Over the next couple of weeks, a trio of freshmen will unpack their belongings in Columbia, and Missouri’s offseason program will ramp up.
The next five months are a time when fever dreams emerge during summer’s doldrums, and those grand visions make a certain degree of sense. Roster churn and a quartet of coaching changes have jumbled the SEC’s hierarchy. For Missouri, which returns seven players, those fluctuations create room to maneuver and ascend.
Along the way, MU coach Cuonzo Martin might convene a press availability, a gathering where we seize on scraps of information and extrapolate their meaning.