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

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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. I wont make any bold predictions as I'm not sure how things will go but I'm glad that MU is a member of the SEC!!

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Yes, I knew about the overall budget and Arkansas basketball has been non-existent for years now. We fixed that problem and a sold out Bud Walton or even a 20% increase would be huge.

The list you provided does not include the $6.5M ticket increase that started this year. We have released our plans to increase our stadium seating, skyboxes and club seating also. We already broke ground on the Football Complex and new practice fields.

If you add the $6.5M (which will be in next years numbers) and Bud Walton attendance we are in the $80M range.

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I'm not saying Missouri can not be successful I'm pointing out y'all and TAMU are literally taking our place as the fringe of the SEC. That was a tough road to hoe and that is why we can speak from experience.

If you are relating spending money on facilities to get recruits to travel all the way up to Missouri than I do agree there is a chance of success. However, if Missouri does not do this I do not believe they can compete with the rest of the SEC much closer to the southern talent pools.

You will get the exposure in the SEC but the recruiting will be interesting. Why do you think Tennessee and Arkansas build facilities after facilities.. Even in the upper south it's hard enough to recruit therefore it will be interesting to watch Missouri battle something even harder.