I see on the ticker SLU won at Vandy. Not a big deal beating #88 in Pomeroy but it raises the question why Mizzou refuses to play them. They are #26 in Pomeroy while Mizzou is #41. Last year they finished #16, Mizzou #31. They've also won games in the NCAA tourney the past two years while Mizzou was bounced by Norfolk and Col State first round.


It would be good for the state, most Alums from both schools are in St Louis, and the bragging rights game proves folks will show up. Needs to get worked out ASAP

Has Mizzou actually refused to play them, or this another lie in your long list of falsehoods?

Let us know when Bill Self gets that in-state series set up with Wichita State.

Like ASAP . . . . .

ROFL @ always basketball season in kansas

Lol it probably seems that way. But I did say we lost a lot and could have a down year this year. Also last years team was better overall than the previous one, it just didn't show in the w/l column with a few bad breaks and bad OC. Luckily the OC problem is being fixed.

That's okay. I just recently learned that records don't mean shit.

Yes, they have.

Um, Kansas sells out every game. Mizzou can't draw flies. That's the entire point here.

http://nebraska.rivals.com/showmsg.a...e=2&Override=1

Interesting read...

Is a Kansas fan really lecturing someone over ducking games?

They played each other for 3 or 4 years around 2000 or 2001, it was a while ago so I can't remember the exact years. I would rather see that game vs NC state or whatever.

Link?

He is trying too...no links or evidence provided. Maybe his computer rankings told him the information?

I believe you would, but there's no way the vast majority of your fan base would. It doesnt matter since you can keep NC State and just swap out a mutt game.


Just go to STL and play them, half the gate from Scotttrade is much more money than the 4k ghouls who show up for Middle Arkansas Baptist Tech or whoever Alden keeps scheduling down there

6th place Big 12 team takes down the PAC 12 South Champion?

ouch...

I wonder how much of it has to do with them playing Illinois in STL every year and not wanting to dry up the market by playing there again against SLU. If given the option of either game, I would take Illinois every time.

KU plays at the Sprint Center in the non-con season every year, but do they play multiple games there? Just asking, don't care either way.

lol, well you got to win something right?

oh what. Kansas went further in the tourney?

MU really needs to figure this postseason stuff out.

They always play a non con and the Big 12 tournament there. And NCAA tournament occasionally when they are requested.

I meant in the non-con season. I know the tournament is there.

8 times last year. That was an aberration but still, 8 times.

Link?

That many? Shit.

Arizona fans at the Bowl game have signs repping the PAC 12... I thought only the SEC did that.

Overall a more proud conference

http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/po...power-rankings

Supposedly big tex 10 are 3rd

They would probably move up if it weren't for the dead weight of KU killing the conference average

Prison Bitch is not known for backing up any of his claims.

I'm sure he's searching for the requested info. right now . . . . it will be here shortly . . . . . .

(pins and needles)

There's no doubt about that.

Interesting article I read the other day. Although I find some of these other bowl games attractive it's really a drain on the school unless they're playing in the BCS.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...nters/4242757/

Maybe you should read the article again.

LMAO the Virginia Tech QB got smashed.

Glad you posted this...I didn't realize it was on, and the Arizona game is a massacre.

Yeah this game has been a lot better than that shitfest.

Well...so far I've seen an offsides penalty, a delay of game, a two yard pass, a throw away, and a punt.

Why would you still have a 2012 Chiefs game on your DVR?

So back to the question: What has Mizzou accomplished that Iowa St hasn't? An SEC title game blowout by 17 points? Anything else?

LMAO Prison Bitch is like the beaten wife that just can't leave the abusive husband.

In the sense that they are both into men, I agree.

I know I for one would be most impressed if Iowa State made the SEC title game.

Yeah I guess I would be too since its ISU. I just was curious why some Mizzou fan was making fun of them. From a nonpartisan here with no skin in the game, I found it laughable they'd make fun of ISU

Did you check Tigerboard to see if it's happening over there as well? What am I saying, of course you have.

LMAO VTech

https://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.ne...gif?1388521124

And then

https://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.ne...gif?1388521358

I normally only go over there when I'm having a bad day, and want to be reminded how great my life really is.

Yeah spending the majority of your free time on tiger board. I wish I was you man.

It really cuts into his 'reading articles about gay ice skaters and sharing them with the posters on a football board' time, but being awesome takes sacrifice.

That's Logan Thomas, right?

He has a lot of tools, but I don't think he'll put them together. Christ, that hit was brutal.

Yeah. Guess it was diagnosed as a stinger.

Logan Thomas is Josh Freeman

Did they throw a flag on this?

Unneccesary roughness. Announcers thought there should not have been a flag.

Mississippi State is dominating.

LOL at Rice trying to play against an SEC team.

MSU could have hung sixty on them if they tried.

Chick-fil-a bowl on, #24 Duke vs #21 ATM on now, you know one of those unranked teams PB says Mizzou didn't have a win against this year.

And tomorrow we get to watch another unranked team Mizzou beat (#22 Georgia) play Nebraska.

O hai Big 12-2

Wish I could remember what exactly it was... Don't remember if it was top 25 or top 50, but I read last week at Iowa State had as many top wins as the whole B1G combined so far this year in basketball LMAO

You realize it's still football season right? Way to stoop PB and Wik's level.

Basketball season started 2 months ago. What the hell are you talking about?

Wow....Baylor got humbled last evening. Didn't they say that UCF was the largest underdog in a BCS game in the history of the BCS?

That's gotta sting.

Baylor only had one decent win this year, and even that was over an inconsistent OU team that is down and had already lost to Texas.

There aren't any BCS worthy teams in the Big 12-2, and thankfully the rule that one has to be included in the BCS no matter what is going away along with that silly system.

I'm sure Oklahoma will take care of Alabama tonight.

Um, you might wanna sit that argument out.

It seems a near certainty that Briles is going to be the next head coach at Texas. He was practicing getting badly out coached by a program that had no business beating his team, and that has been a Texas trademark for years.

Nobody gives a **** about hoops till March and only then because cash and bragging rights over brackets. We have been over this.

It's one thing to get to the BCS. A great accomplishment in itself.

Winning a BCS game brings you to entirely different level.

Doesn't seem like the Baylor program was ready for that.

Kansas is definitely on a different level...that much is certain.

Please share with us what level that brought the beakers football program?

The Big 12 is going to be even worse next year.

Kansas? KU made a bad coaching hire which has negatively impacted the program. There's no denying this.

However the win at the highest level was a great time for the fan base showing what is possible.

Schools like Baylor got a taste but it's a completely different feeling with a win.

So basically it didn't mean shit as recruits still considered the program a dumpster fire

You have to cut Wickedson some slack.

Politics have led to him being response conditioned to blame a prior administration for pretty much everything. So just as everything is still Bush's fault - the Beakers problems are all because of Turner Gill.

Recruits charge extra to wear that stupid cartoon pilgrim bird and they just don't have the cash....b ball all Americans are expensive

You actually watched that garbage?

Everyone did. Mizzou was the 8th most watched in all of college football this season.

Are you referring to the Kansas Jayhawks, the #2 team in the country according to today's RPI?

http://www.realtimerpi.com/rpi_145_Men.html

Sheldon Richardson named the DROTY by PFF.

Yes, he was referring to those shitbirds.

He caught a lot of shit for his lack of a touchdown celebration on that short yardage play. I laughed at him not having a response to the criticism, just hanging his head.

Dec 30, 2013, 4:39pm PST
See what your university gets from Nike, Adidas or Under Armour (Database)
See what your university gets from Nike, Adidas or Under Armour (Database) Enlarge
Craig Spencer | Portland Business Journal


Matthew Kish
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The contract between Nike and the University of Oklahoma stipulates a swoosh must appear on the football team's equipment truck.

That's one of the hundreds of facts I uncovered while reporting a series of stories about the massive deals between universities and footwear giants.
The series began this summer when I filed public records requests for the contracts between Nike, Adidas and Under Armour and the country's top 125 athletic departments. In the past six months, more than half provided copies of contracts.

The contracts led to a series of stories that looked at the size of the deals, where the money goes and whether small companies are getting unfairly pushed aside.

Numerous students, fans, academics and lawyers asked me for copies of specific documents. Now that the reporting has run its course, we decided to post the records — roughly 150 documents and more than 4,500 pages — online.

In addition to footwear contracts, the database includes records obtained through subsequent requests with some universities for financial statements, the contracts of head coaches, contracts with other suppliers and reports that show the outside-income received by university employees.

Search the database by university, conference or footwear supplier. Click "Search" without entering any information in order to get a basic spreadsheet of the information ranked by the most lucrative contracts.

If a university's contract is not in the database it either didn't respond to requests or the Business Journal opted not to pay a nominal fee for the contract.

In some cases, such as with UCLA, universities interpreted the initial request broadly to include other contracts. In such cases, those additional records are included.

The University of Cincinnati included the email traffic between employees and Adidas. The nearly 200 pages of records provided by the university give a blow-by-blow account of the tedious process of negotiating an apparel contract.

A note on how to read the contracts: Start at the beginning. Contracts are often modified. In order to understand a contract read the original document first. Then read the extensions.
The caveat about Oklahoma's equipment truck isn't the only fact that stood out.

Here are a few others:

The universities in the database will receive more than $125 million in merchandise and apparel this year. Given the database contains roughly half the contracts with college athletic departments, an earlier estimate that Nike, Adidas and Under Armour will pour $250 million into athletic departments this year is likely on target.

The University of Michigan's contract with Adidas is the largest in the database. The university gets $4.4 million in equipment and apparel and another $3.8 million in cash annually from Adidas.

Most athletic departments in major conferences receive millions of dollars in free merchandise and cash annually. Teams in smaller conferences don't get much. Teams in the Mid-American Conference, for example, still purchase most of their equipment and apparel, albeit at wholesale prices.

Adidas and Under Armour tend to pay more for the right to outfit college athletes. UCLA will get $7.5 million in cash and apparel from Adidas. By comparison, the University of Oregon will get $2.8 million from Nike.

Football may be the most visible college sport, but universities with top basketball programs have contracts as lucrative as top football schools. Basketball powerhouse Kansas will receive $6.1 million in cash and apparel from Adidas this year, more than football power Alabama will receive from Nike ($3.5 million).

While most contracts include cash and merchandise, some universities — such as Oregon State — opt for no cash. The entire contract is payable in merchandise and apparel.

Some contracts provide a discretionary apparel allowance for merchandise that goes to athletic department employees. The University of Florida has the largest such budget in the database. Athletic department employees will split up $250,000 in free gear this year.
Some schools get bonuses for winning bowl games and national championships. The highest in the database? UCLA gets $650,000 from Adidas if it wins a national championship in football.


What caught your attention?
Tweet — @matthewkish — at me. We'll save room in next week's print edition for tweets from readers.



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