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Every week, PowerMizzou.com publisher Gabe DeArmond answers questions from Tiger fans in the mailbag. This format allows for a more expansive answer than a message board post. Keep your eye out each week to submit your question for the mailbag or send them to powermizzou@gmail.com. On to this week's inquiries.
BMorrow23 asks: I wear black and gold glasses I will admit, but looking at our football schedule with only two road games in the first eight, what percentage chance do you give us to be 8 - 0 going into Georgia the first weekend in November? What do you think our record will be going into that game?
GD: 8-0 would mean home wins over Kansas State, LSU and South Carolina, plus road wins at Vanderbilt and Kentucky. I'd give that about a 10% chance of happening. Missouri will be at least a touchdown underdog to LSU, I think. They'll probably be an underdog at Kentucky. I think best case (likely) scenario going into that game is 6-2. Let's say LSU is a likely loss. Then I think Missouri loses at least one of the others. I don't know which one. Individually they can beat Kansas State or South Carolina or Kentucky. The likelihood of them winning all of those is low in my opinion. So best case scenario is 6-2 and 5-3 is certainly possible/likely. If it's better than 5-3, Missouri has answered a lot of our offseason questions in a positive manner.
MickeyMizzou asks: How hot is Drinks seat getting? If he doesn’t win at least 6 is he gone? Schedule looks like he has a good opportunity to win 7 or 8. No excuses…he has to produce
GD: Not scorching, but there's pressure. The contract extension in the offseason raised a lot of eyebrows. If Missouri wins fewer than six, I'd absolutely expect a coaching change. If it wins eight or more, obviously there's no way. I wouldn't think you make a change at 7-5, but I guess it isn't impossible depending on how things play out. The gray area is 6-6. It's a bowl game. You could finish with a winning record. But I don't think anybody would view it as progress. It would be--at the very best--treading water. Again. We're in year four. It's time for a step forward. The roster is basically entirely his. The defensive coordinator (his third) is in his second year. There's an offensive coordinator. The schedule--in his own words--gives Missouri a chance to get off to a good start. As I mentioned, the extension has given him all the security and support he could ask for. Everything is there. Now it's time to see the step forward. If it doesn't happen this year, it's absolutely fair to ask if it's ever likely to happen.
