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http://espn.go.com/college-football/...n-sec-imminent
The New York Times is reporting Missouri's decision to officially apply for membership in the Southeastern Conference is "inevitable and imminent."
The newspaper, citing an official familiar with school decisions involving conference affiliation, reported Monday night that Mizzou officials expect to get enough votes among SEC presidents to become a member, although the school would still need to be formally invited to join the conference.
Missouri curators, who must approve any change in conference alignment, are scheduled to next meet at the University of Missouri, Kansas City on Oct. 20-21.
While interim Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas said last week he expects Mizzou to stay in the league and SEC commissioner Mike Slive has said the conference has no immediate expansion plans, The Times reported the Tigers could join the SEC as early as next year.
SEC presidents voted to accept Texas A&M as the league's 13th member in September and several SEC athletic directors have suggested that adding a 14th team to balance league schedules is inevitable.
Mizzou curators agreed unanimously earlier this month to give Chancellor Brady Deaton the authority to look elsewhere rather than immediately commit to the Big 12. A 45-page do ent presented to curators suggests the school would hope to get as much as $12 million more each year in additional revenue with a move to the SEC if TV deals are renegotiated.
The do ent, which was obtained by The Associated Press, states Missouri would not suffer a dramatic loss in academic prestige with an SEC move. The SEC has three other members of the prestigious Association of American Universities: Florida, soon-to-arrive Texas A&M and Vanderbilt, the same number as the Big 12 now has, excluding Missouri.
TCU accepted an invitation last week to join the Big 12. The Horned Frogs will replace the Aggies, keeping the league at 10 members when the Aggies leave for the SEC next July.
While TCU will be the first new member since the Big 12 started play in 1996, Texas A&M will be the third school to leave. Nebraska (Big Ten) and Colorado (Pac-12) left this year.
A source with direct knowledge of the Big 12's expansion panel's plans told ESPN.com's Andy Katz that if Missouri departs, the Big 12 still must decide if it wants to go to 10 or 12 members. The source said Louisville and West Virginia are two of the top candidates to replace Missouri if it leaves.
While Missouri is a charter member of the Big 12, founded in 1996 when the Big Eight schools added four members of the defunct Southwest Conference, dissatisfaction with the conference has grown. In the early '90s, with the Big Eight on the verge of collapse, Missouri pushed to join the Big Ten and a group of state business leaders even formed a lobbying group.
Asked at a news conference last week about the potential costs of a league departure -- hours before curators discussed the financial do ent -- Deaton demurred.
"We're really just beginning the exploration of our options, and those figures will become very clear during that process," he said. "At this time we've made no decision (to leave). That's a bit of a hypothetical."
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I really don't care for seeing Missouri in the SEC. Doesn't make any sense.
It starts to make some sense when you look at media markets, scheduling difficulties of a 13 team league and the list of other schools that were available to the SEC on short notice. But, I get why SEC fans would be underwhelmed.
How about Boise State to the Big-East?
FAU to the Pac-12! San Diego State to the Ivy League!
You know what the PAC-12 and Ivy League have in common?
I guess they wouldn't apply unless they got the wink and nod from Slive. Seems to me there would be a number of schools against adding Mizzou.
It'll mean shoving some of the SEC west schools to the east side.
Most of the stuff I've read has Mizzou being put into the east. Doesn't make the most sense geographically, but it avoids moving any of the existing SEC teams.
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Interesting 1st picture. The East/West split makes more sense looking at it that way. I'm not sure what the 2nd picture represents... The Big-20?
Something to do with distances between Mizzou and SEC vs. Big 12 schools would be my guess.
what a ty map
Make a better one. They're from http://mizzou2sec.com/
Or do you not know how to read a map? Maybe that's the problem.
Maybe the SEC ought to follow the Big 10 and change the division names from east and west to Hillbillies and Toothless.
Hey Sisk, with the map you provided, they could actually name the divisions Northeast and Southwest.
it's a ty map because it's too vague.
you're stupid if you think it's a good map.
If you'd go to the website, you'd understand. You want everything spoon fed to you, per usual.
Would A&M be Hillbillies or Toothless? I'd say Hillbillies, but considering Alabama is in the West it might have to be the Toothless division.
I didn't ask you to explain it because I get it already.
The top map shows an east division that includes Mizzou, Florida and S Carolina.
The bottom map excludes Florida and S Carolina.
The conclusion that Mizzou fan is making regarding travel distances comes up short.
It's stupid. You're stupid.
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