Something I read this week got the ol’ interest neurons a-firing. It was Aaron Reiss’ Derek Dooley profile in the Kansas City Star. Which you should read, if you haven’t already, because it’s good.
Aside from saying Missouri’s offense had a lot of “empty calories” – in Reiss’ paraphrasing of Dooley – and scored only 18 points a game against bowl teams last year (which, I seem to remember, are points a certain snap-counter tried to make every now and then in the Josh Heupel years only to be dismissed as a hater, but now that the new OC is saying it, I suppose it’s valid…or something…but I digress…), Dooley seized upon the very thing that’s been keeping Missouri’s offense from being elite as it puts up all these yards and points: turnovers.