Nobody's jealous. The governor might not be whoring around, but you've certainly been the Big 10's biggest whore on here the past month, ready to explode if the Big 10 makes an offer to Mizzou. And I'd like to know what you mean by "buying" a BCS bowl. MU fans need to come to terms with the fact that they weren't invited to the Orange because they had 2 losses, and both being to the same team, while KU only had one loss. Which looks better to a non-biased committee? A 2-loss team or a 1-loss team? It was a no-brainer. But MU fans still can't accept that for some reason.MoMan wrote: The governor saying that the state should listen if the Big X shows interest hardly amounts to whorishly lobbying for admission with desperate urgency. Buying an invitation to a BCS bowl--now that's what a whorish and desperate university would do.
As for the allure of Missouri's 6 million potential TV viewers, there are plenty of states with larger--and frankly far more sports-crazed--populations that the Big X could court. Tennessee, for example. Or Texas. Or Florida. Or North Carolina. Or Georgia. Or Massachusetts. So why would Mizzou figure so prominently on everybody's list of most likely expansion candidates if the school didn't offer something else...something like a very respectable athletic and academic reputation?
And if population is so important, why would Nebraska be on the list of candidates? It has even fewer TV sets than Kansas, for God's sake.
Maybe all those talking heads who have Mizzou high on the list of expansion candidates are just a little more knowledgeable and a little less afraid of the future than certain kcrag posters.
It's entirely possible that the Big X will surprise a lot of people and not extend Mizzou an invitation. If that happens, it'll be disappointing to many MU fans, and cause for celebration to others. But however it plays out, one thing seems clear: Fans of the the Big XII schools that nobody is talking about, and that no conference has on its wish list, are the only ones who see Mizzou as undeserving. Smells like jealousy to me.
Don't bring Tennessee into this mix. Why the hell would they leave the SEC for the Big 10? Makes no fucking sense at all. Missouri is one of the few schools that would leave their conference. That and their TV market is why the Big 10 expressed interest in them. It has nothing to do with MU's academics. They're at the bottom of the ladder in terms of academics, even in the Big 12. A few spots below KU to be exact. And as others have pointed out, their athletic achievement has been rather sorry since the inception of the Big 12, so it's not like the Big 10 would be bringing in a football or basketball powerhouse.
This whole deal is about the STL and KC markets. That's it. Geographically it also would make sense for MU to join the Big 10 due to how close it is to Illinois and Iowa, and the fact that it doesn't exactly have a lot of weight to push around in the Big 12 right now. It's Texas' bitch, just like most other schools, and the MU fans absolutely hate that.
