MU gets the short end of the stick?

Many of you know that the Tiger's are pushing for a move to a different conference, whether the SEC or the Big 10. I think that this move is driven by officials being tired of pushed around in the Big 12. Well, I understand why Mizzou wants to flirt with leaving. They often get over-looked by Oklahoma and Texas and they don't like it. Mizzou's biggest problem is the revenue sharing and among other things. Texas was being a bully and not fairly splitting t.v. revenues with others.

Mizzou would like to go to the SEC because:
1) they are the most popular athletic conference
2) they share the revenue with all their members
3) Missouri is tired of being disrespected.

Granted all those are good reason for MU to leave for "greener" grass, let's take a look at some of the things we stand to loose in the switch, i.e rivalries, etc.

The Big 12 basketball tournament would no longer be held in the state of Missouri. It is currently in Kansas City and held in the Sprint Center. This also helps because the four schools that always do better at attendance are: Missouri, KU, K-State, and Iowa State. This tournament is much better in KC because the town is centered between all those schools and the city is not pro sports centered.

Another thing that would be lost in the transition would be the rivalry between KU and Mizzou. I know that in basketball KU has a huge advantage, but without that rivalry we would lose a lot of the meaning of games. Think about the football game. Whether it is at Arrowhead or if it is played home and away, that game has huge meaning to both schools. If you really think about it the two school have a lot in common. We both hate Nebraska and Oklahoma, and during the NCAA Basketball tourney we both watch the KU games with great passion, except wanting opposite outcomes.

The MU-KU football game has been played for 107 years and why would we want the second longest played football game to stop? I really don't know why either.

Here is another thought....Who is going to be our rival in the SEC?
Well naturally we would be rivals with Arkansas and maybe Texas A&M. But after that who? Vanderbilt? Kentucky? I mean we can't be a rival with Alabama and LSU because well you have to compete to be rivals and we will get our butts kicked. I guess we could compete with Ole' Miss and Miss State and some others. But all in all MU will be a whipping boy just like Kentucky and Vandy in football.

The one neat thing that would be coming out of this is that we will finally get some good competition coming to Columbia besides OU and Texas. That would be neat to get slaughtered by Alabama but at least the stands will be completely full. The only thing I don't like is that MU football will go back to the way things were in the 1980's and early 90's. Where tailgating was the most important thing and getting drunk was more important. I enjoy going to the games where people care that we do well. I just don't know if MU can handle that again.