| 12 August 2009
My apologies for a little impromptu vacation time. Sleezy showed up (with family) on my doorstep a week early and wanted to go to Dollywood. Me being a little kid inside of course said 'yes'. Then we drank. A lot.
Either way, I'm back. So...what happened since Monday?
Not a whole helluva lot. What you need to know:
-Zavier Gooden is a little banged up.
-Our friend, Marvin Foster, is also beat to hell.
-Sounds like Ashton Glaser has taken over that 3rd QB spot. The Glaser/Dalton battle will be insteresting for the next few years.
-Speaking of young QBs, Blaine Gabbert is looking solid. Kid's been throwing TD passes left and right according to our boy, Dave Matter. God I'm excited.
-Ty Phillips is ineligible, but you knew that. Sounds like some freakish stuff happened on his HS curriculum. According to Matter, here's whats up with our guys that didn't get in this year:
Defensive lineman Ty Phillips, of East St. Louis, Ill., did not qualify academically and is expected to spend the upcoming semester taking night classes to raise his core GPA. He is not expected to enroll at a junior college to play football. Best-case scenario, I’m told, is Phillips will be eligible to re-sign with Missouri in December and enroll for the 2010 winter semester. Other schools will be able to recruit him also. Phillips originally attended Belleville East, Ill., High School, but when he transferred to East St. Louis, some of his courses from the first school were not counted with his transcript from the second school. (Redshirt freshman defensive end Aldon Smith had a similar issue when he transferred from an Iowa high school to Raytown.)
As for fellow freshman offensive tackle Chris Freeman, Missouri is still waiting on word from the NCAA Eligibility Center. The NCAA works on its own schedule with these matters, so there’s no telling when the case will be settled. Essentially, MU is taking a "hope for the best, expect the worst" perspective. Neither player's situation, though, came by surprise for the MU staff.
And as for Sheldon Richardson, the defensive lineman from St. Louis, he is enrolled at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, Calif., and the plan is in place for him to redshirt this upcoming season, play at COS in 2010 and enroll at Missouri in 2011 with three years to play three seasons. Some have wondered why Richardson enrolled at a California school when there are plenty in Kansas to attend, but I’m told it was the family’s decision in light of his older brother’s experience. Shaun Richardson failed to qualify after signing with Purdue, attended Joliet, Ill., Junior College but then came up short in qualifying at Purdue the second time around. Richardson and the COS head coach have both pledged that Richardson will eventually be a Tiger, but the MU coaches know they’re nowhere near done recruiting the prized prospect.
So, now you know.
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