BenFred: Mizzou or LSU? Why defensive coordinator Blake Baker should stay put

Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz answers questions after the team won the Cotton Bowl on Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. Video provided; edited by Beth O'Malley Big, bad LSU wants to make a key coaching piece of Mizzou’s program swap his stripes?

Punt. Better yet, take a knee. Because it’s already over.

There was a time, not too long ago even, when the world would assume defensive coordinator Blake Baker would hustle from Boone County back to Baton Rouge faster than a Luther Burden 40-yard dash.

But Baker hasn’t left. At least not yet. A new and improved Mizzou has given him an awful lot to think about before he decides. Up for consideration is not just the cold, hard cash of an unprecedented…