Brantley out: Huge blow for Missouri?

With a lot of notable Missouri luminaries gone to play NFL ball, we all thought it was going to be DT Harold Brantley‘s year after the car accident in 2015 cost him the season – and nearly his life. In his first two years he had 84 tackles, 12 for a loss, a forced fumble and five sacks.

But Harold Brantley couldn’t meet the academic standards of Missouri, and he was booted.

Now, if you’re a Missouri fan – or any fan in the SEC – you’d be really pissed about news that a player couldn’t pass exams or didn’t do the right work to get him through school. Here’s why: With their tutoring systems and the huge amounts of efforts that schools put in to make players pass, a player – however much of a dumbass he might be – should be able to pass what most 8th-grade high schoolers would put down as ‘remedial education’. New coach Barry Odom gave him the time to focus on the projects he would need to get through….and he still failed.

Still, it’s a huge loss to the Missouri defensive line – although with DE Charles Harris, DE Marcell Frazier and other talents ready to take up the slack, they should be fine.

And now back to the offense….Urgh.