The Morning Commute for Friday, January 31, 2025

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Three Missouri seniors competed in the East-West Shrine Bowl and for reasons they were on different teams. Brady Cook was on the West squad, while Theo Wease and Johnny Walker, Jr suited up for the East.

If I’m being honest, I’ve always felt the idea of football all-star games the most bizarre of all the all-star games. I’ve always felt playing football, at least on offense, requires reps and timing which is something you acquire through time. Forcing this all together in a few days up to a week has to be nearly impossible. Plus, I’ve seen the Pro Bowl.

But the defense can still show up and get after it, and JWJ did his thing:

Since Cook was on the other sideline, JWJ finally got to sack his old teammate. I bet it was fun for him.

Cook had a few nice throws including this back shoulder throw to the sideline, even was noticed by Chase Daniel! But it wasn’t enough and the East won in a blowout.

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Yesterday at Rock M and Rock M+

• Mizzou WBB put the fear of God into the Texas Longhorns before faltering late, you can read Dylan’s recap here.
• Chad’s doing that offseason thing where you rank things, this time it’s best seasons:

For this exercise I’m ranking them as best in terms of historical significance to the program in the modern era, which is technically considered since the Associated Press rankings system began in 1936. Although, one could argue the true “modern” era shouldn’t go back any further than about 1960. This is not an attempt to represent all eras equally, just one slappy’s take on the most important teams this program has ever produced.

Spots 1 through 5 include two Pinkel teams and a Drinkwitz team. The tease here is the 2024 season is probably going to pop up in the next bit so stay tuned!

• We have dueling Rock-M-tology’s here with Sammy compiling the most well known sources, and Matt Watkins publishing his own over on Plus:

Currently, a six seed sounds about right. That’s where the Tigers land in this latest edition of Rock-M-Tology. Let’s get to the bracket.

BracketMatrix has a range from 5 to 9, but all safely in.

• Quentin went to the MBB press conference where Dennis Gates and Josh Gray talked to the media:

On getting a whole week between games during conference play: “It‘s timely. Whenever you look at being able to get into a new month of basketball in your conference, that means that teams are starting to break down a little bit, as you can see. I think with us, it gives us a time to recoup, focus on what we’ve done right, focus on what we’ve done wrong, and correct those wrongs. We haven’t played the best basketball on the road, and that’s something we got to get to.”

Big game tomorrow, chance for a huge win. Things don’t always go well in Mississippi, but you can always change that.

• Over at Rock M+, we’re talking about quality wins and resume performance:

I’d rank these as the best wins of the year:

1. Mizzou over Florida
2. Ole Miss over Alabama
3. West Virginia over Kansas
4. Auburn over Houston (this game was in Houston but not on Houston’s home floor)
5. Kentucky over Tennessee
6. Ohio State over Purdue
7. Houston (who was favored in the game) over Kansas

The gameday chats have become a great spot during Mizzou games, and the SEC basketball chat has been excellent.

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