When Missouri lost at Georgia last weekend, the man who engineered the Tigers’ only football victory over the Bulldogs was taking in a far more exciting game. Gary Pinkel was at Arizona State, where his stepdaughter is majoring in dance, to watch the Sun Devils play Washington.
The stresses of another Mizzou loss, one that dropped the Tigers’ record to a level of darkness Pinkel had rescued the program from, were far away.
“We get out of state, out of mind, those things are going to taper off a little bit,” Missy Pinkel said of how her husband can get wrapped up in Missouri’s struggles, even if only on Saturdays.