Rumors were that Iowa State would play Ole Miss in this. Kinda bummed but oh we'll ill take the W.

The 23-12 team is chalking up a game against a 27-9 team as a win?

I'm not sure what Auburn team you were watching.

I misunderstood your post. Yes, Auburn should be a layup.

The new arrangement is obviously a trojan horse to set up old rivalries. And what better proof of that is the MU match up with W. Virginia?

Oh man. I should have addressed that issue.

Aw shit... I totally addressed that issue.

That's kinda the conundrum. There are 2 types of schools elites play: "name" schools normally in a desirious locale, and dogcrap. Schools like Mizzou fit between that so they don't provide the huge national stage or recruiting exposure , but they also won't take a 1-way ticket to Lawrence for a beatdown and a paycheck. So where do you go from there?


Essentially the only two arrangements they'd take would be a home and home, or a neutral site. Since neither remotely works for KU, what's the point?

I'm a KU fan, I miss the rivalry. Let's fire it up again soon, bros.

No, you do not.

Don't worry, a new one is forming with Iowa State.

For a couple of years.

Iowa State should be good for as one as Fred is the coach, and it will be more than a few years.

And right on cue yesterday in the KC Star:





“We miss Missouri … Without question … For the immediate future, for both programs, there is something missing — for the immediate future,” Kansas coach Bill Self said Thursday in his office. “But from our standpoint, they’re not part of our long-term future. And we’re not part of their long-term future.”

“My opinion is still the exact same it was a year ago, and it’s not a hatred opinion,” Self said. “It’s just like, ‘Hey, you took your ball and went and played with somebody else. We’re not just standing on the sidelines waiting to play with you. We’ve got other people we can play.’”

As for down the road?

“Maybe the next coach may see it differently, or maybe the next chancellor, or maybe the next athletic director,” Self said, “because time does have a way of soothing some things.”

But even as time might ease tensions, it also might foster apathy.

“Nobody’s going to view it as a great rivalry five years from now; nobody’s going to view it as a rivalry 10 years from now,” Self said. “There will be somebody else who will emerge in some way, shape or form that kind of fills that role for both programs.

“And it may not ever get to the level that the Kansas-Missouri deal got to. It probably won’t. I don’t see how it can. But it’s still going to be somebody else.”



Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/07...#storylink=cpy

Everyone realizes this is how they will eventually get MU vs KU back on the schedule. Expect it in the "rotation" after a few years

I just can't get excited about regular season basketball, whether it be college or NBA.