And yes, The Royals and the Chiefs are bigger than the Big 12-4+very little tournament.

And as always, the state of Missouri thanks you for dropping your hard earned cash here.

Bambi trollin HARD

The Big 12 thanks you for dropping 700m on a new playground just for us. Kemper was not suitable for this event and your taxpayers agree.

Well, you drunken idiots have likely paid that off already, so thanks. I guess all the other shit that goes on there is just pure profit for the state. Missouri wins again.

According to the city, the Big 12 tourney produces 10-15m in benefit. At 8% sales tax rates, that's about 1m per year in tax revenues to the City. The district costs about 20m per year per the link below. So we do kick in 5% of the cost. Every little bit helps.

http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/17...refinance.html

Appreciate it. Keep coming back for more.

Here's a question - is Kansas truly the winner of the Big Howevermany if they can't even win the conference tournament?

bwahahahaha,

this is the quote mizzou produces.

Can you sink any lower? omg

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The P&L and Sprint Center are looked at the same way Manhattanites look at New Jersey when they go to Giants games.

A good place to go trash and make others clean it up.

Oh, and I'm not sure I get the "Missouri enjoys your dollars comments"

You people paid tax money to build all this stuff for us. It's hysterical.

No one has ever credited missouri for being intelligent.

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau...0628_smart.jpg

The Mickey D roster (24 players) has 4 SEC recruits and 2 Big 12 recruits, with one still undecided and considering a couple Big 12 programs. Of the 6 signees, all are going to Kentucky or Kansas.

Not nearly as hysterical as thinking Sprint for built for the Big Nameyournumber.

You entitled KU fans and your inferiority complexes are either funny or sad. Usually the latter.

Reasonable, I'd say.

I'm surprised Florida didn't get any, they're an outstanding program with tons of success, great location, stable coaching situation, seniors leaving and history of getting guys to the League. Texas is in a somewhat similar situation, although they are the favorite to land the lone undecided.

True, but Florida and Texas are so chock full of talent that they can pick and choose from the crops of their states. I'm assuming here with basketball since it's that way with football and baseball.

I'm sure Kansas City had MU in mind as well as nice support for the KU Basketball machine when Sprint Center was built. When the university turned their back on Kansas City the focus of the sports business in Kansas City shifted to the Kansas side.

It's been nothing but success ever since. Championships only reside on one side of the state line.

See for yourself. Bill Self welcomes you to their website.

http://kc.sportsandbusiness.net/

I wonder why he isn't posting on BigXIITournamentPlanet.

On 41 News the other evening after the weather, Jack Harry did his preview of sports. He talked about Mizzou's "title defense" as Spring Football was around the corner. "We'll talk about it next in sports!"


I thought, shit, I must've moved to another planet because I missed their title.

Winning the SEC East in football is a greater accomplishment than anything the pilgrims have done

Actually, my school won the national championship and they are from missouri

Your school shit the bed and will get beast raped into dead last in football

Bwahahahahaha!

Avoid playing the only good teams all year in the SEC and then get raped for 600 yards rushing on national tv.

Only a school like mizzou could consider that an accomplishment.

You'd think eventually pride would set in over there.

Funny coming from you, considering your team gets raped constantly from small conference teams and is the bottom bitch in it's own conference. Good luck in that coveted spring game this year.

Basketball! why are you always talking about KU?/ Bambi

LMAO rinse and repeat

Any thoughts on where UMass ends up? I'm not sure how much they've put into their football program since announcing their move up, but surely they'd have to consider going back to FCS, or dropping the program altogether. I guess the Sun Belt still has a spot open for a football-only, but that seems like a negative relationship for both sides.

I know another school that should be FCS

UMass made a decision to protect their basketball. The MAC isn't terrible, but the A-10 had one of its best seasons ever and their administration bet that everyone would stick around/the Big East wouldn't try to raid them. I'm sure they would have preferred the status quo, but when the MAC pressed the issue, they had to back out.

The MAC has this weird obsession with expanding east. Every time they've tried (UCF, Temple, UMass), it's gone sour pretty rapidly. Maybe they should try to raid the Valley - Illinois State, NDSU, Northern Iowa and yes, Missouri State would all be solid candidates.

The fact that KU fans are actually talking shit about football while their program mires in dumpster-fire status is hilarious. Stick to the kids' table (college hoops).

mizzou...striving for excellence. If at first you don't succeed.... oh I give up lol

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bask...ed-two-arrests

Last night on the news, Jack Harry described the double-perp as "Louisville transfer Zach Price". He's such a clown.

That's a quality sig Bitch. Love it

Isn't it just....faaaaabulous?

You showed the true classless POS u are in that prayer thread...pathetic

Should have been banned for it...at least he got banned from the thread.

I skipped that thread and withheld any comments

Ole miss spring football game on espn3 ROFL

football is king

Did I watch it, despite having no personal connections to Ole Miss or the state of Mississippi?

Yes, yes I did. :D The commentary was bad, the scrimmage was unorthodox and the team itself looked mediocre, but Jeremy Liggins alone made the two hours worth it. He'd be a Jefferson Pilot superstar a la Jared Lorenzen if JP were still around.

http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/coll...qb-picture.jpg

Literally zero people are dumb enough to claim otherwise.

Guess you missed KU Basketball's 2 exhibition games that were on ESPN3.

It's too easy sometimes with you guys. You should do some research first.

that is pretty funny

STL is a Mizzou town ROFL mizzou day at Scott trade and they booed the **** outta the beaker logo when they flashed it on the scoreboard. Cotton Bowl trophy was sweet...standing ovation for the tigers accomplish mentioned as well.

KU will file rape charges once mangino visits their weak ass jr varsity defense

He would start for gay u

UK is just on another level

SEC gets 3 teams in, all make sweet 16 - TigerZone MU - 4/6/14 00:11:30

- I wish we could accomplish something of our own.(nm) - zodiac6 JC - 4/6/14 00:19:47


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You are a sad little man to go searching for that shit

You visit TigerBoard more than any of the Missouri fans on this message board and more than any Tiger fan I know in real life (which is a considerable number).

Look at your life. Look at your choices.

Once again, Sniveling Bitch mocks Mizzou fans for "rooting for the conference" despite having cheered for Iowa State in the tournament.

What do you expect? He's a no life assclown douchebag. Only true douchebags can manage to get themselves banned from a prayer thread.

People still read Tigerboard? Oh I guess KU fans do.

No, it's not.

40/40/20 with regards to Mizzou/Illinois/SLU.

Also, Saul deserves to get called out for not taking lumps for almost 3 months now(I do realized he was banned for sometime, however) with regards to Mizzou's performance.

mizzou fans have been dealing with losing for 110 years. I wouldn't be too hard on them.

But they have a chance to win it all tomorrow night. LMAO

20 percent to SLU?

ROFL

60 Mizzou
20 Illinois
10 SLU
10 various other B1G teams

I want to say there is no way that 40% of the St. Louis area is pro-Illini, but I don't have much experience with the Metro-East. I did notice a significant presence of "other", though - various Big Ten, SEC and local/regional schools (SIU, SEMO, etc.). We may have our hoops games on channel 46 up there, but MO State doesn't have much of an on-the-ground presence - only about 15,000 alumni live there. I'm surprised we even got a TV package.

Seemed like a lot of MSU kids my age were St. Louis metro area kids.

Have you been to a local St. Louis sports bar during the winter sports season as well as explore the various 'burbs of STL?

I'd guess around a third of them are. It seems like they're larger because they cluster around campus, but MSU still has a significant commuter group. I'd eyeball the student percentages as 1/3 from the 417 zip code, 1/3 from the St. Louis area, 1/6 from Kansas City and the rest from elsewhere in Missouri or other states.

That being said, we just finished Showcase weekend and there were Illinois license plates everywhere. I am now in fear that Chicagoland has discovered Springfield. God help us all.

Looks like realignment has had zero of the predicted impact on basketball powerhouses. Funny stuff from SI a few months ago:

POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2013
Evaluating hoops’ winners and losers of conference realignment
ANALYSIS
BY RUSH THE COURT


Losers
Connecticut and Cincinnati: These Big East castaways were desperately hoping for an invitation to another league such as the ACC. Instead, they have been relegated to the lesser American along with the likes of UCF, Houston and SMU. Quite a status change from where they used to be, wouldn’t you say? It’s not the end of the world but it’s certainly a net negative for these two schools, especially the three-time national champion Huskies. Connecticut may very well be the biggest loser in all of conference realignment. This is a program that has experienced tremendous success as a founding member of the original Big East and was left hanging out to dry as the dominoes fell all around it.

http://college-basketball.si.com/201...e-realignment/

If I recall correctly, MSU either offers in-state to some Illinois kids or out-of-state tuition at MSU is still cheaper than in-state at places like UI-C, SIU_ et cetera.

I've heard it's both. There aren't too many Illinoisans as of now, and most of them are from Belleville, Alton, and other towns by St. Louis. What was different about the last few days was the volume of Chicago-related clothing (especially Bears stuff) and license plates with frames listing dealerships in Mundelein, Arlington Heights, and other Chicago suburbs. They were on and near campus, at the nearby hotels, etc. It was like we had turned into Mizzou for 72 hours.

Yes. I lived there for 5 years.

I'm sure there were more t-shirt fans there this year due to the success of the basketball team in recent years. There are a lot of Mizzou/SLU hybrids that like both teams.

After the team returns to mediocrity starting with the 2014-15 season, I'm sure it will fall back off until SLU's next "good for 2 years this decade" window.

You are hilariously wrong. Are you
Kidding me ROFL There are easily more MU than U of I fans and it isn't close.

Yes, and KC is also a "Mizzou town". (Spits out coke laughing)

After KU's lack of attendance during the Big 12-4+2 tourney, you have no room to talk. After all, KU gave your second favorite team, ISU, a free home game during the tourney.

And we won't even mention KU attendance at Arrowhead...that would just be too embarrassing.

Did u attend the game at Arrowhead. I am done. This is too sad.

This is good news to hear other fans go to the Big 12, since that proves KU doesn't have an unfair advantage at Sprint Center. Hopefully more folks like you start thinking this way so the tourney stays local, and so that KU gets the credit they deserve for all their success rather than saying it's "unfair."

SEC still getting sand kicked in their face. What a year to try and launch a network, lol.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/...7s2i0kqbtn.jpg

That picture sucks. Any context as to what I am looking at?

If anything is going to doom the SEC Network, it's probably this picture. And, no, I don't have any idea what it is depicting.

This is another giant ZING! from Bambi. I don't know how you do it, man? And I especially don't know how you find this to be at all relevant your point about a sports network. The SEC just played in both the CFB and CBB national championship games. They both lost, but I would say it's a GOOD thing for a conference to be represented in the top game, no????


For those wondering what this vague, and totally irrelevant picture is depicting:

It is supposedly a picture of a dorm room at Louisville where one of the students has a UK flag that can be seen hanging on his/her wall. Burn!!!

UCONN sweeps the basketball titles. Realignment was supposed to ruin them. I remember when the Como-Sexuals left for the SEC many of them said: "KU basketball is going to die now when they're forced into the Mountain West, Mo Valley, etc etc"


Just another in their hilarious line of stupidity that emanates from that reerun fan base.

I dunno man, Wichita State will try to keep you out. :p

No you don't. Because you are lying.

I hear that Oklahoma is moving their campus to Washington State so they can join the Pac-12.

I personally love a 10 team league. The attention you get is magnified by everyone.

I couldn't even name you all the teams in the BIG or SEC. Let alone who cares about any of those teams who have never been to the BCS or Final Four.

You can't really think UCONN didn't suffer a bit of a loss in realignment - when they went from being in a top 3 hoops conference to being in the AAC - can you? That league was fine this year but loses Louisville soon.

They're in a less prestigious league that is on less firm ground. Memphis, UCONN and Cincinnati is not a TERRIBLE threesome to hold up your league, but it isn't tremendous, either.

Also, pretty much all of UCONN's key contributors were juniors or seniors recruited when UCONN was part of the Big East. They haven't recruited as well over the past few years and don't have an overwhelming amount of talent coming in this year. You think maybe being in the AAC instead of the BEAST with Syracuse and St. John's and Georgetown, et al, is maybe hampering Ollie's recruiting efforts? Just a tad?

Will be interesting to see how they progress without Napier et al. Omar Calhoun is the one guy on the roster who was pretty highly regarded, but he hasn't done much yet.

And thus ends our lesson on the knowledge Bambi possesses on college football.

I love college football. It's a great exhibition that showcases future NFL talent.

SEC country showing their love for America.

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