re: Any Mizzou fans out there? What the Hell is going on?

quote:

---

COLUMBIA – Missouri chancellor Brady Deaton on Tuesday morning suggested he hoped to reveal Mizzou’s future conference address in “days or possibly a week or two.”

Deaton – in both an interview on Columbia radio station KFRU-AM and in conversations with newspaper reporters in the station lobby before and after the broadcast – stated Missouri’s view of whether to pursue admission to the Southeastern Conference to remain in the Big 12 Conference have coalesced around a probable choice.

“We’ve reached firmness in where we are headed,” Deaton said, “where we want to analyze and focus our attention.”

---

quote:

---

Sources continue to tell The Star that Missouri is headed toward becoming the 14th member of the SEC for next season, joining Texas A&M which has already declared itself a former member of the Big 12 in acceptance of being the 13th member of the SEC.

Many people expected Deaton to announce, at a meeting of the Big 12 Board of Directors in Dallas on Monday, that Missouri was conditionally withdrawing from the Big 12 in anticipation of being accepted into the SEC.

While the Big 12, in a statement on Monday, noted conference realignment was discussed, Deaton said he left the room while those discussions were underway and abstained from voting on all matters on the advice of legal counsel.

---