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re: Your first impression on A&M and Mizzou after joing the SEC
Posted on 6/6/12 at 3:15 pm to semotruman
Posted on 6/6/12 at 3:15 pm to semotruman
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Way to be an arsehole.
I wouldnt be too worried. Almost everybody that has said this so far, hass come to like us now. The rest are not too far behind. Take Damn Good Dawg for example.
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Posted on 6/6/12 at 3:44 pm to Stripes314
From what it seems so far, looks like they appreciate the power and strength of the SEC and fear some teams for good reason
Posted on 6/6/12 at 3:50 pm to Stripes314
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Stripes314
Oh, I'm not worried about it. People generally come around to us, the smart ones anyway. The idiots I don't care about!
Posted on 6/6/12 at 3:55 pm to mizzoukills
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Dude, this is closer to reality than what you believe.
So let's assume Louisville joins the Big 12 to give the North 6 teams, 9 game schedule, 3 OOC games.
A Notre Dame schedule :
Every year
WVU
Louisville
Kansas State
Kansas
Iowa State
Alternate
OU
tu
OSU
Baylor
Tech
TCU
Who are there 3 OOC games?
USC
Michigan
Purdue?
So you're telling me that Notre Dame is really close to willingly lock itself in to a schedule where it gives up Navy, Stanford, Michigan State, Pitt, Miami and BC wtc for all of eternity, just for a chance to win a "conference title"? That in a playoff format where the top 4 teams are going to go regardless of conference affiliation, that Notre Dame really really really wants to get an easy route to the Big 12 Title game instead by playing in Aimes, Manhattan(not the NY one), Lawrence, and Morgantown every year?
Dude, this is closer to reality than Alabama leaving the SEC, but neither are close to reality.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 5:05 pm to TeLeFaWx
If, and only if college football moves to an exclusive, 4X16 team super-conference model with a playoff. That is pretty far fetched at this point.
The more likely scenario is that ND and others broker a deal for a 4-team play off. 4 best teams in, no conference championship required. ND would be really happy with that format and stay right were they are.
The more likely scenario is that ND and others broker a deal for a 4-team play off. 4 best teams in, no conference championship required. ND would be really happy with that format and stay right were they are.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 5:18 pm to crimsonsaint
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But Mizzou, yeah, definitely wanted another school.
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There's nothing southern about Mizzou.
It depends where you're at in the state, the northern part... not too southern. But I dare you to go to Sikeston, Cape, or Poplar Bluff and tell them they aren't southern.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 5:20 pm to mizzoukills
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However, ND like Texas wants to reel in money as much money as they possibly can. What better place to do that than in the Big 12? ND doesn't want to be in an equal sharing conference. That's against their best interests.
There just isn't room for both egos in the Big 12. If/when things finally get rolling towards super conferences again, I think ND will buck up and join the B1G if they are forced to play in a conference in order to stay relevant. The Big 12 is in every way inferior to the B1G, and Notre Dame fits in the B1G.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 5:29 pm to semotruman
don't take it personally. When expansion talk came up there were rumors about FSU, Miami, Clemson, & VT. To me they seemed like a better fit. Especially in a dominant football conference in the southeast. 
Posted on 6/6/12 at 5:31 pm to crimsonsaint
For our Mizzou friends
Posted on 6/6/12 at 5:36 pm to pivey14
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thank you for being realistic...I believe that yall will have 9 wins (with bowl) this year
Haha are you on crack? We will be extremely lucky to win 7. Will take a few yrs to build into a competitive team in the West. We have a new QB who has zero real game time experience other than handing the ball off a few times, our starting defensive unit is OK, but we are in the bottom tier of the SEC in terms of depth on D, new schemes on both side of the ball, but all SEC teams will be out for blood as no one wants to be the first to lose to the new guy. I couldnt be more thrilled to be in hands down the best conference in the land and will be rooting my team on til i am blue in the face, every game...but as a realist, i am expecting maybe 6 wins.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 5:41 pm to BreakawayZou83
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It depends where you're at in the state, the northern part... not too southern. But I dare you to go to Sikeston, Cape, or Poplar Bluff and tell them they aren't southern.
Somewhat similar to Texas. Many don't consider us "deep south" but the eastern portion of the state is pretty damn southern. You feel like you are in the south in College Station, yet an hr and a half west in Austin, you don't get that vibe at all. East Texas is pretty damn deep south.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 7:13 pm to Sherwood Brotron
The map below is roughly accurate on the culture of Missouri. The bootheel itself is part of the mississippi delta and is filled with swamp land. Definitely a south/deep south feel. Then there's a lot of upper south and Ozark culture spread across the southern third of the state.
This is also a good article to read on it. A professor of southern history/politics who taught at ole miss for 9 years says he considers Missouri the northernmost-Southern state.
Columbia, Missouri was also voted one of the top Southern college towns.
LINK
This is also a good article to read on it. A professor of southern history/politics who taught at ole miss for 9 years says he considers Missouri the northernmost-Southern state.
Columbia, Missouri was also voted one of the top Southern college towns.
LINK
This post was edited on 6/6/12 at 7:15 pm
Posted on 6/6/12 at 7:16 pm to KCM0Tiger
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The map below is roughly accurate on the culture of Missouri. The bootheel itself is part of the mississippi delta and is filled with swamp land. Definitely a south/deep south feel. Then there's a lot of upper south and Ozark culture spread across the southern third of the state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vMfqosdDbY
Definitely about a third southern, imo.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 7:19 pm to KCM0Tiger
I'd say that map is pretty damn accurate, with one little exception - parts of northern Missouri feel like Iowa more than anything else.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 7:20 pm to KCM0Tiger
The Southern part of Texas is in white.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 7:23 pm to KCM0Tiger
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A professor of southern history/politics who taught at ole miss for 9 years says he considers Missouri the northernmost-Southern state.
Did you read his article? Here is what else this professor has to say about Missouri
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"Essentially, the entire town became more or less gridlocked because of the game," he said. "And if you weren’t going to the game, you had a choice—either you sort of hunker down for the day, or you got the hell out. You don’t get that in Columbia."
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Traces of segregation are widespread in America generally, of course, so Columbia may not be strikingly different from university towns of comparable size in Northern or Western states.
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The university doesn't strike me as having a Southern culture
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Brekhus sees Columbia as being two-thirds Midwestern and one-third Southern. “One of my friends jokes that Columbia’s not in the South, but you can see the South from Columbia,” he said. “That's pretty close to true.”
Posted on 6/6/12 at 7:26 pm to TeLeFaWx
Posted on 6/7/12 at 1:39 am to BreakawayZou83
No doubt there, Breakaway. I was raised in Sikeston and am a proud mid-South (i.e. Memphis, TN) boy. Bc of my identity with the South, I am thrilled to death that Mizzou is joining the SEC. Thanks for the pic, Smoke Ring--I've been looking for that online all night.
Posted on 6/7/12 at 2:21 am to Smoke Ring
Thanks smoke ring, you're my bro!! By the way we will always be connected in infamy for leaving the big bevo with y'all, and that I can respect bc I've always loved college station! 
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