New York Times: Missouri to SEC "Inevitable and Imminent"

(Unless sanity prevails and we just stick them in the East)

I just can’t see the sec saying to hell with the rivalry that helped build this conference. No way they piss off Alabama and Tennessee like this

To quote Lewis Grizzard:

Dammit, dammit to hell.

The only thing this year that’s made me sicker than Mizzou to the SEC was when the Atlanta Thrashers picked up and moved to Canada…

And the motivation is basically the same. It will probably work out equally as well.

equitably. Also it would make more geographical sense given the new footprint of the SEC. Maybe this is already been discussed so sorry if I am rehashing old news.

Personally, I don’t understand why this took so long, unless Slive was hoping for some sort of TX, OU, OSU trifecta to go with A&M.
This is bound to cause some more shake-ups in other conferences.
Maybe now the SEC can add 2 more from the east to at least balance the conference geographically.
We all know that we (along with the other major BCS conferences) are going to 16 or more teams eventually anyway.
The Mount USA Association done cleared the way for what was originally just idle speculation.

I have very little reason to be as opposed to this move as I am, but I think it would be a disaster.

I at least hope they will make Tennessee or Auburn our first rotation. At least that would give them 2 years to balance it back out with two more East teams and move Auburn back and restore a bit of normalcy.

we can’t end it with a likely 4 TD massacre.

#Protect3SIO

BCS conferences will move to a nine game conference schedule. This will allow Auburn to move east while bringing back the TSIO in a couple of years. It will take a national coalition from the BCS to make it happen, but it will happen once the Big 12 fallout gets rectified. The 12 Pac already does it, and the B1G won’t have a problem with it either. Plus, it will add another game to networks which will allow schools to make more money.

If we do invite them to the SEC, I’ll have to pull this out whenever they start bragging about SEC speed….

Keep ‘em out. I don’t want to end up with some cheesy accommodating conference name because we have teams that aren’t in the Southeast. Texas A&M barely sneaks in the gates. Missouri shouldn’t be allowed to approach the gates. Welcome to the new “America’s Conference.”

now we’ll all have a reason for that road trip to Columbia, MO about which we’ve all been dreaming.

…please allow me one last appeal…we can have this again!

Put them in the West. Move AU to the East. Get AU off our premanent schedule.

Hey, if Texas can drop A&M, we can drop AU. If you think about it long enough you will see that we gain nothing by playing AU every year. They gain everything even when we pound them they still get headlines for being pounded. Besides maybe getting them off the schedule can restore some santity to the state as in no more Updikes.

But, boys and girls, this is the new wave of college football. 4 super conferences. A defacto playoff system. And everything will be determined by TV. Bama v. AU draws big ratings in Bama and some surrounding states but so would Bama v. A&M because it would play big in Texas.

And by the way, the 4, 16 team conferences could very well jump from the NCAA and rule the world. We can make our own rules that are more in tune with big money football. When we get 4 biggies we won’t need the NCAA one bit.

They have Jesuit colleges and hot links and that crappy pony express that ran for about 9 months & we still bore our childrens about it. No no no. What’s so great about the St. Louis tv market? Slive should be forced to live in east saint Lou for a week- sober his ass up

Mizzou doesn’t belong, they will be a bust and screw up the SEC. I think A&M was a bad move. You already have the best conference in America year in and year out why screw it up. I personally do not believe either team really makes the SEC better, but especially not Mizzou. I think it will be a bust because I don’t Mizzou fans travel that well and the T.V. market is already covered. SEC games are on everywhere. No advantage (at least in football) for the SEC.

They are not worth giving up UT or the Barn on our schedule. They will be another Ole Miss / Miss St team and a So.Carolina on a good year.

is if Oklahoma and Okie State had been teams 14 and 15, respectively, AND the ACC put up a Berlin Wall of an exit fee around $25 million or more.

I still say we should try harder for UNC and UMD-College Park.

I havent attended a Bama game in ages. For those of you who travel (and thank you for supporting the team) Mizz is an awful choice.

But I look at things differently, I think. It matters not one bit to me which team or teams we add, as long as those teams are not competitive. I want teams that we can and will thrash year in and year out. Period. To hell with some kind of uber-difficult division of the SEC containing a host of good/potentially good teams.

Add Tulane. Add Eastern Michigan. We need cupcakes, not titans.

They will go to the East and that will be that. Their program will stiffen up and be more competitive than the MS schools, at least. Eventually they will be a great mid-level SEC team that will challenge every now and then.

Everyone should check it out.

First, CNS said that this teams needs to focus on deatils – the little things – to get better. Wow. That sounds a lot different than previous years. Coach is telling us we have a special team (IMO).

Secondly, CNS goes off at the dumbshit “reporters” telling them “I dont give a shit about that stuff” in reference to TR being in the Heisman race and Mizzou joining the SEC. I love Coach when he gets testy with those clowns.