While players spend hours in the weight room and running up and down the Faurot Field bleachers, coaches have leaned into their own developmental regimens, too. These informal courses of study just tend to involve more numbers — in stats and Rolodexes.
Along with recruiting and some family time, this is the time of year when Mizzou coaches — particularly head coach Eli Drinkwitz and his two coordinators — conduct their own studies into schematic tweaks they might want to make in time for the 2025 season. It’s part retrospective on 2024, part idea generation, part co-opting what works for other teams.