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PowerMizzou's oral history of conference realignment.
Posted on 10/20/16 at 11:20 am
Posted on 10/20/16 at 11:20 am
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Good stuff.
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ALDEN: “This is before Nebraska had announced that they were going to leave. We were at one of these meetings and Dan Beebe was running it, there was all this tension in the room and Coach (Tom) Osborne was just so, he was always so class, I just loved being in meetings with him. He was very thoughtful. When all this was going on, there was one athletic director in particular, I can’t remember what school it was, but it’s in Austin. Anyhow, I heard a guy in that chair, he just started flipping out—flipping out is probably too strong a term, but he got pretty agitated, this person—and started dropping expletives about this and firing them kind of at us, at Mizzou, because Mizzou was rumored maybe the Big Ten is looking. And I was trying to be very professional. You know who stood up for me? For us? Tom Osborne.”
Good stuff.
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Posted on 10/20/16 at 12:20 pm to spytiger
Reading articles like this really makes clear who is to blame for the current state of the Big 12. Without Oklahoma and Texas fricking things up royally and constantly the Big 12 wouldn't have lost so many great schools.
Maybe Colorado would have gone to the PAC 10 anyway but they could have been replaced by TCU. If Nebraska, A&M, and Missouri were still part of the conference we wouldn't be talking about how the Big 12 is a joke. And all of those schools wanted to stay in the Big 12 but were compelled to leave because of the petulant arrogance of two schools.
Maybe Colorado would have gone to the PAC 10 anyway but they could have been replaced by TCU. If Nebraska, A&M, and Missouri were still part of the conference we wouldn't be talking about how the Big 12 is a joke. And all of those schools wanted to stay in the Big 12 but were compelled to leave because of the petulant arrogance of two schools.
Posted on 10/20/16 at 12:37 pm to spytiger
Good read. Thanks for posting.
Posted on 10/20/16 at 12:58 pm to Arksulli
Sounds like we were content after losing the B10 spot to Nub.
Then Boren went spouting off at the mouth.
The rest is history.
Thanks Wallflower U.
Then Boren went spouting off at the mouth.
The rest is history.
Thanks Wallflower U.
Posted on 10/20/16 at 1:22 pm to spytiger
This is a GREAT read.
I hope all the Big10 lovers are totally over their little mental fling.
M-I-Z!!! S-E-C!!!
I hope all the Big10 lovers are totally over their little mental fling.
M-I-Z!!! S-E-C!!!
Posted on 10/20/16 at 2:48 pm to Mizzou Mule
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I hope all the Big10 lovers are totally over their little mental fling
NEVER!!!
Although I do give credit to the admin (at the time) who took the initiative. While I'll always pine for the B1G, I will admit we are in a substantially better situation than we would have been otherwise. Will still pine for games against the ol Big 8 foes as well.
But Good read, and good job by powermizzou putting this thing together. Who knew Florida was essentially our sponsor?
Posted on 10/20/16 at 5:02 pm to spytiger
Every time I read Jay Nixon quotes on this I cringe and want to yell STFU.
Thanks for posting.
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