COLUMBIA, Mo. — There’s a narrow, winding stretch of asphalt situated between Missouri’s new indoor practice facility and the southwest corner of Memorial Stadium.
Before home games, Marching Mizzou and fans line its curbs, forming a brassy gauntlet for the players and coaches who shuffle their feet down the steep hill on their way inside the stadium. On other days, cars make a double-axled clang-clang as they pass over a drain cut into the surface.
During the Friday pro day workouts for former Tigers hoping to land with NFL teams, there was a steady stream of business cutting across this glorified driveway.