Mizzou coach: Response to his rant has been positive
Missouri’s football players spent the week leading up to Saturday’s Auburn game detailing the need for improved energy in both practice and games. That liveliness didn’t exactly show up on the field as the Tigers lost 51-14.
But it sure arrived afterward. In a postgame clip that made the rounds over the weekend, coach Barry Odom emphatically insisted he will win during his tenure at Missouri, that the state of the program was fine, but a “turnaround,” as he labeled it, would take time.
On Wednesday, his first session with the media since the rant, the Ada native detailed the response the speech has received.
“If you go from a day-to-day standpoint in the meetings that I have with my staff or with administration, they’ve all been really, really positive,” Odom said during the weekly SEC teleconference with reporters.
After four days to think about his comments Saturday, Odom also added: “The other night was a carryover from the locker room. Everything I do, either privately or publicly, is for my team or for my staff.”
TCU exploring stadium expansion
TCU has sent a survey to football season-ticket holders to gauge their interest in suites and “premium seating options” on the east side of Amon G. Carter Stadium.
Athletic director Chris Del Conte said no expansion plans are imminent, however.
“We’re not announcing a plan. We just want to make sure if and when we do something, we’re armed with the right information to make sure we deliver a quality product for our constituents,” he said Wednesday from a meeting of Football Bowl Subdivision college athletic directors in Washington, D.C.
The survey asks for respondents to rate their interest in amenities like a climate-controlled club lounge, a private stadium entrance, shaded seating areas, cooling fans and misters and wider, padded seats.
The stadium has 24 suites and about 2,500 club seats on the west side.
Suspended Florida player facing more felony counts
Suspended Florida defensive lineman Jordan Smith is facing four more felony complaints.
According to Alachua County court records, the Gainesville Police Department filed four sworn complaints against Smith on Wednesday. Police say Smith used the credit card of a Virginia man to pay $1,007.82 for his Gainesville apartment. Smith faces two fraud charges and two grand theft larceny charges.
A redshirt freshman from Lithonia, Georgia, Smith is one of nine players involved in the credit card scandal. University of Florida police say Smith used the same card to deposit $800 into his campus bookstore debit account. Smith faces 18 felony complaints in that related case.
The nine remain indefinitely suspended from the team while the State Attorney’s Office reviews the case and weighs formal charges.