The John guy was the only one on MR SEC covering realignment and he was on the Mizzou bus long before Clay was. John was there in early 2010 and Clay did not seem to get on the Mizzou bus till at least a year later. 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.

You can refuse to believe this, but my memory seems pretty clear on this.

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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.

Yeah, but he was just retelling the stuff John at Mr SEC had already laid out. Which is my beef with Clay. Using another persons work and nor sourcing them is not real tough to do. In the age of blogs wanting hits I understand it, but that does not make it right.

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If you don't like Clay Travis for whatever reason, fine

I have said on here many times he was funny early on and enjoyed some of his stuff. It is not wether I like Clay as a person (which I have no problem with) but that he steals other work and claims it as his own. That is where I have the problem.

BTW, I forgot one of the better sources was Kristi Dosh and her "business of college sports" blog before she got hired by ESPN and stopped writing it. Very good stuff on there about how conferences worked and very informative during realignment.

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Posted by Jagd Tiger

The Kinder, Gentler Jagd

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Posted on 5/13/14 at 2:21 pm to Cheese Grits

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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.

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.

LINK

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

One sentence paints the whole picture.

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