Mizzou chat with Dave Matter
Bring your Tigers football, basketball and recruiting questions, and talk to Mizzou beat writer Dave Matter in a live chat starting at 1 p.m. Thursday.
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Harrison Mevis is the kicker who signed. Credit Andy Hill for landing him. Erik Link is the new special teams coordinator. He's worked with special teams for the bulk of his career. Does that make him an expert in placekicking? I'm not sure, but I imagine he's qualified to coach the position. It's such a specialized position that at the college level kickers don't get a lot of hands-on coaching. I'm sure there will be people on staff to help with technique and strategy and conditioning, but it's not a real complicated position to teach.
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I understood Odom's reasoning behind the move but it can backfire. I think he wanted to get some new faces in certain markets, flood St. Louis with multiple coaches to start building relationships with the players who they'd spend the most time with in Columbia. In that sense, it makes some sense. But if you ask the high school coaches, they want consistent faces walking through their doors. They want coaches they can get to know personally and trust. That's harder to do when 10 coaches are coming in your office instead of one or two. As Drinkwitz pointed out yesterday, when you recruit regionally, you know where to look for information on a recruit at certain school. You have relationships with the important figures at that school and in that market.
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Martin shouldn't squirm because his contract protects him for another year. He can't be fired until after the 2020-21 season - and even then Mizzou would owe him a huge buyout.In general, yes, schools are showing less patience with head coaches. You saw it this year with Willie Taggart at FSU and Chad Morris at Arkansas. Coaches used to always be given at least three or four years. With all the money at stake, that's no longer the case, especially at major programs that expect to compete for championships every year.
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We don't know if he can build a program and sustain success because he's moved around so much and only been a head coach for one year. But this is what fans should like most: He has a plan. He has a plan on offense especially. He has a system in place that will have an identity and a purpose. That was not the case the last two years. Dooley arrived with his gargantuan NFL playbook and literally called his offense "Wikipedia.""Every day you can go on there and there’s a new sentence (and say), ‘Oh, I wonder who added that?," he said nearly two years ago.That's not going to be the case under Drinkwitz. He has an established offense that can lean in different directions based on MU's personnel, but there will be a plan in place.
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