Half full or half empty for Missouri football? Next three weeks will answer that

Barry Odom cracked a can of Coke, took a sip. He put it off to the side of a Mizzou football step-and-repeat, and approached the podium.

Looking down, he took a breath and then addressed the media.

The gravity of what happened — and what nearly happened — in a 43-29 loss to second-ranked Georgia was obvious.

“It hurts when you pour everything you’ve got into preparing,” Odom said. “It rips at your soul.”

“The self-inflicted things that we did allowed that game to go the way that it did,” Odom went on to say.

Are you a glass half-empty or a glass half-full fan? Because this was a bi-partisan defeat against the Bulldogs — one of the elite teams in the nation, to be sure.

Let’s start with the…