Dodds "don't get in a pissing contest with Texas"

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If Don Walsworth, a former University of Missouri curator and a major donor to the MU athletic department, needed confirmation which school called the shots in the Big 12, he got it during a home basketball game against Texas two years ago.

Walsworth and his guest, Longhorns Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds, were watching the game courtside when the conversation turned to the economic chasm between UT and Missouri. The message was clear. With mounds of money — Texas’ $144 million in revenue that year was nearly triple what MU earned — came power.

“Don’t get in a pissing contest with Texas because you’re not going to win,” Walsworth recalled Dodds saying.

Walsworth respects Dodds and said the boast was made with tongue in cheek.

“But when a guy jokingly says something,” Walsworth said, “he’s going to kind of mean it.”

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