re: TAMU and Mizzou fans... does it still feel weird?

I miss the Big 8, but Texas, TTU, Baylor and A&M never really did much for me in the 20-ish years Mizzou was in the Big 12. You just can't easily get over trying to beat Nebraska for decades (literally) and then finally getting a good rivalry going with a team only to have it snatched away, and a super bitter rivalry with a team that's literally steeped in civil war skirmishes (hell, Mizzou fans wear a shirt with a picture of Lawrence burning with pride):


There's the fifth down, the flea kicker, and tons of basketball history too.

It doesn't help that the SEC West is like a different conference, when you only see the different teams every 7 years. Ridiculous, and I think a 9 game conference season or getting rid of permanent rivals would do a lot to integrate.

Plus, I'm from the northeast corner of Missouri, and we grow corn and soybeans here...when I drove down to Louisiana for the LSU game last year I saw a cotton field for the first time

So yeah, it feels weird to be detached from that. Football is great, and maybe with basketball on the uptick it'll help, but it still feels like Mizzou is an outsider, and truth be told I'm sure it will for me for a long time, and maybe forever. But my oldest son was 2 when Mizzou switched, so my kids won't know any better, they'll grow up hating Arkansas and Tennessee just as much as I hate Mobilehoma.