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Missouri email: "We are proud members of Big 12."
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Wow. lol
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"When you compare Oklahoma State to Northwestern, when you compare Texas Tech to Wisconsin, I mean, you begin looking at educational possibilities that are worth looking at.”
- Missouri Governor, Jay Nixon.
How can karma NOT exist?
- Missouri Governor, Jay Nixon.
How can karma NOT exist?
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I have heard several reports that the conference was dead without Nebraska even if no one else left because the remaining schools wanted nothing to do with being in a conference with Missouri. You reap what you sow sometimes.
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Willing to bet a large sum if it gets bad for Mizzou (i.e. no power conference) Anderson is Arkansas' new head coach.
I think that is a heck of a fit.
How is it that Missouri made all the noise but NU, in a state that is much smaller than Missouri and probably has about 1/3 of the television market got the bid and Missouri didn't. Think the B10 got a little mad over the various leaks that were coming out of Missouri?
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This has been Missouri's stance from the start of this. No one at Mizzou has ever said anything different. The statement above from the governor is the only public comment by anyone in Missouri (aside from fans) about hoping for a Big 10 invite.
What are all these leaks that you're talking about, Mr. B? Show them to me. I haven't seen them. I've read plenty blaming Mizzou, but honestly don't know where they're getting it. It's no secret that MU fans were interested in the Big 10 - we have been for two decades. It doesn't take leaks to conclude MU may want to make a move.
Almost all the noise over the past week has come from orangebloods, and there isn't a whole lot of doubt over which school the anonymous sources for Chip Brown were representing. Nebraska's chancellors and Tom Osborne have both been talking plenty over the past week, and they've been just as vocal as Mizzou (if not more) about having issues with the Big 12. And they actually left the conference. Why aren't they receiving any of the blame in this?
None of this is over, though. It may all get resolved in the next day or two, or it may go on all summer. One thing I'm pretty sure about is that the Big 10 isn't done. They're not stopping at Nebraska. Adding just Nebraska doesn't make sense for them. It's also likely that the Pac 10 and SEC (and the Big East and ACC, if it comes to that) aren't done. This is going to be an ongoing process for quite some time.
I'm still not really worried. If things end up going the direction of 16 team superconferences, Mizzou's still likely going to have a place (and, unfortunately, kansas probably will, too, with UT, A&M and OU all in new rumors for either the Big 10 or SEC). It's not going down how I hoped it would, but I'm confident MU lands on its feet.
And in all honesty, no matter what happens, I am sad to see the Big 12 (and really, the old Big 8) part ways, and would have been even if MU was currently sitting in the Big 10, counting its money. It was good to mock kansas for potentially being left out (especially with Bill Self basically crying about it in the press), but I hate seeing Nebraska gone, OU and OSU probably gone (possibly to separate coasts), and no firm future for ku, ksu, ISU or MU.
One last note... I probably will not be here much in the next week or so, regardless of what news does or doesn't break. I won't really have a lot of time to follow the ups and downs of this whole thing (moving next week, family visiting, work responsibilities after a brief break for the past two weeks), and am honestly past the point where I want to, anyway. No one who's talking is saying anything (publicly), and most of what's being printed is agenda-driven or outright made up. This should be a fairly straight-forward process, but it's become a political, media-driven mess. I don't know if the Big 10 wanted this, if UT started it all (the two most likely options), or if it's something else, but it's become worse than the stuff you see leading up to a presidential election. When people that matter talk on the record, I'll listen and comment.
What are all these leaks that you're talking about, Mr. B? Show them to me. I haven't seen them. I've read plenty blaming Mizzou, but honestly don't know where they're getting it. It's no secret that MU fans were interested in the Big 10 - we have been for two decades. It doesn't take leaks to conclude MU may want to make a move.
Almost all the noise over the past week has come from orangebloods, and there isn't a whole lot of doubt over which school the anonymous sources for Chip Brown were representing. Nebraska's chancellors and Tom Osborne have both been talking plenty over the past week, and they've been just as vocal as Mizzou (if not more) about having issues with the Big 12. And they actually left the conference. Why aren't they receiving any of the blame in this?
None of this is over, though. It may all get resolved in the next day or two, or it may go on all summer. One thing I'm pretty sure about is that the Big 10 isn't done. They're not stopping at Nebraska. Adding just Nebraska doesn't make sense for them. It's also likely that the Pac 10 and SEC (and the Big East and ACC, if it comes to that) aren't done. This is going to be an ongoing process for quite some time.
I'm still not really worried. If things end up going the direction of 16 team superconferences, Mizzou's still likely going to have a place (and, unfortunately, kansas probably will, too, with UT, A&M and OU all in new rumors for either the Big 10 or SEC). It's not going down how I hoped it would, but I'm confident MU lands on its feet.
And in all honesty, no matter what happens, I am sad to see the Big 12 (and really, the old Big 8) part ways, and would have been even if MU was currently sitting in the Big 10, counting its money. It was good to mock kansas for potentially being left out (especially with Bill Self basically crying about it in the press), but I hate seeing Nebraska gone, OU and OSU probably gone (possibly to separate coasts), and no firm future for ku, ksu, ISU or MU.
One last note... I probably will not be here much in the next week or so, regardless of what news does or doesn't break. I won't really have a lot of time to follow the ups and downs of this whole thing (moving next week, family visiting, work responsibilities after a brief break for the past two weeks), and am honestly past the point where I want to, anyway. No one who's talking is saying anything (publicly), and most of what's being printed is agenda-driven or outright made up. This should be a fairly straight-forward process, but it's become a political, media-driven mess. I don't know if the Big 10 wanted this, if UT started it all (the two most likely options), or if it's something else, but it's become worse than the stuff you see leading up to a presidential election. When people that matter talk on the record, I'll listen and comment.
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nothing is more pathetic when MU plays the academics card.
US News ranking are bullcrap, but MU is lower than OU, CU, KU, ISU, UT, ATM, not sure how MU "gets off" talking shizz....as around the bottom half of the conference academics.
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