eh, win something and I'll get nervous.

until then we're chillen.

:)

Yeah, not likely. It's always played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The basketball tournament travels.

St. John laughed off a caller this morning that suggested that if MU goes to the SEC that radio stations here will in time stop covering him.

Something that crossed my mind as he seemed to think that was silly is, how many of that large pool of MU fans he mentioned are Cardinals baseball fans? 10%/? 25%? Half?

It seemed funny to me that he laughed it off so easily, when a team that is in the WS in the same state isn't hardly mentioned unless it is in a sportcenter update or interleague play.

I think it has to do with a lot of people on this side of the state being Royals fans and just plain not liking the Cardinals. If Kansas City didn't have the Royals I think the Cards would get a lot of coverage. I think KK said he won't cover MU at all if they leave for the S.E.C.

I didn't figure as much. I did have someone on my facebook think an MU-Arkansas FB game at Arrowhead would be fun.

A third of the population in the metro area are Mizzou fans. I'm pretty sure they're going to get a mention here and there when ****ing Alabama comes to town.

Nick Wright has said that he can't wait to cover the SEC. I mean seriously, would you rather cover the Jayhawks traveling to Lubbock to play the Red Raiders or the Tigers visiting Death Valley? The Louisville Cardinals coming to Manhattan to square off against KSU or the Gators invading Faurot?

This is going to be badass.

Bye Guys...

Enjoy the new conference.

The SEC basketball tourney will never once be played in Kansas City under the presumptive 14 team alignment. I would put money down.

The move to the SEC is great for the university, but make no mistake, everyone: this is a formal "**** you" to Kansas City. St. Louis becomes MU's favorite and most important city now, by far. By proximity if nothing else.

I agree. I just thought it was funny that the idea of it happening to MU fans seemed impossible to him on one hand, where a team that isn't that much further and just as much a part of that fanbase as a whole is completely ignored.

Because of ~30 miles?

Proximity to the rest of the SEC. If Missouri is to ever host the basketball tourney then it would surely be in STL.

I"m a Bama fan, and can't wait for MU to join the SEC (assuming it happens). MU will become my favorite team to follow in the SEC, after my real favorite team. This will make listening to local talk radio a lot easier for me; I won't have to change the channel when they start talking about Big 12 FB as I now do.

"PAAAAAAAWWWWWWWLLLLLLLL, why do Missurah fans call themselves 'Mizzou.' They have three different names?"

Oh, you mean KC-area local radio, not Alabama radio. Nvm.

http://www.chron.com/sports/cougars/...ce-2223466.php

Big East is reportedly inviting Houston. If my numbers are right, there are now 79 teams expected to join the Big East by 2013.

If I was a Missouri fan living in KC, that would be the big downside to the SEC for me... the upsides would still be worth the move, but being so far away from the center of the SEC would suck, after years of MU/KU games at Arrowhead, hosting the Big 12 Tournament, etc.

OTOH, Delta has direct flights to Atlanta from KCI... :shrug: