A Tiger's Perspective: Reflecting on Chase Daniel's Career at Missouri

Many experts say numbers and statistics don’t lie. They can’t. How could a stat, which means the same thing that it meant 50 years ago, be deceptive? But even if a number is “telling the truth,” that doesn’t mean it isn’t taken out of context. A player can put up big numbers for a lot of reasons other than the player’s talent. This is the argument pessimistic Missouri Tiger fans take when attacking quarterback Chase Daniel, who ended his college career in winning fashion on Dec. 29, 2008, against Northwestern in the Alamo Bowl. Daniel, who finished fourth in the Heisman voting in 2007, ended up throwing four more interceptions in his senior campaign than in his junior year, and losing two more games, so many mark his last year with a asterisk of bitterness. Daniel, who is known to be confident if not cocky, and a bit of a loudmouthed player, was even hearing boos by the end of his tenure at Missouri. He had always been the face of the program during ... (link)