re: Clay Travis article on Michael Sam, Sterling, etc.

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His "right" to say what he wants is fully intact as are the "rights" of other members of his association enforcing their ability to remove him from said association. He agreed to this. He will be compensated as the market determines.

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And the pro leagues have the right to remove players who beat women. They don't actually do that, though.

amazing how people justify racism, through unrelated events.

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Most of what he put out in his realignment articles were retreads of articles that were out months earlier on MR SEC and Frank the Tank.

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I don't know about that, I followed the realignment pretty closely myself and I didn't see anything from franthektank that was more than his opinion(which stinks as much as anyones) and really wasn't any closer to correct either, since he never thought Mizzou had a chance. Sure he posted some northwestern guys stats, so what, every ahole on the internet claims "my numbers are good, they're based on fact",, big deal, no real proof of anything from that blowhard either.

Clay did some very original projections of what the SEC network could be worth, show me where mrsec or whoever did that first.. go ahead we'll wait.

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I followed the realignment pretty closely myself and I didn't see anything from franthektank that was more than his opinion

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Frank himself was way off base because he looked to much through the B1G colored glasses and seemed too infatuated with Texas. I will give him credit for proposing to view realignment through the eyes of a college president. Mr SEC took that part and did an extensive post (like 20 - 30 pages) around march or april of 2010 when Clay was still not paying attention. The big part was Frank's posters who replied from all over the country. That is where the best stuff came from. It was in those responses that I first saw Notre Dame to the ACC or Maryland to the B1G. Both did not really make the mainstream until much later when they actually happened.

If you are a Mizzou fan then you should be well aware MR SEC picked the Tigers to the SEC earlier than anybody and was a supporter of theirs from the beginning. Clay did not start covering it until several folks emailed him and gave him a poke.

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Clay did some very original projections of what the SEC network could be worth

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Most of which was based on 3 dollars a month carriage which is nowhere near to what is actually happening. Again, making something sensational than actually doing the research is classic Clay. If you are a Mizzou fan I am surprised that with a school known for real journalism and the hard work of credible sources and fact checking you are enamored to a blogger who does neither.

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Frank himself was way off base b

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yep, and Clay wasn't.

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f you are a Mizzou fan then you should be well aware MR SEC

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From what I've seen it's a pretty nappy weblog(mrsec) of various bloggers from around the sec and many are just the same opinion ranting blowhards we see on this very forum, your defence of them make's me suspect you are one of those mrsec bloggers.

As for the "3 dollars a month carriage" you are quoting that was just one scenario he posted, so he was just throwing figures around to show what different fees would bring in, as for it being too high, well I know a huge number of SEC fans that would gladly pay 3bucks a month for the SEC network, so the validity of that rate depends on if you are talking inside or outside the footprint.

As for credible bloggers on the internet.. lmao "real journalism" again waiting for you to post these facts you keep claiming about credible sources, not seeing any.

Fact is, when 90+% of everybody in and out of the SEC was yelping horror at the very though of Mizzou in the SEC, Clay was laying out exactly why it made sense in a methodical, logical way. The fact that he can also do that with a bent of humor at the same time makes him a far more worth while read than a bunch of so called "serious journalist" from some blog site whose opinion is no more valid than anyone elses.

If you don't like Clay Travis for whatever reason, fine, I'm not telling anyone they should, but claiming you have credibility and facts vs it just being your opinion are two very different things.

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"I'm not racist, because I don't like racists!" "I'm not homophobic because I don't like homophobes! But everyone else is!"

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on point.

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I am not going back and reading 2 years of blogs just to post the links but I do remember pretty well that when Clay did start covering it it was stuff John had already posted before.

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Fair enough, I'm not going to google outkick links, now that his sight is on Foxsports I'm not even sure they can be pulled up. Either way everyone had an opinion and everyone was willing to throw them out as "the answer", if I had a dollar for every "here's my 4x16 conference scenario post", throw enough darts and sooner or later you hit the bullseye, doesn't mean you have any real skill at cricket.

I followed pretty much every link on realignment posted including frank and mrsec, at that point everyone was guessing.

Until Brady Deaton realized he was being played by the south div, his leadership of the Big 12 presidents counsel for sustained growth was the main thing keeping Mizzou in the 12. When Boren turned around and threw roses at the PAC a day after swearing fealty to the B12, I think Brady finally came around to seeing the light. At that point the wheels turning behind the scenes started realigning Mizzou compass south and east.

But back to Outkicks "spin" on the issues, he's better at cutting to the chase and landing a jab than about 99% of net bloggers so I will keep visiting his website.

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"And the fake Granny didn't even have a Southern accent."

One sentence paints the whole picture.

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Seemed like much of what they said early on came to pass for the Irish including the ACC deal. I

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Problem is it could still just be guess work, and not insider info, again, the blind squirrel principle.

Some guy on an MU board called TTraider kept coming in with supposed insider info, I think he later admitted he was mostly just going by a vague rumor he picked up here and there. And yes, thedude was awful.

The northwestern guy was good at pulling additional variables into the equation, but had he been right, the Nubs would never have been accepted into the Ten.

I still get great amusement from people who suggest Mizzou would leave the SEC if the Ten came sniffing, that one's always good for a laugh.

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I read it. Hard to disagree with anything he said.

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Maybe if you have the same dearth of brain cells that he does.

I particularly like the part where he insinuates that racists and homophobes deserve praise for standing up to the bullies that are running the so-called mobs. He conveniently - or perhaps stupidly - fails to mention that these "brave" souls are the ones who've made life for minorities and gays hell for centuries. What a dumb frick. Yeah, they're super brave all right.