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A peek into the ‘11-‘12 SEC expansion
Posted on 7/8/22 at 4:59 pm
Posted on 7/8/22 at 4:59 pm
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Posted on 7/8/22 at 5:03 pm to mizzou waltz
Who gives a shite?
Posted on 7/8/22 at 5:04 pm to mizzou waltz
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17-5 win
What a snoozer
Posted on 7/8/22 at 5:05 pm to HogPharmer
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Who gives a shite?
I’ll see if there’s a Dr. Seuss or Dick and Jane version for you.
This post was edited on 7/8/22 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 7/8/22 at 5:07 pm to mizzou waltz
I don't give a metric frick.
Posted on 7/8/22 at 5:11 pm to mizzou waltz
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I’ll see if there’s a Dr. Seuss or Dick and Jane version for you.
I'm sure your google search history is full of searches including the word "dick"
Posted on 7/8/22 at 5:38 pm to mizzou waltz
I wonder if USC and UCLA were offered junior memberships like every other recent expansion school?
Posted on 7/8/22 at 7:53 pm to mizzou waltz
Great, great article!! I read every word of it, thanks for posting it! I urge everybody to read this because it gives the specifics and timelines of when/who did everything and said everything.
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A few excerpts...
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And I got from that sense that the problems with Texas, its own TV contract and everything else, were real and the University and its administration should keep its options open.”
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The whole thing started because of Texas, I can tell you that. That’s for sure. No doubt to me. The earliest situation was the decision made by DeLoss Dodds—not my friend—and Bill Powers, the President there.
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”The initial discussions of (the SEC), I was not as optimistic about that being something that would happen early on. I got much more optimistic later. The Big Ten seemed originally like kind of a natural fit in the sense when you look at the schools and the state and all that stuff. The SEC because of its incredible football tradition seemed a little more distant. But that distance closed pretty quickly when the Big Ten made its choice.”
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“I was led to believe that the initial idea of expansion was, one, to get the Big 10 championship game and, two, to ultimately get markets in the Northeast. Missouri didn’t do anything for them. St. Louis and Kansas City kind of did nothing for them. They already had St. Louis with Illinois. Nebraska was big in Jersey for a time, was a big national name and that’s why even though academically it wasn’t at the level of Missouri, they swallowed hard and went Nebraska even though Missouri openly opined with the league.”
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"Holy cow, if something blows up here, we’re gonna be outside looking in…Every time we would turn around, Texas would say this or Texas would say that and it was like, 'Wait a minute here, we’re all on the same team, right?' We weren’t...The legitimate concern there was that if in fact this would blow up that we at Mizzou would be left out of a major conference.
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The Big 12 (10) was sticking together. Realignment was over. For the time being. Then came the Longhorn Network.
ESPN.COM RELEASE, JANUARY 19, 2011: “ESPN will help develop, launch and operate the [Longhorn] network. It will also handle distribution of the network, which is unnamed as of now. The deal is worth $300 million over 20 years. The network will launch in September.”
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:49 am to mizzou waltz
Good read. Thanks for posting
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