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Originally Posted by alnorth
heh, you are seriously trying to argue that Missouri hasn't been flirting with the Big Ten? What do you think happens if there are rumors that the Big 12 could invite Arizona or Iowa? What happens if there's a Florida to ACC rumor? We won't get a "we'll listen and evaluate any offer" type of answer, just a flat-out no.
Missouri is now giving out their "proud member of the Big 12" loyalty proclamations since they seem to be getting the cold shoulder, but you heard none of that when the rumors were flying.
Silence is often a loud statement. When the world was saying Mizzou to the Big 10, a lack of a response or denial is basically the same as "yeah, we're hoping it happens"
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Tom Osborne's own words:
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“I haven’t heard anything from (Big Ten commissioner) Jim Delany, so you don’t know exactly what they’re thinking,” Osborne said Thursday. “We haven’t entered into any formal talks with anybody right now. We’re focusing on the Big 12. But I don’t think that means if somebody wanted to pick up the phone and call us, that we’d hang up on them. You listen. But we don’t have any plans to do anything different at this point.
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The point is that "they listen," all of them. They are ****ing businesses, it would be stupid not to field calls and listen to deals to see what is best. Hell, if anything it offers them a better perception of where they stand in the market, and gives them ammunition when it comes to revenue discussions with the Big 12.