No. It was a few weeks ago.

I think they are the logical choice. But if they stay at 10, then they need Louisville to be in the league next year. How are they going to get the Big East to let Louisville out of the 27 month exit? No one seems to be talking about that, but what little has been said indicates the Big East is going to make Syracuse and Pitt serve the full 27 months...so they will pretty much have to make Louisville do the same thing right?

WTF are you talking about? Kietzman is a god in Manhattan.

I don't think that was trollish behavior. That was simply a journalist trying desperately to break a story and ending up looking like a clueless hick.

Bernie Miklasz knows this feeling well.

so is his latest tirade.....

Yup, you're right. He and Fitz RULE that town.

http://www.donquijote.cc/sitebuilder...DQWindmill.gif

Too bad that wasn't his rant today because that would have been great timing...tomorrow's show should be epic!

BITB for a reason.

shhhhh.....they don't know he's BITB!

Pretty predictable.

Horrible decision. Mizzou can't compete there. The Big 12 is now the more stable conference. There's more money to be made in the Big 12 anyway. Etc....

I'm probably in the minority here, but I'm having trouble getting too awful excited about this move (should the reports prove to be true).

I feel like a viable Big 12 (which, admittedly, may not exist anymore) is still Mizzou's best option. Second is the B1G. SEC is third in my mind.

I know everybody hates these relationship analogies, but I feel like we're about to get hastily remarried just to spurn an old ex (Big 12), and the chick we really dig (B1G) is dating some other douche, so we're going to settle for the cute-fat chick (SEC).

my god man! #DearmondGetInHereStat

I'm ecstatic that it's the SEC and not the B1G. They can take their junior membership and shove it up their cornholes.

The rust belt is dying, and the Southeast is the future.

Wow. Voice of reason. You will get flamed.

The Big IIX will just add the University of Maine, and the University of Alaska, and the University of Hawaii, and the University of Pluto, and they'll be stronger than ever.

I feel like someone should invent a gesture to describe posts like this. It could involve a hand and a face. We could call it palmfacing.

OU should be probably be about 2/3rds of the way down, with OSU positioned directly underneath it. Other than that, looks about right.

I hope we can schedule the University of Pluto for some non-con games.

That'd be an amazing road trip.

Solid point about the junior membership. But the B1G is just a better fit in my mind. Geographically it's no contest, the B1G schools are more similar institutions, the culture is more comparable, etc.

I know people (myself included) are still jaded after we got left at the altar last year, but it doesn't diminish the fact that Mizzou looks a hell of a lot more like your average B1G school than your average SEC school.

I hope it's an early game. I hear it gets really cold up there, like Wisconsin cold.

LMAO I had a WTF moment, and then decided to just leave it alone.

I'll take the conference that has won 6 of the last 5 national titles.

So you see Missouri competing for NC's in the SEC?

Not right away, but that should be the goal.

ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL

Should always be the goal.

Baby steps. Try winning the Big XII first. It's fun.

Around here, the goal seems to be to play shittier and shittier competition so that you can win as many meaningless games as possible or to just focus on an inferior sport that your team is good at.

If the B1G wanted us, they'd have made a move by now.

I feel like the B1G people are like Adam Sandler during the "D.enise Show" skits on Saturday Night Live.

http://mimg.ugo.com/201102/8/6/2/172...se_528x297.jpg

BRIAN YOU'RE EMBARRASSING THE FAMILY!

She's not coming back. But the SEC makes a pretty passable Nicole Kidman in this analogy.

That is a great reference.

That's better...

The B1G offered us a junior membership.

Remember when you guys were good at football? That was a fun 5 years.

lol, you don't get trashed by us one year and we are done.

:LOL:

Is it about time for Wickedson to come in and puff his chest about KU basketball yet in this cycle?

Well I guess we will have to ruin everything and not matter at the same time somewhere else?

It's a Chiefs message board. There is very little separation between who cares and ruin everything.

Mizzou is further along with their (football) program currently than Arkansas was when we joined the SEC.

It is more like a group of people just wanting to emote and not knowing why.

We hate you we hate you...

we hate you because you dont matter!

we hate because you messed up this great thing we had!

we hate you because we cant make up our minds about how we hate you!

http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/381290-drama_queen.jpg

We've always hated Missouri. Never needed a reason.

ROFL

ROFL

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...n-sec-imminent

Report: Mizzou moves closer to SEC bid
ESPN.com news services

The New York Times is reporting Missouri's decision to officially apply for membership in the Southeastern Conference is "inevitable and imminent."

The newspaper, citing an official familiar with school decisions involving conference affiliation, reported Monday night that Mizzou officials expect to get enough votes among SEC presidents to become a member, although the school would still need to be formally invited to join the conference.

Missouri curators, who must approve any change in conference alignment, are scheduled to next meet at the University of Missouri, Kansas City on Oct. 20-21.

While interim Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas said last week he expects Mizzou to stay in the league and SEC commissioner Mike Slive has said the conference has no immediate expansion plans, The Times reported the Tigers could join the SEC as early as next year.

SEC presidents voted to accept Texas A&M as the league's 13th member in September and several SEC athletic directors have suggested that adding a 14th team to balance league schedules is inevitable.

Mizzou curators agreed unanimously earlier this month to give Chancellor Brady Deaton the authority to look elsewhere rather than immediately commit to the Big 12. A 45-page document presented to curators suggests the school would hope to get as much as $12 million more each year in additional revenue with a move to the SEC if TV deals are renegotiated.
The document, which was obtained by The Associated Press, states Missouri would not suffer a dramatic loss in academic prestige with an SEC move. The SEC has three other members of the prestigious Association of American Universities: Florida, soon-to-arrive Texas A&M and Vanderbilt, the same number as the Big 12 now has, excluding Missouri.

TCU accepted an invitation last week to join the Big 12. The Horned Frogs will replace the Aggies, keeping the league at 10 members when the Aggies leave for the SEC next July.

While TCU will be the first new member since the Big 12 started play in 1996, Texas A&M will be the third school to leave. Nebraska (Big Ten) and Colorado (Pac-12) left this year.

A source with direct knowledge of the Big 12's expansion committee told ESPN.com's Andy Katz Monday that the Big 12 still has to decide if Missouri goes to the SEC if it wants to go to 10 or 12 members. The source said Louisville and West Virginia are two of the top candidates to replace a possible Missouri departure.

While Missouri is a charter member of the Big 12, founded in 1996 when the Big Eight schools added four members of the defunct Southwest Conference, dissatisfaction with the conference has grown. In the early '90s, with the Big Eight on the verge of collapse, Missouri pushed to join the Big Ten and a group of state business leaders even formed a lobbying group.

Asked at a news conference last week about the potential costs of a league departure -- hours before curators discussed the financial document -- Deaton demurred.

"We're really just beginning the exploration of our options, and those figures will become very clear during that process," he said. "At this time we've made no decision (to leave). That's a bit of a hypothetical."
Information from The Associated Press and ESPN.com senior writer Andy Katz was used in this report.

The theme song of KU/KSU over Mizzou's defection to the SEC.




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That's cool. I don't know any MU fans who hate the Eco Kats. Actually, I'm not aware of any KU fans who hate them, either. I've always thought of KSU like I think of the Chargers. They just don't evoke a strong reaction from me either way, even when they've had pockets of success that didn't amount to anything. The Cats will wind up in the MWC, and the Chargers will wind up in LA. I'll wish them both well, but I won't lose any sleep over it either way.

I like Frank Martin. KSU football games are weird...I have no idea but they were always boring. Mizzou loses...game is close...Mizzou wins big. Didn't matter...it was generally boring.

Rep...

Louinnati is a better fit anyway. /Wildhawk fan

Bring on the city schools.

Y'all enjoy that sweet tea.

K-State is going to be my preferred Big XII team now.

Hook 'em.

I assure you, that can be changed.

K-State has always been my 2nd Big 8 & Big XII team. You guys being snarky assholes only further endears the Wildcats to me.

I won't have one. **** 'em all.

When Florida plays @ Mizzou they need to schedule it on the same weekend that the Chiefs have a home game.

Definitely making the trip for UF/MU on Saturday and KC/whoever on Sunday.

So... when are we going to the S.E.C. title game at arrowhead?

Never, ever, not one single time at any point in history or future time.

That would be a ridiculous weekend for you. :thumb:

They use the word bundle of sticks in Manhattan.

eh, win something and I'll get nervous.

until then we're chillen.

:)

Yeah, not likely. It's always played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The basketball tournament travels.

St. John laughed off a caller this morning that suggested that if MU goes to the SEC that radio stations here will in time stop covering him.

Something that crossed my mind as he seemed to think that was silly is, how many of that large pool of MU fans he mentioned are Cardinals baseball fans? 10%/? 25%? Half?

It seemed funny to me that he laughed it off so easily, when a team that is in the WS in the same state isn't hardly mentioned unless it is in a sportcenter update or interleague play.

I think it has to do with a lot of people on this side of the state being Royals fans and just plain not liking the Cardinals. If Kansas City didn't have the Royals I think the Cards would get a lot of coverage. I think KK said he won't cover MU at all if they leave for the S.E.C.

I didn't figure as much. I did have someone on my facebook think an MU-Arkansas FB game at Arrowhead would be fun.

A third of the population in the metro area are Mizzou fans. I'm pretty sure they're going to get a mention here and there when ****ing Alabama comes to town.

Nick Wright has said that he can't wait to cover the SEC. I mean seriously, would you rather cover the Jayhawks traveling to Lubbock to play the Red Raiders or the Tigers visiting Death Valley? The Louisville Cardinals coming to Manhattan to square off against KSU or the Gators invading Faurot?

This is going to be badass.

Bye Guys...

Enjoy the new conference.

The SEC basketball tourney will never once be played in Kansas City under the presumptive 14 team alignment. I would put money down.

The move to the SEC is great for the university, but make no mistake, everyone: this is a formal "**** you" to Kansas City. St. Louis becomes MU's favorite and most important city now, by far. By proximity if nothing else.

I agree. I just thought it was funny that the idea of it happening to MU fans seemed impossible to him on one hand, where a team that isn't that much further and just as much a part of that fanbase as a whole is completely ignored.

Because of ~30 miles?

Proximity to the rest of the SEC. If Missouri is to ever host the basketball tourney then it would surely be in STL.

I"m a Bama fan, and can't wait for MU to join the SEC (assuming it happens). MU will become my favorite team to follow in the SEC, after my real favorite team. This will make listening to local talk radio a lot easier for me; I won't have to change the channel when they start talking about Big 12 FB as I now do.

"PAAAAAAAWWWWWWWLLLLLLLL, why do Missurah fans call themselves 'Mizzou.' They have three different names?"

Oh, you mean KC-area local radio, not Alabama radio. Nvm.

http://www.chron.com/sports/cougars/...ce-2223466.php

Big East is reportedly inviting Houston. If my numbers are right, there are now 79 teams expected to join the Big East by 2013.

If I was a Missouri fan living in KC, that would be the big downside to the SEC for me... the upsides would still be worth the move, but being so far away from the center of the SEC would suck, after years of MU/KU games at Arrowhead, hosting the Big 12 Tournament, etc.

OTOH, Delta has direct flights to Atlanta from KCI... :shrug: