If that is true and the talent is not there, then I would like the alpha #1 defense of Callahan to stop being "but OMG look at the talent he is bringing in!!!!111"Beating Missouri is a Must.
We will go in as underdogs for sure if both are not beaten prior.
Most media/talking heads feel they have considerably more talent than we do.
Kansas will be the same. A must win and Coach Mangino gets his kids ready.
We need to learn to listen to some of the media. They have been pretty spot on about us since the Michigan game. Crystal ball on CSTV lays it on the line pretty close, and even Trev has said the talent to be a National contender is not there.
Try and remember this is not the 90's and we are rebuilding, not reloading, if it is reloading we are in trouble.
"We will not surrender the Big 12 Conference to Oklahoma and Texas."
No, it's okay to lose to them when they're better. That's fine. The point of that comment was really, "We will not surrender the big 12 Conference to Oklahoma and Texas if they aren't very good that year." It wasn't about making NU better, it was about waiting for OU and UT to be worse. Oh, he should have thrown "Kansas" and "Baylor" in there, too."We will not surrender the Big 12 Conference to Oklahoma and Texas."