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Originally Posted by Saul Good
After Nebraska, Colorado, and A&M, you mean. By the time Neinas was talking about concessions, the decision to move to the SEC had been made. If Mizzou had been willing to do everything they could to hold the Big 12 together, they could have still stayed, but why should they have? By then, Neinas had already talked shit all over Mizzou, and we'd been screwed out of bowl slots numerous times. **** that noise. Enjoy the Mountaineers and TCU.
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I agree, I think there was enough bad blood to go around that this wasn't going to come back together nicely. The MU fan base was incensed, and there wasn't really going to be much leeway for a "cooling off period". I'm perfectly fine with the current setup. Don't mind those two schools one bit, but of course, a KU perspective is different than most schools.
KU needs a stage for its basketball program. Don't get me wrong, we really want a competitive football program again, but mostly we need a stage for our basketball program and now the B12 gives that to us without the fear of not getting well paid for it like other top conferences. That was the only real fear for KU the first time around. We wouldn't be able to maintain our standard without a top conference to showcase it in.
TCU/WVU - A&M/MU; doesn't matter much to us, we're still going to be one of the top basketball schools with chances to compete for national titles thanks to the current format. Hopefully, in that same time period, Weis can get our football program back to respectability. If instability comes again, I'm actually much more secure we'll find a happy home (hopefully the one we're already in) than when the first wave came around.