re: Mizzou Fans, Will Arkansas Become Your New Archrival?

While Mizzou and Arky fans have joked about the Meth Bowl a few times I notice there is a... fascination if you will... on the subject from Alabama fans. Lots of "Hahaha you guys make meth... you can hook me up right?" vibes coming from Bama right now.

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Arkansas took the best basketball coach they have had since Norm.

And we were happy to give him to yall. I know you don't believe us, but we were.

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The amount of whining Missouri fans did when Mike came home begs to differ. There is still a raw spot with most Missouri folks when they realize that he couldn't wait to have the opportunity to come home. If you were "happy to give him" to us, then the level of venom when he left would not have been near what it was.

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The Cotton Bowl says "bonjour." And what else have we played yall for something "important?"

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If you honestly believe that game was important to Arkansas, then you really do need to re-calibrate your version of reality. Six weeks prior to that game, Arkansas had just knocked off #1 at their place and taken the "golden handcuffs" off of HDN. After that, we could not have cared less about the Cotton Bowl. We had an interim coach who was a poor man's Orgeron. And that "three headed monster" of a backfield was only interested in not getting hurt. They were about to get paid and the last thing they needed was to get a cheap injury in a meaningless bowl. If it fits your narrative better, and it makes you Missouri folks feel better to think that the Cotton Bowl that year was of any significance to us whatsoever, then fine, keep repeating that to yourselves. But just know that it's just not true.

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If you were "happy to give him" to us, then the level of venom when he left would not have been near what it was.

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It wasn't that he left. It was how. Ask Otto Porter's family about it.

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If you honestly believe that game was important

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It was the Cotton Bowl. If you're just going to pretend anything Mizzou beat Arky at isn't important then I can note you're an idiot and ignore you in the future.

Arkansas just needs to win every game the rest of the way. MOO Tigas just happen to be NEXT!

I don't dislike Moo fans, they're just a cute little fanbase. They are no where near as stupid as the rest of the conference. (disclaimer)

As Danny Ford told us, the SEC will slit your throat and drink your blood, he was correct.

But, I would not want to be in any other conference. We are stupid over our teams because we care more than any conference in America!

That being said, Frick Off!

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You obviously don't realize that some teams do improve as the season goes on. Arkansas looks a hell of a lot better to my biased and untrained eye than Missouri does at this point.

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FIFY

As for speaking on the Arkansas side of things, I don't give a damn. It's forced and we have no reason to dislike them other than they're yankee as hell. Hell, the only reason the LSU rivalry developed was because every single one of our games was decided by a freaking field goal for a decade. I'd have much rather just kept the crossover with South Carolina. But getting a free win at the end of every year may come handy.

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But to do what he did to the program and then leave left a lot of Mizzou fans upset.

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Not flaming... I want an honest answer. What if he had said when his name was first mentioned, "Y'know, I spent a lot of time at Arkansas and I have some fond memories there. I'd be a fool not to explore it." How many Missouri fans would have said, "Don't let the door hit ya"?

And let's say for a minute everything played out exactly as it did, but before he boarded that plane, he asked the AD for an opportunity to meet with the players and tell them "bye." First, do you think that meeting would have been granted? I don't. And I don't think any Missouri fans would have thought that was the "right" way to leave either.

My point is, there is not one single thing Mike could have done to please most Missouri fans. Their anger isn't with "how" he left. That is the smokescreen to mask the sting that a school they tell themselves is "inferior" to them has taken their coach.

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to think that the Cotton Bowl that year was of any significance to us whatsoever,

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because of all those SEC championships and bigger bowls you've been playing in since then,, am I right!

Yeah the way he left Mizzou was pretty bad but we were offering him a lot more money. He cares more about his family and their future than keeping a promise to Mizzou fans.

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My point is, there is not one single thing Mike could have done to please most Missouri fans. Their anger isn't with "how" he left. That is the smokescreen to mask the sting that a school they tell themselves is "inferior" to them has taken their coach.

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I'm not talking about leaving the program itself, more leaving the program in shambles. He made no effort to recruit his final year, none whatsoever. Meaning he only did half his job and then left, convincing a couple of STL kids to come down with him.

I'm sure some Mizzou fans would have been pissed regardless, but I can tell you from my perspective and from most graduates I know what upset them the most was the fact he didn't bother recruiting at all his final year.