MARYLAND HEIGHTS — Eli Drinkwitz doesn’t like his Missouri football team opening the season on a Thursday night. The Tigers open Drinkwitz’s third season Sept. 1 against Louisiana Tech in a 7 p.m. kickoff on ESPNU. “Love it. Love it. Love it from all the different perspectives,” Drinkwitz said Tuesday night at the St. Louis Music Park, where he joined MU basketball coaches Robin Pingeton and Dennis Gates and athletics director Desiree Reed Francois and a fleet of athletics department officials on their “Come Home Tour” stop through the Gateway City. “First, just appreciate the administration for, one, changing out the Middle Tennessee game to give us that seventh opportunity…