I can't help but wonder, if the last few seconds of the Big 12 Championship game last year, didn't have a huge bearing on Nebraska's decision.

If MU goes to the Big East then basketball season is going to be frustrating as Hell... but they'll get, like, an annual BCS bid in football. MU will forcibly rape the Big East in football.

Who the hell will they recruit?

Illinois owns STL if MU goes to the Big East. KC is a nice recruiting bed for them, but not enough on its own.

And they'll still get some 2 and 3 stars out of Texas, but that's about it.

Recruiting will be hurt badly by a move to the Big East.

This post makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over. Rep.

This post not-so much.

IMO, it would be good for all KC area schools to consider the Big East option... keeping KU, KSU and MU together would be still fun for rivalries.

That basketball conference would be sick. ****ING SICK

Think of how much MORE KU, KSU and MU would be talked about in the East coast biased media.

true; but the $ is in football.
that will drive everything.

Well, it's either that or the WAC or MVC, so far, it appears.

Why would MU suddenly be unable to recruit STL? Because they are no longer playing Texas or Oklahoma? That doesn't make sense to me.

It would be a BIG EAST FOULFEST!!!1111

I seriously doubt this - Illinois isn't the power program you think it is. In Chicago, for every color-sporting Illini fan I see 10 Notre Dame fans and 5 Michigan fans. Seriously.

I don't have a dog in this fight, other than if some Big 12 goes to the SEC..

Unable? No, but it will put a major dent in it.

Illinois will have a decided leg up, IMO. They can point to being in the true regional power conference w/ games every weekend against Michigan, OSU, Nebraska and other traditional powers.

We'll get to trump up the opportunity to **** with Boston College on occasion.

People in St. Louis don't care about beating the Big East. Pinkel will have a harder sell and with as close as the margins are on winning/losing a recruit, I gotta believe we'll lose some guys that we'd have been able to keep had this not happened (and lose even more guys that we'd have been able to steal had we gone to the Big 10).

It's not ideal by any means.

Gabbert, Richardson, Maclin, and Demien are all big recruits we've gotten from St. Louis.

Not to mention lesser players who are still contributors like Kemp, Steeples, Gatti (hopefully), Gettis, and others.


Missouri recruits St. Louis better than it does Kansas City.