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I'm quoting this from Bernie at the STL PostDispatch, I couldn't have said it better so here you go:
"if Missouri was to blame for causing all of this turmoil simply by trying to canoodle with the Big Ten, then shouldn’t the Tigers receive some credit for the end result — a huge increase in TV dollars for everyone in the conference? Nebraska, trying to justify its leap to the Big Ten, used a preposterous and transparent “Missouri Made Us Do It” defense. The NU logic: because Mizzou made eyes at another woman, Nebraska was somehow forced to end its own marriage. Right. And the Nebraska defection played into the Texas plan for a complete Big 12 takeover. And by finalizing its takeover of the Big 12, Texas got a lot more money for itself, and a lot more money for everyone else, too. So if we are supposed to believe that Missouri’s restlessness set off a panic, then we also have to say that Missouri set off a sequence of events that led to a nice, fat payday for all of the boys in the Big 12. Sorry, but the B12 haters who are dumping on Mizzou can’t have it both ways."

I just hope KU and Mizzou end up at a major power conference (not MWC) Between the Pac10, SEC, BigTen or Big East. You can't tell me that KU and Mizzou are not one of the top 64 athletic programs in the country (assuming these conferences eventually go to 16 teams)

Look I get. Missouri doesn't seem south enough to most SEC people. But having grown up in Missouri all my life and having gotten to know my wife's family from the BR, we are not all that different. We both love our football teams, we both like to hunt, and we love our BBQ. Mizzou recruits heavy from Texas (I know maybe not a true southern state) for football and heavy from the south east states for basketball. But lets face the music, the geography and the culture match isn't as important anymore, it is about TV revenue. Look at what the PAC10 is doing. You think they added Colorado because they fit the culture or they are a good competitive football program, no they added them for their 16th ranked TV market with 1.5 million households. Missouri has 2 good sized passionate TV markets in STL and KC and that means big $$ for the SEC. It's also probably not well know that Mizzou has shown in the past 5 years they can compete with SEC schools.
Missouri's most recent football games vs. the SEC:
05 vs. South Carolina WON 38-31
06 MISSISSIPPI WON 34-7
07 at Mississippi WON 38-25
08 Arkansas WON 38-7 (Cotton Bowl win Vs. McFadden & Felix Jones)

Granted not powerhouse SEC schools but not bottom of the barrel either. Mizzou with Texas A&M (Houston and part of the Dallas Market) to the SEC seems like a big win for everyone.