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The Onion: "Big 12 Agrees To Annual Bowl Loss Against SEC"
From The Onion:
IRVING, TX—Keeping with years of tradition of getting blown out in demoralizing defeats to its dominating competitor, the Big 12 Conference confirmed Monday it has agreed to a yearly bowl loss to the Southeastern Conference. "This is a proud day for the Big 12," said interim Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas, who acknowledged that the decision, like everything the conference has done in the past year, was forced on them by the SEC's pursuit for ever-increasing revenue and power.
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"For the record I am in NO way disgruntled about my overall experience at Mizzou," [Steeples] said in an email. "This was a tough decision that I prayed on constantly. It’s difficult to leave my MU family, teammates, and coaches. It was a blessing that Coach Pinkel gave me the opportunity to play the game I love while pursuing an esteemed degree from the Trulaske (College of Business).
Via Matter. Good on you, Robert Steeples.
Via KOMU's @ZavalaA:
"Source tells me Mizzou DE Sheldon Richardson awarded another year of eligibility for wrist injury in JUCO. He returns next season as junior."
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But what Mizzou has done is to update their ‘brand identity’ by standardizing uniform colors and fonts across multi-sports (as other programs have recently done). As far as the unis themselves? I actually like them...
But all in all, not too bad, and better than what they’d been wearing for the past several seasons.
Not sure if there are any avid Uni Watch readers among us, but if so, they've now weighed in.
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Connecticut's Alex Oriakhi has decided to transfer to Missouri for his final season, a source told @CBSSports. Story coming.
CBS' Gary Parrish on Twitter. Flip wins.
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Ohio's black jersey reveal, as passed along by PowerMizzou's Pete Scantlebury on Twitter. Turns out 18-23 year-old dudes get mildly excited about this stuff.
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Laurence Bowers: Party Starter, Party Crasher
by RPT on Mar 26, 2012 1:17 PM EDT
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Bill's post on Monday morning gave me great joy, as nearly any post about Laurence Bowers is apt to do. Also giving me joy was the inclusion of the current frontrunner for greatest GIF in Mizzou fandom.
The best part about it may not be Flip, Cardo or Dixon, but rather Bowers crashing it on the left at the very end. But, as history shows after the jump, it's not the first time L-Bo has crashed the party.
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They Deserved Better.
by RPT on Mar 16, 2012 10:55 PM EDT
on Rock M Nation
"They deserved better."
No matter how much further down the black hole of bourbon I plunge, my mind carelessly wanders back to that phrase.
Missouri didn't deserve to win on Friday afternoon. Missouri also didn't deserve to lose. Funny how that works out when two talented teams are given only 40 minutes to declare a victor. (And, of course, countless credit is owed to Norfolk State for playing a phenomenal game on Friday. Respect, y'all.)
We here at Rock M Nation have a very odd niche in the grander purview of college athletics, Mizzou Athletics in particular. To describe a typical Missouri fan as self-loathing would be an understatement of almost criminal proportions. Missouri fans are the most optimistic masochists you've ever met in your lives. They'll spend their lives preparing for the gut punch and let their guard down only as the blow is in mid-delivery. Bill and I have long since scoffed at the "Same old Missouri" mentality, and with valid reason hidden behind the thickened layers of cynicism. Beyond the blinding reflection of confirmation bias lies the fact that metaphorical bar continues to be pushed, a fact lost among those whose metaphorical bar somehow filters success through a colander that leaves behind only the black sludge of carefully handpicked moments of despair for use in our collective misery.
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A fan-created image posted on Twitter by excellent SID and even more excellent dude Shawn Davis.
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How much do things change in one year?
A year ago today, Bill got a little defensive in going on the offensive to remind everyone how greatly Norm Stewart benefited from the lack of influence of the internet during his tenure in the midst of a patented Mizzou Fan Meltdown.
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It's a ritual, observed by pilgrims drawn to the same creaky, Depression-era shrines, decade after decade, to eat and drink and sing and agonize as part of a communal mass just deranged enough to invest its emotional energy into a bunch of kids pummeling one another into oblivion. Their devotion is to a sense of community, continuity and tradition, and a sense of student-athletes who regenerate that tradition every fall the way a body regenerates its cells.
Matt Hinton (née Dr. Saturday, née Sunday Morning Quarterback) says his goodbyes at Yahoo, and in the process, pens one of the more eloquent and hauntingly true statements of modern college football.
We don't know that for sure, and no one does, but ultimately that's what we think will happen: a whole lot of heap-nothing. The part no one's sure about is Mizzou, and shit, we don't know if they're going to work, either. But it could very well work out just fine. This is a league with South Carolina, Vandy, Kentucky, and two Mississippis in the historical ranks. While those schools may be just fine at given points, the overall trend has not been pretty for any of them. Yet we love the cannon fodder because they're "ours," a very flexible term that at one point included established football aliens Georgia Tech.
The only thing expansion's messed with is identity, which happens to be a very malleable concept, brand-wise. On the good side, this just adds strength to the SEC-Borg, and on the worst possible downside it adds too much to the menu and turns us into the Hardee's of football leagues. Hardee's is still pretty damn tasty, even if you don't want to admit it. (We see that wrapper on your car seat. You can't hide, Hardee's lovers.)
Spencer in today's Curious Index.
Missouri hopes the time is right to make the move to the SEC
The Tuscaloosa News is profiling the SEC's newest members, and after Texas A&M got the full treatment yesterday, it's Mizzou's turn today.
Meanwhile, Weiland continues to scour the NCAA, and he shared his enthusiasm for a pair of current players: Tony Mitchell of North Texas, and Jae Crowder at Marquette.
Former future Mizzou great Tony Mitchell: The next Lin, according to the prescient FedEx driver and blogger.
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Alan White would like to make a small clarification to the Frank Haith story.
The former Elon athletic director, realizing his student was in a financial pinch, did in fact give Haith some living space inside the university's gymnasium.
It was not, however, a janitor's closet.
"It was actually an old ticket booth," White said.
And we thought this was an outhouse-to-the-penthouse story.
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Can't decide what makes this video: Jerrell's pink bathrobe or the interview with Ressel...
OT: Columbia's Must-Eat Foods
Columbia culinary conversation fodder for Food M Nation.
Message from Haith
by RPT on Feb 5, 2012 2:55 PM EST
on Rock M Nation
In an e-mail sent Sunday afternoon:
Tiger Nation,
Yesterday was an amazing day for Mizzou because of you. From College GameDay in the morning to the victory over Kansas last night, we cannot thank you enough for your support of Tiger Basketball. Thanks for helping us show the nation that we have the best fans in college basketball. You displayed an incredible amount of class and made us proud to be Tigers.
The atmosphere at Mizzou Arena was truly special. Loud doesn't even begin to describe it. Your enthusiasm from tip-off to last possession was unrivaled. Thanks to you, our 6th Man, the floor was literally shaking during the last few minutes of the game.
We are proud to 21 and 2, but know we would not be in the position without your support. I am blessed to be the Head Basketball Coach at the University of Missouri and want you to know our team, coaches and staff are thankful for the opportunity to represent Mizzou.
We can't wait to see you at Mizzou Arena when we take on Baylor next Saturday, Feb. 11th at 12:30pm It will be another match-up of Top 10 teams so Arrive Early, Wear Gold, Be Loud and help us Beat Baylor!
Thanks and Go Tigers! M-I-Z!
Coach Frank Haith
p.s. You can re-live last night's victory at MizzouNetwork.com.
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There have been players in the past who were touted as the ones that would swing the program’s future. Blaine Gabbert was the highly recruited, big-name quarterback that Chase Daniel never was. But it took Bill Callahan getting fired from Nebraska for Gabbert to wind up in Columbia. The Tigers were DGB’s top choice, and it was a choice he made with the world of college football watching. It was an announcement that can reverberate. For the next three seasons (at least), recruits will visit Columbia and ask: "Why should I come to Mizzou?" And the guy who was the best high school football player in the country will be there to answer them.
Missourian alum Robert Mays answers the "What DGB Means to M-I-Z" question for Grantland.
Haith gets proactive about "M-I-Z" cheer
Haith does his best to appease the ESPN Gameday censors.
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ESPN College Gameday Info
Info for those planning on attending Gameday next Saturday. STUDENTS: Please note that those who attend GameDay will receive entry priority for the game.
Universities make scheduling sacrifices not just for the lucrative contracts but also because few visuals build the brand better than an appearance on ESPN’s road show "College GameDay." (In November, it had John L. Hennessey, president of Stanford, out on the Oval at daybreak working the crowd.) The school spirit conveyed by cheering thousands — there were 18,000 on Francis Quadrangle at the University of Missouri, Columbia, on Oct. 23, 2010, for "GameDay" — is a selling point to students choosing colleges. When Missouri first started recruiting in Chicago a decade ago, few prospective students had ever heard the university’s nickname, "Mizzou," according to the admissions director, Barbara Rupp. "Now they know us by ‘Mizzou,’ " thanks in part to "GameDay." "I can’t deny that," she said.
This from a SHOCKING BREAKING NEWS piece in the New York Times reporting that [GASP]... athletics have become a big deal at universities. I'll let you pause to pick up the pieces of your blown mind.
The linked story includes the requisite dose of intellectuals who are shocked and appalled just to make sure it fits the template of the other 75 stories exactly like this one that are published annually.
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"FYI #Broncos, the 12th Man belongs to Texas A&M. We saw the flag today and will defend our trademark. #TAMU #gigem"
"We have a contract with Seattle MT @1968fan: better than when Seahawks did it? They still fly flag and commentators say '12th man'"
Above are two tweets from Texas A&M VP of Marketing & Communications Jason Cook from Sunday evening.
At one point during his tenure as President of A&M, Robert Gates once said "Aggie traditions and spirit are not for sale." The phrase was used as a point of pride as the university declined to explore options for selling naming rights to Kyle Field.
Aggie traditions are not for sale, unless they are memorialized by contracts with professional franchises in the Pacific Northwest as part of a lawsuit settlement. Discuss.
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The Five People You Meet At New Bill Snyder Family Stadium
by RPT on Jan 5, 2012 8:13 PM EST
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Kansas State recently announced its newest project, the West Stadium Center at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Truth be told, it looks like a pretty sweet venture, and all Big 12/SEC/Poor Kansas City/Leave Michael Dixon's Cell Phone Alone/What About the Big 8 squabbles aside, good for Kansas State for working toward big things in Manhattan.
But even more interesting than the project itself are the people expected to attend games at Kansas State in the future according to the University's digital sketches. See below (and click to embiggen):
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Hammer and Rails, Doug Gottlieb, Matt Painter and More Fun
Our friends in misery from last March, SBN Purdue blog Hammer and Rails, take issue with Doug Gottlieb saying Matt Painter regrets staying at Purdue. Important things to note:
1) Doug Gottlieb said it.
2) That's it.
But kudos to those who are rocking some serious RAEG at Missouri for having the audacity to do nothing, say nothing, not hire Purdue's coach, and be the subject of the statement by a national laughingstock.
RPT's Fourth Annual Thanksgiving Special
by RPT on Nov 24, 2011 11:30 AM EST
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It's unequivocally my favorite holiday of the year, and it's one where I'd like to take this opportunity to wish every single RMN reader a happy, healthy and prosperous Thanksgiving. In the spirit of giving thanks, for the fourth straight year, here's a list of things I'm thankful for, dating back to last Thanksgiving.
Today, I'm thankful for...
... a ho-hum win in Kansas City in a series that had been anything but ho-hum in recent history. Not pictured: 17 personal fouls committed on blocks while returning Jordan Webb's 18th interception of the day (ed. note: slight exaggeration, but not by much).
... attending that game live so I, unlike Bill, didn't have to listen to Dave Lapham.
... the best basketball game I've ever witnessed in person, even though I want to stab Chris Wright for his role in it.
... the first 30 or so minutes of Mizzou's win at Oregon. Selective memory indicates the rest of the game never happened.
... Beating future division rival Vanderbilt at Mizzou Arena thanks to Marcus Freaking Denmon.
... an extremely personal selection for my favorite moment of the year: Calling Mizzou volleyball's return to the NCAA Tournament, in particular Mizzou pulling off the biggest upset in tournament history by defeating No. 5 Northern Iowa in an epic five-setter in a tremendous atmosphere at the McLeod Center.
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#HashtagsForEndzones: Big 12 "South" Edition
by RPT on Nov 23, 2011 12:00 PM EST
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For the uninitiated, college football is getting more Twitter friendly this weekend. As shown in the picture above, Mississippi State is hashtagging its endzones for Saturday's game against Ole Miss. Per SBNation.com:
If you want to keep up, the best idea might be to follow along on Twitter. If only there were an easy way to organize the thoughts of various sports fans into HEY LOOK
How will the division formerly known as the Big 12 South follow suit? See after the jump.
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OT: #TeamThis
The #TeamPie vs. #TeamCake debate has torn us apart for too long. Let this link be the peace accord we all need, the holy matrimony of these dueling dessert families.
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