COLUMBIA, Mo. — Steve Wilks already had moved from the sideline to the coaching box in search of an answer, and now it’s fair to wonder if he needs to just move on.
There is not an angle in Boone County from which the first-year Mizzou defensive coordinator’s disastrous defense is going to look much different.
This is a unit physically overmatched and athletically undertalented, and that's not the worst part. It's far too often obviously uninspired.
Those first two observations are facts that can’t be debated. The numbers are the numbers, and they are putrid.