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With the elected governor absent from the capital and the legislators largely dispersed, the state convention was reassembled with most of its members present. The convention declared all offices vacant, and installed Hamilton Gamble as the new governor of Missouri. President Lincoln's administration immediately recognized Gamble's government as the legal Missouri government. The federal government's decision enabled raising pro-Union militia forces for service within the state as well as volunteer regiments for the Union Army.

Not surprising. Neither does your blogging.

And who do you propose that we get instead of Missouri? The ACC teams aren't going to come, because (and this may shock you but please read) academics brings in much more money than athletics – orders of magnitude more – and the ACC is a much stronger academics conference than the SEC. Oklahoma? More of the same. An ACC school would lose hundreds of millions in research and donations by joining the SEC. They get no benefit whatsoever – academic or athletic – from joining the SEC, and are content to wait until Texas joins the Pac-12, allowing them to follow.

So who does that leave? West Virginia? South Florida? Don't get me wrong … I like both schools. But I like them as #15 and #16 in the SEC down the line. An AAU school in the midwest with a strong basketball tradition and an improving football program is a VERY good catch for #14 TODAY. The SEC is looking at adding 2 AAU schools – which could mean jobs and opportunity for your kids and grandkids – and you're thinking about a bunch of parochial issues that don't matter in the real world.

A bell cow is an old dairy farm term . A bell was placed around the neck of a lead cow so the herd could be more easiiy found.
This was only important when it was time to take them to the barn and squeeze the milk out of them. LSU does a very good job of this. Sorry, I forgot, you already knew that.

Which one were you relating WVU to, a lady or a cow?

I am going to answer your question with a question. Can you tell me why North Carolina State would leave the ACC? Explain to me how it benefits them athletically, in football or basketball. Then, explain to me how it benefits them academically to leave a bunch of respected east coast institutions that do tons of research (and research dollars DWARF athletics dollars) for a conference where almost half the schools aren't even in the U.S. News top 100, let alone the AAU. Then explain why a charter member of the ACC, a group that has been together since their days in the Southern Conference, would want to leave all that tradition, rivalries and political ties behind. And after you have considered those things, tell me … is it that N.C. State isn't getting a look from the SEC? Or that the SEC is looking at them and N.C. State isn't looking back? Which do you suppose is more likely?

FSU? Basically the same applies. It doesn't benefit them on the field, and it certainly doesn't benefit them in the classroom. And if you prefer West Virginia to Missouri … it might be that you believe that the football team is the most important part of a university.

Also, the quotes coming out are unreal. "We want a better school than Missouri" and "we want a team from the east" … have these folks been paying attention the past 2 years? It sounds like stuff coming from people who either aren't involved in the process or shouldn't be.

Look, I realize you want the Missou Pussycats so you can get Auburn out of the East and have an easier path to Atlanta, but this is getting a little ridiculous.

By the end of the Civil War Missouri had supplied nearly 110,000 troops to the Union and about 40,000 troops for the Confederate Army.

Missouri was a dual government state, supplying more support to the Union than to the Confederate. Source: Wikipedia.

Real question to ask is do they drink sweet tea?

I'm a history buff and so any Civil War talk is going to be interesting to me and mainly I was just making light of the Confederate state angle. I think more than anything, people in the South would look at the Civil War history of Missouri and see it as a common denominator that gives us a common point of reference. People from other parts of the country sometimes look down on the old Southern states because of the history there and listening to some people from Mizzou gives me the impression that people hold this view of the state of Missouri as well. I guess it's a common sense of "us against the world." At least that is my amateur psychologist point of view

It's not Southern to be rude or to be anything less than a gentleman. If you break that rule then you have to turn in your Southern citizenship much quicker than anyone who says "pop."

Besides, there are plenty of people down on the Gulf Coast and other places throughout the South who call it "pop" and whatnot. Do you really believe what word someone uses for their drinks is the defining cultural trademark? This is still America after all. There has been and always will be cultural exchange down through the generations from state to state and region to region.

Just because someone doesn't know what WDE means has nothing to do with culture. I bet you that a ton of SEC fans don't know what it means either. We Bama fans are most familiar with it because we live right next to the Barn Nation, but most people wouldn't. In fact, most SEC fans don't even peruse sites like these. The same goes for all fan bases.

school with an Ag Econ chancellor coming to the conference. Bonus cred for Auburn. You don’t care enough.