Part of it as far as media is it just feels that way b/c STL is the biggest city in MO and we don't have a standard of comparison to other big city media in the state except KC, and any time negativity comes out of there we can all just shrug and say "meh, Beakers, whatchagonnado."

Fact is, even when writers or sports radio guys int the STL say negative or polarizing stuff about Mizzou *they are still paying attention to Mizzou* which is the biggest factor in big city markets and says most about how your program stacks up.

Consider - as big and influential as the University of Texas is, does it even come *close* to owning the Dallas-Fort Worth media market even compared to other colleges much less sports talk in general? Oh hellz no. Even OU and Okie State get lots and lots of run in the media there. Ask an Illini fan what the Chicago media (and people in Chicago generally) situation is like for them. In terms of both overall attention paid and in terms of amount of good publicity, Mizzou gets much more of both per capita in STL than the University of Illinois ever has and ever will get in Chicagoland. And don't even bother telling our STL sob stories to a fan of some NY or Cali program who lives in NYC or LA.

STL has 2 million peeps in its metro area. A lot of them are Mizzou fans. A lot of them are not. Some of the ones who are not actually hate Mizzou. Such is life. But its par for the course in larger cities.

This post was edited on 4/21/14 at 12:20 pm