Sports, Politics, Life, Buckroofing presents Kevin Keatsman has issues.

If we're fans of one thing over everything else, it probably has to do with free speech.

I love freedom of speech, And even more than that,

as a sportscaster or journalist for all these years, I have loved it when people actually say

things. It's my favorite part of the job, especially when they say things that make it appear

they put their foot in their mouth. I'm just entertained by it nonstop, and we've got a couple of great cases to start this podcast today of that happening over the last couple days.

The first involves, and it's not as big a deal as the second one, the second one has really set me off.

It is Jack Nicholas at the Memorial talking about golf, but the first is Eli Drinkwitz, the head coach of the Missouri

Tigers, who made $4 million last year and will make $6 million this season as he's taken a raise

after a year where people thought he might get fired and think he could be fired after this year.

They've raised, there's so much money in college athletics, so much money being paid to coaches.

Coaches with pretty thin resumes, to be quite honest about it, who just keep programs in that

bowl game range. You know, if you can win your non-conference games, pick off two or three wins in

your conference, you get into a bowl game that you're really no threat to win anything, but you're able to go to a postseason bowl game. And, of course, there's a million bowl games now. So coaches are paid millions of dollars just to go out somehow and win seven games and go to a bowl game. I think Eli Drinkwitz is in that category right now. I had really high hopes for him when he got there.

I'm certainly not giving up on him, but I don't really see, I don't really see a pathway for Missouri to break free in their division in the SEC and become a real player there competing

for the division title and a chance to win or play in the championship game. I just don't view

Missouri under Eli Drinkwitz that way.

You can disagree with that. You can argue that. You can think that's whatever. Obviously,

George is in the way. But there are other programs that have had success and look maybe like

they're even up and coming a little bit more in Missouri's division. I just think it's a really

hard thing.

I stand by what I said years ago. Missouri shouldn't have left. They should be in the Big 12. The Big 12 is expanding. They should be looking at coming back to the Big 12 for the fans,

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