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Originally Posted by Saul Good

Mizzou made this move to intentionally damage the conference? That is the dumbest comment I've heard about this whole thing yet, and I read some of WVU's fans' comments.

BTW, who said anything about the B1G? I'd be interested in a link quoting what Mizzou officials said that is harmful to the conference. I thought it was "we are proud members of the Big XII" but I would gladly recalibrate my perspective if evidence to the contrary were presented.

not an "official" but I would think think a lawyer could easily group together the governor and the state's flagship institution.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Missouri governor pushes Big Ten move

By Chuck Carlton / Reporter

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon just gave a little more momentum to the Missouri-to-the-Big-Ten rumors.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Nixon, a Missouri grad, endorsed the move and offered some interesting opinions of current Big 12 member institutions.

"I'm not going to say anything bad about the Big 12, but when you compare Oklahoma State to Northwestern, when you compare Texas Tech to Wisconsin, I mean, you begin looking at educational possibilities that are worth looking at," Nixon told the AP.

"If a significant conference with a long history of academic and athletic excellence talks about you joining them, you shouldn't just say, 'We're from the old Big 8 and I remember when ... If they want to talk, we should talk, and we should listen."