Coffman has career game in Tiger loss
Coffman had more than 100 yards, but said he could have done more.
Published Oct. 12, 2008
Although the Missouri offense lacked its usual swagger on Saturday against the Oklahoma State Cowboys, senior tight end Chase Coffman came up big. Coffman had a career high 11 receptions for 104 yards. However, it was overshadowed by a 28-23 Missouri loss.
“A loss is a loss,” Coffman said. “It’s just a terrible thing. I wish I could’ve done more and I know that I could’ve done more. There are a lot of playmakers on our team, and tonight just happened to be my night. We just weren’t as focused as we usually are.”
The 23 points scored by Missouri is the team's lowest total since a 21-16 loss at Iowa State in 2006.
“We just hurt ourselves with turnovers and penalties,” Coffman said. “This is a game that we probably should’ve won, but Oklahoma State’s a great team and they came out and made all the plays that they needed to.”
Throughout the game, Coffman continued to wow the home crowd with his high hurdles over defenders trying to tackle him.
Even though the Oklahoma State defense was unable to stop Coffman, it continually rattled senior quarterback Chase Daniel and the rest of the MU offense.
“When your quarterback’s not making as many plays as he usually does, the rest of the team needs to step up and we didn’t do that very well,” Coffman said.
Oklahoma State was able to keep sophomore tailback Derrick Washington to a season low eight rushes for 11 yards. The game also marked the first of the season in which Washington was unable to score two touchdowns.
“They did a good job in stepping up and stopping our running game,” Coffman said.
The troubles penetrated through the whole team.
“We were just out of sync,” junior wide receiver Danario Alexander said. “We’re going to take every practice seriously and over prepare for the next game.”
Missouri won’t have long to woe about the loss, as it heads to Austin, Texas, next weekend to play an undefeated Texas team, where the Tigers will have more than 90,000 fans cheering against them.
With one conference loss, Missouri is still within reach of accomplishing its goal of winning the Big 12, but another conference loss will be detrimental to that.
“It hurts,” sophomore Jeremy Maclin said. “Nobody likes to lose. But you have to get ready for another tough opponent who will probably be No. 1 in the nation.”
