Coach For A Day: Missouri
The Missouri Tigers will enter Vanderbilt Stadium Saturday afternoon to face the Commodores in a matchup of two teams on streak.
Missouri is on a five game winning streak while Vanderbilt has lost two in a row and five of sux on the season, including their embarrassing beatdown at the hands of UNLV last Saturday at home.
As I've done the last two week in putting on the hat and becoming the head coach of the Vanderbilt opponent, this week I'm replacing Odum for a day and here's what I would do versus Vanderbilt.
OFFENSE
This one is simple. The Tigers offense is rolling along with quarterback Kelly Bryant leading the charge, so I change nothing and simply do what we do.
What's that?
Run th ball with our multiple backs lead by Larry Roundtree and pound a Commodore defense that struggles against the run and gave up over 400 yards to Ole Miss two weeks ago.
Of course Bryant will throw the football some as we are capable of that and the Commodores defense also struggles against the pass anddon't get to the quarterback nearly enough to impact him.
But it's simple, run the ball, eat clock, win and head home.
DEFENSE
Another one that seems pretty simple to figure out. Stop Ke'Shawn Vaughn.
Vaughn has been the only reliable weapon each week for a struggling Commodores offense. Eight men get the bix to stop him and force whomever is at quarterback to beat us through the air.
This is a gae that Missouri is heavily favored to win and (-21) as of this writting, and based on the Commodores performance one week ago, most of the people betting are going with the Columbia black & gold.
SUMMARY
Vanderbilt head coach Derek Mason appeared on a local radio show Thursday afternoon and stated that "we have a plan, and I thinkyou're gonna like what you see."
We'll all see Saturday afternoon at 3pm when these two meet.
