re: Big XII Meeting With Expansion Candidates

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No the problem was when OU made their now famous "wallflower" speech and showed their cards, after claiming fealty to the bev12-4+2, they were lifting their skirt all over the place.

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Mizzou had been on the Big 10 radar since Penn State. I fully believe the stories that came out the said Mizzou was in talks with the Big 10 and balked at the junior membership. Meanwhile, big money Nebraska knew what was going on and decided they could bite the junior membership bullet to get out of the Big 12. Big 10 gets their new member, AAU and all, plus a better traditional football program.

That whole story is pretty well confirmed in my opinion by the number of times Slive mentioned that Mizzou was a full member from Day 1 in the SEC. That wasn't mentioned much when discussing aTm.