Barry Odom's contract extension

[cru66]

I understand that, but Mizzou probable does a worse job of keeping in state talent then most.

hard to keep kids when bluebloods come calling. alot of top instate schools lose many of their best recruits.[

 

[goinlong]

I really don't know the answer to that question. But I can tell you that a former Tiger player that lives here in Monett said in the final years that GP did do a better job of trying to reach out to former tigers, I do think that is a start. Second not sure if there would be any NCAA violation but back when I was in school Arkansas would give our football team free tickets to a home game, we used it as a bonding experience and I knew alot of my buddies grew up to be Hog fans because of that experience. Since Mizzou has trouble filling the stands that might be a good start, give some high school teams and local youth program some tickets to get them on the tiger band wagon and fill up the stadium.

I did approach Mizzou about taking our local youth program to a Saturday game once and asked if they offered any discounts they gave me nothing, that was a missed chance to grow tiny tiger fans!! Instead Arkansas offered me tickets we just could not work out the date.

Yeah, I'm not sure of the NCAA violations that could cause (if any). It's a shame they didn't work with you on tickets. Hopefully you just got a bad rep to work with.