KU got owned by NC again. Bubba Cunningham took the NC AD job. He just recently turned down the same position at KU.

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/po...3-point-stance

About time for Mizou to hike that skirt up a little more. Can you say Jr. Membership?

To be fair, 70% of the KU fans did not want Bubba when he was going through the process. Bubba turned the job down after his final interview with BGL. Apparently she bestowed a million conditions on what he could and could not do and the guy decided he didn't want that.

So yeah, not sure how KU got "owned" and I'm not sure what the previous time(s) were.

The SEC can't.

Yeah, membership might have been too big of word.

c'mon now...

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My bad, Mizzou is a much better spelling of Missouri.

Well thats not good.

And no one talking about Alden interviewing with UNC? Thats not good either.

And now no SEC Network possibly?

I got a feeling Mizzou will be staying in the Big 12-2-1+1.

Solid reporting. How far is Arkansas from Florida? How far is Texas A&M from Florida? How far is Mizzou from Arkansas? How far is Mizzou from LSU?

It's Ivan Maisel - he's pretty reputable.

Arkansas, A&M are worth the increased travel time. Mizzou is not.

The comments are....interesting.

ESPN has gotten ridiculously derogatory towards MU and it needs to stop. Before the season they were hyping up MU and ever since this talk has started, they have yet to say one positive thing about them. John Anderson, one of your lead anchors and one of many of your own MU alumni, is a special guest at our 100th Anniversary of Homecoming this weekend, if you have any dignity left, please refrain from forcing him to talk crap about his Alma Mater this weekend!

Is John Anderson the most annoying personality on ESPN or is it just my Hawk bias?

nah.

this is ownage

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It's Ivan Maisel.

But its also just another opinion. Until the stay or go is official you might well get used to this.

ESPN doesn't

So lets say SEC doesn't start SEC Network & pool Tier 3 rights....since Big 12 granted Tier 1 & 2 rights like SEC, wont we be making about the same in Big 12 then? And we wont have to double our budget to be competitive in SEC or pay exit fees...

I know SEC is alot more stable...but does anyone really think MU will be left out of a BCS conference IF Big 12 falls apart & we go to bigger conferences?

I hate Texas & them being above everyone else...but even if they were to show HS content on LHN and all that BS....would it really change anything? Mizzou will never out-recruit Texas in Texas anyways...

IDK what to think on all this anymore...

I don't really care what happens anymore - it would just be nice if we would start WINNING SOME ****ING GAMES. :banghead:

To be fair to the SEC, no I don't think so, but the difference will be fairly small after 2015. Since that extra money is not divided among Mizzou fans, the difference won't be enough to care about if you can keep the Texas pipeline and win the Big 12 north.

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I don't believe there's a chance in hell that the Tigers would be a wall flower while 63 other schools get dance partners.

With your history in football? I wouldnt be worried. As long as I remember MU has been a storied powerhouse... It will come back around.

Somebody kill me now, I am feeling compassion for the Mizzou fans. :banghead:

I checked the schedule, and don't see any more Western Illinois or Miami of Ohio's on there, but I would say they got a pretty good shot November 26th.:(

The only way this makes sense is if there is no possibility that Mizzou goes west and the east AD's are saying "N. F. W. we're flying to Columbia", but I don't know what option B is, if distance was a deal-breaker.

If the alternative is WVU then maybe its a little closer for the east schools, but if you look at a map, it isn't much. This theory is stronger if the alternative was Clemson or FSU, but we've been beat over the head repeatedly for a while that the SEC won't expand in states where they are in, so you'd have to assume that assumption was false all along.

My plane will be in Lawrence tomorrow and Houston on Monday.... What does this mean for KU?

My guess is nothing more than BALLSACK....

This season has been nothing but road games against ranked teams. We've got a Sophomore at QB, and out LT got injured for the season in the spring. Its going to take some time for this team to put it together.

This entire travel argument is nonsensical for 2 reasons.

1. If travel for non-revenue sports is such a problem, you can have different divisions for those sports. I doubt Alabama is adamant that they keep their rivalry game with Tenn for women's field hockey.

2. In all liklehood, they will be expanding into 4 4-team pods in the next year or two, so these temporary divisions won't matter long-term.

It will just be nice to be back in Columbia - seems like it's been forever since they've had a home game.

Yes. Thanks for asking. We didn't even have to send out letters begging people to come or anything.

Looks like two in a row coming up, Iowa State and Oklahoma State. 1 and 1?

LMAO

A week ago, with GA seats going for $65 (which is absurdly high for the privilege of genuinely sitting on a pile of rocks).

Literally every single hotel room in Columbia is booked and most of the ones in Jeff City and the surrounding areas are as well.

That dog won't hunt, dickhead.

Who knows? Hopefully playing at home will improve whatever's ailing them. Sure would be nice for these vaunted linemen I keep hearing about to step up and actually do something.

That is to say nothing of the fact that there are 21,000 more seats at Faurot than there are in that multi-purpose facility they call a football stadium in Lawrence. It holds another 4-5000 when you include GA "seating" on the hill.

They're projecting around 71,200 to show up.

Yeah - no support for the program at all.

If the Beakers and the newly emboldened K-State fans want to take shots at the 'fake titan' label they claim is being applied to MU by its fans - fine, whatever. If they want to say the program is historically mediocre - fine. Those are legitimate points that can at least be discussed.

But seriously - the 'haha, MU can't even get fans to come out' argument is a non-starter. The atmosphere in Columbia for MU football is second to none, including Arrowhead.

I'm curious as to how many MU fans that have actively posted in this thread go to the games? Not trying to start an argument, I just wonder how many of them would consider themselves "regulars" to Faurot Field.

I alternate seasons w/ MU and the Chiefs.

If I have Chiefs season tickets, I let my MU tickets go; I can't justify dedicating that much time and $$ to football games.

The real problem with MU football tickets is that the best way to get them is through the secondary market. If you want decent season tickets, you have 2 options: 1) Be a student (best option) or 2) Get in the alumni association and pay an assload of money to get into the pool for tickets.

Football tickets as an alumni will still run you over $100/seat by the time you factor in your alumni association dues. If you also go to basketball games, it's not a big deal (because the alumni dues can apply to both and thus lessen the sting), but if you're just going to football, the tickets become pretty expensive in a hurry.

So most people tend to buy them on the secondary market. I've also grabbed them in the parking lot on a handful of occasions because the tailgate scene in Columbia is pretty badass. A lot of folks will just hang in the parking lot if they don't have tickets. So you go, barbecue, drink, try to find tickets and if you can't you just keep drinking and barbecuing.

Yeah, I don't know where that stems from. I admit, last time I was there was in 2004, but the place was packed. I imagine it only got more popular since then.

I should add that it cleared early in the 4th qtr, but it was full when we got there. :D

I'm certainly not a regular there, as its a 5+ hour round trip. I've actually seen them play multiple times in Lawrence and Manhattan.

Pussy.

I would have went to see them regularly if they'd ended up in the Big 10. :cuss:

That really is an impressive number, especially when you consider that it's not a marquis game, and its not inflated by a bunch of visiting fans packing the stadium.

As an aside, aTm announced its move to the SEC 10 days after it announced that it was exploring its options. Mizzou announced its intent to explore 9 days ago. I've heard a little speculation that the reason we weren't willing to adjust our start time in order to be. Televised because we may have announcement planned.

Totally. With all the marquee matchups the Big XII provides us, its hard to decide between Baylor, ISU, Tech, etc.

There's something about how I feel like the longer any sort of decision is announced, the less likely it is for Mizzou to move.

Seems unlikely and WAY too cool to be pulled off by this administration.

They'll announce it on a Friday at 4:45 to make sure that they properly bury the lede. Probably the Friday before the Super Bowl no less.

Seriously - this administration is really stupid.

Questionable. I would never post a pic of my daughter on a message board. Especially this one.

I removed it for you. :D I had no idea who she was.

Well at the end of the day she's someone's daughter.

That's my natural inclination as well, but my logical side thinks that, if this wasn't going to happen, the announcement would have happened by now. There's no logistics involved in staying. Moving requires getting ducks in a row.

LMAO

Newly emboldened? Shit there's nothing new about it.

No, you guys have been on a tear since you won your Super Bowl last week.

Did you just learn what the word marquee meant? You've used it in nearly every post today.

CTR isn't for another 6 weeks.

By "nearly every", you mean "once"?

That's not true. The Texas game is still weeks away.
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Well shit, now I see kstater beat me to it.
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It's that extra pep in my step I've had the last week.

None of ya'llz is gonna talk about midnight madness?

Holy shit balls. 22 team conference.

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-foo...ootball-merger

22 team conference.. football. Will be interesting to see those matchups.

The shit just got real.

UCF vs UNLV... I could see the 2 schools I attended play.

Not really.

Squawk

Shit, you guys beat Texas all the time. Missouri, not so much. :D

Snyder is 14-5 versus Missouri. Including 13 in a row.'


I think Pinkel is 5-5.

Cool, a super mega conference.

'Aint no seats.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...dule-full-2018

I've probably been to more games there than most of these guys....

ESPN reporting that the Big East will invite 4 more teams.

At the Mizzou vs ISU game. No Big XII signage anywhere! They have been taken off the field & end zones & around the stadium. Looks like a done deal.

Yeah, that's the determining factor.

Why would they go to the effort to remove it otherwise? From what I've heard from people at the game, it sounds like they really had to carve up the ground to remove the logo.

Hope it's true. With Mizzou being in good standing and all. I'm fairly certain displaying signage is a requirement.

Link to the requirement? They may not have bothered with signage since there was no TV for the game.

Is that the reason they didn't want the game on tv?

That certainly makes more sense than the big **** YOU to all non-local fans that it seemed like.

From what I've read elsewhere, they had to really scalp the field to remove it. It was done intentionally.

Wouldn't surprise me if a student did it.

Maybe. I have read that they did not want the game starting at 11:10 because of the homecoming parade, activities, etc. Not sure what not having the logos on the field means. With no TV, maybe they did not want to pay for the extra grounds keeping? Maybe they are sending a message to the Big XII? Both of those seem unlikely to me.