so you'd love to hear Pinkel say the goal ISNT to shut out the opponent? now WOW, thats solid, going into a game not trying to shut out the other team... i mean, thats like, hey, we'll go ahead and spot you 20 because we don't want to try and shut you out! FFS.. NOBODY EVER SAID, 'HEY, WE'RE GONNA SHUT OUT THE TIGERS'.... it was, the goal isn't to hold them under 30, the goal is to shut them down. Why is that a bad goal?
Not in public, no. Of course I won't have to worry about that because anyone who has paid attention to Coach Pinkel for any length of time at all knows he would never say that about any team. Perhaps he did when he was a new head coach but he sure hasn't since he's been at Missouri.
In fact last year when a few of the players said some things publicly about OU before the conference champtionship game he wasn't pleased and let them know.
I suspect with time Bo will learn to that you don't say or do anything to give the opponent any extra motivation.
Where did I take exception to it? Why can't some of you read what another poster is saying? And it's just as bad on the Mizzou boards.
I don't take exception to it at all and in fact I'm glad he did say it. What I did say was I don't think it was too smart of him to say in public and that anyone who knows Gary Pinkel knows he would never do the same.
Personally the more talk like that he does the better. Next time please respond do what I did say not what you think I said.
Saying something like that to the team in a meeting is one thing; saying it to the press is another. And surely you realize saying it when you are about to play a team that was one of the highest scoring teams in the country last year and is the second highest this year does raise a few eyebrows. Not just among Mizzou fans either.
