re: Who are the largest Winners and Losers In the New SEC?

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Wow, so Arkansas' athletic budget is $123 million a year? If not, Arkansas doesn't double Missouri's.

Ha. Where did you get that number when I posted them above?

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I believe what he was going by was total athletic budget. According to Mike Alden Mizzou's Athletic Budget at this point is $65 Million dollars. Which is still lower than most SEC schools but it isn't that much lower than Arkansas who had an athletic Budget of $71.8 million dollars and several others. If the reporter has his numbers correct Missouri's budget is heading in the right direction.

They still have a long ways to go but they will also be going up from Big 12 TV revenues of $8 to 10 million dollars a year for football to a much larger amount of money. I don't know how they are doing on expanding the stadium but I do know they have talked about adding seats on one end of memorial stadium and it would take the capacity to about 85,000. Suffice it to say Missouri officials know they are going to have to raise spending and get larger facilities and they are working on that.

Link to article about it.

That said I think Missouri is a big winner in all of this as they have moved up to the best conference there is and has found the stability we desire. Now as a fan of Missouri I can only hope they do what is needed to compete at the higher level they're moving up to.

I guess the big question is going to be how it effects recruiting which we shall see soon. We will have to see how it plays out as to how well Missouri does in the SEC at a later date because I wont make any bold predictions as I'm not sure how things will go, but one things for sure I'm glad that MU is a member of the SEC!!