re: Mizzou and Everyone Outside of the 314

Hahahaha

You really are a women, can't be wrong.

It appears that way in your map, but its not the case. The link I provided clearly shows Ladue and Kwood bordering. This is too funny. And you say we don't argue like a married couple.

I hate you so much that I'm beginning to like you.

Awww!!!!! I like it so much better when everyone gets along!

No nuance allowed. You're not proud of the backwoods hoosierish perception most people have of Missouri, so you're not worthy of being a Missourian.

Shame upon you!

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But Huntleigh

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Ahh, forgot about Huntleigh, population...Busch family.

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so why is it so much more difficult to land recruits from the area. Same can be said about basketball.

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I wish I knew. We were doing much better for a while, with getting Maclin and the Gabberts. Maybe little Gabbert deciding to transfer created a perception that Missouri kids don't get treated fairly at Mizzou? Plus, the fans were pretty hateful toward Blaine.

I think in football, a lot of it is uncertainity about the program and the stability of the coaching staff. Which will resolve one way or another soon enough.

With basketball, it's a complicated thing. I have heard that some basketball coaches in the St. Louis area do not like Haith for some things related to MHSAA.

That's coming from a coach I know who thought there were better candidates, an that haith was going to get hung out to dry over the Miami stuff. He just doesn't care for haith. And apparently there was an issue with the state coaches wanting to change HS games to 2 halves, like college, because they thought it would prepare players better and Haith didn't support this. I don't know anything more than that.

Listen, most of the kids that go to Mizzou are from STL because their parents can 1) afford to send them there, and 2) their children receive private Catholic school education where they benefit from smaller classrooms, more one-on-one teacher/student interaction, and little to no classroom distraction caused by students with behavioral issues.

KCMO is notoriously poor. KCKS is mostly Jayhawkers. Many kids from rural MO do attend Mizzou, but their numbers are skewed due to the large number of kids from STL.

In northeast Missouri where I'm from, you attend either Truman State or Mizzou if you get a 28 or higher on your ACT, Missouri State if you score a 23 - 27 on your ACT, and any other state school if you score anything below a 23 (Maryville, Warrensburg, etc.)

A few rich kids will attend Wash U, a few math/science kids will attend Rolla, but everyone else attends what I call the
Big Three - Mizzou, Missouri State, or Truman.

Now, in Southwest Missouri where I live now (God's Country - Missouri's paradise), kids attend either Mizzou or Missouri State, or if they perform exceptionally well, Drury University or Rolla. A few choose to attend Arkansas, but not as many as you'd think.

KC...well, if you did well in high school and your parents have a little nest egg, you may be fortunate to attend Mizzou or Missouri State. However, due to the poverty on the Missouri side of KC, most kids will be fortunate to graduate from a community college or ITT Tech. Nothing at all wrong with that. Community schools, not all but a few, offer great educational value on a budget. Many graduates go on to be productive professionals.