Mizzou's Turn to Be Cranky

by Jon Johnston on Nov 7, 2006 12:05 AM CST in Nebraska Husker Football

Fire Gary Pinkel? Mizzou's Turn to be Cranky

Dan over at ZouBlog has done a series of posts on Why Gary Pinkel should be fired.

You can say all you want about Mizzou's expectations being lower because the team hasn't won a title of any kind since 1969. You can say that Mizzou hasn't experienced national success in a long time. You can say that it's nice that Mizzou beat Nebraska on TV. But to extend the contract of a coach who had a winning percentage of .363 in conference play (at the time the contract was signed) is simply inexcusable.

He's referring to Mizzou's win over Nebraska in 2005, obviously not this year.

Does Pinkel deserve to be gone? Would you fire him if he were your coach? It doesn't take much to get into the fire the coach mindset - college football fans don't have a huge amount of patience, and since we're not the ones who have to pull the trigger or come up with the buyout money, it's easy to say 'fire the coach'.

Pinkel has been at Mizzou for six years now, and as ZouBlog points out, a .363 winning percentage in conference play is nothing to be proud of. Considering how bad the Big 12 North has been as a whole over the last three years and it really stinks.

ZouBlog posted a video that y'all saw of Chase Daniel picking his nose on national TV. I have to wonder why television people do that to embarrass the kid.

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is time for him to go. He has had alot of talent over the last few years and as weak as the North has been should have won at least one title. I just dont think he knows how to use his talent very well.

Speaking of how weak the North is...did we have this kind of talk when this league first started about how weak the South was. I know it was a while back but I just dont remember it. When this league started you had NU, CU, and KSU highly ranked every year and at one if not two more teams going to a bowl. The South had TU and aTm and if they were lucky one other team with a winning record. None were ranked all that high until OU got Stoops and started winning. They still only have TU and OU that ever get ranked in the top 15. The North may be down right now but I dont think that will last for much longer. I just dont remember all the blather about how weak the south was 10 years ago.

by taflorom on Nov 7, 2006 7:26 AM CST reply actions

need to make it more clear....

I dont really care if Pinkel gets fired or not. In fact I hope he stays because (as the next post also says) I think he has reached his peak and wont take Mizzu to the next level. But I couldn't care less if he stays or goes I am not a MU fan.

When I stated my comments on the weakness of the North it was meant to be about those comments and not on weather coaches should stay or go. All season long (actually for the last 2 or 3 years) we have heard how the south is so much more dominant then the north. I was wondering if when the league started there was this much commentary on how weak the south was.

by taflorom on Nov 7, 2006 12:54 PM CST reply actions