Shaka:

I don't know a whole lot about it but from what I can tell it helps Universities in getting a lot more money for research projects and more research projects also. It is apparently recognized around the world as signal that it is a top notch University.

The reason it helps the SEC is you already had 2 members in your conference and now will have 4. People seem to have the opinion that the SEC is all about football and lacking on the education side. Which in reality isn't true but it is thought by some. There may be some members of the SEC who are pretty close to qualifying to be an AAU member and having 4 AAU universities in the conference can maybe help those who are qualified maybe get an invitation.

Here is a link I found from Texas A&M staff explaining what the AAU means. Hope it helps you understand it better.

LINK

Personally I don't see MU as a bad football team and only an AAU member or TV sets. Yes they are struggling this year but sometimes that happens when your best QB and DE leaves early for the NFL draft. The DE Alton Smith was drafted 7th and has 5.5 sacks already in his rookie year, and the QB Blaine Gabbart is starting in his rookie year for Jacksonville.

Since Gary Pinkel took over Missouri has been a much better team and over the last 4 years won 40 games.. They have also had 5 1st round, a 2nd round and a 3rd round pick in the draft over the last 5 years. Several of those players are starting in the NFL right now. Bad teams don't have 5 players drafted in the 1st round of the the NFL draft over a 3 draft period of time.

I'm not claiming they are an elite program that's going to come in and Beat your best right now but they're not terrible.

Please just give us a chance we're a hungry fan-base and an elated fan-base that the best conference in the country wanted us. It's more then we could have ever dreamed of but it looks like it's going to happen.

Give us a chance this is a fan-base that at the mere mention of an anonymous report that the SEC may be interested started a grass roots campaign to get in. We began flooding every official who had any power with thousands of e-mails,tweets and texts say stop talking and go if the SEC wants us. This is a fan-base that is excited at mere thought of playing in the SEC. As for the supposed lack of passion for football part it is possible that kissing Texas feet in the Big 12 for years and not having a voice may have caused a little apathy. But basically I think we have a lot of passion and you will see that passion if it is true and we get in.

This post was edited on 10/23/11 at 11:21 pm