Mizzou Lands DGB on Signing Day.

Dorial Green-Beckham will be playing football
for the Missouri Tigers this fall.

This is not an average year at the University of Missouri.

Adding to all of the hype around sports at Missouri, Dorial Green-Beckham has signed a Letter of Intent to play football in Columbia.  For those of you who have been living under a rock, or just do not follow recruiting, the Hillcrest (Springfield, MO) Wide Receiver is ranked 3rd in the 2012 ESPNU 150.  To put it another way, Mizzou is going to have the highest ranked true freshman in the SEC next fall.

DGB, as he's referred to, made two well-documented visits to the University of Missouri.  The first visit was over homecoming weekend, in which he attended the game against Iowa State.  Mizzou won the game and students started to chant M-I-Z...D-G-B.  A fan base hungry for national recognition wanted DGB badly.  The second visit was last weekend.  He attended the Mizzou/Texas Tech basketball game and the M-I-Z...D-G-B chants were back in full effect.  

For the duration between the basketball game to Signing Day, the media was all over any and all things DGB.  Saturday night, reports surfaced that DGB was displeased because he was carded at Harpo's in Columbia.  Monday, it was reported by a "source" that DGB would be choosing Mizzou over Arkansas.  This was denied by Green-Beckham's adoptive father, John Beckham.  This lead to DGB himself tweeting, "It's my time to make my own decision.  Dnt need anyone to tell me where to go cuz it's all on my #mytime."

In the end, however, he chose Mizzou.  He chose Pinkel's spread offense.  He chose Columbia.  He chose a rapidly growing fan base, with an even faster growing reputation.  He chose M-I-Z...D-G-B.

Not a bad deal for the Tigers, considering he was a lock to go to Arkansas last week.