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The SEC did a similar thing with a website blunder to Missouri.

Roll Tide rgantt

We reported a few weeks back that the SEC wants the alignment to cause as few problems as possible. That's putting Missouri in the East and keeping all of the SEC's current rivalries alive and well.

After writing that, we heard from multiple sources at multiple SEC schools that Mizzou to the East was/is the plan.

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JOhn

Believe me as an MU fan I feel sorry for WVU going to that conference and wish them all the luck in the world. I hope that the Big 12 figures it out and works better for WVU and TCU because they don't deserve the dysfunction of what the Big 12 has been. Notice how they invited WVU, then they didn't WVU, and then did invite them again.

No, it is not what I wanted to hear! I know MU has fans, and I know folks in MO follow other teams. What I really would like is an OBJECTIVE breakdown how those 6 million people watch TV inside the state of Missouri? This allows me to objectively evaluate what their true value to the SEC is. Call me old fashioned for asking questions and kicking the tires before buying a car instead of relying on what the car salesman tells me. The salesman has a vested interest in selling the car, but I am actually going to have to drive it.

And for the record, WVU announced they would be going to the Big Twelve next year & did file a lawsuit against the Big East so that they could do so.

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We're coming as fast as we can SEC – just not as fast as we'd have liked.

Also read today that two of the three chancellors who are negotiating exit fees for the Big 12 are Baylor's Ken Starr and ku's Bernadette Gray-Little. Neat trick of the Big 12 to include the two schools who've demonstrated more butt-hurt than any of the others.

Jay Nixons from last-night when asked about realignment.. " “I just think anything else I say at this point… I’ll let others… I might be too quotable. I’m a fan. I don’t run the athletic department.”

The "one source" is one person in the present. I can assure that in the past MU has held the B1G as a destination and not the SEC. This goes back decades and generations. While you wishing this was not the past, does not change the past. When the SWC collapsed and Arkansas + South Carolina = SEC 12 there were 6 schools on the list, and Missouri was not one of them. Read the recent Roy Kramer interview through the long term eyes of an SEC follower. While he is being diplomatic, he is also giving strong clues to the historic relationship of Missouri and the SEC. Folks can spin this all day long, but some old Dawgs know the new "tricks" going on right now. This is a merger of convenience and money that may work in the long term. Saying this has been a desire of the Missouri folks for quite some time is pure yarn spinning.

Also remember what they say publicly isn't whats being said privately. Last week they said MU didn't say they were leaving. If that's so then why was the Big 12 negotiating with Missouri on what it would take to get their release at the same time they made that statement? It's no different than when Texas A&M said they wanted to leave. even after all the threats and knowing that A&M was gone the day Chuck Nienas was brought in he said Texas A&M is still in the Big 12 and we can get them to stay. A day later or so Texas A&M left.

I think UT and OU did not want a CCG where there was a chance neither was in it. Nebraska is now gone, so that gets rid of the biggest lion. Colorado and TAMU meant the exit of a couple of cubs, and not sure OU or UT would consider MU a threat, but they may look at it as one less objector. WVU + UL + UC probably means it gets back to a CCG where OU or UT are the winner 90% of the time. WVU may be a wolf, but UL and UC are just sheep in wolves clothing. If a CCG got the B12 more money, I feel sure the exit of Nebraska ended many objections.

It's not the Big Easts fault it is dealing with contracts. If the Big East holds WVU to the 27 month waiting time before that presents a $1.9 million dollar problem. According to the contract signed with Fox it requires them to have 10 members and if MU leaves this year and WVU can't join for next year that gives them just 9 schools and Fox can void the contract. The Big 12 is holding that over Mizzou's head and threatening lawsuits. If Fox voids that contract it would be likely that the Big 12 would go after Mizzou to recover money lost so there are a lot of loose ends to be tied up.

I think you could move Auburn to the East and have the 7 -1 – 2 rotations (one permanent and two rotating each year). One of the reasons not to move Auburn to the EAST is to save the annual AL TN game. But…what about giving an exception to the AL TN game?

There is always an exception to every rule!!!

The exception to the rule would be that Alabama plays two permanent teams from the East each year, AU and TN (and only rotates one team). Everyone else would play one permanent team from the other division like they do now and rotate two. (Maybe Auburn would have two permanent members from the West.) Anyway….this would not be as big of a deal as most people are making it out to be.

By the way…I am still pulling for ECU at some time to join the SEC if they go to 16. And…War Eagle!!!

That's what you were wanting to hear, right?

So now folks are trying to turn the tables & blame WVU & the Big East? Ridiculous.

I have yet to see where MU ranked is in the rankings of the 120 FBS schools? We already know where WVU ranks, and where UL ranks, but not a peep from the MU folks. Maybe some MU journalism grad can research that number for the rest of us. Not like Deloss Dodds or Chip Brown are the greatest sources, but in this case it would provide substance to their statements that WVU > MU as a conference partner.