should just continue the process as I believe we'll see another 4 or 5 players drafted.
As spring camp ended, there were some questions about the post spring depth chart. A lot of fans are disappointed that we didn't see more movement from the kids of the 2010 class that included such highly regarded recruits as Lucas Vincent, Nick Demien and the wide receivers. To me, it just shows that we had some fairly decent athletes to begin with and kids that used to come in and start as freshmen are now having to earn their way to a starting position. Another possibility is also keeping the younger kids hungry. I'm still going to be really surprised if we aren't hearing a lot of Hunt, Sasser and Lucas this fall. James Franklin sits at the top for the starting QB job this fall, but that battle is far from over. If I was going to make a prediction concerning quarterback, it would be to possibly look for Ashton Glaser to seek a transfer if he's buried 3rd on the depth chart. The kid can play, but it just doesn't look like he's ever going to do it in CoMO.
Something happened this week that was just funny, I don't care who you are. The new pride of the Big Ten, hick nation was booted out of the AAU this week. Apparently, after 102 years of membership, the association of 63 top research universities finally realized what a collection of dumb fucks lived in Lincoln. The Big Ten can no longer say that all their members belong to the AAU and I imagine some academia types aren't really happy with Jim Delaney today. I know it probably seems petty to be getting enjoyment out of this, but I do. I'm just that way.
Lots of news from around the new lean Big XII following spring football. We'll start talking about that later this week. First stop, Ames, Iowa and the Cyclones.
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