KU, KSU, ISU...Welcome to the Big West :)

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Well I hope they get used to the UC-Irvine rivalry...

I'll skip the UC-Irvine game. But I'll be happy taking a trip to UCSD.

**** yea

I still say Conference USA is a much better fit for them. :D

TeddyGreenstein tweet:

Jim Delany: "The timeline could be affected." In other words, it will be affected.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/06...authority.html

What?

All depends on whether or not they have a concrete invite from the Big 10. If they do, then if the Big 12 gives an ultimatum they go ahead and bail to the Big 10. But if they don't then things get a little more dicey ... especially for Nebraska.

The only real reason Nebraska is getting an invite is because the Big 10 is a heavy football conference and Nebraska has a big football history. Also it looks like Nebraska might be improving their football back to being big time again. If Nebraska calls the Big 12 bluff and Notre Dame joins the Big 10 or something, Nebraska is screwed and screwed hard. Other conferences that aren't as heavy duty football as the Big 10 won't place as much value in Nebraska's main calling card.

Mizzou has a broader value than that so they can probably find a BCS conference on their own because they have St. Louis. Mizzou is all about having a 2-city market ... without St. Louis they have pretty much Jack and shit with Jack getting ready to leave town.

Still ... if they haven't received a concrete invite to the Big 10 they take a significant risk by calling the Big 12 bluff. This is what the Big 12 is shooting for imo ... play the bluff and hope 1 or both of the teams would rather stay in the Big 12 than risk getting caught out in the independent wind.

just sayin'

You gotta see this Mizzou ultimatum countdown sig. Someone needs to make one for Nebraska so we can all put one in our sig.

http://www.tigerboard.com/boards/list.php?board=2

Kind of upsetting to see so many taking joy in the potential of 100 years of local tradition evaporating.

There's no danger in calling the bluff...

If the Pac-10 goes to 16, there is NO way the Big Ten doesn't. Missouri is fine in that case. Nebraska most likely is as well. (Missouri, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Rutgers to Big 16).

Missouri and Nebraska hold all the cards in this. Texas has none, and hates it. If Texas takes its little friends and leaves for the Pac-10, Missouri and Nebraska have their tickets cemented to the Big Ten.

The only real danger to Missouri's ride to the Big Ten was Texas and aTm going, or Notre Dame going (and them stopping at 12). Neither of those things is an option now.

There's no way Delany sits around while the expansion chips fall and lets the Big Ten get caught reacting.

http://www.freep.com/article/2010060...on-at-meetings

Big Ten meets, will likely speed up timetable
 

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com...timetable.html

That local tradition began getting nailed as soon as Texas and co. joined our conference (and we promptly dropped all records and etc from our previous conference.

I'd be OK with ku getting a ride to the Big Ten. Too bad kSU is chained around your neck.

As it is, I'm sure you all will do OK in the MWC...

The Big XII is a very new conference, and I could give a rat **** about leaving. What I care greatly about is the academic benefit of moving to the Big 10. This trumps everything.

Bawwww

Saw that this morning. Hilarity.

Ignore him.

He wouldn't give a flying **** about '100 years of tradition' if KU wasn't about to get left out in the cold.

I've actually stated in another thread that I'd be fine with KU joining the MWC.

Boise St, TCU, Utah, BYU are all good to great football programs. You'd think that if Boise and KU/KSU join they will surely be elevated to BCS status...

It will just be weird to not play Neb, MU, and OK year in and year out. And for what? Money that none of the fans will ever see? I don't get it.

I still find it hard to believe that Tex would join the Pac-10 btw.

LOL! That is a good point. How come know one is talking about GayU in all of this. Of course I'd could give two shits about them...

I agree with your thoughts on the "Big 12". I'm referring more to the Big 8. I've grown up having pride in the area schools and MU/Neb attempting to leave feels more like defeat for them than an achievement.

Heh heh. I love the built in KSU excuse. That is hilarious.

"We didn't make it because of you"!

Because you are stupid.

ROFL ROFL Mad that no one wants KU?
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What's with you dude? Why the venom?

I have no interest in KU going to the Big 10 and butting heads every week with big time established football programs.

Missouri is going to get their ass kicked in football for the next 20 years. Sorry to break that too you.

You thought the Navy loss was bad?

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Well, then I can promise you that we'll be the happiest "losers" in the country. Mizzou fans and alumni should loath the greatly increased academic affiliation and additional revenue streams going into the university to further improve overall quality.

Yes. Because Mizzou has really been getting its ass handed to it by Big 10 teams these past few years.

Goddamn KSU albatross!!!!!!!!

And after the call...he's holding nothing but an eight high.

The Rime of the Ancient Wildcat.

I love tradition. Imagine how jacked up I will be to see Nebraska play Ohio State and Michigan.

yes you've been beating Illinois. Congrats. They are the creme de la creme of the Big 10.

mu should fare pretty decently; but you're essentially swapping UT and OU for OSU and Michigan. The results should be similar.

Somebody explain this to me.

Look at Kansas City and St. Louis. These areas are loaded with athletes. MU hasn't been a national power because they've simply never tried. For years MU has been content with cruising along and getting wins where they can.

Now with the additional money that the Big 10 would bring them, MU is poised to take a major step forward in terms of prestige and, more importantly, commitment.

Tell me how the hell MU, the only major school in a fairly large state, is going to be a doormat for Purdue. Or Michigan State. Hell, we thump Illinois every year already. Why can't MU take a major step forward and run with the big dogs in the Big 10?

The logistics are there, the potential is there.

There's a shitload to be excited about in Tiger nation right now. You ask why the venom? Because I've got a bunch of damn Beakers right now trying to piss in my cornflakes instead of facing reality. Alden and Deaton outmaneuvered the shit out of Perkins, etc... and now is a great time to be a Tiger on account of it.

This would be huge, HUGE for not only a school that I attended, but for the community in which I reside.

You'll have to excuse me if I have little patience for all the deluded Beakers that want to come in here and obfuscate in order to make themselves feel better about being a red-headed stepchild.

KU is gonna get what they deserve

Whoa. Strawman.

What teams would prevent MU from being at least middle of the pack.

Great, maybe it will help you add to that one track national title you have.

Good luck!

I don't think KSU has anything to do with KU not being invited to the B10. It's just that we don't have anything to offer in terms of big markets for the BTN. I mean, I don't have any facts, that's just what I understand from reading all the articles.

More Championships?

LMAO

Somebody's bitter.

I just don't get why you're angry. Enjoy it.

I hope you do well, believe me. I have a ton of MU friends and having never won anything they are sick and tired of it.

Remember you're getting Notre Dame in there too. It's gonna be big time schools bashing heads every weekend.

I think a reason for some of these delays is that some of these big schools might not be too thrilled about having to play super bowl level games every week. Sometimes you need to cruise with some smaller outfits.

Notre Dame has averaged seven wins a season over the last 15 years. Scary.

of course you see no risk, you're a MU homer who thinks the whole world revolves around Columbia

I don't think KU would fair well AT ALL in football in the Big 10. The chance for success lies here in the Big 12 or MWC.

Don't forget the national football powers of Syracuse, Rutgers, Indiana, ****ing Northwestern111, Purdue...

The list goes on and on and on. Clearly, Mizzou would be in deep shit.

ya, that's it.


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i think DJ's right nut also contained the brain.

Hey, Len Dawson and Drew Brees went to Purdue:D

I think it's a pretty natural reaction in this case... it's not like Mizzou would get an invite based on anything they control. They would get an invite because of the potential value of St. Louis and maybe Kansas City to the Big Ten Network. I think they would do fine in football and pretty well in basketball, and it would be good for the school as well. So yeah, being the one left out of that talk sucks. As far as the sports are concerned, I wouldn't want to watch the Big 10, but I sure as hell don't want KU winding up in the MVC, and the MWC would suck for basketball.

Eh, until something actually happens, it's all pointless speculation... I'm glad it's finally picking up steam though.

Don't forget Pollard! :)

Meh, B10 is weaker at the top than the B12. OSU isn't as good as Texas or OU and the rest of the teams are pretty much on par with what we face in B12 every year.

It's kind of a shame to see B12 disintegrate right as we were becoming pretty much one of the two best conferences in the country if you take all the 3 major sports into account. SEC being the the other one, of course. I don't blame MU and NU for leaving one bit. Not to go to the B10 would be sheer ****ing lunacy.

Anyway, our BB seasons are going to get pretty boring once we start dominating the MWC should we join them. They better start scheduling some big time non-con games.

This move by the Pac 10 to go to 16 helps the MU/Nebraska to the Big 10 thing, I think. It pretty much rules out the idea of the Big 10 only adding ND, because if there are going to be four sixteen team "super conferences"... The Big 10 will damn sure want to be one of them.

Things are moving along quickly now, and nobody wants to be left in the lurch. Hence the Big 10 "fast tracking".

So in a way, Texas' little ultimatum makes things easier, I guess.

Interesting that you would denigrate Illinois. They played in a BCS bowl the same year as KU.

Those 3 schools bring absolutely NOTHING to the table for the Big 10.Nothing.

Missouri played 4 games against teams that played in BCS games that year.

Yes they do. Pilgrim shoes. Big, yellow pilgrim shoes with red buckles.

Yet more evidence of Wildcat oppression.

LMAO

I didn't attend no fancy academic school, but, who was the 4th team?

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Felt kinda bad to feel unwanted huh?

I admit, it was venom.

Hey, got my years mixed up. That was the year they lost to OU twice

Yeah, they got destroyed.

Unlike the KU team which won their BCS Bowl.

too easy sometimes...

Texas is already whining that Baylor should be invited, instead of Colorado.

:D

Posturing. All of this is.

How is Missouri going to get its ass kicked in the Big Ten in football?

Who has been consistently better over the past 10 years, Texas and Oklahoma or oSu and Michigan? That's an easy call. I'll take the trio at the top over the duo that runs the Big 12 any day.

Missouri would have played for a national title in 2007 if it was in the Big Ten.

Missouri will slide right into the second tier of programs in the Big Ten, right along with Iowa and Wisconsin (and likely Nebraska for at least a few more years).

The Tigers will have more success in St. Louis. And I like their chances recruiting against MWC programs in KC...

Missouri football is going to be on TV more (especially in state). It is going to earn much more money from the conference. And it will have better footprint in other areas (Ohio, Michigan, even Florida, which has a strong Big Ten presence).

That adds up to a potential improvement.

They played a real team you ****ing dumbass. LMAO

And this is why I said KU is gonna get screwed and left with a crappy conference.

Everyone knows you Orange bowl invite was the shady college football deal of the decade.

Yea, it's a shame KU wasn't picked to play USC.

Unlike ku, Illinois played a team that deserved BCS status (USC), and yes, the Illini got destroyed.

Illinois also didn't have 17 points handed to it on a platter...

BUt yes, they were the same thing.

More venom. And what's with the name calling? They don't do that in New York from what I hear.

Kansas/Missouri - "You ****ing douche"!

New York - "Hey, youse fine gentleman"!!

Also unlike the KUnts, Illinois actually beat a good team during the regular season, too (Ohio State).

EDIT:

It's a shame Lew didn't lobby to play USC.

Mother Theresa would cuss this fool out. :D

lol, night guys

Been fun!

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