At midnight Friday, cell phones buzzed to life, and the next recruiting cycle started anew.
For rising juniors, Saturday marked the first time college coaches can verbally contact prospects in the Class of 2021, signaling the official start of their recruitment. Among the many variables at play in a recruit’s calculus, whether a coach was the second or third person to speak to them is, well, holds minuscule weight.
For Missouri’s staff, it passed relatively quietly.
The program didn’t shoot out a flurry of offers, and there weren’t reports of coach Cuonzo Martin and his assistants ringing up targets overnight.