This past offseason Matt Harris and I spent a fair amount of time talking about what Missouri should do with any remaining scholarships they had available. Cuonzo Martin and his staff didn’t listen to our input.
Instead of trying to fill and patch holes with a graduate transfer, as we thought made the most sense, Martin went the other way. He filled scholarships with young guys, and unheralded young players at that. He replaced exiting seniors Jordan Barnett and Kassius Robertson with unranked 3-stars Javon Pickett and Xavier Pinson. He believed instead in building his program through culture, the same culture he began instilling on his first day on the job.