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Originally Posted by frazod
There is NOBODY in the Big 10 on the level of Texas or Oklahoma. Had we went there, we instantly get those monkeys off our backs, become more competitive, get more money, more national recognition, and have a much better shot at winning. And winning establishes that "brand" thing that you don't seem to understand, either. Allow me to explain.
"Brand" comes from winning in something, at some point, for a long time. Brand sticks in the minds of the masses. You keep Brand forever, whether you continue to win or not (see Michigan, Notre Dame). Brand is 100 million Joe Nobodies who instantly associate Nebraska with winning football and turn on the TV. Brand is 100 million Joe Nobodies who instantly associate Kansas with winning basketball and turn on the TV. The key word is "winning." Brand tells people who don't know any better (and when it comes to Kansas and Nebraska, that's pretty much everybody) "Hey, I've heard of them! They're good! They win! I want to watch them." Brand is a trump card. Brand allowed a nothing school from a nothing state that hasn't been a player on a national stage for over a decade to blow us out of the water and snake our Big 10 invite. Brand allowed Kansas to snake our Orange Bowl bid two weeks after we beat them on the field.
Missouri's Brand is shit right now. Our Brand is complainer, troublemaker, and worst of all, chump. You can crawl in bed with Alden and put on your pom-poms and talk about playing with Texas and Oklahoma with honor and being legit, but that won't save us. We need a fresh start in a competitive conference and competent management, or things will never improve for us.
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Ohio State is in the same elite category as Texas and Oklahoma, year in and year out. Missouri would have been (might still be) in the same boat in the Big Ten that they've been in in the Big 12. They'd need to continue to improve to actually win something. The only reason they might have had a better chance to win the Big Ten in the past few years is because there was no championship game and on any given year they might have been able to avoid playing top Big Ten competition altogether. That's all changing now because the Big Ten is going to have the same Championship game that's been the thorn in Mizzou's side for two of the past three seasons.
Your fear of Texas is pathetic. The next thing you'll be saying is that you want Mizzou basketball to hide out in the Missouri Valley Conference to avoid those scary KU teams. WTF has happened to you, man? Find yourself some institutional pride. Mizzou can build it's "brand", as you effetely say, in either the Big 12 or the Big Ten.