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I don't even know how I'd react to him in another uniform. It'd be too f***ing weird.

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If you look at it from a purely football reason (I know) Penn State would have always had trouble moving forward with JoePa in charge with his connections to this scandal. There was likely no way that he'd be able to recruit, as well as this remaining a huge distraction around the football program during any of his remaining time there. I really don't see a way that they couldn't fire him.

Optimal time for a press conference.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Nov 8, 2011 -> 11:31 PM) It's only the #1 NCAA story on sports TV and radio, which this thread is NCAA Football. I meant that anyone is concerned with Paterno's job, and not what happened.

In that collection, Pitt.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Nov 8, 2011 -> 11:04 PM) Joe Pa must go and him coming outside his house saying we are Penn St. and the idiots cheering him is a sad state of affairs in this world! I think the sad state of affairs is that anyone is concerned with Joe Paterno right now.

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QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 7, 2011 -> 12:32 PM) But it all comes back down to you had schools who built conferences around themselves. It will always be an unequal conference that will continue to patch over it's problems and kick the can down the road. I wasn't ever disputing that fact with you. I'm just saying that laying the blame simply at Texas and Oklahoma's feet is unfair and misguided when there were at least three other schools (Nebraska, Texas A&M and Missouri) that were contributing to the league's instability.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 7, 2011 -> 09:12 AM) No, it's pretty much all texas and ou's fault, bullying the rest of the conference. But there's no doubt in my mind this wouldn't have happened had the longhorn network not gone down the way it did. As for recruiting in texas now being harder for mizzou, Colorado's Texas recruiting went UP since their PAC move. Why? Because the story that the texas kids wanted to be seen by their families doesn't hold a lot of water. The more accurate narrative is that Mizzou made some really great lines with Texas high schools, especially South Water. I also don't really give a s*** about rivalries. The best rivalries imo have nothing to do with history, more to do with two competitive teams at their peak going at it. Mizzou-UofI was a good rivalry for basketball in the early 00s, had nothing to do with being in the same conference. I'm not going to cry about losing the KU game, and I think the mizzou-vanderbilt basketball rivalry will be great (i'm very excited about traveling to nashville). BUt most of all, we're going to get more money and not be in a conference so top heavy with 2 programs that the rest get consistently screwed. We may never again have a 1-loss season under Pinkel. But, we'll have a lot of great games to watch every year. And now, I don't have to worry about if the Big 12 dissolves, Mizzou being stuck in the mountain west. Oklahoma and Texas are not blameless, but if you want to talk about inequities that existed in the Big 12, Texas A&M and Nebraska were in lockstep with many of the things that created the inequalities, including unequal TV revenue sharing. Missouri's continued flirtation with the Big Ten also helped create some of the instability that they cite as part of the reason they are leaving to go to the SEC. As far as the LHN - it was something the rest of the Big 12 allowed to happen, including A&M and Missouri. Nebraska also planned to take advantage of these third tier rights, as they had looked into starting their own network.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Nov 6, 2011 -> 11:17 PM) To some extent maybe, but that talent was winning anywhere. The biggest win last year was OU, who isn't in the North. I'm not sure I see your argument. I just have trouble where many Mizzou fans are basing that the increased competition in the SEC argument doesn't hold water in terms of future success in the SEC when many of them base that fact on the recent 10 win teams in divisions that were far weaker than what they will encounter in the SEC. I just think they will have issues at the beginning of their switch as their Texas recruiting slows down and their facilities will have trouble matching up against most SEC schools.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Nov 6, 2011 -> 11:13 PM) Really? I thought our rise coincided with having Chase Daniel QBing a team that included three first round picks (Jeremy Maclin, Sean Weatherspoon and Ziggy Hood). Last year's 10-win team had two first round picks as well (Gabbert, Aldon Smith). Mizzou has had talent. It's not smoke and mirrors and a weak division. I have my doubts about Franklin, but that's a first year QB for ya. You gotta cut him some slack in the future. Gabbert had his moments and each of the last two successful QBs lost 5 games in their first year starting so it's not unheard of. I didn't say it was the cause, but you can't tell me that the Big 12 North didn't help make it happen. They were the class of a weak division.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Nov 6, 2011 -> 10:55 PM) Uh, no How isn't it? At worst they're neck and neck. Aside from Kansas, there isn't really an easy out in the conference.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Nov 6, 2011 -> 09:13 PM) We'll be better next year. It's tough to be competitive with a first year QB. You gotta keep the faith. Missouri has 3 10 win seasons in the past 4. They've been a top 15-20 program for a while now so it's not like they're below average in SEC football. Heck, the Big 12 is better than the SEC this year anyway. Dan, you know damn well that Mizzou's rise coincided with a remarkably weak Big 12 North. The road gets much tougher, as it already has this year for them.

Falling in love with Shiner.

In the Sagarin Top 15, 12 schools are in the Big 12/SEC. The other three are Boise, Stanford and Oregon.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 6, 2011 -> 05:33 PM) Ok, Texas, Colorado, and Nebraska all have a lot of blame. But Texas could have stopped it if they hadn't just started started looking to the Pac-12 or the SEC earlier this year. Agreed. There's a lot of different blame to go around. Every school but Texas didn't want to try a Big 12 Network, for example. But Nebraska is still the most hypocritical, saying that the unequal revenue sharing was the reason they were leaving when they were the biggest champion of it all along.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 6, 2011 -> 05:19 PM) Not kidding about Quidditch. Currently talking with some KU Quidditch players and we're all pissed. We've decided that if the IQA goes through with their plans for a full season, we're staying in the f***ing Big 12/Midwest because we're poor and have to drive still. Seriously, no rivalries now. I f***ing hate this. We don't have the SEC Football culture. This is all Texas' fault. Not going to drive my ass to any away games now. f*** that. Again, it's not all Texas' fault, but I do hate the destruction of rivalries.

If we're going to blame Texas, Nebraska has to be blamed as well. Tom Osborne and UNL have as much to do with this mess as anything.

Have fun in the SEC, Mizzou.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 6, 2011 -> 12:27 AM) Actually I believe thats what Tressel did. As for the PSU thing, I dont see what an AD has to do with a grown man f***ing an 11 year old boy in the shower at the university. The Grad assistant should have called the cops, the janitor that saw him blowing a kid should have called the cops, and JoPa and Curley etc. Everyone needs to ignore the chain of command and do whats right IMO. It's a big, long list of people that f***ed up there.