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Pinkel thinks Mizzou is ready to turn corner

By Beano Cook
ESPN Insider

Monday, March 21, 2005

When Gary Pinkel took an undermanned Toledo team to Penn State in 2000 and won 24-3 as a three-touchdown underdog, he became the nation's hot coach that year – the Urban Meyer effect. The offers came, and the Ohio native decided on Missouri, a team that had won at times over the years but lost more than expected. Pinkel accepted the Missouri job only after getting certain commitments from an administration that failed to keep up with the Joneses and the Smiths, better known as Nebraskas a ...

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