SB Nation User Blog: ZouDave

Oh God, it's so painful to watch

ZouDave — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:34:50 -0000

If you can make it all the way through this video, your pain tolerance is through the roof.

All The Sooner Fans

Mizzou vs Furman 2009

ZouDave — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:41:37 -0000

Mizzou vs. Furman Highlights

Gabbert, Danario and Perry were simply amazing. It was nice to see Kendial and Moye get some good runs out there, too.

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Missouri vs Bowling Green Highlight Video

ZouDave — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:51:33 -0000

Mizzou vs. Bowling Green Highlights

It wasn't easy. It wasn't pretty. In fact, it was pretty scary. But they got it done, and while it may not mean anything Blaine Gabbert has already done something as a starter that Chase Daniel never did: win a game with a 4th quarter comeback. (We're just going to ignore the ISU game of Daniel's frosh season so that this sounds more impressive.)

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Missouri vs Illinois Highlights

ZouDave — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:17:27 -0000

Mizzou vs. Illinois Highlights

Really couldn't have asked for a better start to 2009. So many questions immediately put to rest, so many doubters immediately shushed, so many seats filled on the bandwagon. Same ol', same ol. Mizzou beats Illinois in football. Stop the presses.

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ZouDave's official picks for the Big 12 season

ZouDave — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:21:25 -0000

I've done fairly well with my picks over the last 2 seasons, but I think part of that is because the last 2 seasons have been pretty easy to pick. I got the order of the Big XII North exactly right last year, and only had Texas and Texas Tech transposed in the South last year so I lost that one by tie-breaker (I did correctly pick Tech to beat Texas, at least).

So, to officially put myself up against the likes of Phil Steele, here's how I see the Big XII season going (after the jump, of course).

Big XII North

kansas (9-3, 5-3)
Missouri (9-3, 5-3)
Nebraska (7-5, 4-4)
Kansas State (6-6, 3-5)
Colorado (5-7, 2-6)
Iowa State (3-9, 0-8)

Big XII South

Oklahoma (12-0, 8-0)
Texas (11-1, 7-1)
Oklahoma State (10-2, 6-2)
Texas Tech (8-4, 4-4)
Baylor (7-5, 3-5)
Texas A&M (4-8, 1-7)

I feel violently ill after officially putting this in writing, as I'm picking kansas to beat Missouri and win the North. This will be their first North title and the first time that Mangino has ever finished ahead of Missouri in the standings. I am going to puke.

I don't really think I believe Oklahoma is a 12-0 type of team, but I just don't see them losing at home to OSU and I don't see them losing 2 in a row to Texas. I certainly don't see any other B12 teams beating them. So, there you go. I think Oklahoma will rail kansas in the B12 Championship Game and get yet another shot at a BCS title.

Texas will once again get an at-large bid into a BCS bowl, deservedly so. OSU will show well in the Cotton Bowl, and kansas fans will scream bloody murder that they've been skipped for the Cotton despite winning their division. The Holiday Bowl will snag kansas. The Gator Bowl has taken B12 teams 2 years in a row (Texas Tech and Nebraska) and will likely be passing on the B12 this year, so the Sun Bowl will be taking a B12 team this year. The last B12 team to play in the Sun Bowl was Missouri in 2006, and they will have the choice of selecting us or taking Texas Tech. Texas Tech is located about 800 miles closer to El Paso, and a bowl game in Texas would be quite stupid to pass on a Texas team so expect the Sun Bowl to jump on the Red Raiders. The Alamo Bowl is unlikely to take Missouri 2 seasons in a row, so they'll select Nebraska. That means the 9-3 Missouri Tigers will fall all the way to the Insight Bowl and face someone like Wisconsin. The Big XII has been pretty dominant in Insight Bowl history, going 8-3 in our appearances (including a Missouri win over West Virginia in 1998), and this will be a good example of why because we're likely sending a 9-3 team to face a middle-of-the-road Big Ten team.

I will expect Missouri to beat our Big Ten opponent in the Insight Bowl to grab our 3rd consecutive 10-win season.

William Moore out 1-4 weeks

ZouDave — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:23:33 -0000

Bad News

Like I said, I wouldn't wish an injury on any NFL player...ESPECIALLY not one of our best!

Good luck to Willy Mo on a speedy recovery. Hopefully the timeline is short, the recovery is full, and the starting job is still open.

Chase Coffman: starter?

ZouDave — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:00:27 -0000

It appears they may have no choice.

While I certainly would never wish for any players in the NFL to get hurt, I'm not going to lie and say I'm not excited about Coffman getting a fast-track into the starting lineup. The earlier that he can prove he's among the elite pass catchers in the NFL, the sooner he starts his trek to Canton.

Franklin asked for release from KC, is now with Detroit

ZouDave — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:23:56 -0000

This is according to fellow SBNation site, Arrowhead Pride, and goes into detail about potential problems with new KC head coach Todd Hailey. And actually, if you want to get technical, it's all according to 610 AM in KC.

The full article can be found here.

I knew Copter would get another shot, because he's just got too much potential. So now he'll go up and be a potential target for Matt Stafford in all likelihood. I guess I don't care if a coach is going to be tough with players or not, but there's a pretty major difference between being tough and being a fucking asshole. Why single out Franklin? How about you go make an example of Larry Johnson, or a WR that was brought in as a free agent and hasn't done anything (Devard Darling) in more than a single season on a team that sucked, had no passing game, and he was hurt for most of?

Bah.

Mizzou radio broadcast highlights

ZouDave — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:14:49 -0000

Mizzou radio broadcast highlights

a quick 60 seconds of Mizzou radio highlights against Memphis.

GOLD JERSEYS!

ZouDave — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:30:29 -0000

Links to pictures of them in a store

A poster on Tigerboard has taken pictures of gold #10 jerseys hanging in a store in Harrisonville, MO, giving more legs than ever before to the theory that we're coming out in either all gold on Saturday, or at least Gold shirts and Black pants.

I truthfully don't care, but what I don't want is for this to be an issue at all. Daniel had his worst game of the year while wearing #25, so that became an excuse. If we for any reason struggle against kansas on Saturday, you won't be able to keep track of all the people who will say it's because we were wearing gold jerseys.

I'm not sure a gold and gold look is what we should be going for, honestly, but gold jerseys and black pants might look pretty cool. And at least with gold jerseys for sale, this will help with our "all gold" look for the fans. As one who is quite comfortable wearing a jersey to a sporting event, this might be an answer to a question for me.