(03-28-2020 03:58 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-28-2020 03:50 PM)Sactowndog Wrote:  

(03-28-2020 01:08 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-28-2020 01:01 PM)Thiefery Wrote:  Mizzu didn't bring anything to the table

Missouri brought 6 million people to the table in an era where the cable subscription fee model was driving payouts. That was it. They are also AAU and were seen as a possible blocking move for Big 10 contiguity moving South towards Texas.

But mostly they were taken because the network recommended them.

I think Missouri was damaged by being put in the East versus the west with A&M. Being back in an AAU dominated conference with other near by schools might be intriguing to them. But I get Missouri is an extremely complex state so I’m only spit-balling here.

The division didn't matter. They actually had more games with schools in the East than the West historically speaking. The damage was that there was only 1 sec school outside of A&M that they had played more than 5 times, Vanderbilt was that school if my memory serves me correctly. Think about that. Missouri had practically no common scheduling with any SEC school except Vanderbilt and not that much with them considering the age of the two schools. That was the issue. Their fans don't care about playing SEC schools and the fans of SEC schools didn't care about playing Missouri.

IMO this one reason the SEC wills strongly look at additions from the Big 12. Missouri needs some familiar faces. Both Texas and Oklahoma have far more history with SEC schools than did Mizzou.

Except I don’t think Texas wants to go to the SEC. I don’t think Oklahoma wants to go without OK State and Texas. The Airport conference offers Oklahoma an option to maintain ties with Texas, progress towards an AAU school, maintain basketball ties with Kansas and perhaps reignite ties with Nebraska or maintain Oklahoma State.