****The official NEW new conference realignment thread.****

[Saul Good]

the second thread has been pronounced dead.

[PGM]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

KU fans were pretty into the Big 12 baseball tournament, until they lost to Mizzou.

Premature ejubilation over ending MU's season = comedy gold....and then not caring....at....all.

[frazod]

Originally Posted by PGM

Premature ejubilation over ending MU's season = comedy gold....and then not caring....at....all.

Picking up the slack for CoMo = priceless

[Braincase]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

KU fans were pretty into the Big 12 baseball tournament, until they lost to Mizzou.

Yep. That sort of thing happens when you get eliminated from a tournament.

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by eazyb81

Yeah, how embarrassing for a fanbase to only care about one sport. Amirite?

When they are irrelevant in literally every sport but one, you might as well care about that sport only.

[Bambi]

Mizzou made the postseason?

Congrats...time to grab some popcorn.

Can't wait to see how it ends this time.

[alnorth]

In other news, apparently K-State won the national championship in bass fishing last month. Didn't know there was such a thing. (Not a sanctioned NCAA event, its just a club sport and they are technically pros since they are sponsored and fish for money events, but still, the guy who won it had to share half his winnings with K-State)

What made it mildly impressive was that its usually a two-man event, but one guy in the K-State team was disqualified and the other guy had to fish by himself against well-funded 2-man southern teams from Alabama, Clemson, etc)

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Saul wasn't talking about baseball until today. lol bandwagoner.

I don't give a shit about college baseball. I do give a shit about walking out the door with a championship in the last conference game Mizzou ever plays in the Big XII.

How does it work if Nebraska wins something in the B1G? Do you get a junior trophy for being a junior member? (And by "you" I mean people who have actually seen the inside I'd a university).

[Braincase]

That's it, the party is over. What did Mizzou get out of their years in the Big 12?

Conference Regular Season Championships?
Conference Tournament Championships?
Bowl Games?
National Championships?

The Mizzou fans know more about this than I do, so, let's hear it. What are you taking out the door?

[kchero]

Originally Posted by alnorth

In other news, apparently K-State won the national championship in bass fishing last month. Didn't know there was such a thing. (Not a sanctioned NCAA event, its just a club sport and they are technically pros since they are sponsored and fish for money events, but still, the guy who won it had to share half his winnings with K-State)

What made it mildly impressive was that its usually a two-man event, but one guy in the K-State team was disqualified and the other guy had to fish by himself against well-funded 2-man southern teams from Alabama, Clemson, etc)

I heard that the other guy was his brother and he had some transferring issues with Kstate or something. I forgot the totals, but his 1 man team won convincingly. Pretty impressive.

[eazyb81]

Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk

So...no talk about the MU Women's softball team?

Lost in the super regionals with ten freshmen, one win away from our fourth straight World Series appearance. Big 12 pitcher and DPOY both return next year.

Yeah, we're much better than ku in that sport too. I'm seeing a trend here.

[Braincase]

Originally Posted by eazyb81

Lost in the super regionals with ten freshmen, one win away from our fourth straight World Series appearance. Big 12 pitcher and DPOY both return next year.

Yeah, we're much better than ku in that sport too. I'm seeing a trend here.

Congrats.

So Mizzou has a total of 7 post-season championships across 4 sports since the inception of the Big 12 in 1996, correct?

[Messier]

Originally Posted by eazyb81

Lost in the super regionals with ten freshmen, one win away from our fourth straight World Series appearance. Big 12 pitcher and DPOY both return next year.

Yeah, we're much better than ku in that sport too. I'm seeing a trend here.

Me too. MU being good, but not great in several sports.

[alnorth]

Here's a pretty good dummy's guide to realignment.

There's nothing in there that we don't already know, but if someone is asking "realignment? FSU to the Big 12? Huh? Why would they ever do that?", this is a good link to point them to.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Here's a pretty good dummy's guide to realignment.

There's nothing in there that we don't already know, but if someone is asking "realignment? FSU to the Big 12? Huh? Why would they ever do that?", this is a good link to point them to.

At this point, anybody who can't see any reason FSU would go to the Big XII probably isn't worth talking to regarding college sports. I'm very impressed with how they came back from the brink. Granted, it took the PAC spurning some schools and the ACC proving that Bebee wasn't the only idiot running a conference, but they took advantage of it. Hopefully it works out well for KC.

[kchero]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

At this point, anybody who can't see any reason FSU would go to the Big XII probably isn't worth talking to regarding college sports. I'm very impressed with how they came back from the brink. Granted, it took the PAC spurning some schools and the ACC proving that Bebee wasn't the only idiot running a conference, but they took advantage of it. Hopefully it works out well for KC.

I hope so too. As a Mizzou fan, when Mizzou was in discussion to leave the Big 12, for selfish reasons I was a bit reluctant being a native Kansas Citian. There were good arguments for leaving and I understood them, but from a KC perspective I think it was a tougher pill to swallow.
It is a good thing for KC that the Big 12 has rebounded so well. Obviously, for the KU and Kstate fans, but for the city itself (we still have the bball tourney) and with Texas and OU settling down and the addition of a competent commissioner everything looks like it is on the up and up for all of the local teams.
Things will be interesting once this next phase(s) of realignment happens. The ball is in the Big 12's and SEC's court and at the end of this it appears the SEC and Big 12 will be the nation’s two premier conferences.