Brady Cook, the starting quarterback for the No. 9 Missouri Tigers, thought for sure he was ready for a raucous environment at Kyle Field.
Yes, the Texas A&M stadium boasts a tremendous turnout every Saturday. Yes, the Aggies fans there refer to themselves as the 12th Man. Yes, Cook is a senior who has been in his fair share of loud stadiums.
But he really, truly believed it wouldn’t get to him and the Tigers.
In preparing for the Week 6 matchup, Cook was asked about the Kyle Field advantage and nonchalantly brushed it off:
“The noise at practice is actually louder” Cook stated. “They put these two speakers pretty much two feet right behind me, and, I mean, you can’t hear anything, it’s loud. In stadiums, it’s loud, but it’s like a surrounding kind of distant loud, so it’s a little different. I think it’s just as loud or louder and tougher to communicate.”
Cut to Saturday, where just about everything that could do wrong for Missouri did. Texas A&M took a 24-0 lead into halftime and kept pouring gasoline on the fire to the tune of a 41-10 win.
Along the way, Cook’s Missouri offense picked up back-to-back false start penalties on third down in the fourth quarter. And the video board operator knew exactly what to flash on the screen.
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Next time, the correct answer from Cook is to say absolutely nothing.
