Eh, you said "MU brings so much more to the Big 10 table than KU would it isn't even close," so I wanted to know how that was true... if St. Louis is that important to the BTN or a school that doesn't share its state with another D-I university, etc; so be it..... just own up to that. Whenever I see overall academic ratings, MU and KU are always close to each other... if there are specific things the Big 10 is looking for that MU does better, like research or whatever, then I'd be curious to know what those things are.

Doesn't St. Louis already have the Big Ten network? If they do, then adding Missouri doesn't really add you much in terms of tv sets. If I'm the Big Ten I'd go east because you're really only adding the Kansas City market if you already have your network on tv's in St. Louis.

Not. Gonna. Happen.

Regarding the profit margins for schools basketball vs football

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/15/comm...sbiz/index.htm

"Together those schools had a combined $330.8 million in revenue during the 2004-05 school year, and $148.3 million in profits, even when including results from the 14 money-losing basketball programs involved in March Madness.

Based on those numbers, basketball is more of a sure money maker for schools than college football -- at least for the schools in the so-called six major conferences.

In fact, about half of the schools in this year's Big Dance come from the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac Ten and SEC. And these major conference schools account for 84 percent of the total revenue and about 97 percent of the total profit of all the schools in the tournament."

They want it on the basic cable.

It's on some setups already but if MU joins they think they can most likely force all the cable companies to buy the BTN for their customers.

Boise St., TCU, Utah, Kansas, BYU, Kansas St.

Aren't there already 3 BCS winners in there? Why wouldn't they raise it up?

History awaits.

Why would they? There's not reason to, especially with the other major conferences getting more concentrated.

I dunno, to shut up Orrin Hatch?

That's fair.

We have "win something, ANYTHING" and you have "history awaits"...

Sorry DJ, but this was friggin' hilarious.

ROFL

Anything? Ok.

The Big XII North, which you might NEVER win. Ever. Eternity. Now go tell Texas who your daddy is.

The MWC is pretty close to earning an automatic BCS bid without the theoretical addition of current BCS institutions. I don't think it's a stretch to see it becoming a permanent auto bid with those schools.

MU brings a lot more BTN market share potential, sorry I wasn't clear on that.

IIRC Both schools are members of the AAU.

Source?