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

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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Posted by Jagd Tiger

The Kinder, Gentler Jagd

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Posted on 5/13/14 at 1:09 pm to Cheese Grits

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Frank himself was way off base b

yep, and Clay wasn't.

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

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.

This post was edited on 5/13/14 at 1:11 pm

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