"Every team, every topic, everywhere, this is believed." - Hey, Unwritten Rule fans. You can catch us every Monday and Friday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Follow us on Twitter @BelieveUnwritten and enjoy the show. On today's episode of the Unwritten Rule, we have an absolutely packed show and an amazing show at that for you guys because Mizzou Football had an absolute bear of a recruiting weekend, three top 100 prospects, plus another three-star offensive lineman. One of the best Mizzou recruiting runs in school history and we are gonna break it all down. It's just Peyton and I this week, no Kenny, but we've got it all. We're gonna talk about all four of the new additions, what it means for Mizzou Football, what it means for the future of this class, who gets all the credit, the coaches to know in these recruitments, all that fun stuff, break down to the players. So we have a ton to dive into, ton to bring you guys gonna be a great, great show. We've got a little men's basketball news, a little administration news, and then Peyton's gonna give a recap of his re-watch of the Cotton Bowl. So that's always fun. Then we've got quick kids, we've got Ken Sports shorts as usual. Then we've got a new segment, we're just calling it Tigers in the Wild, what we just talked about are favorite Mizzou players or at least a Mizzou player in the pros who did something in the past week. So we have that for you guys. And then Headlines, which is another segment we started to roll out where we either do a, it can be Mizzou or a non-Mizzou related headline, kind of gives us a chance to talk about some of the national news of the week as well. So we have those segments, ton of Mizzou stuff in there as well, some non-Mizzou fun stuff that we're just chatting about to end the show. But like I said, great, great breakdown. We have all the stuff you need to get you guys caught up on everything that went down this weekend on the recruiting show. 'Cause it's been an amazing run for the Missouri Tigers. We got all of it for you. We'll waste any more time. The Unwritten Rule starts right now. (upbeat music) Attention, everybody stop what you're doing. It's time for the Unwritten Rule, a Mizzou Sports Podcast brought to you by the Believe Network, alongside Peyton Haberman and Kenny Van Doren. Here is your host, Jack Knowlton. - Welcome back to the Unwritten Rule. Today is Monday, July 8th, and Peyton. (horn honking) Ah, big weekend for Mizzou football. This might be the most contact packed show we've had in a long time because, you know, it's summertime. There isn't much going on. But oh my goodness, I mean, where do we even start? We know we're gonna start because we're good show planners, but Mizzou Football has been just on a red hot run, maybe the hottest team in the country on the recruiting trail. The Tigers, what, is it four commits in four days? Do I have my math right there? - Correct. - Correct. - Four days. - Your grip. - Pop 100 players in that stretch among the group. We've got Javen Boggs, Donovan Oluk-Bode, Lamont Rogers, and Keaton Jones, all in the last couple of days becoming Missouri Tigers. We're gonna go through them one-on-one, or one-by-one, rather. But Peyton, I mean, just in the general context, let's start there before we dive into Javen Boggs first. And these, you know, some of these guys are names we've mentioned, Keaton Jones. I don't know how much we've talked about him, but, you know, it's three top 100 guys. Just how big is this? Like, how impressed were you just to watch this run? How excited were you to be on Twitter in the last couple of days? I know there was a ton of buzz going around. We'll get to, you know, what the class is looking like, sort of in general before we move on. But, I mean, just how fun was it in the last couple of days for you to see all this, all this and all these guys hit? Everyone land, all these guys become Missouri Tigers. - Yeah, I mean, you think back to last year, Missouri had that big visitors weekend in June, and they went on an absolute heater, like, over the next couple of weeks. It was nothing, nothing like this. This was basically a run unlike any other. I can't, it has to almost be the best, like, little recruiting run in program history. Like, I can't imagine it isn't. But, I mean, yeah, like you said, four commits, four days, three of them top 100 guys according to rivals, and I believe, like, almost consensus top 100. I did not go through and look at every single ranking for each one of the four. But, like you mentioned, Boggs, Oleg Bode, Rogers are all top 100 on rivals. I believe Gabe D'Armond for Power Mizzou tweeted, like, Mizzou has gotten four of its five highest out of state rated recruits in program history, this cycle with these three, and then Zollars thrown in there as well. So, man, I mean, they have eight, I believe it's up to eight, four stars now. We'll get into that a little later, but that would be the most in program history, assuming they all sign. But, yeah, like you mentioned, unbelievably huge run, it was basically, after the Corey Sims, after Corey Sims did not commit to Mizzou he committed to USC, which we actually have not even talked about since our last show, because we took 4th July off. You know, there was, like, a maybe a two day period where you're like, maybe this class won't be as strong as we thought it could be. But, I mean, the last few days, every single one of them broke Mizzou's way. There was no, well, I guess with Rogers, it was a bit dramatic because nobody knew what he was doing until he put the hat on. But, yeah, pretty much a class defining run, maybe just kind of a statement on where the program is today. I mean, Mizzou was always just with the way they've approached NIL since it happened, and even since Drink got here, they've been at the forefront of recruiting for a while now. But, I mean, they have really, after the 11 and two season with a cotton bowl in last year, they've really swung for the, swung for the fences this cycle, and they have gone toe to toe with some blue bloods. And this weekend, they kind of beat out, they beat out a lot of those traditional blue bloods. - Yeah, it's been spectacular. So, I mean, let's not hesitate. Let's get into the names, into who, you know, came to define this recruiting run for the Tigers. You mentioned Corey Sims, doesn't wind up at Mizzou. They miss out on a big four star, but then they turned around and got two of them, starting with Javen Boggs, of course. We've talked about him on this show many a time. Four star wide receiver out of Coco High School in Florida. He's rated as the number 67 player in the class of 2025. Chose Missouri, ultimately over central Florida. The Knights were in the mix, maybe Landa, a little blue chipper there. Stats for you. I did find those, 93 catches, 1500 yards and 24 touchdowns last season, led his high school to a Florida State Championship. And he is, I believe, actually, I didn't check with, or no, yeah, this is still right. I believe he is their third highest ranked commit behind Matt Zollars and Jamara and Morrow. So what a way to start the run, Peyton. Javen Boggs, we talked about him on the show quite a bit, but what do you think of the receiver here out of Florida? Like you said, big out of state get for the Tigers. Yeah, and obviously, I mean, like we've mentioned, depending on the recruiting service, he could be anywhere on those recruiting rankings. I believe for rivals, at the time of his commitment, he was the highest, 'cause he is higher rated on rivals than Zollars, am I correct? I thought, I think they both, I think Zollars, Morrow, and him both all have the 5.9 rating. So they're all, yeah, I just meant like the national rank, but either way, easy all the way up to 40 for rivals now, I remember, I guess that's right. They did. Well, yeah, that would be correct then. I mean, so, I mean, but Javen Boggs just getting into him, as you can probably guess, recruited by Jacob Peeler, big shocker there. He was until about, for about 22 hours, I mean the second Florida commit, wide receiver commit, Missouri has gotten. In the last two years, you remember James Madison as well, not the same high school, but the same kind of area, the same stomping grounds for Jacob Peeler to recruit. This has been one that, like you said, we've talked about forever because since his decommetment from Ohio State, you can see there on rivals, he decommitted from there in March, late March, 10 days after he took a visit to Mizzou. So this one's been brewing, Mizzou's been, was a very consistent presence for this recruiting. He had, like you mentioned, UCF. He had Georgia in his final group. He cut Georgia out eventually and didn't make a final visit with them. Missouri was able to get the final visit, which I know you and Kenny are always such a big fan of. - I'm a big final visit guy. - Yeah, and he kind of got, he got the ball rolling on the 4th of July, 5 p.m. I remember, just kind of had the fireworks for, I guess to be, make a corny metaphor, he had the fireworks early on. - Let's see what he, yeah, yeah, well done. I appreciate the metaphor. - Yeah, I mean, I think the stats for himself. You know, this is a super, super talented kid who will see, you know, kind of now, that's kind of the fun with getting these blue chippers is you see on every recruiting service how they kind of rise or fall within their, you know, everyone knows they're really good when you're a top 100 kid, you know, but it's where you ultimately fall within that. So we'll see, you know, maybe where Boggs ends up. I mean, if he can follow up with something better than his junior season, I'll read that again. 93 catches, 1,500 yards, 24 touchdown, said is a pretty ridiculous stat line for a video game. - Yeah, video game numbers. So yeah, Javen Boggs became the first, like Peyton said, firework of this little fourth of July run. And then not too much time to celebrate before moving on to the next for the Missouri Tigers because they went out and got yet another top 100 receiver, yet another guy, technically out of Florida, I don't know where he's originally from because he goes to ING Academy so he was the number 56 player right now in the class of 2025, picked Mizzou over Florida USC in Washington, he OV to all four, was one of the visitors, of course, at that big June official visit weekend. And I mean, you missed it. I mean, you missed it. I mean, you missed it. I mean, you missed it. I mean, you missed it. I mean, you missed it. I mean, you missed it. I mean, you missed it. I mean, you missed it. I mean, you missed it. You missed it. You missed it. is it weekend. And I mean you mentioned Jacob Peeler now, Peyton. You know, Mizzou's got Sean Terry on now Oleg Bode and Boggs. I mean, just a supremely talented recruiter. We joke on the show all the time that he is the biggest hidden gem in college football. But Donovan Oleg Bode, how do you feel about him becoming a Missouri Tiger? Yeah, I mean, you mentioned that big visit weekend, Oleg Bode, Sims, and Boggs all came to campus. Oleg Bode, quite frankly, I think everyone thought was kind of the least likely of that trio to commit. But then I mean, after Sims went to USC, you kind of were hoping maybe just to come away with at least, at least just come away with one of them. But I mean, Mizzou was able, they got a lot of traction for Oleg Bode in the day or so before he committed. I remember him picking up a couple future casts. Yeah, you can see there three different future casts, just a couple days before his commitment. So Mizzou close the deal here. As you mentioned, Jacob Peeler, again, the primary recruiter here. Just enjoy him while you can, because eventually people are going to get wise to the fact that the guy that was the position coaching college for guys like Elijah Moore, DK Metcalf, AJ Brown, is now putting up unbelievable talents in the wide receiver room at Mizzou. I mean, think about where this team was when drink first took over the wide receiver room. I mean, they had guys like Boo Smith, Toskey Dove, were like legitimately like wide receivers one and two. And I mean, in a few years, it's now arguably the best room in maybe one of the best rooms in the nation. And they're still putting up constant four stars in the end of the fold. Guys like Crutchfield, guys like Madison, now guys like Oleg Bode and Boggs. I mean, it's just a stacked position group. And almost all of that goes is a credit to Jacob Peeler. I'm glad you mentioned, you know, Crutchfield and Madison. These 2024 guys, you know, they're already the poor guys are old news at this point. They still have, you know, they're about to enter their freshman seasons where, you know, they're going to be a lot's going to be expected them eventually, you know, it's going to be a bit before they see the field, of course, with with the burden of the always the depth that you mentioned they have at the position. But yeah, I mean, talk about, you know, balancing a room out or getting depth in a position group in such a short span of time. I think you're right, wide receiver kind of feels like, you know, sort of a defining feature of these these recruiting classes under drink. It's like, they just continue to land these kind of home run names. Of course, all the way back starting with Luther Burden. So yeah, Donovan Oleg Bode, looking to be the latest of that group. I do have a quote here from Rivals recruiting director Adam Gorny shout out. He said, Oleg Bode, I don't remember where this was. I forgot what like camp or whatever he was at. But watched Oleg Bode said Oleg Bode showed off phenomenal hands and caught every pass thrown his way. There have been some questions about speed with the IMG Academy four star, but those were all answered. And while while he's not the fastest kid at the position, he's still plenty fast and his hands are reliable that it would have been a shock if he dropped a single pass and he didn't at a camp. So you don't got to run a four three, man. If you can do everything else, well, four five will be just fine. I mean, pretty decent size. I mean, he's not tiny out there. So no, and he's only he's he's not even in his senior year of a of high school yet. So yeah, it's so it's so tough. It's so tough. And this is a general thing about football, but it's so tough. You know, in a sport where we have to talk about measurable so much, you know, you have these kids that are one still growing and two, you know, you don't get college, you know, teams like taking their measurables all the time, you just have to trust trust sometimes like loose information of really how big they are. But yeah, I don't have an elbow. It is a tremendously talented kid. And like I said, him, Boggs and Sean Terry now, Mizzou, Jacob Peeler, continuing to absolutely dominate in recruiting. Another name, Peyton, who has been kind of rising up the ranks, or I guess, you know, as he's become more in the spotlight in the last couple of days on this Missouri run is Brandon Jones, the offensive line coach for the Tigers. The reason for that is he's also landed too. So two wide receivers, two offensive linemen, Brandon Jones, pulled or ended up helping the Tigers land, Lamont Rogers, who we were talking off air, Peyton, you said is maybe the biggest, well, physically, he's most definitely the biggest, I assume, no wide receivers, taller than six, eight, 305 pounds. But the biggest recruit anyway, of this kind of quadrant, not quadrant, I don't know what you say quadruple of recruits. This is for quartet. Thank you. This, this quartet of recruits, Lamont Rogers, a four star guard, he goes to Horn High School in is it Mesquite, Texas, Peyton? Yes, I believe Mesquite, Mesquite. Yeah. The number 74 player in the class 2025. So a third of three top 100 recruits chose Mizzou over Oklahoma. More on that shortly. Texas, Texas A&M, Florida State and SMU. He took OV's to all those places. Like I mentioned, he's six foot eight, 305 pounds. That is just, I like a human at all being that size is absurd, a human who is not even in college yet being that big is just ridiculous. Visited March 16th and then took his OV in late May, Peyton. So Lamont Rogers, we've established he's physically the biggest recruit of this group. Why is he the biggest in terms of, you know, guys that the Tigers have landed in this, in this big run here? Oh, I want, I would say like maybe to clarify it a little more, I would say he's the biggest win, not to say old Bode and Boggs weren't because they both were, I mean Boggs was an Ohio State commit. Maybe it was a little bit of a hey, you might be better off like in better position on a depth period looking somewhere else with him. But I mean, he still had plenty of suitors. Oluk Bode, of course, Washington was super into him. He had plenty of power five interests as well. But Rogers, I mean, it was no, I mean, Oklahoma and Texas wanted him badly. I mean, there was a big push last week. A lot of people thought Texas was gaining a lot of ground, even though it kind of looked like Mizzou and Oklahoma were in the lead. You see he even picked up a future cast on rivals to Texas just a day before Sam Spiegelman put in his for Mizzou. I mean, it was nobody really seemed to know where he was going until I mean, there were a few crystal balls, future casts and everything for Rogers to Mizzou. But nobody seemed super duper confident. And then, well and behold, he got on his Instagram live before I want to point out this Lamont Rogers may have had my favorite commitment like ever because for he said he was going to commit at noon. What do you know, right at noon, he goes live on Instagram. He just waits a couple minutes, like two minutes for people to get in there. And he just gives a very sincere and quick thank you to everyone that's helped him get to this point. He didn't draw out the hat thing. This is what really set it apart though. He had from left to right, an Oklahoma hat, a Mizzou hat, a Texas hat and a Texas A&M hat. He grabbed the A&M hat, did the fake out thing, threw it away and so I'm like, oh good, we're going to have to wait through three different hat throws. He picked Mizzou's up second. And I don't think my heart could have sank any lower into my stomach. And he put it on and I was like, no, he's about to throw the Mizzou hat. And he didn't. He just put it on. He said Mizzou, M-I-Z, he stood up, his parents were super happy for him. So very good commitment video Lamont Rogers. I got to hand it to you there. But yeah, I mean, like I was saying, Oklahoma and Texas were both heavily after this guy and Mizzou went into Texas and beat out Texas and Oklahoma for a recruit. That did not happen a few years ago. And of course, NIL is always going to be a factor in these recruitments now. That certainly is tipped the scales of a lot of recruitment towards Mizzou. I think you're being a little disingenuous if you're going to say it didn't. But man, these other schools can play that game too. And Mizzou ultimately either, I mean, you'd have to figure he had pretty good offers from Texas and Oklahoma. So it comes down to the relationship. I mean, in Lamont Rogers commitment video, it had a clip of him shaking hands with Brandon Jones. So Brandon Jones was clearly a huge factor in this recruitment. I believe Wiltfong for On Three had a story today about how Brandon Jones has done on the trail lately. He has been, Brandon Jones has been a monster pickup for Mizzou as good as Jacob Peeler in my mind almost because Mizzou got him late in the spring. He just got fired kind of unceremoniously by a by a sinking ship Houston coaching staff. And Mizzou lost their, their previous offensive line coach Marcus Johnson. He went to Purdue like in the middle of spring. But and so drink had to get work quickly. He got Brandon Jones. It has turned into, I mean, we talked about it at length last year, almost every game. Mizzou's offensive line was the most improved unit on the team last year. And I mean, it's translated to huge, huge recruiting gains. Jack Lang ultimately came to Mizzou. Now they compare him with Lamont Rogers and will get into another one of them in just a minute. Yeah. Well said. I think he was worth kind of re looking back because April 2023 was when he arrived at the staff or to the staff Brandon Jones. So yeah, that's not an easy time to, to join where you have to catch up then on recruiting. You've missed, depending on when you've joined, you've probably missed or at the very end of spring ball already. So you don't get a chance to really get to know your players before you're out with them on the practice field. And then obviously you have another break and, and you know, that's, that's a weird kind of timeline to get, to get your feet under you. And he did it really, really quickly. So yeah, I think a lot of props have to go to the, at least according to his Mizzou bio 15 plus year veteran in the coaching game. So, um, there you go. He's been, he's been, he's been around the block. But yeah, uh, Lamont Rogers, I think, I think Peyton, you, you said it best. I don't even know much more. I have really to add, obviously stats for offensive lineman don't exist too much in, in the high school level anyway. I will just, we've got a good amount of footage. Yeah. You can hit the video on Twitter if you want to go look at it. He's a big, big dude. Yeah. I, that's what I was going to say. I'll just underscore again. He is six foot eight, 305 pounds. If Peyton Marshall needs a sparring partner on the court, maybe we throw them out. Rogers out there. Hmm. I don't know. He does say offensive guard. I mean, obviously it doesn't really matter what it says on the, on the rivals profile right now in their junior year of high school, but you do wonder if Mizzou will maybe give them a look at tackle or if he sticks at guard, either way, the talent is there. Um, could be a guy we see Mizzou plug and play pretty quickly when he gets on campus. I would guess that with that kind of size, I would, I would have to think, you know, it would be, it would be a pretty quick track for me. It's so interesting too, because even these kids nowadays, they're that big, but they're still super fast, super athletic. I mean, yeah, it's, he had a, he had a host offers. So, um, yeah, shout out to Brandon Jones. Of course, you know, he landed on the Mount Rogers and he landed a man or a kid rather with the same last name, Keaton Jones. I don't believe there's any relation. Uh, you know, but yeah, Keaton Jones became the fourth out of four, uh, a three star offensive tackle is from field. I was field kindly high school. Uh, yeah, field kindly high school in coffeeville, Kansas, took OV's to Mizzou, Arkansas, and Kansas State had offers from a ton of SEC and power for programs. Um, and like, uh, Peyton said, he's Mizzou and Brandon Jones, fourth offensive line recruit, uh, joining Rogers, Jack Lang, and then Henry Fenuku, uh, from a couple of weeks ago. So the offensive line unit, shaping up really well. Keaton Jones, I don't think a name we had really mentioned here previously, Peyton. What do we know about the, uh, the, what is he, six, five, three hundred, but they're just large human being, uh, joining Mizzou's offensive line. Yeah. I mean, the best players in Kansas come to play for Missouri, I guess. Um, what else can you really say? Uh, no, I'm just kidding. What? Uh, only kind of kidding. Uh, Keaton Jones, I mean, it's kind, it kind of says a lot when a guy who quite frankly would have been one of the darlings of your class a few years ago is just kind of tacked on at the end of a very busy weekend. Uh, I don't want to overlook this guy though. I mean, like you said, still a huge dude, uh, Brandon Jones quite frankly has earned, uh, I think everyone's benefit of the doubts, um, on any, on any sort of, uh, recruit or offensive line matters. So, um, I don't, like you said, don't, don't know a whole ton about Keaton Jones. I think he was someone that was kind of, I believe expected to go into Mizzou for a bit now. Um, yeah, or Gabe D'Arman did only put it in a couple of days ago. So maybe Mizzou wanted out recently. Um, but anytime you can beat Arkansas and I remember Kaye State was in it, I believe Oklahoma was in his final four as well. That may not have been as big, big as like what Mount Rockers, um, but Arkansas and Kansas State definitely seemed to be like very legitimate threats here. As, as you said, he went to visit both. Um, anytime Mizzou can beat out one of those two, uh, backwater programs for, I'm sorry, I don't mean to be mean to Kansas State, but I do mean to be that mean Arkansas. Um, oh, it's a good day at the office. Oh, it's a good day. Yeah. Um, yeah, I think it's a nice, a nice get. I mean, you're right. I think it's, you know, we as Mizzou fans, you know, when we start to experience these bigger wins on the recruiting trail, you know, you got to remember that the three stars can still absolutely blossom into something, you know, extremely talented. Obviously, you know, you win games by winning recruiting battles for the best high school players, but you know, there, there are always hidden gems. There's always good players like this. There's no reason why Keaton Jones doesn't, you know, turn himself into a, a talented prospect down the line, but just again, another win for Brandon Jones, again, another win for the Tigers to just, you know, underscore how awesome of a, of a weekend this has been and Peyton, you know, hold on a minute, like, like, I don't know if you can really see this here in the background rivals has like a photo of Keaton Jones here. I think that's Jacob Peeler right there with them. So it might be. Yeah. I think that's Jacob Peeler right there. So he's dipping into the he's dipping in, you know, all over the we've mentioned it before Mizzou and Kenny would be very well equipped to speak on this as well, because he covered the recruiting on the Mizzou football beat extensively for the Missourian, but Mizzou, they have their coaches do more than just their position. I mean, they are out and about, it's kind of, I believe region based really. So it's not at all uncommon to see like Jacob Peeler helping to recruit a defensive lineman or something, but it's always noteworthy. Yeah, definitely. Good point. So there you go. A little hidden gem in the background of, of possibly his rivals profile. Yeah. So we'll see how Keaton Jones kind of pans and Peyton. So, you know, we've gone through these four individually. We talked at the top, you know, just about this class in general, but, you know, some Missouri after they land these four guys, they're up to 16 commits. They rank 12th in the country, sixth in the SEC, at least per rivals, you know, in these, in these team rankings. I mean, you mentioned, I think you have a tweet to that, that talks about it. I mean, how good can this class be and is it? I mean, we've already, we've already speculated we think this might be one of, if not the best recruiting run for the Tigers in a short span, you know, ever maybe. I mean, how close can this maybe get to becoming Missouri's best class ever if they continue to kind of build some momentum here, head into the fall, land a couple more of these guys. I mean, not to get too greedy. I love where the class is at now, but I mean, there's still some potential here to be a really kind of head turning, you know, class, similarly to how head turning the season was on the field last year. I mean, quite frankly, it probably already has, it probably already will wind up being Missouri's highest rated class. I mean, they got another commitment coming this week, hopefully for Charles Bass. We'll talk about that in a second. But as you mentioned, I mean, right now, after adding Keaton Jones on Sunday, they're 12th on rivals, 13th in 24/7 and 16th in on three. I mean, their lowest is 16. And I mean, there's still probably a lot more or at least a few more additions coming. So kind of think we're already at the point where this is going to wind up being Missouri's top class. And that's kind of what you wanted to see. I mean, last year was a good class, especially when you consider they got off to a slow start, they recruiting basically off the backs of several 500 seasons. You wanted to see like once Mizzou got like actual on field success going 11 and two last year, they're recruiting to kind of follow suit. And that's what's happened. I mean, you can see if you're watching on the YouTube here, they have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, four stars in the fold already. And that number, I would probably assume is going to grow. I mean, even in the last since, I think it's like, I mean, in the last couple of weeks, they've gotten Mark Manfred, Gaven Box, Donovan, Oleg Bode, Lamont Rogers, Keaton Jones, Chaunteri was just a few days before Manfred and Jamari Amaro, Dylan Williams were recently, Henry Finuku. I mean, that's all since June. So the summer has been very kind to Mizzou. I'm sure we're going to see plenty more as we go forward and get closer to the football season. So on that note, I mean, we mentioned Charles Bass. Obviously he commits, he burned us, by the way, Charles Bass did, because he was like one of our only topics for a week and then like a couple hours after recorded decided to push his commitment back. He is committing now on Wednesday, July 10th. So we talked a little bit about him in the last show, but the four star safety have the East St. Louis. He would be another top 100 player. He's number 97, number 90, number nine safety in the class has a final choice of Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, and Kansas State, very regional-based. You can touch on him, Pete, and obviously go check out our, I believe it's our last show, because it was when we took the break. So check, you can listen to that as well. But in addition to Bass, who might be next here for the Missouri Tigers, and that, you know, that could be added, like I said, to this great 2025 class. Yeah, I mean, Bass, we already kind of broke down Bass on the last show, East St. Louis product. That's pretty much for all intents and purposes in state. Alpogue, taking the lead on the recruitment there. In regards to Charles Bass, I mean, it's kind of expected he'll wind up at Mizzou Gabe D'Armond has had a future cast for that one since April. I don't think much has changed there. Arkansas ain't going to get them. Illinois's not going to get them. Why would you ever go to either of those programs? Just a reminder, no kid is going to choose Missouri over Arkansas if they have legitimate options for both. But Charles Bass, I mean, that would just be, like you said, another Top 100 for Mizzou. That would be their, what, this Top 100 guy? I mean, that doesn't happen for Mizzou. I mean, that is never, it would almost certainly has never happened in school history. I'd have to go back and actually look at that, but I'd be stunned if that has ever happened for them. I think it'd be six. I think it's Morro Zollars. And now, no Morro. I didn't even think of Morro. Morro de Boggs and Lamar Rogers. So Missouri absolutely running the rivals 100 list anyway. Any other names to throw in the fold for Mizzou in addition to Bass? Yeah, I mean, we've talked about, we've talked about like Andrew Babiloa. I mean, I believe he had a bunch of crystal balls, future cast and all that to Stanford a couple weeks ago, but he still hasn't committed there yet. So I mean, it's still possible. I'm sure Mizzou would love to get him. Bassou see just does not seem to be have any Mizzou buzz around him anymore. I believe he was Mizzou's first visit, like, or Mizzou was his first visit, but it doesn't really seem to be like it. I believe Texas is kind of the one you would look around and see the most for him. But really, I mean, it doesn't matter too much. Epinesse is another one Mizzou had on campus that I'm sure they'd love to have. Otherwise, I mean, we'll see what they pivot to if they don't land all three of those guys, which does seem to be a tall task. But even if they don't, I mean, like we've mentioned, pretty unbelievable haul already for the Tigers. Yeah, and I would have to think they'd be getting if they if they did get, you know, Babiloa, or they go with another offensive lineman, they got to be getting pretty close to wrapping that part of the field up with now that have four guys, if they get one more. But yeah, we'll have to see. I mean, we'll obviously be, we'll be following it along, but it has just been a wild, wild class. It's been immensely fun to watch Mizzou just be the hottest team on the recruiting trail, you know, in the country in the last, you know, a couple of weeks. Should we bring up? I think we got to talk about the message board, the message board geniuses tweets too. Most certainly. Well, pull them up. We got to, we got to, I think I will. I'm just making sure everyone knows for Susie. Oh, no, it's easy. I made the YouTube obligations definitely, definitely trending more Texas direction. I mean, he's got four future cast there. I'm sure drink will keep keep at it. But I mean, you're not going to beat every Texas recruit, beat Texas for every Texas recruit. So, good. Speaking on Texas and really Oklahoma, we'll start with Texas, I think, because they had less of a meltdown. But like we mentioned earlier, I mean, Lamont Rogers was down to four yesterday, nobody knew for sure. Nobody was 100% knowing where he was going to go between Mizzou, Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma. But Mizzou was able to beat him out. And it was not a very pretty picture on some of the all, some of the rivals boards or otherwise. Everybody, I'm sure, has seen the message board geniuses account. Mizzou got two different three actually, different tweets from message boards geniuses yesterday after the Rogers commitment. Milton, would you like to do the honors of reading through them? Oh, I sure can. So, this comes from Orange Bloods, which is, I believe it's the rivals board for Texas. So, this is for who is this for again? Which is for Lamont Rogers. This is for the Mount Rogers. Oh, yeah, this is all about Rogers because which that also made like, it made me laugh that he picked up the A&M hat because it felt like if anything, it was, it was going to be Oklahoma Tech. It might have been, you know, because it's one of those things where nothing is official until the pen hits the paper in December. So, maybe it's like, okay, I'm definitely not going to A&M. I'll leave the door cracked for Texas and Oklahoma. And I don't really think that I'm that I'm causing a stir by saying that. I mean, that is just the neighborhood today. Let's not let that happen, though. Mizzou, keep that back down. All right, from the Orange Bloods message board, here are some reactions. Robby Lu said, feel bad that these kids are getting terrible life advice. NIL is one thing, but Missouri and Ohio are shitholes. Ohio kind of catching a stray there. Ohio State was because Ohio State just, the number one recruit in the country, I believe, a defensive back and Houston committed to Ohio State. Oh, okay. All right. So I forget his name, but they're not true about Missouri. At more mortgage horn said, this went from pants pissing has changed to pants shitting. So I haven't ever thought about it like that levels. Horns fan, 1954, someone asked, how is everyone Saturday going so far? They said, I think the coaches need some reevaluating. So yeah, they just went to the college football playoff, by the way. And then Horn Hammer, a little bit nicer said Missouri, WTF. Good luck. A little nice ending to that message wishing him well. So that was, I will say, like obviously the meltdown is good to see, but it's a bit more, a bit more reserved than what Oklahoma had happened. All right. So we're going to go to, we're going to go to sooner scoop. We're going to go to sooner scoop. You got to click on him. I can't, I can't read him. Right. Right. Right. Uh, oh, you chainsaw master. Right. That's actually kind of funny. Uh, yeah, the username, not serious about football period. Next, uh, were they, are they talking about Oklahoma's? Not serious. Yeah. Basketball or him. They could, they could be talking about Lamont Rogers for all we know. 62 sack monster said swing and a miss. We just blank slapped. You can fill in the blank and recruiting by mid zoo again. Welcome to the SEC. Welcome to the SEC indeed. Oh, I didn't even think about that. This was their welcome to the SEC recruiting moment. Liberty sooner said don't worry. Plan C transfers from Tulsa and Tulane ready to roll. And I use the new Nebraska. My God, PPD. Oh, you is the new Nebraska. That's just a little stray for Nebraska. Well, I mean, if you look at what's happened to them since joining the Big Ten, you can kind of track. Yeah. Are there more? But yeah, I mean, this was so bad. It got another treat. Uh, another tweet at a message board. I like any way that picks mid zoo slash dork wits is about NIL. They haven't done. Uh, four stars, which, uh, I'm assuming yeah, for close to 30 years. Um, BB, that's their, um, bed and ball. He is their, um, offensive line code, who apparently according to the sooner scoop kind of threw everything about the kitchen sink to try and get Rogers and, uh, good old Brandon Jones still beat him out. Um, anyways, BB continues to get his ass stuffed in a locker. Hilarious effing out recruited by Missouri is a joke. Two things can be true. One Rogers isn't serious about football for choosing Missouri, parentheses chasing the bag. Two bed and ball is by far the worst recruiter on staff. It's honestly not even close. I'm sure Venables is willing to live with it because bed and ball is elite at developing players, but I'm not, I'm sure it has to bug him that his old line coach can't recruit for shit when all of his other coaches are fantastic at recruiting. And the last one we have here is a guy saying good luck to him, but not sure he'll develop at Mizzou, which again, I don't know where this myth come from. All Mizzou has been able to do is recruit because everyone that they've been putting in the NFL has been like a three star guys. Like it's, it's not been exactly blue chippers coming in to Mizzou over the last until drink with Scott here. Um, who cares? Let him rot in his NIL money. Oklahoma. Can you go back to the, uh, can you go back to the one before that? So that said, my favorite part of this is, uh, when he says this is, uh, I don't remember, I don't even know, uh, he said, I'm sure Venables is willing to live with it because BB is elite at developing players. He was really elite at developing, uh, Caden green developing him over to Mizzou. Yeah, thanks for, uh, thanks for cooking something up for us. Thanks Oklahoma. Well, I just appreciate you becoming Mizzou's feeder school. This rules. This was a good day banner. Yeah, I could get used to this. I'll tell you what, ma'am though, if, if Oklahoma beats, if Oklahoma comes in to Faroe and beats Mizzou on November 9th is not going to be a very pretty day on the bird app, former bird app. Yeah, that'll be bad. We might need to do Peyton. I think we should, we, we can discuss this with our third member of our show. Uh, we might have to do a message board geniuses of the week and just read the, the, the crazy stuff. Yeah, especially when it's Mizzou related, we got to bring this up. Yeah. Oh God, Mizzou needs to beat Oklahoma for elite recruits more often. It's pretty sick. Yeah, this, this rules banner day. Uh, yeah, good job Brandon Jones. Good job Jacob Peeler. Uh, good job drink. We have a high strength of course. Yeah. Good job Missouri lawmakers for getting that NIL all past. Even though it doesn't actually do much for me, it actually doesn't do anything in these recruiting instances. Good job to whatever donors are pumping money into Mizzou's NIL. Good job to us pat yourself on the back, Peyton. We cover all of us. We're the best, we're the best, the best. Um, all right. Onto other just quick news before we get to quick hits. Um, shock it all. Luther Burden got added to another award guys Walter Campbell. Okay. I saw, I saw something and I want to, I want to propose this. Calla McAndrew, who we've had on the show a number of times. Um, and of course covers Mizzou for the Columbia Tribune. He had a good tweet in regards to these awards and I want to see if you guys are interested in this. Um, he said, and I'm not going to pull up his tweet because it's probably buried by now, but obviously like you were about to say, can you guys believe it? Luther Burden's a preseason All-American for Walter Camp preseason. Um, Calla McAndrew tweeted, I'm going to retweet this preseason All-American team for Luther Burden and have it count as the all of the awards that named Luther Burden to their preseason All-American team. That way we don't have to keep bringing it up. I would, I propose we do that on this show. I would, I would be down. I, I second that notion. Yeah guys, if you can believe it, Luther Burden is on a preseason All-American team. Do you know Luther Burden is really good at football? Like really good. I didn't, I didn't know that actually. I had no idea. You know what, while we're giving, while we're giving, uh, good jobs around, we should probably give a good job to Luther Burden because he's kind of the one that broke the proverbial mold, uh, for the zoo recruiting. I mean, that was like the, like, drink was recruiting well before then, but Luther Burden, I think it's fair to say has changed just the entire look of the program. I mean, it was the first five-star Missouri had gotten in over a decade and it turned into an absolute home run of a player. So you got very, very lucky with Luther Burden. Um, that said, I don't want to talk about any of the awards he gets preseason anymore. Yeah, I'm down for this one to count. So Luther Burden, every award that he gets from now on preseason, we've already talked about it. This is running as that. We're gonna, we're gonna bring up the ones he's not mentioned on. Yeah, I like that. Yeah. He's the one who gets the ones he gets snubbed from. Also, I, the only thing I do enjoy about this is then a bunch of people tweet out Luther Burden highlights and I do like watching those. So, SEC Network during the zoo's SEC Network takeover tweeted every touchdown he had in 2023. That was bookmarked at that rules. Um, so yeah, there you go, Luther Burden. We will not, we're not reporting anymore preseason awards. This one counts for it infinitely. Yeah. Any, any preseason award we don't bring up, just assume he's on it. Yeah. Yep. If we talk about it, it means, it means he got snubbed. I like to probably gonna bring it up anyways. Kenny's gonna make us. Um, all right, basketball as well. We got some news. Caleb Grille, AKA me, uh, has been fully cleared for all basketball-related activities. According to John Ross Dean, uh, 8.4 points, 5.8 rebounds, a nice ejection from the Minnesota game last season, played nine games. I am, I mean, I'm glad he's back. Like, he got that metric orchard for a reason. Hopefully he stays healthy and can be a nice little contributor to the basketball team. Yeah. I mean, this was, I'm surprised this was even news. Yeah, I kind of thought this already was like, we'd already got the creamite on this. But yeah, I mean, Caleb Grille's back, Grille's back in the fold. I mean, he was in a, he was in the most recent, um, like little fun videos they did. So I think it was him and Josh Gray talking to talking to each other. Uh, just having some fun. So yeah, I'm excited for war basketball season. Yes, we do got real players in the portal. So let's hope they're, uh, it turns out well. Yeah. Yeah. Can't have what we had up and again. Um, yeah, congrats, Caleb Grille. Uh, other quick hit of news, little administration. Um, shout out Roman Cleary, who's a, looks like a student, uh, reporter love, love, love promoting some student reporters as we are all former ones in this show. Um, he's got some news on the Missouri side. Memphis athletic staffers, Michael Schroeder, Josh Moore and Emily Hagan's are leaving Memphis to join layered, uh, layered Veach at zoo. Um, apparently more changes that Memphis are expected in the near future. So maybe more names will call. I don't know who any of these people are, but I'm glad that he's recruiting, but he's bringing over people that I guess he's worked with already. That's really all I can say. I'm not a huge athletics administration guy, but there you go. Some names to know. And we don't even know the roles they're in yet. So, um, not much we can add here. Uh, but I mean, very standard stuff. Uh, bring a lot of your staffers with you. I mean, Desiree, I'm sure, uh, has, has brought plenty of Mizzou people with her to Arizona. So yeah, it's news. So maybe we'll hear, we'll hopefully actually, we don't mention those people again, because I feel like when we do, it's probably because they're doing something bad. So narrowly bringing up, um, when you have to talk about administrators, it's not for great things. Yeah, sometimes it's for things like getting huge donations. That's true, but a lot of the times it is not. Yeah. So hopefully we don't mention them again, because they're just doing their job well. So yeah, but yeah, shout out to them. Uh, all right, Peyton, this last thing before we go to quick hits, I had added to our show notes just for you. You mentioned that, uh, takeover, uh, for the Mizzou is doing for the SEC. Um, I was told there was going to be live tweeting of Missouri's Cotton Bowl win over Ohio State. You, in fact, only tweeted this GIF of being excited to watch the game. I did not see any follow-up tweets. Uh, and I am very disappointed. So I need a game summary from, yeah, I didn't, I didn't want to flood the timeline. I'll tell you what, the offensive line played worse than I remember in the first half. Um, but then I don't know what something clicked just like late in the third quarter, because it just turned into like absolute people movers for the rest of the games. If you're Delgado very easily could have won, um, the offensive MVP award, I'll tell you what, it probably should not have been Brady Cook. Uh, he did play well very well, mind you. Um, in the last 18 or so minutes of the game, but the first 42 were not very good. Um, and they weren't good for anybody, but I mean, like, like, like, uh, you can't really recapture like the magic of being there and watching the zoo, like do something really cool for a change. Um, but it was still super cool. Like that the Luther burden touchdown at the end, uh, just gives me goosebumps every time. Definitely my favorite sports win for one of my sports teams probably since like 2018 or something, uh, back when the bears were really good. Uh, all in all, just a daily carnal should have won defensive MVP. Um, he was absolutely he should be a draft pick. It would not shock me if this is his last year at the zoo, uh, because he jumps into the NFL draft. Um, I hope, uh, platoon has a very, very keeps him in the star role, whatever he wants, whatever he's calling it in his defense. You don't do anything, uh, with, uh, with daily carnal because he's a damn good football player. Well done. Yeah, I did not, I did not watch, but I'm glad somebody did it. We were texting excitedly and I do the vibes of that game. We're just immaculate, immaculate. Um, all right, that's what we got. Look at that. 48 minutes of mazoo content to get your week started. Don't say we don't bring you good shit in the summer. All right. We do. Right. Thankfully, because mazoo's lighting recruits. So gives us a lot to, uh, a lot to talk about. But, uh, anyway, we're going to say we're going to finish the show. We do have a Ken sports shorts, even though he's not here and we have a new segment. We're going to do, uh, we're just calling it tigers in the wild, which is just our pro, you know, mazoo and the pros look. And then we'll finish with headlines, headlines, if you don't remember, either mazoo related or not mazoo related, just something we read, a headline that caught our attention, uh, gets us a chance to talk a little bit about the national sports landscape. You know how that all goes. Uh, so yeah, stay tuned. We'll finish with quick hits. Okay. Quick hits time. We do have a Ken sports shorts, even though Kenny isn't here, uh, that we're doing an immaculate grid. Uh, you can see that if you're looking on the YouTube patent to help our podcast listeners. I'm going to read what square you're going to do before you get it. So don't just like blast this really quick. This is going to be a me reading the criteria of the immaculate grid and patent solving it because it's baseball. I don't know any of this. So Peyton, we have the immaculate grid on the one side. We have the Diamondbacks, the Arizona Diamondbacks, a 40 plus war for their career and played first base for at least one game. On the other side, we have the angels, the Detroit Tigers and a first round MLB draft pick. How about, right? Peyton, if you're looking at this right now, can you get all of it? Do you think? Yeah, I think I can get all this. All right. How about I pick a square for you? And that's the one you fill out. Okay. That's fine. And then you have to be, I try and try and be as niche as you can. We have to get it. Yeah. I mean, ordinarily, I'd try and think of the most obscure reliever ever, um, for a lot of these, but it's not a ton of teams and we don't want to take 50 years on this. So all right, your first square. We'll just go in order. Angels Diamondbacks. Who are you going to pick? Angels Diamondbacks. Uh, I'm going to go with one. Kenny would love Mark Trumbo. Mark Trumbo. Yep. Oh, 5%. There you go. I can do better than that. I can think of a reliever if I had enough time, but it's fine. Angels and 40 career war. Okay. So I mean, I obviously have a back pocket, like Mike Trout, if I want it. What I'm trying to think of is a, like a less boring ass answer. Um, like, okay. So there was another, there was another fish man that played for, for the angels. Like, uh, he was an outfielder. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, who I'm talking about? You have no idea who I'm talking about. Um, he's true. Did he ever put for the angels? No, he didn't. And he saw, that's also not a fish name. Um, he was like on the two. Oh, yeah. He was on the 2002 angels team and he played center field. I believe he would have eclipsed 40 war, but I can't think of his name. Um, go to a different, go, go to a different grid. Come back to that. Okay. Hopefully I can think of it later. Um, angels first base, angels first base. I mean, and he has to have played one game there. I mean, there's, I can think of a million options. I'll go Justin four. Let's see. Two percent. Good job. All right. Gary upset that it's even that much. Tiger's Diamondbacks. Okay. Well, Joaquin Soria played for both JD Martinez, Dawell Lugo. Um, so that's three right there. And I mean, JD Martinez is a boring answer. Joaquin Soria is a bit deeper because he's a reliever, but I mean, I think people would still know that. Although I don't know how many would think of Joaquin Soria with, um, by the way, I just thought of his name. It's, uh, Tim Salmon. Um, but we'll go back to that. Um, I'm going to just go Soria because I don't want to waste so much time. Uh, oh, 0.4. That's a great one. There we go. All right. 40 career war, 40 career war. I mean, the Tigers are one of the oldest franchises ever. Um, so you have no shortage of options here. I almost want to roll the dice and say Ian Kinsler did, but I don't know if you, you know, but I don't know if he did it. If it counts all of his career war, like with the right, because he played a lot of years with the Rangers. Um, so I'm not going to do that. I mean, Miguel Cabrera is the easy one. Justin Verlander probably did it. I want to think of a more fun answer, but I kind of, like Maglia or Donia is probably was close if he didn't do it. What if I'll just go with Miguel Cabrera? Because it's safe. I want to say Kinsler, but I don't know if it would count or if he even really got it. Yeah, Maggie obvious answer. I played for space. Now Ian Kinsler definitely didn't do that. I'd like to say Victor Martinez probably did it once. Oh, you know what? No, I got a good one. Jordan Hicks or John Hicks or Jim Adousie. You pick Jim Adousie, Roma Dunes. Nope, Jim Adousie. Point zero five. Wow. Zero five. Well done. All right. First round pick from the Diamondbacks. Cover Bauer. Sorry. He's not a very good person, but that's a very obvious one. But wait, no, I can do true, true son, right? Max Scherzer was drafted by was about the Diamondbacks. Yeah, well, he was, right? I don't, I don't know. Oh, good job. Four percent. And we don't have to do true power, which is probably good. Forty war. First round pick. Oh man, there's a lot of options, but I mean, it's always kind of tricky. I mean, Mike Trout, I could use here, obviously. There's a million guys that have done it. It could maybe be good because maybe a lot of people go with him for the angels, the angels one for this. Yeah, you know what? I'll just do it because we got to move things along as well. So we'll do my count. Yeah. Eight percent. I'm going to get salmon here. Tim salmon. Yep. Three. All right. First base, first round draft pick. Okay. Has played at least one game at first and was a first round pick. See, like, there's obviously about it. Oh, Tyler Murray, this is going to be a very angel centric grid. Nolan. Yeah, only two percent. It's a pretty good one. I mean, 48, you know, 48 rarity score. Nice. That's a pretty good one. I mean, like, I lost a lot here. I could have done better here and here would kind of fit for any of the first time ticks. No, he would not. He was not drafted by the Diamondbacks. He accumulated zero war. He never played baseball. He never played a game, let alone first base. Yeah. Good. So nice. Good job, Peyton. You were meant to carry that one, and you did very proud of you. Very happy with the Jima Ducey being that low. I almost want to restart and see how low Hicks was, but three start and see if Ian Kinzler works for the 40 war. I do want to do that. I don't know if I can just restart it. But I can, I can just tell you right now if he even had it. Ian Kinzler, he probably was a 40 war player. Oh, wow. Yeah, 54. So he probably would alert the only question would have been if it had to all come with Detroit because he only played there four years. But yeah, he was a really good player. So all right. There you go. Oh, he was drafted by the, oh, but that was the 29th round. Whoops. Moving on. All right. We did, which we changed one of our segments. We're going to just call this one now. Tigers in the wild. You know, we've kind of had already been doing it, but it's just, you know, former Mizzou true sons who are now out and about doing pro things in the pros. So I guess, Peyton, would you like to read Mr. Kenneth's? Who's he got with Tiger in the wild? We'll stick in baseball. Kenny stole Tanner Hauck from my Jersey of the week. Tanner Hauck, former Mizzou Tiger, former ace for the Mizzou Tigers. He's become the ace of the Boston Red Sox. He's going to his first all-star game. Red Sox whipped up a pretty sweet edit. He's got a cowboy hat on. He's in the Texas desert. Out in West Texas. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Tanner Hauck, first ever. I mean, I can pull up his stats if you want. We don't need to do that, but you might as well do it. He's an all-star. He's earned it. I assume he's really good. Yeah, no. He's been great for them. The stuff has always been there. He's finally put it together as a starter this year after kind of going through a lot of reliever things. I mean, last year, I mean, he started 21 games, but he had a 501 ERA. This year, 260 ERA. Very, very good. Striking out 8.6 per game. Not bad or per 9. It's not bad. What really jumps out is how much his home run rate has improved, dropped it down to 0.4 per 9 innings. That's elite levels right there. There you go. Best of his career by the looks of it. Best in the league right now. Best in the league. All right. Shout out to Tanner Hauck, true son. Peyton, who's your tiger in the wild? My tiger in the wild is going to be the rightful 2020-2021 SEC player of the year, Drew Smith. That fraud Herb Jones did not deserve it. He should turn it in if he has any integrity. He was signed by the Miami Heat. They all capsed heat to a two-way contract for about the 20th time of his career. I'm pretty sure. Obviously, I mean, it's very well heralded. Spolstra and the Heat in general just love like undrafted guys that kind of fit the culture. Clearly, they value Drew Smith as someone that has done that because it's like the 15th time he is resigned with the Heat. He had one brief stint with the Nets, but otherwise it's been all heat. I will not lie. I did text a Miami Heat fan this and they kind of gave me the rolled eyes like, oh, we're getting this guy. But hey, maybe this will be the time. Maybe this will be the time it works out for Drew Smith. I don't think he has a huge role or anything, but I forgot that. That will be an endless gripe with Peyton, by the way, the SEC defense player of the year. Well, maybe if Herb Jones had better numbers than Drew Smith, it would have been a rightful word. Well, you know what, Nolton, I take that back because Herb Jones, of course, beat Drew Smith head-to-head that year. Oh, wait, he didn't do that either. So this is true. Absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculousness rather. I could really. I'll go to bat for you on that one. I could really turn up the heat here. If you want me to say something, maybe it could make you angry. Like what? Herb Jones, I think might be my favorite player in the NBA, who's not in the box. Dude, that is why, like he's a, oh, he's good at defense. He's gritty. It's an offensive league who gives a shit about defense. He's a dog though, and he's gotten better at offense than the league. Whatever. Drew Smith won that award. I'm only talking pro Herb Jones. I won't speak on anything in college. Drew Smith. But yeah, Drew Smith, he's back moving on through Smith. I'm sticking the NBA. My Tigers in the wild is Shawn East, Shawn East the second, of course, name bird himself. Yes, the main bird him. Wait a minute. I like no cap. I mean, he's the main bird. Got to play it. He started the Los Angeles Lakers first summer league game. I don't remember who they played. I don't really care at summer league, but the Kings, thank you, Peyton. He played his first summer league with the Lakers, started, of course, in the back court with Brownie James finished the game with six points through bounce and two assists. So not a bad outing for Shawn East. Obviously, he was not the one who got the attention in this game. Did you see the thing, Peyton? I know there was a couple of like screenshots on Twitter and stuff of how ESPN's entire front page was just like Brownie's individual, like little videos for what he did in the first game. Yeah, I mean, are people surprised? Like, did anybody care about the 26 year old for the Kings that dropped 32 in this game? Nobody. Nobody cared. Kings fans didn't care. Okay. Like, of course, it's going to be Brownie James coverage. Yeah. Okay. Maybe they should have given, by the way, this is a hilarious lineup. It's East playing in the back court with Brownie and then he's face now teammates with Dalton Connect and Colin Castleton. Yeah, he's still there. Yeah. Yeah. Colin Castleton. He made me. He made me unbelievably angry in college. I did not. He was. He was. I'm glad Mizzou didn't play Florida that often, while Colin Castleton was healthy. I think it was like two games, maybe because Colin Castleton wouldn't genuinely be like one of my least favorite players. Yeah. Maxwell Lewis is good to Pepperdine. I don't, I don't really. Yeah. I just thought this was Brownie James and Shawn East to me. Yeah. That's the Shawn East show. Shawn East out on better than Brownie James is just saying. Perfect mentor. We talked about it. We should have really been the 55th overall pick. 55, Shawn East. Yeah. That would have been, that would have been very fitting. Yeah. I mean, I don't know why anyone's surprised about Brownie, but I hope Shawn East could be maybe a good mentor for him. Also, thanks to everybody who liked this tweet. It did very well. They really, oh, well, look at that. 214. We killed them. All right. Let's finish the show with headlines. And of course, our, our segment of either Mizzou or unrelated, Mizzou related or unrelated headlines that we saw. I'm going to read this one. So Kenny's submission for headlines comes from, with the photos from no context, college football. It's a article from the clarion ledger. I don't remember where that newspaper is. It reads that is the headline, Archie Manning, Colin, old Miss football legend, dad of Eli, Peyton, grandfather of arch is 75. But just like, I didn't catch that at first. I'm not going to, oh my gosh. I was like, did Archie Manning like died? I miss it. Missed it. No, I just is 75. Jesus. Yeah, that's a very weird headline to read. It just puts my brain in a pretzel. I'll read it again. Archie Manning, Colin, old Miss football legend, dad of Eli, Peyton, grandfather of arch is 75. What in the world were they thinking? Usually this segment is because we want to talk about the article. This is just purely the headline. This is the most pure headlines submission we've had so far. Yeah. Happy birthday, Jesus. Also, just Peyton, just Peyton Manning spelled it P-E-Y-T-O-N. You didn't know that? I did not. I spell mine the odd way, apparently. I feel like I see Peyton with the A more. I think we've had this. What percentage of patents are spelled P-A-Y? While he's typing that in. Yeah, I just I had to read that five times after Kenny sent it because it was just yeah, I was like, did I miss Archie Manning dying until you read it out loud, but it doesn't. It also is like, there's there's just so much going on there, grandfather. Can we just do all Miss football legend? Could we just mention in the article that he's a grandfather of who? LaVarch. Like, why do we have to have that all in the headline? Could we just say like football icon or something? It's notable. I mean, it did leave out the part where he was like the quarterback of the New Orleans Saints for like a decade, but yeah. Anyways, I'm doubting there's a lot of data on the Peyton spelling. You clicked this link before it was purple. The name Peyton has derived the top one. Is that not? I've never clicked that. That's blue. You're dumb eyes. We're tricking 75% of the time. 75% of the time. No, that's used as the name is most often used as a last name. Oh, so it's even weirder. You should just be moving anyway. What's your headline? My headline. It's actually good news. Mizzou faculty opinion of Moon Troy vastly improves two years after scathing report. In 2022, things were actually, by the way, Moon Troy is a friend of the program. We had a one of our favorite episodes was when Moon Troy came on and kind of laid out the fact that they won a win championships in the athletic department. Definitely a highlight for us when we were on KCOU. Two years ago, though, I mean, he was not well liked by the faculty at Mizzou. I don't think it was a secret. You can see it here in this Missouri independent article. Only 26% of those surveyed in 2022 supported retaining Moon Troy as the counselor of the system. But that has really improved over the last two years. Troy now has 64% of the the faculty's support, which is a good thing. Certainly, I don't know, obviously, the inner workings of how it works. So I don't know every single change. The Missouri, I do know that the independent lays out a lot of what's changed. In those two years, he improved his overall performance from a 2.26 on a one to five scale to a 3.45. So it's like a GPA. Yeah, so pretty good. Certainly like to hear that. They do mention COVID at a large impact on response in 2022. Again, we're a sports show. I'm not privy to the budgets. I'm a big dumb sports fan. But I am glad to see that more and more people are getting behind Moon Troy. Seems like morale is improving there. Definitely go read this article if you want a better breakdown of it. Yeah, I like the Missouri independent. They do good work. But yeah, I mean, we want our university to be a good place that professors enjoy teaching it. So I guess that's good. Hey, you got John Anderson back or somebody did. So yeah, you know, that's a win in my book to bring it back to the big done sports world. Yeah, there you go. So yeah, shout out Moon Troy and of course, yeah, friend of the program. We love we love seeing all of our friends of the program succeed. Of course. But yeah, nice. Good headline, Peyton. Someone we don't think we want to see succeed anymore in his current role. Yeah. Well said. All right, my headline unrelated as much to Mizzou will read it as follows. USM and T coach per halter's future to be decided next week, sources. If you didn't go on Twitter in the last couple of weeks, allow me to clue you in. Greg Berhalter, the coach of the United States men's national soccer team. You guys know I had to bring soccer in this somehow. He sucks. And they the US lost in the group stage of the Copa America tournament that is very big. It happens two years before the World Cup. It's usually a good litmus test to where your squad is before the World Cup. Yeah, they got the US got eliminated in the group stage and a lot of people are very mad at per halter and want this to be the last straw. As have I have said that vehemently on the show, I believe I've succeeded in turning Peyton Kenny against the man. So if nothing else, I've done my job there. But apparently his future is getting decided the next week. So hopefully, this is the last straw. Yeah, I go with the wave on whatever the US men's national team opinion is, I have no original thought to add on this. It does seem pretty remarkable that Mizzou or Mizzou talked about Mizzou so much on this show. Believe it or not. It seems pretty remarkable the US got grouped. That is pretty unbelievable. I mean, the two on lost to Panama was that like the one that kind of did it in? Yeah, so there was a lot that happened in that game. The US got a red card. They're playing with a player down for like the whole time, but per halter still did not do. He did his typical thing, which is he doesn't adjust during games. He doesn't, you know, take half time to actually like move the game in a different direction. He just kind of sticks things. He's just a bad tactician. You know, that's that's probably the best way I can describe it. Think of a basketball coach who another star starts going off and they don't really do anything to switch. Did just now, did he actually was this not a misconstrued hand gesture? Did he actually like tell the players what the score was in the Bolivia Panama game? I don't really know how else you can interpret it. So there was a in just going like this, like it could have been but it was kind of more like like that. Like it wasn't just like, I don't know. And I want to believe what I want to believe, you know, that that kind of helps my narrative. So misconstrued or not, it doesn't help. And obviously the way the US were playing for some parts of that game, it kind of looked like they were trying to hold on to a draw, which they might have needed, but then obviously animal on and they need to win. But yeah, it's bad. We'll see. Good. Do you think Jacob Pilar would get the job? If they could that be his next? I've heard Blake Baker has interest. Butch Brandon Jones? No, I think like Baker is interested in the job. Yeah. Yeah, he'll definitely take it. So yeah, there's some there's your soccer drama for the week. You know, I got to throw that in. That's my that's my duty as the last part of this show. Anyway, very nice joke master Peyton. Do you have a joke to finish the show? I sure do, Nolan. Here's our joke of the day. This one comes for my favorite TV series, the today's show. Nolan, what's more unbelievable than a talking dog? This is a good one. A barking human. No, a spelling bee. Oh, I don't think that's more unbelievable than a talking dog. I think it is. I mean, you can be a human and talk and say dumb things. You gotta like be somewhat cohesive or coherent rather to spell. Can you spell cacophonous? I'm gonna try. If you want the definition, I'll give it to you. I would like the definition. Loud. Can I country of origin? I have no damn idea. Can you use it in a sentence? A cacophonous canade of thunder. That's good sentence. Cacophonous. C. Correct. A. Yup. U. Nope. How do you spell it? This is cacophonous because I didn't feel like looking up cacophonous. C A C O P H O N Y. No, yeah, not a chance. Those spelling bees are insane. I don't know. Coughness. You probably take out the Y and O U S. I see. I see. I saw Al Roker's in a new Mercedes Benz commercial. I was very excited. We detected Peyton Kenny immediately after just watched Al Roker. So glad he's still doing the tell a joke. No, he was at the White House though. All right. Don't Google that. Al Roker White House. Al Roker White House. All right. Hope you guys enjoy. That was about as packed as usual as we've had almost since the season. So that's pretty hype. And we'll be back hopefully talking more commitments here in the next the next one for Friday and with Kenny, ideally, you know. But until that time, we hope everyone enjoyed this show and have fun and safe week. We'll see you guys back on. We're back in the normal routine, by the way. We're not skipping. We're not skipping Friday show. We took 4th of July. So we're not. We were just. Yeah. We let all the recruiting fireworks happen. And then we recorded, which made it way out. Honestly, it works out a lot better. Yeah. We we we cooked. Anyway, we will see you guys on Friday. Have a good week. 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