*****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****

[CyBer]

The Big 12 is also being super quiet about everything, as are the teams we are "interested" in.

 

[Wesley]

And did TAM get 9 votes?

 

[Yellow Snow]

Twitter

Roadblocks are gone according to this dude...

 

[CyBer]

What does the twitter say?

 

[Yellow Snow]

What does the twitter say?

@HopWebsiderDavid Sandhop



Roadblocks are gone w/ today's B12 letter waiving legal claims. Told that A&M will leave B12 on Wed. and accepted to SEC on Thurs. #gigem

 

[CyFan61]

Roadblocks are gone w/ today's B12 letter waiving legal claims. Told that A&M will leave B12 on Wed. and accepted to SEC on Thurs.

 

[CyBer]

I hope they are gone on wed and not accepted to the SEC ever. Now that would be epic.

 

[CyFan61]

I hope they are gone on wed and not accepted to the SEC ever. Now that would be epic.

As awesome as that would be... not gonna happen.

Let's see what the Big XII does coming up here.

 

[LutherClone]

Looks like the Big XII must feel pretty confident that they have somebody on the line.

 

[CyBer]

It would be funnier if the SEC was playing a horrible practical joke on the aggies.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Aggies always talk about how "red***" (hard core) fans they are. Going to the SEC is going to bring new meaning to "red***ed" Aggie :wink:.

 

[QBUMizzou]

Missouri Doesn’t “Show Me” it Belongs in SEC | College Football News, Opinion and Analysis | Chuck Oliver.Net

Here's a good summation:

Walking around the St. Louis Zoo, the grocery store, dropping my nephew off at school, watching people in the airport, I observed only a handful of "Mizzou" shirts. The sports media there barely covers conference realignment rumors. There is zero “buzz” about the SEC. The greatest attribute the SEC possesses is the passion of its fans. Go anywhere in the nine state region and you'll see Bama, LSU, Georgia, Florida, Auburn t-shirts, hats, sweaters, license plate covers and bumper stickers. Talk radio year round from Lexington to Gainesville is filled with conversation about college sports. None of that exists in Missouri with the Tigers.
Nowhere in the SEC do SEC sports come second. In Missouri, I'm not even sure the Tigers and college sports rank third.

I thought the end was interesting too...

So what is he saying? The SEC will feel fine standing pat at 13 teams for the next 10 years? That the SEC will invite Mizzou even though he thinks they don't fit?

He's an idiot. He bases Mizzou's worthiness and fan support on a trip to the St. Louis Zoo? Stupidity in action.

Mizzou's 2010 football attendance ranked 26th nationally. Their merchandise sales ranked #18.

I do not know how guys like this keep their jobs.

 

[nj829]

Dang, I am going to have to actually root for Arkansas more. First I have to when they play Auburn, now A&M...

 

[clone136]

It sucks for the conference overall (maybe) but i Hate A&M, ever since I road tripped down there for the game two yrs ago. The whole tradition thing is over done, its so fake. And their yell leaders are the dumbest thing I have ever seen.

 

[CyBer]

Well, every college town is going to have people wearing college merch. In Des Moines there are a lot of people wearing ISU and hawk gear. St. Louis probably seemed like a good pick to him.

 

[Yellow Snow]

He's an idiot. He bases Mizzou's worthiness and fan support on a trip to the St. Louis Zoo? Stupidity in action.

Mizzou's 2010 football attendance ranked 26th nationally. Their merchandise sales ranked #18.

I do not know how guys like this keep their jobs.

Basically he's saying that any Zoo in SEC country would have dudes decked out in school gear on display in their cages.

 

[QBUMizzou]

Secondly, the University of Missouri isn't all that interested in the SEC. Missouri is a Midwestern state, not a Southern state. Culturally, educationally, economically, socially, the state of Missouri associates far more closely with Iowa and Illinois than it does Tennessee or Arkansas. As a result, its dream conference has always been the Big 10. Mizzou was THIS close from joining the Big 10 a year ago. It lobbied openly and brazenly for an invite and it looked like it would receive one until Nebraska snuck in the back door. Being left at the alter still stings the faithful. Missouri fans would happily accept an invitation to the SEC although it is a marriage with the Big 10 they crave.

First of all, it's "altar," not alter.

Secondly, the administration at Mizzou did no such thing.

 

[QBUMizzou]

Well, every college town is going to have people wearing college merch. In Des Moines there are a lot of people wearing ISU and hawk gear. St. Louis probably seemed like a good pick to him.

Okay, but St. Louis is not Mizzou's town, Columbia is. He should have walked around Columbia.

That does not mean, however, that St. Louis is uncaring.

 

[QBUMizzou]

Basically he's saying that any Zoo in SEC country would have dudes decked out in school gear on display in their cages.

Classic. Love it.

 

[CyBer]

Okay, but St. Louis is not Mizzou's town, Columbia is. He should have walked around Columbia.

That does not mean, however, that St. Louis is uncaring.

Des Moines is not Iowa State's town....