KU is a better fit for Big 10 than Missouri

[VectorVictor]

I don't know if this good that Shatel has put in print what I've said for some time now. Especially considering how some folks here feel about him.

Missouri is a name that still comes up with the Big Ten, and this time it's not the Tigers floating it. Still, I could see the Big Ten being more attracted to Kansas.
Sure, there's the Kansas City market. MU can't deliver it. KC is a KU town. A KU hoops town. Also, you bring the Hawkers in for the same reason the Huskers were invited: KU brings a national brand to the Big Ten Network, in hoops, of course. But hoops is a point of pride in the league. Add Kansas and Syracuse? That's the No. 1 league in college hoops.

Add this to the fact that the Big 10 already counts St. Louis (or part of it, anyway) in its footprint, and it can get Missouri without actually having to add a school from Missouri, and get Kansas for free. It's like a buy one, get one free sale.

If anything, this is probably why Kansas has been publicly saying they're not tethered to the PurpleEcoWarriorKitties--while they would be happy with a landing in the Big East (a very solid plan 'B'), they'd much rather have the national network and cache of the Big 10 behind them.

 

[irafreak]

So you're saying Kansas is a better fit for the B1G and not BigXII? I'm confused. But I do agree with the article. I'd take turner.

 

[VectorVictor]

So you're saying Kansas is a better fit for the B1G and not BigXII? I'm confused. But I do agree with the article. I'd take turner.

For the B1G, if Missouri and Kansas are both in the hunt for new homes.

Not saying it *will* happen, but *if* the B1G decides to expand, and Kansas is on the market, our biannual Nebraska migration game could be back on.

 

[ZRod]

So you're saying Kansas is a better fit for the B1G and not BigXII? I'm confused. But I do agree with the article. I'd take turner.

For the B1G, if Missouri and Kansas are both in the hunt for new homes.

Not saying it *will* happen, but *if* the B1G decides to expand, and Kansas is on the market, our biannual Nebraska migration game could be back on.

The title was a little misleading. Just from an athletic standpoint Kansas would be the Yin to Nebraska's Yang, I don't think Missouri really offers that other than a marginal football team every few years. And I don't know to much about the academic side of it but to me KU would seem to be more prestigious than MU, but that could just be because I have family that are on tenure and went to school there so I have a little experience with it.

 

[theknife]

Tigerboard seems convinced MU is a shoe in for the SEC.

 

[Apathy]

Tigerboard seems convinced MU is a shoe in for the SEC.

They said the same thing about the B1G last year but yet Mizzou was left outside looking in as the B1G closed the door on their faces.

 

[Ratt Mhule]

B1G would def. be the #1 basketball conference if they added KU and Syracuse. Look at these coaches that have won championships: Jim Boeheim, Bill Self, Tom Izzo, Thad Matta, Indiana is an historical program with final four appearances and of course Doc Sadler, the greatest coach in the world!

 

[VectorVictor]

B1G would def. be the #1 basketball conference if they added KU and Syracuse. Look at these coaches that have won championships: Jim Boeheim, Bill Self, Tom Izzo, Thad Matta, Indiana is an historical program with final four appearances and of course Doc Sadler, the greatest coach in the world!

I read this, and the song 'one of these things is not like the other, one of these things is not quite the same' just played in my head.

Dunno why.

 

[VectorVictor]

Tigerboard seems convinced MU is a shoe in for the SEC.

They said the same thing about the B1G last year but yet Mizzou was left outside looking in as the B1G closed the door on their faces.

Unless the SEC wants to take Maryland, there aren't any other media markets to expand into except for Texas (A&M) and Missouri (Mizzery).

I'd say if Mizzery isn't a shoe-in, they're the next best thing. Better than their shot with the B1G, at any rate.

 

[Caven]

It makes me sick to think of the SEC that far north.

 

[Blackshirt_Revival]

So you're saying Kansas is a better fit for the B1G and not BigXII? I'm confused. But I do agree with the article. I'd take turner.

For the B1G, if Missouri and Kansas are both in the hunt for new homes.

Not saying it *will* happen, but *if* the B1G decides to expand, and Kansas is on the market, our biannual Nebraska migration game could be back on.

I think that ira is referring to the confusion stemming from the thread title, "KU is a better fit for Big XII than Missouri," when it would seem to be intended as " KU is a better fit for B1G (Big Ten) than Missouri"

 

[irafreak]

So you're saying Kansas is a better fit for the B1G and not BigXII? I'm confused. But I do agree with the article. I'd take turner.

For the B1G, if Missouri and Kansas are both in the hunt for new homes.

Not saying it *will* happen, but *if* the B1G decides to expand, and Kansas is on the market, our biannual Nebraska migration game could be back on.

I think that ira is referring to the confusion stemming from the thread title, "KU is a better fit for Big XII than Missouri," when it would seem to be intended as " KU is a better fit for B1G (Big Ten) than Missouri"

:yeah

 

[notgoodatmath]

You mean they didn't take us for our Hoops program?

 

[VectorVictor]

So you're saying Kansas is a better fit for the B1G and not BigXII? I'm confused. But I do agree with the article. I'd take turner.

For the B1G, if Missouri and Kansas are both in the hunt for new homes.

Not saying it *will* happen, but *if* the B1G decides to expand, and Kansas is on the market, our biannual Nebraska migration game could be back on.

I think that ira is referring to the confusion stemming from the thread title, "KU is a better fit for Big XII than Missouri," when it would seem to be intended as " KU is a better fit for B1G (Big Ten) than Missouri"

:yeah

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...I'm an idiot. Old habits die hard...I suppose. Herp de derp on me.

It's fixed now. Thanks.