You have to feel for the Post-Dispatch's Dave Matter and the other scribes assigned to cover Mizzou athletics in this academic year.
The football team was just awful, and unwatchable on offense. The Maty Mauk Melodrama hung over the group all season. The football team famously joined an out-of-control campus protest, threatening not to play BYU. Coach Gary Pinkel moved on, citing health reasons. The search for his replacement led to in-house hire Barry Odom.
An NCAA probe hung over the basketball program, which staggered to another last-place SEC finish and once again saw much of the team transfer out.