[KcMizzou]

A little confirmation on MU and the SEC

By Mike DeArmond - Posted on 24 September 2011

I am not big on looking to other reporters to re-confirm what I have already reported as true. But for all those who insist that the Missouri-SEC connection is a fabrication.

Tony Barnhart of CBS (and Mr. SEC to most folk) just said on national TV that Missouri needed to make up its mind about the SEC.

You cannot make up your mind on a offer that has not been made, informal or otherwise.

The interest from the SEC to make Missouri SEC No. 14 is there.

Will Missouri end up in the SEC? Should it?

My personal opinion is that if Missouri and the other non-University of Texas schools in the Big 12 can legislate or initiate change in the Big 12, then staying in the Big 12 makes the most sense for Mizzou.

Think of it this way:

1. Forget the Longhorn Network's cash payout to Texas. Nothing you can do about it but you can legislate what they are able to NOT show on it.

2. For the first time in history, the other eight Big 12 schools actually vote as a block and after grandfathering in the LHN, rewrite conference bylaws to legislate totally even revenue distribution on everything else from this day forward.

If Missouri cannot get that within the next two weeks, then go ahead and take the SEC offer, whether informal or formal.

Four hours to game time in Oklahoma.
And I for one am looking forward to covering a game.

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