re: Did Missou overreach?

Here's a picture of the beer I'd buy you for a solid post.

I will be fun when this rivalry redevelops.

Mizzou will eventually field a football team that can and will win games in the SEC.

It's got to happen eventually. Perhaps sooner than later, perhaps not.

But when it does happen, those Mizzou fans that persevere here in current whipping boy status will return the favor in spades.

I think that will be entertaining.

Nahhh, that will never happen. Our rep of not traveling well also translates over to the net irl.

I don't understand the animosity of some of the LSU fans towards A&M. Especially the George Mason poser. Maybe it's a fear of what's coming from both the Aggies and Mizzou.

Both universities are the flagship schools of their states and have tremendous advantages in recruiting now that they're parts of the SEC brand. A&M is a giant in a giant state and Mizzou stands alone in a population center of 7 million. Could their recruiting environments be more ideal?

Now that realignment is quieting down and schools have an opportunity to study the new college sports landscape, I look for A&M and Mizzou to exploit their new advantages.

It took a long while for SC to turn it around because of a lack of tradition but being in the SEC has helped them establish new ground in many sports, especially football and baseball. Arky, though not having a large population base in their state, has still capitalized on the SEC brand by recruiting on a regional basis. While maintaining their superiority in some olympic sports, coaching issues seem to be the Hawgs' Achilles heel in football and basketball (at least since Richardson).

It won't take Mizzou and the Aggies very long to adapt to their new circumstances. A&M and LSU. Mizzou and Arky. Both are potential rivalries for the ages.

LSU and A&M will become one of the uglier rivalries.

Of this, I am certain.

I look forward to it returning.

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We all know they would have rather gone to the B1G but that Nebraska took their spot

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Ummmm, no you don't all know we preferred the B1G. Maybe some of the administrators did, but not the fanbase. Typical myth that is repeated enough, turns into truth.

The real truth of the matter is yes, we wanted out of the Bevo conference, just as much as ATM. At the time of Mizzou exploring going to the B1G conference, we had no idea the SEC was even a possibility. Once we found out that the SEC was looking at us, the fanbase went apeshit and put on a full court press to make this happen. We flooded the Mizzou admn about our desire of where we wanted to land. So the fanbase was the real driving force behind Mizzou landing in the SEC. For the vast majority of Mizzou fans, we ended up exactly where we wanted to be.

Now that could be a good or bad thing depending on how our conference "friends" view us.

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I hope they are forever grateful to A&M for paving their way.

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I could be mistaken but wasn't it Mizzou trying to leave for the B1G that paved the way for aTm?

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They were just the stalking horse used by the B1G to get Nebraska.

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Or the B1G offered Mizzou junior membership status and Mizzou rejected it, paving the way for Osborne to enter the picture and get the Huskers in. But go with what you think.

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But go with what you think.

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It is not what I think if you look at the facts :

- Nebraska tried to get into the B1G twice in the early history of the B1G

- Nebraska was a Top 10 football brand and Mizzou was not

- Nebraska and the B1G were in discussions in Jan of 2010 similar to the Cotton Bowl discussions between Loftin and Slive later on

- Nebraska had an inelastic demand from a loyal fan base that translated well to a conference building a network.