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From what I read you're right, and that will be to their detriment, IMO.

"It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man," Psalm 118:8.

Here is my question: If Missouri goes do they have to deal with the waiver and more importantly does that make it more not less likely that the SEC never budges on the waiver requirement?

Think about it, the A&M move will be argued that it is what started all of this. Now Missouri is leaving and further weakening the potential ad revenues for the Big 12. I doubt it means anything to the Big 12, but the networks might be slightly upset.

The SEC should stay away from Missouri. Taking them just means more, not less problems.

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Here is my question: If Missouri goes do they have to deal with the waiver and more importantly does that make it more not less likely that the SEC never budges on the waiver requirement?

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My answer to this is another question....If Missouri leaves, what are the chances that the Big 12 survives? I would say pretty good now that t.u. and OU have nowhere to go, but Missouri better follow the proper protocol like A&M did if it wants to leave....and not pull an OU.

If the reamining members of the Big 12 (more importantly t.u. and OU) decide to stay together and actually reduce their comittment to writing (a contract involving granting tier 1 and tier 2 rights to the conference)....then the waiver is not a big deal. The reason the SEC wanted a waiver is because they knew the Big 12 had no such contractual obligations and one school leaving (A&M) could destroy the entire conference....and there would be real damages to schools like baylor and iowa state. Even if baylor had a crappy case, the simple fact that baylor would have huge damages would be a PR nightmare for the SEC and baylor would be a media darling by filing a lawsuit...and the SEC would want to settle even though baylor's case sucked.

whats the big 12-2-1 going to do if mizzou doesn't sign off on this 6 year deal thing? are they going to kick them out? if the SEC was really pursuing mizzou as team 14 and they want to go to the SEC, then they have no reason to sign. similar to how baylor doesn't really have a lot to gain by signing away legal rights for us leaving. If the conference is going to make teams sign some new deal to force their conference affiliation maybe A&M should look into this is another reason to leaving and reducing what we may have to pay to the conference. conferences can't just force members to agree to deals and then force them to pay money if they do not want part of the deal.

Mizzou was ready to leave the big xii last year. They have no love for tu and have expressed it publicly. So I could see them getting and accepting a SEC invite s the 14th member.

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Boren has overplayed his hand again. What I find interesting is that OU does not really need to be in the same league as Texas to be successful. No way the sips can cancel our game and the RRS. It was pretty clear Texas was very concerned about losing the game and OU still came crawling back.

If the SEC wants MU, MU will do what needs to be done to get away from the big 12.

[This message has been edited by Jebber (edited 9/23/2011 1:26p).]

While the sips don't want to lose OU, the Sooners stand to lose a lot more than the sips if they split up.

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