Re-playing the recruiting misses greatest hits

No one loves to miss out on top recruits quite like Missouri over the years. Especially when they’re considered “the local kid”. And not just recent years but for decades.

There were wins here and there, there was the vaunted 2017 recruiting class which hoped to right so many wrongs. But things went back to normal when Cuonzo Martin began missing out on the top local recruits.

Then the transfer portal brought a lot of familiar names back into our lives, names that we’d previously thought were no longer a concern. Last year it was Caleb Love, a notable miss by Martin. Love flirted with Missouri before picking Michigan, and after he couldn’t clear UM’s high bar for a transfer admission he…