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Originally Posted by TribalElder
They promised ticket sales that Mizzou refused to do
I thought everyone knew that
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Of course, even the beakers around here at the time said things like, your school should have lobbied harder, the bowl committee can pick whomever they want, its a business, etc. Nobody argued that they were better on the field because that had been settled. And they are right about one thing, Alden got outmaneuvered by Perkins and his checkbook. Certainly that is true, but let's not pretend it was about football.
I am not sure how much it matters, though. The short period under which that system existed and when something like that was possible is ending. The season we have had this year, if we win the sec east, will mean in recruiting more than that ever would have. Recruits next season wont even remember what we did in 2007, they were 9 or 10 years old then. But they will remember what we did this year and where the program is today.
Like the rest of this former rivalry it's all in the past, and these two programs are headed in opposite directions now.