The Big 12 isn't the only conference prone to embarrassing mistakes. The SEC accidentally posted an article on the conference's website announcing that the University of Missouri was officially headed south to become its 14th member. The article was dated October 22, but referenced "Monday" as Mizzou's official join date. The articles have since been pulled.
As you can see above, the story says Mizzou would begin play in the SEC on July 1, 2012.
Sports By Brooks points out that several of the stories about Missouri's move to the SEC still show up in search results on the conference's website.
Out Kick the Coverage has captured all of the stories that appeared on the SEC's site, including "University Of Missouri: What You Need To Know," "Missouri-SEC Connections: A History," "Homecoming Tradition Traced To Missouri," "Missouri To The SEC: The Dortch Report (Basketball)" and "Missouri To The SEC: Barnhart's Take."
If there was ever any doubt of Mizzou's future, there shouldn't be any now.
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I think the immediate knee-jerk reaction to Mizzou switching conferences is warranted, but going forward this is the best decision for the University of Missouri. If/When Texas and OU decide to leave the Big XII, Missouri's chances of landing in a decent, automatic qualifying BCS conference would have been slim. The B1G obviously passed on Ol' Mizzou, and we do not know if the SEC invite would be there in the future. And for the university to secure themselves financial with the windfall that is the SEC tv contract, the University will not have to rely on the tax payers of the state to help subsidies the athletic budget. Unfortunately, the 'additions' that the Big XII brought in (TCU & WVU) are no where near replacing UNL, CU, TA&M, and Mizzou. The frogs and mountaineers are only band-aids for the shot gun wound that is the Big XII. The conference will be dissolved within this decade once OU and Texas bolt, leaving the remaining members scrambling for a soft spot to land. It will be fun cheering for all of those Mountain West teams when they play the jayhawks when Kansas joins the Mountain West!
I'm a MU grad. I'm not necessarily the most ardent sports nut, i.e. I don't watch every game or follow every tweet, but I do check the box scores. Considering my work environment, corporate America, I see a lot of what some would consider greedy behavior. Pinching everyone tighter and tighter so the company's sheets look 0.001% better. This just seems like more of the good-ole-boys-club. It's all about a few people who see dollars, and that's it. Screw tradition. Screw the fans. Just make sure that we turn a bigger profit. Who is this helping? Tuition keeps going up. It sure isn't going to help the students.
For the average fan who could only afford a few home games as it were, who is going to make a trip to the east coast for an away game? Heck, the nearest away game will be more than 550 miles from my house.
For me, I'm done. You pissed on our tradition. You pissed on our tuition. You pissed on me (figuratively) as an alum. You don't care about anything other than whose luxury suite you are enjoying at the game. But who am I kidding, you can't see the game because you have you face in some donor's / exec's crotch the entire time... not for the good of the school, but because they have a membership to that golf course you've always wanted to play.
In summary, screw you MU board members.
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