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Originally Posted by warpaint*
It is generational. Mizzou fans/alums from the 80s-mid 90s only know basketball success.
Older alums remember a Mizzou that won some football games and care a lot about it while younger ones know a football program capable of holding it's own.
Both sports are very important at Mizzou IMO.
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If I were Mizzou, I'd go full-bore into basketball again like the years you referenced. First and obviously, there's no way to win football games down there long-term in the East. But more than that, the SEC is weak in basketball and only Kentucky is an elite program. Huge vacuum Mizzou could fill. Plus tons of untapped recruits down there that only Kentucky and Memphis have accessed for years.
That's my advice to you. Arky tried to become a football school again, like Mizzou did, and they're back to the bottom again. Short term football competitiveness is just fool's gold for 75% of programs.