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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
The BIG is easily the best conference to me overall with their collection of excellent schools. Long term they're near the top in both major sports and academically they're quite prestigious which is why Jay Nixon made the statement he did about joining them.
I normally associated Mizzou with Kansas, Iowa and Illinois rather than Kentucky, Ole Miss and Arkansas. But I'm not an alum so that may not be the perception of folks around the state particularly in St Louis where most of them are.
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Iowa? Hardly.
I grew up a Big 8 kid like all Mizzou fans/alums my age, (37). I "associate" us w/ the old Big 8 & Tx schools as the Big 12 to me was just an extension of the Big 8. While I am still a fan of the Big 12 3 of the original 8 and 4 of 12 are gone, it's not exactly the same league anymore. On top of that Colorado is not the Colorado of my youth.
The Big Ten is a snooze fest and dying product (football) w/ no teams in anchor states for talent (CA/TX/Fla). Population shifts and demographics are killing it slowly.
We've played Illinois OOC all my life. Continuing to do that isn't a change from the norm.
The overall culture of the state is midwestern and southern. Some parts more than the other depending on where you are. MU fits in better w/ these SEC states than some of these upper midwest ones. Is it a perfect fit? No, the Big 12 was but that didn't appear to be feasible long term at the time a golden parachute in the form of the SEC opportunity presented itself. We fit in as well there as the Big Ten.