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SEDALIA, Mo. — Missouri’s 2024 Come Home Tour has a new centerpiece.
The MU athletics department’s fundraising and fan-engagement tour that will make six stops across the Show-Me State — and one in Dallas, Texas — over the next four weeks had the usual draws for fans who turned up Lamy’s No. 5 Bistro and Bar for the first stop of the series.
Four Missouri student-athletes — football’s Daylan Carnell; men’s basketball’s Aidan Shaw; gymnastics’ Jocelyn Moore; and men’s golf’s Adam Miller — spoke to guests and answered questions. Two Missouri football assistants, running backs coach Curtis Luper and cornerbacks coach Al Pogue, did the same.
But front and center, allowing the fans an opportunity for photos and an up-close glance, was the Cotton Bowl trophy, secured after Eli Drinkwitz’s football team went 11-2 and beat Ohio State in Arlington, Texas, for the program’s first major bowl win in over a decade.
How about that for a selling point?
Here are three takeaways from the first of six events:
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The Missouri athletes and assistants fielded questions from the 50-strong audience on the patio at the Sedalia establishment.
Most were lighthearted.
How high can you jump, Aidan Shaw?
What game have you got circled on the calendar, Missouri football coaches?
Answers, respectively: 48 inches; and Murray State in the season-opener, but also, slightly off mic, SEC newcomers Oklahoma.
But one query for Carnell, the Missouri star safety who will make up one of three returning starters on the Mizzou defense next season, hit on an offseason topic of curiosity.
How’s the new defensive coordinator?
The questioner is referring to Corey Batoon, the Tigers’ new defensive…
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Author : Columbia Daily Tribune
Publish date : 2024-04-12 08:03:20
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