Also, we’ll have to see how much better Nebraska’s defense plays when they don’t have the backup MLB playing nose-guard in some junk-ass 3-3-5.

Missouri’s rivals may be Illinois and Kansas, but any KU fan who considers the Mizery-Texas game to be more important and more relevant than Mizery-Nebraska must be delusional from the flooding.

Based on Missouri’s strong showing in last year’s Fulmer cup, I would recommend buffett’s “Son of a sailor” since there is something in the song about staying one step ahead of the jailor.

Hopefully our secondary has improved or, no, the MU vs. UT game will not be fun to watch. Our last game against A&M was painful.

I think a better comparison might be Venezuela. Led by a none-too-bright commander into relevance of the saber-rattling variety in very recent years….but the locals only care if things are interesting. Otherwise, it’s back to baseball.

I hadn’t heard that. Good to know UT didn’t miss that one, in any case. Daniel is talented and you have to admire his spunk and leadership ability.

Iit is nice to see a player with integrity. There are actually many of them out there, but unfortunately, we only hear about the bad apples.

Those bad apples are entertaining, though. I’ve wasted an entire day reading about JJ. He was a good excuse not to finish a web site for a client.

The ‘Nubs will love this, but I must feed their pride and write it anyway. Our most important game this year is in Lincoln. I believe we leave St. Louis with a hard earned but not-so-close victory over [Name Redacted] and whatever RB he is currently milking for yardage under his stupifying spell. Bottom line: we need that win in Lincoln waaaaay more than that win in Austin.

Points of support:

1. This game is played within our division (more important for record and rivalry).
2. Missouri hasn’t won in Lincoln, a team in its division, since 1978 (ouch, hurts to type)
3. Missouri is expected to win it this year, while a loss on the road to a strong Texas team (assuming they’re strong at that point) is just not as damaging.

These three points will make for a hyped up Missouri team, which will meet an imporoved and ANGRY (revenge angry) Huskers squad. So, my opinion is that while the Texas game will be pretty and fun to watch, the Nebraska game will be vicious, brutal (see last year: Brown, Pig vs. Purify, Maurice), and full of desperation on the part of at least one team.
Therefore, if I’m not a Missouri fan, do I want to watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (MU vs. Texas, pretty, fairly bloodless) or 300 (MU vs. Nebraska, gore!)? I say, give them 300 and the blood and strange violence that comes with it.

Even if they don’t beat Illinois, Nebraska, and Okie St., they’ll still be heading into Ausin for their marquee matchup of the season, right?

Conversely, they might just suck again, we’ll see.

Overall, Missouri doesn’t get the top players from Texas…yet. They still tend to go to other big name programs around the country, UT, (unfortunately) OU, A&M, etc.