Mizzou Could Announce Departure At Big 12 Meeting Today

I think it's both. Remember it's the conference run by Texas and everyone does what they say. MU asked for them to get back to 12 even though most want it to be 12 it was shot down by Texas who said 10 if MU stays. But with MU leaving it creates a problem and that problem is the schedule for the next 2 years minus MU.. Yes they want WVU but they wont be available for 27 months after they announce their intentions to leave the Big East. I think Texas would prefer just adding WVU and staying at 10 but they will extend invites to WVU and Louisville to get back to 12 because they need someone for next year. So they will add BYU or someone who can come in next year to take MU's place on the schedule.

Bee...

I answered this in a comment above. It's called promotion. We have to do it just like every tv and radio station and website out there. We have people rip off our stories and claim to have reported them first.

Our "we told you first" comments are for first-time readers, not for you.

Plus... Does reading that one line -- one sentence! -- really have that much of an impact on your day? On your life? I read these types of things on other sites all the time and just zip right by them. I don't get mad. It's a nanosecond of my day.

Then again, I would never go to someone else's site -- a site that was providing me with free information -- and complain about the free info I was being given. Just me.

John

I don't see what the big deal is about the self promotion. I think it's been explained numerous times why the site is doing it. To me it's just as annoying seeing everyone complain about it.

John why you lie?

Im a Mizzou alum too. We would rather be in the Big 10 too.

I think Missouri will fit in just fine as well. But as an Arkansas fan I've got to say I'll be very disappointed if there ends up not being a rivalry set up between Missouri and Arkansas considering the proximity of the two schools. Although I understand the move to the SEC East and if Missouri decides to pick A&M for recruiting purposes. It will still be a lousy situation for what could be a perfect rivalry set up.

I think most of us want play Arkansas as the rival, but I appreciate that the SEC might want to keep the new kids playing one another to cause less of a shake-up. Now, if a few fist-fights break out in College Station next weekend things might change.

I hope it's Arkansas as well. Let A&M have SCAR.

I've been to Shakespeare's, good pizza. Great college town atmosphere. When I'm in Missouri though, the wife prefers Imo's.

Mmmmm, Imos. Got a couple in KC. Good stuff. Fortunately my wife has Columbia in her sales territory and brings home Shakespeare's whenever she makes it that way. Still, it always tastes better on gameday.

Have you had G&D's pizza?

I haven't but I'll be back there for Christmas. I'll ask about it.

Love Shakespeare's, but you gotta add Booche's to the COMO dining bucket list--->to die for!!!!!!!!!!

Agree that we never thought the hot cheerleader conference would take us. Forget the Big 10-this is a great deal. Personally, I would prefere our cross-rival to be Texas A & M. Cannot wait to listen to 810 tomorrow about all of this.

All things considered, Missouri was the best team on the western/northern side of the SEC. Due to the Big 12 fiasco, timing dictates signing them now. If the SEC goes to 16, expansion to the east side makes more sense, assuming availabilty.

As a hokie you certainly are very aware that VT had their chance and said no thanks. With that in mind, I'm shaking my head at why you feel the need to criticize Missouri or the SEC for doing what VT didn't have the foresight to do?

A&M saw the need to leave the UT stable and took action . VT isn't near ready to be weaned from UVA. That's your real issue. Work on solving the problem and you won't find the need to rip someone for doing what you can't.

Wow, not ripping A&M or SEC, but just hate to see a diluted product that i grew up watching every Saturday. Politically the VT President says no...but that doens't always mean no. Hell, there was no doubt about they way I feel, I just don't get to make the calls. Don't hear a lot of rejoincing about the choice from anyone but Mizzou or A&M fans.

Racing Hokie...

Remember, people thought Arkansas and South Carolina would dilute the SEC, too. Instead, they've helped make the SEC stronger. And Missouri has been far better in football and basketball recently than Carolina was when the Gamecocks joined the league.

Thanks for reading,
John

hey john it's taken the razorbacks 20 years to be relevant... will it take mizzou the same? Also Arkansas and carolina have never become rivals so it wasn't a good call to make them such.

Odd comment considering Arkansas has beaten Auburn nine times.

I do agree that SCAR isn't a rivalry, even considering how much fun it is to watch Spurrier when he's losing. Always makes me want to buy him a giant rubber "mammary" to stick in his mouth so he'll stop crying. Come to think of it, he makes more money than me----he can buy it himself. Probably already has bought one...... Probably already has a closet full of 'em......

Sorry, what were we talking about?

AU4life...

Arkansas has been to three SEC Championship Games. Auburn has been to four. Arkansas has also won a national title in basketball and been to two Final Fours since joining the SEC. I think it's a bit of overstatement to suggest Arkansas hasn't been relevant.

You may not like having Arkansas or Carolina in the SEC, but since they joined, the SEC has gotten richer and won more titles in 20 years than it had in the previous 20.

Just my take,
John

This is all about TV sets. Missouri has about 6.2 million of those. Great addition.

Missouri state population is 5.9 mill so that translate to 3.9 tvs. so i don't know where you get 6.2?

Gator...

I guess I'll not nuke a link back to our own site.

Thanks for reading,
John

I'm on board with Mizzou to the East but it seems like a missed opportunity to develop a strong natural rivalry by not making Arkansas your permanent cross-division rival. They'll be your closest conference opponent and you'll hardly ever get to play them.

Agreed. Ark vs Mizzou just naturally makes sense. Surely A&M would gladly take SC as a new rival.

As a Gamecock living in Houston, I would love to have TAMU and USC play against each other every year.

Howdy Gene,

This Aggie would be glad to take either South Carolina or Mizzou (or any other SEC school) as a cross division rival. I'm sure the SEC will make a good decision on this for all concerned.

Gig'Em!

Barnhart implied that the choice was Mizzou's for taking one for the team and going to the SEC East, but I have no idea if that was just his guess. The general feeling seems to be that Mizzou's coaches would prefer an A&M permanent to help maintain a presence in Texas state recruiting.

MIZ_SEC...

That wasn't just a guess on Tony's part.

We wrote last week that Missouri would be in the East and would have a lot of say in who its foe would be. We said A&M -- because of recruiting -- would likely be their choice -- and that is what people are murmuring across the league's schools -- but Arkansas remains a possibility.

Tony is a super reporter and he's been quite kind toward me as I've joined him a few times on CSS television shows. I'm glad his sources are saying the same things that my sources are saying. That gives me even further reason to trust my sources.

John

Unless West Virginia suddenly has an influx of 6 million people and WVU starts being referred to as the Harvard of the Appalachians, I don’t think the SEC will lose any sleep over it.

According to the Collegiate Licensing Company, WVU merchandise out sells Missouri merchandise - check it out (didn't want to link).

Their fans are fenatical & also travel very well. I'm guessing they actually watch the games too.

If WVU ends up in the Big 12, they better travel REAL well. Iowa State is the closest Big 12 school and they are only slightly closer than South Florida is to Morgantown.

Missouri people wear something other than Mizzou clothing. Not surprisingly, this is the reason for WVU merchandise outselling UM.

WVU is one good medium size earthquake away from being in Pennsylvania. SEC couldn't take the chance.

The geographic argument is the weakest argument not to choose WV.. WV is a Southeastern state.

WV is not a southern state. All the bellyaching in the world won't change that.

FGr...

It's simple promotion. There are sites out there who copy our reports days and weeks after we post them and claim that they are first to the table. We have to say this type stuff to make sure first-time readers realize who said what and when.

It's the same reason every local television and radio station runs spots saying "first, fast and accurate" or some variation. It's the same reason CNN and Fox quickly put together spots promoting their coverage of big events.

If you read the site, you know that there's no one more self-deprecating than me. But part of the business is self-promotion, unfortunately. And when we're right and we said something first, we have to make sure everyone's aware of that. Lest some other site claim that they were the first to talk about Missouri to the SEC -- when in fact we did so in May of 2010. And that example, has already happened. Ditto talk of an SEC Network... and unfortunately, another site has even been credited with that revelation though we suggested it well in advance of their first mention.

If you're frustrated by reading one line in a story about how we broke said story or first thought of an idea, imagine how frustrated we become when someone credits another site for writing something that we had already written and posted days earlier.

Thanks for reading the site,
John

Thanks for the clarification. Makes all the sense in the world and shows my naivety as it relates to the new age of news distribution.

FGr...

Trust me, I know how annoying it is for our regular readers to see, "I told ya so," on our site. But we're writing it for the non-regular readers. Because everyone else is also walking around shouting "I told ya so," even if they really didn't.

Thanks for understanding,
John

Howdy @YaleHollander,

This Aggie shares the bittersweetness of your perspectives as it relates to A&M and the old SWC. And as you expressed your desire for MU to join the SEC, I am elated that A&M was welcomed last month. I'm glad it lokks like you'll be coming too. We can share the trial by fire together next fall just as I think we will chant "S-E-C, S-E-C" in unison on Saturday.

Gig'Em!