Eli Drinkwitz is building something potentially special at Missouri

Knoxville News-Sentinel-USA TODAY NETWORK ‘Culture’ within a football program is a funny thing. It’s intangible. It’s hard to define. But, as the saying goes, you know a good football culture it when you see it.

Matt Campbell appears to have built quite the culture at Iowa State. Once upon a time, Gary Pinkel built a strong family atmosphere at Missouri. Nick Saban has constructed a winning culture at Alabama.

Culture is bigger than one player or coach. It permeates throughout the building and becomes what the team is all about.

But it all starts with the man in charge.

I don’t know what the culture was like at Missouri under Barry Odom. It seems pretty clear the players liked him. I firmly…