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Originally Posted by warpaint*
I love college football too much to ever want to go down that path. In fact I'd be furious if the school did that.
That said I'm not oblivious to what MU is up against swimming with the sharks.
Hopefully they continue to try to do both. To your point though I do see MU as a school that is capable of making a final four and winning a championship in hoops whether it ever happens or not. I do not see it as a school capable of winning the SEC in football at this time. But I want them to try like heck anyway.
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It'll be easy to be in the top-4 of basketball every year there, and as we both agree, that is damn near impossible to do in football even more than 1x a decade. Seriously. With 14 teams, you have to be in the top quartile of SEC teams. If the conference is as great as every says, how likely is that to be accomplished?
Now, of course everyone wants to win football games. I want KU to win them too. I just realize the difficulty of competing with the South which for the Big 12, is 60% of the league residing in Oklahoma and Texas. West Virginia found out the hard way that football wins are rare in places where they care about it.
At any rate, with St Louis and KC both having NFL teams I think Mizzou is in a really tough spot generating the fan interest & the income to run with the big dogs down there. Where those teams have little to no competition. I'd say Arky & South Carolina are better long term bets since they have no NFL team close by. Missouri does lack an NBA team in either city. Since one could look at KU and see why that matters so much, I'd think Mizzou would eventually realize it too.