re: Any new grumblings on conference expansion ?

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I'm still amazed the B1G didn't take Mizzou

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They should have taken the initiative to go to 14 and tried to take Nebraska, Kansas and Mizzou all in one swoop. Maybe they didn't want to gut the Big 12 like that but that would have been a huge coup. Now they are stuck with Maryland and Rutgers which are subpar additions IMO. They are located near big markets but have very little appeal outside Maryland basketball which has been in the dumps lately

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I'm still amazed the B1G didn't take Mizzou. It seemed like a natural fit. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they are here. And maybe it does make more sense for Mizzou to be in the SEC, given how much they recruit Texas.

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You aren't the only one. As tOSU prez said, they should have went hard after Mizzou.

There was mutual interest between the two. B1G made some back channel contact with Mizzou but when Mizzou got a whif of "junior" membership, Mizzou was like "come back when you are serious." This was mainly because MU couldn't afford it like NU could.

After that, I guess B1G didn't expect Mizzou to have any other options and would be around for when the B1G did get serious. Wrong.

I don't think B1G really regrets anything they did too much. It would be interesting to know how it would have been different had the B1G been aware of SEC's interest in Mizzou.