re: Elephant in the room... Mizou

Meth and BBQ seems like it was a consideration in 2011.

I still can't believe its been 10 years - wow.

November 6, 2011

Mizzou is in the SEC?

Quantrill did nothing wrong

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Mizzou is no exception. Yet while Missouri's history during the war is most notable for Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, the James Brothers who were all confederates...

The Missouri "Tigers" were named after a Union militia that organized around Columbia to protect the city from those guys after they burned down Lawrence, KS.

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Missouri having a bit of an identity crisis is not a recent phenomenon. The western side of the state never really recovered after Order No. 11 when the Union came in and literally burnt everything along the border to the ground to stop the violence between the two sides - often neighbors going at each other.

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Oh boo ducking hoo How did Texas ruin the Big 8? Was never a member of that conference

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Wait, do you actually believe that Texas is not the primary reason the Big 12 collapsed?

The Big Eight existed for nearly 100 years without issue before the Longhorns came along in the mid-90s and destroyed it.

Right from the start, Texas worsened the unequal revenue sharing. In 2006, the longtime Big Eight headquarters were relocated from Kansas City, Missouri to (no surprise) Irving, Texas. In 2010, Texas and its cronies tried to jump to the PAC-10, destabilizing the conference. In late 2010, the Longhorn Network was announced. While other conferences were busy creating conference networks, Texas instead gobbled the opportunity for themselves at the cost of a Big 12 network.

Just before that occurred, four schools: Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, voted to block any change to revenue sharing in the Big 12, ensuring unequal revenue distribution in the conference, with plans to worsen it.

This did hilariously backfire on Nebraska when Texas then created the Longhorn Network. They fled to the Big Ten because the ol Huskers could not compete with Texas' greed. Colorado, fed up with Texas, fled to the PAC-10. Although not before Texas tried to strong arm the PAC-10 into taking Texas and Baylor instead of Colorado. Texas pushed so hard, that the PAC decided to only invite Colorado instead of dealing with Texas schools and their double-dealing, greedy ways. At that point, Texas had already destroyed the old Big Eight. You took out two of the four teams Mizzou was most interested in aligning with, leaving only Kansas and Oklahoma.

Interestingly, at the time of the revenue sharing vote, Mizzou was fourth out of the 12 schools in terms of revenue. So it was the only school in the top five to vote to equalize revenue sharing.

Several schools don't "fit" really.

You could argue A&M because Texas isn't truly the South but culturally A&M fits pretty well, we are the most Southern cultural part of Texas generally. We bring a lot to the table though with academics, money, and TV sets. Texas feels like much more of an SEC state now and it didn't 10 years ago.

Mizzou is awkward for the many reasons listed but they bring a lot to the table as mentioned. The demise of the Big 8 basically took away the home for the lost souls in the middle of the country that didn't really fit anywhere else with Colorado being the only one that wasn't in a really boring part of the country to live with little personality.

Kentucky honestly is just as awkward as Missouri, they have just been around a long time. Lexington is pretty damn far North and is closer to Cincinnati and Louisville than it is any major Southern State (Cincy and Louisville sure as hell aren't Southern). Kentucky has a lot of SEC history though, brings the basketball component, and has some Southern cultural feel.

Vandy feels like it should have left about the same time as Tulane, they made nice bookends but they are basically like Rice was to the SWC.

Texas and OU aren't SEC culturally at all. Austin and CS may be 90 miles apart but culturally they are night and day. OU loves football but it's definitely not the feel of an SEC school or state.

The most SEC like school that isn't in the SEC to me is easily Clemson. Everything about Clemson screams SEC.

Doesn't really matter though, all the conferences will be blowing up in the next few years anyway as we move to Super Conferences. Writing is on the wall.

Adding Mizzou to the SEC makes little sense in terms of geography or culture, but the SEC had to invite another school along with A&M to make the number of teams even, so they settled for Mizzou. If it weren't for us, Mizzou would never have been invited to the SEC.

You're very welcome, Tigers.

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Imagine Clemson and FSU joining the SEC

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Ugh that would’ve been so so so much better than adding OU and Texas

Ever been to St Louis? It’s the one place New Orleans can point to and say look and that shithole over there.

And then Nebraska got kicked out of the AAU for some reason after being invited.