WVU was the one who "IT'S PATTERSON!'D" themselves. The Big 12 didn't announce a press conference...

No, they just decided to let cronyism **** up an agreement the XII had reached when Mitch McConnell called his old Senate buddy and tried to leverage his school into the conference.

It's screwed up any way you stack it.

Good luck convincing a KU fan that shady backroom deals are a bad thing.

And we laugh right back at you knowing your "crowning achievement" *snicker* was an overblown joke. :thumb:

What shady backroom deal is taking place now? Are you talking about two Senators trying to speak up on behalf of the schools they're connected to?

That's fine. You can laugh in your bitterness all you want, it doesn't change the fact that we have that trophy. Just don't go around saying that you've been assured by all these beaker fans that winning a BCS bowl game once makes you a truly great powerhouse.

What? You mean backing into a BCS game because you didn't beat anybody worth a shit all year long isn't a mark of greatness? It's so confusing following beaker logic.

The WV senator is calling for an investigation. He seems to think something underhanded is happening.

You mean the one where one Senator called the President of a major university who he just happened to be old Senate buddies with and tried to get him to essentially extort the XII into changing a previously agreed upon position?

That one?

It's not like McConnel issued a press-release here touting the advantages of Louisville. He called his old Senate pal, went under the radard and tried to get him to strongarm the conference into ****ing over an entire state.

Yeah, I'd say that qualifies as a shady backroom deal.

Then again, Saul makes a valid point. I guess it doesn't count if someone doesn't end up with some stolen workout equipment in the deal - ammirite?

You are all putting an awful lot of trust in the media. None of us were in the room or on the phone.

In a few years, you can show that trophy to your non-AQ conferencemates. It will serve as a reminder of how you got there and why its your own fault.

Yet you're certain that MU signed a commitment to the XII last season after Nebraska and Colorado left, eh? I suppose you were in the room that time, right?

Oh wait, that was Bowen Loftin, and he actually expressly stated that Missouri refused to commit to anything.

You're not very good at this.

Why are you all suddenly believing the media knows the whole story and reports the truth? If that was the case MU left for B1G last year and BYU is in the Big 12. And Jay Nixon singlehandedly pushed MU into the SEC.....sounds a lot like a certain senator.

But don't let your agenda steer your perception....

Because there are actual Senators that are calling for hearings to corroborate said reports. There were actual scheduled press-conferences cancelled that further corroborate same.

As opposed to KK, who pretty much just makes shit up as he goes and changes it day to day.

The old school media rules were you try to get 3 sources on a story. Those have gone out the window for the media, but it's still a pretty sound rule. We have a widely reported story, a cancelled press conference and a US Senator calling for an investigation; yeah, I'd say that qualifies as 3 solid sources.

But hey, don't let your idiocy steer your argument.

MU has publicly and REPEATEDLY said since CU and NU left that they were proud and happy members of the Big 12.

And I haven't seen ANYTHING that explicitly stated MU refused anything, just that 3 schools had reservations.