Originally Posted by Mr. Plow (Post 8048440)

Just to clarify. It looks like in 2010 MU made a profit on football of $11,618,417 - adding your estimates to it....

You expect MU football to jump from $11 million to $42-$52 million?


For the record, $42 million would put you ahead of Alabama, Tennessee, & Auburn in the SEC. $52 million would make you the most profitable program in the SEC.

Originally Posted by buddha (Post 8048432)

There is no way for any of us to know what the final figure could be in the SEC. We don't have to say the final figure for Mizzou because in THAT conference, they share equally...what a concept? Once the SEC Network gets going, all bets are off. The conference will print money. The Big 10 Network has been good to the BIG, but the SEC Network will be even bigger.

For the Mizzou fans who are wishing to stay put...it's based on nothing but wishful thinking and fond memories of a conference that no longer exists. The Big 8 was terrific. The Big Tex conference sucks and has sucked since Texas took over.

Anybody in KC who can't see that it was freaking Texas that moved the tournament the first time, moved the conference offices, etc. It's all Texas. Anybody who could leve the Big 12 either has or will in the not too distant future.

Texas sucks!

Originally Posted by Jerm (Post 8048437)

Can't wait to see what excuses the hypocrite media comes up with when TCU and WVU come into the Big XII and get smashed...look at the ****ing cupcake conferences they've been playing in.

I'm just glad this shit is almost done so EVERYONE can move on.

Just hope we don't have to wait until 2013 to move to the SEC.

Originally Posted by Stewie (Post 8048422)

Where are OU and UT going to go? The SEC? The PAC is now out of the question.

Originally Posted by notorious (Post 8048442)

I still have yet to figure out what academics or money have to do with any of this when it comes to the fans.

It's not putting a single penny into any of our pockets.

Originally Posted by buddha (Post 8048445)

DeezNutz, do you think anybody on here cares about conference academic standing? BTW, nice move to leave the Bugeaters off the brain list. They got kicked out of the AAU at just the right time. If it had happened a year earlier, they would have never been invited to join the BIG. As it is, they are the "Cousin Eddie" (Vacation movies ref) of the BIG.

Originally Posted by rageeumr (Post 8048435)

I know the B1G isn't really an option. But when conferencemageddon 2010 was going down, I could look at Mizzou to the B1G and say "ok, that makes sense". I don't have that feeling with the SEC.

Originally Posted by rageeumr (Post 8048435)

And I agree that we're probably past the point of no return. I'm just concerned that we're leaving for a conference that isn't a great fit. The strength and viability of the SEC is encouraging, but that's no guarantee that it will be a successful move.

Originally Posted by Stewie (Post 8048449)

Do you even pay attention to college football?

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow (Post 8048440)

Just to clarify. It looks like in 2010 MU made a profit on football of $11,618,417 - adding your estimates to it....

You expect MU football to jump from $11 million to $41-$51 million?


For the record, $41 million would put you ahead of Alabama, Tennessee, & Auburn in the SEC. $51 million would make you the 2nd most profitable program in the SEC behind Georgia.

Originally Posted by Jerm (Post 8048437)

Can't wait to see what excuses the hypocrite media comes up with when TCU and WVU come into the Big XII and get smashed...look at the ****ing cupcake conferences they've been playing in.

I'm just glad this shit is almost done so EVERYONE can move on.

Just hope we don't have to wait until 2013 to move to the SEC.

Originally Posted by notorious (Post 8048415)

Mizzou fans are just upset that there is already a team of their equal sitting in their still warm chair.


And the talk that Mizzou will maintain a consistant Texas recruiting pipeline makes me ROFL.

Originally Posted by Laz (Post 8048393)

yea,yea ... the great and all-powerful MU is irreplaceable.


like i said, most MU fans are assholes and won't be missed AT ALL.

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry (Post 8048431)

I think most of the St. Louis talk about not supporting MU is bc for whatever reason MU can't seem to recruit the top basketball players from St. Louis.

Originally Posted by Stewie (Post 8048449)

Do you even pay attention to college football?

Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 8048451)

The PAC is absolutely not out of the question. They could also go the the B1G or SEC.

Given your history in this thread, I'd get out of the prediction business if I were you.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 8048459)

There's actually a very good answer to that.

Most of it is because Norm had an icy relationship towards the end of his tenure (I believe he had a falling out with a Vashon coach who was a major AAU guy in the area), Snyder then tried to recruit nationally and neglected STL altogether and MA pretty much just recruited relatives and folks from Alabama.

It's been a coaching issue over the last 10-15 years in STL. It's actually a very sore subject among the MU faithful; we're all equally perplexed that the MU coaches aren't working harder in STL. It has nothing to do with the personality of the city, but with the negligence of the coaching staff.