re: Prompted by The Sec Rant, When Did You Guys feel like you adjusted to the Sec

My freshman year was Mizzou's last year in the Big 12. Even then, everything immediately became so SEC-centric upon the announcement that it's almost like I never went to a Big 12 school at all. I'm in my 5th year which means that I spent one year at a Big 12 school and four years at an SEC school.

I've been to 6 Big 12 Mizzou football games, and 14 SEC Mizzou football games.

I've been to roughly 7 Big 12 Mizzou basketball games, and about 21 SEC basketball games.

I've been to 0 Big 12 events for all the other sports, and probably close to a dozen of those same sports since joining the SEC.

Point being, I think my age group will ultimately be the first to identify with the SEC without even thinking about the Big 12. I of course was a die-hard Mizzou fan from birth through high school while we were in the Big 12, but 80% of my time actually at Mizzou we've been in the SEC.

To answer your question though, I think in retrospect the single defining point where I felt I had fully adjusted to the SEC was after driving to Atlanta last December for the 2014 SEC Championship versus Alabama. I would have never drove 13 hours for a Big 12 game. Driving all that way, going to SEC fan-fest, being in the Georgia dome surrounded by crazy Bama fans, listening to them chant rammer-jammer as we filed out of the stadium after the final whistle.....that's when it became real for me. That's when Mizzou became a full-fledged member of the SEC to me. As far as I'm concerned, that was my "initiation ceremony" into SEC fanhood.