Camp season starts today
Missouri enters the "wild, wild West" today, at least according to Nick Saban. The Tigers kick off a whirlwind tour of one day camps with today's Elite Prospect Camp on campus in Columbia. Over the next 14 days, Mizzou will attend at least 17 camps in six states.
Today's camp is the first of five being held on campus. A second elite prospect camp will be held on June 9th. That same day, Missouri's three-day team camp, which attracts teams from all over the state and generally a couple of out-of-state squads, kicks off. Sunday, June 12th is Missouri's youth football camp and the on-campus activities wrap up with a specialist/kicker camp on June 14th.
The new part of camp season officially kicks off on Thursday. The Tigers will be in Belton, TX for the first of five camps in the Lone Star State. Mizzou will also have personnel at camps in Houston and San Antonio on June 3rd and Dallas and Tyler, TX on June 4th. The list of college programs represented at those camps, hosted by Mary Hardin-Baylor, includes Ole Miss, Oregon State, Oklahoma State, Arizona State, Kansas State and Northwestern.
Mizzou is back in the state on Sunday for its prospect camp in St. Louis at Kirkwood High School. The staff will hit the western side of the state on Tuesday, June 7th at Park Hill High School. Tiger targets expected to attend the in-state camps include Alex Faniel, Brett Gabbert, Chester Graves, Devin Haney, Larry Boyd, Trevor Trout and Marquis Hayes, among others.
Other camp locations include Naperville and Lake Park, IL, Atlanta, Mississippi Gulf Coast CC and Birmingham, AL. Here is the complete schedule (as we know it):
June 1: Columbia
June 2: Belton, TX
June 3: Houston, TX/San Antonio, TX/Mississippi Gulf Coast CC
June 4: Tyler, TX/Dallas, TX
June 5: St. Louis
June 7: Kansas City
June 8: Atlanta, GA (Georgia State)/Lake Park, IL/Naperville, IL (North Central College)
June 9: Columbia
June 9-11: Team Camp, Columbia
June 11: Birmingham, AL (Samford)
June 12: Youth Camp, Columbia
June 14: Specialist/Kicking Camp, Columbia
Head coach Barry Odom is expected to be in attendance at some of the Texas camps and Atlanta, in addition to all the in-state camps (at least). The rest of the staff will divide and conquer over the next 14 days as Missouri criss-crosses the country searching for talent. PowerMizzou.com will have personnel at all of the in-state camps, plus at least two in Texas, one in Illinois and Atlanta. Camp begins in Columbia at 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.
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