There has been an fascinating aura across the Missouri soccer program for many years primarily boiling all the way down to bizarre issues will occur to this workforce. It’s only a matter of when chaos ensues. In as we speak’s version of batshit loopy Southeastern Conference soccer, we came upon a sort out field for a punter extends from Mizzou’s house in Columbia to St. Louis, over 100 miles away. It’s a little bit of an exaggeration, however solely a bit. And the officers calling a sort out field half the dimensions of the Show-Me State screwed the Tigers out of their finest likelihood to win.
Missouri’s protection performed lights out for many of Saturday’s SEC East sport in opposition to Kentucky, with essential bowl eligibility implications. Wildcats quarterback Will Levis is a consensus top-10 choose in subsequent 12 months’s NFL Draft and is at worst the third-highest rated participant at his place for draft scouts behind Bryce Young and C.J. Stroud. He appeared pedestrian in opposition to Missouri, a credit score to how good the Tigers’ protection has been for many of the season. After the MU protection pressured a Kentucky punt to present the ball again to its offense late within the sport, the weirdest software of roughing the kicker I’ve ever seen passed off.
Kentucky’s lengthy snapper heaved the ball via his legs to this point over the pinnacle of Wildcats’ punter Colin Goodfellow that he needed to frantically dash over 20 yards to choose up the fumble. Miraculously, he did beat any Missouri play to the ball. And had a break up second to show round and boot it away to not give the Tigers’ first-and-goal to start out their subsequent drive. As Goodfellow neatly does so, he’s blasted by Missouri’s Will Norris, and a penalty flag is nearly instantly thrown for roughing the kicker.
Was the hit brutal? Sure. It’s additionally soccer and if Goodfellow is that fragile, Norris made the best transfer to take him out. The ball would’ve popped free and a straightforward landing would’ve come the Tigers’ approach. But someway, the punter is a protected participant 37 yards behind the road of scrimmage. I by no means knew sort out containers have been that huge! Next time Josh Allen scrambles away from stress and is about to be sacked, why doesn’t he kick it? It’ll be roughing the passer by this considering.
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Missouri’s offense only scored 17 points and didn’t by itself play well enough to win the game. You can’t win most SEC games going 2-13 on third down. But dammit, MU got screwed on this one. And full disclosure — I used to cover Missouri for three years as the hometown daily newspaper’s beat reporter. I called out Mizzou for anything they did wrong and still would today. This one’s indefensible, and Tigers’ fans have every reason to be pissed.