Well lets hope our teams get on somewhere solid, not sure what to think anymore

A Letter From Mike Alden


Dear Tiger Nation,

By now I'm sure you have learned of the departure of the University of Colorado and the University of Nebraska from the Big 12 Conference. There is no question that these moves are very impactful on our league. These are decisions by individual institutions following invitations and applications with the Pac-10 and the Big 10 Conferences. We've enjoyed longstanding relationships with both schools, and wish them nothing but the best in their future homes.

We are working diligently to maintain the long-term viability of the Big 12 Conference. Our focus has always been on our core values, and it will continue to remain as such. We have been open, honest, accessible and professional throughout these shifting landscapes. We will always handle ourselves in a professional manner. We are a first-class institution and a first-class athletic program.

We certainly understand the angst that this recent news has caused among our supporters. Please be confident that we are working tirelessly for the benefit of the University, for the Tigers and for the state of Missouri. When "the dust settles," Mizzou will be in a strong position nationally. We don't know the timeline of all of these activities, so your patience and commitment is appreciated. Many will look at this time as a challenge, but we will look at it as an unbelievable opportunity.

Thank you for your dedication to Mizzou. We will keep you informed of developments whenever we're able.

http://twitpic.com/1vxrkv

I am following big 10 network on twitter, time to unfollow

Maybe it's just me, but Tom Osborne comes across as a gracious and humble man.

ndamukong_suh

I don't understand how my Nebraska, one of the corner stones of the big 8 and big 12 is going to leave and go to big 10 country! 11:27 AM Jun 10th via Twitterrific

Eva Braun thought the same thing of Adolf.

BlumbergOTB

You'll want to hear how #Nebraska blames #Mizzou for the Big 12 breakup on @KOMUnews at 6... coming up soon. half a minute ago via web

Dave_Matter

UM Board of Curators calls for special meeting Sunday night in Columbia. Reasons unknown for now: http://ht.ly/1XsoX 1 minute ago via HootSuite

http://ht.ly/1XsoX

that's twice today.

This is bizarre. Something must be up.

so is this when we accept our invitation to CUSA?

maybe they forgot to vote on tuition increases in the midst of all the hubub today.

Mega-16/BIG EAST anyone?

Perhaps they're holding a raffle. The winner gets to beat Alden to death with a crowbar.

I hope Mizzou goes to the Big Ten

After reading that statement from Alden, I have zero confidence anything good will happen. I don't know why I ever expected anything but FAIL from the chimps that run the university.

Seriously, "focus on core values?" What the ****? Did he pull that from a Dilbert cartoon? Goddamn that ****ing clown.

Jesus Christ, what a ****ing embarrassment. We're like the nerds in Weird Science getting our shorts pulled down in front of the girls gym class, except there won't be any computer goddess showing up to rescue us.

:sulk:

If raffle tickets were to cost 1 camaro, 2 labradors, a wife and a firstborn child, I would quickly steal someone's baby in order to enter.

A letter from me to Mike Alden,

Dear Mike,

Kindly go **** yourself.

Regards,

Person that would kill you in cold blood if allowed to by law. /s/

Possible that they have an offer, and are complying with the Sunshine law?

That's too bad i've grown to like you Mizzou fans. And Columbia doesn't look like a third world country like Manhattan.

Not really.

We're like Meg in the family guy episode where she gets to hang with the popular kids and thinks she's suddenly a rockstar...until they make her kiss a pig.

Sadly, that episode doesn't end with Tom Osborne, DeLoss Dodds or Jim Daleny dying while screaming.

Today sucks.

I can't tell if you're attempting to be magnanimous. If so, you ****ing suck at it.

Go celebrate and GTFO of the thread for a bit while the rest of us wallow in misery.

**** **** **** **** ****.

heh. some of the posts at the beginning of this thread are douchetastically hilarious.

Why not just add TCU (better than Nebraska... academics and sports) and Houston (better than CU except in academics but is heading that way)

Move OU and Ok St to the North Division and call it a day. Or do we need to have a 16 team league to compete?

hero.

I don't understand why everyone's acting like it's over. I still think there's a good chance Mizzou is in. Maybe the 16th team... but in.

You tell me, upon what history should we base any optimism?

Can you truly imagine a scenario where Tom Osborne spends 10 minutes berating and belittling a school that's going to soon follow him into the Big 10?

I was right there with you, until that doddering ****stick hurled us under the bus.

It just bothers me that the longer we are in limbo, the more it is going to affect our recruiting. Shit needs to get resolved in the next two weeks.

Ok, whatever, carry on.

It just seems like a bit of an overreaction considering there are possibly four more spots to be filled.

if, somehow, Ol Mizzou got an offer at 3pm this afternoon, please let it be from the SEC and not the BEAST. but if it's not from the SEC, please let it be from the BEAST and not CUSA.

There is no way Mizzou would settle for a lesser conference at this point. That will only happen if we get down to just Baylor, K-State, Iowa State, and us holding our dicks months from now.

Mizzou isn't going to the SEC.

It just absolutely will not be happening.

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It was an honest question. Make me believe this time will be different.

If they get offered, they should.

It's not a bad geographic fit and while they'd get gangraped in football, they'd immediately be one of the stronger basketball programs in the conference.

****...I'm resigned to talking like a Beaker now.

I hate you so much, Jim Delaney.

Something tells me you've neither been to Manhattan nor a 3rd world country.

You know I can't do that.

That didn't take long. ESPN is now confident enough to say that Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State will go to the PAC 10 as soon as an offer is made.

Texas A&M is still deciding between the PAC 10 or the SEC, and they will be given only 72 hours after they get an offer. (as reported earlier, others elsewhere have said that if aTm chooses the SEC, then the PAC-10 will offer to Utah or Kansas)

I think if somebody asked me where I was from tonight, I'd say Arkansas.

FML

And allow Texas to form the Texas Network and all the North Division teams will get screwed just a bit harder.

It will be ****ing awesome! All TX, all the time!

**** that. I'd rather go to the Big East; it's a stronger academic conference.

WTF is that? Jesus... you can see the adults clapping in the background laughing.

I'd consider Iraq.

Not a good day. Not a good day.

Oh, I don't disagree with that. However it doesn't change that it will never ever happpen.

i don't know, but i had to use it...

I've been to Manhattan it was a dump and i've been to Mexico. The only difference is people in Manhattan don't beg for money.

:shake:

http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_...atory-missouri

Get used to purgatory, Missouri
<hr width="100%" noshade="noshade" size="1"> By David Ubben
ESPN.com

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany followed his protocol, placing a call to Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe on Friday morning to notify him that they would be accepting Nebraska's application into the Big Ten.

Beebe had no further comments on Nebraska's departure, calling it "disappointing."

But Delany didn't mention another team looking for inclusion to the Big Ten, Missouri.

"My understanding is there aren't any other conference members considered by the Big Ten," Beebe said.

That's a big uh-oh in Columbia for a school that's turned the Forgotten Four into the Forlorn Five over the course of the past week. Missouri may end up getting a Big Ten invite when the conference makes its next move toward expansion, something Delany said could happen in the future. But Delany, altering his previously stated timeline, shows just how badly he wanted the Huskers in his league.

"We were ready to move more quickly when this opportunity arose,” he said.

But it also shows that Missouri won't be placed on the fast track for membership. And if five Big 12 South teams split for the Pac-10 next week, Missouri's position in the league will only become more awkward. With the Big Ten still in play, don't expect Missouri to fully commit to the other four teams whose best bet include a partnership with the Mountain West Conference, Conference USA, or obliterating the Big 12 for a move to the Big East.

"When 'the dust settles,' Mizzou will be in a strong position nationally," athletic director Mike Alden said in a statement. "We don't know the timeline of all of these activities, so your patience and commitment is appreciated."

Alden has a lot of faith, and he should. As the head of the athletic department, he has to. He didn't place any qualifiers on that statement. But the second half is more telling: Missouri may still have to abide by the Big Ten's original timeline.

In short, Missouri's future could be in limbo through 2010 and into next year. How far -- and if it ends -- is up to Delany.

Delany apologized on Friday for leaving schools unsure of their future. Clearly, Missouri falls under that umbrella.

Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman pointed to comments from Missouri "not fully supportive of the Big 12" as a reason for leaving, and it was a good one. That's not going to change until an opportunity to join the Big Ten is completely off the table.

Missouri deserves a good amount of blame in a Big 12 breakup, too, but unlike Kansas and Kansas State, they can't fully commit to a cleanup -- however that ends up looking.

If Missouri spends the next six to 12 months riding the fence between committing to the remaining members of the Big 12 and positioning itself for an invitation to the Big Ten, its relationship with schools like Kansas and Kansas State will only splinter further. And unless that invitation to apply arrives in the end, Missouri better get used to a whole lot of awkwardness.

It's like a rorschach test - people see in it what they want to see.

I see a pretty damn good reason to never vote Democrat, myself.

But that's just me.

LMAO

Secondhand info from an Aggie board. No idea how credible this is, at all.

They are saying that Texas A&M did receive an unconditional offer from the SEC yesterday morning. Apparently the powers that be over there were about ready to just go along to the PAC 10, but they were overwhelmed with donors and fans demanding they go to the SEC instead, which was enough to make them pause to really think about it first.

No. I like Frazod, Zach, KcMizzou, ROR and Deez.

add more texas teams ... brilliant

no significant t.v. market additions and 2 more yes votes to anything that Texas says. :banghead:

Well, Bye.

no, it's him trying to avoid fighting a two front war.

he's fighting with Kstate people so he is hoping by kissing some mizzou butt he can get some backup and focus on slamming the wildcats.

Yeah, I'm sure Delany feels just terrible. What I wish upon that one who sucks the penis right now is basically unprintable, even for me.

There's no way we can wait for the day those evil ****s "might" dangle an invite to us. We need to move on somewhere else and never look back.

A&M to the SEC is a win for A&M and a win for the SEC.

Hey a post where Laz isn't bitching. Progress.

Is billay 12 or is he 13?

He says he's been to mexico. So I'd put him on 16 and spring break in cancun.

That settles it. Looks like we know who's been touching kids down in Florida.

Is that really your best stuff?

You just asked if I was a little boy. You're ****ed up in the head bragging about yourself all the time. I imagine you go to little league games and jerk off in the outfield too.

I asked because you come off as a child in both intellect and reasoning. You're proving my hypothesis correct.

Maybe someday you can grow up to be Awesome too, but I doubt it.

Feed yourself to a gator.

I was thinking more along the lines of being a drug mule from Mexico to Nebraska..

Why do you fantasize about men jerking off on a ball field?

Another gem.

Are you trying to catch Daks man goo?

You must have a thing for the Gator fan.

I'm too old for him.

I guess Boise St joined the MWC today.

:LOL: your shtick never gets old...

I'm not even going to begin to speculate the magnitude of this kid's daddy issues. It's obviously a sensitive subject. Mention age and the kid immediately jumps to homosexual pedophilia.

ROFL John Goodman is dead, Elton John is gay and we landed on the moon.

You're talking in third person again.

Wow, you really think that?

See what I mean about having the intellect of a child? The use of 'I'm' negates the 3rd person.

Don't worry, I'm sure your 11th grade English class will cover what 3rd person narrative actually entails.