This got me to thinking, so I did some research. Being lazy, I only went back to 2000 so it's not a great historical perspective but......... Missouri 2000-2010 80-56 (.588) 3-4 Bowls Texas A&M 2000-2010 72-63 (.533) 1-6 Bowls Head to Head Missouri 4, Texas A&M 1 Again, if you go back 30-40 years, no doubt A&M has a stronger showing, but looking at where the programs are now I'd say they are at least equal. Key for Missouri is future recruiting trends. They have gotten a lot of Texas players that the Texas schools didn't pursue for one reason or another. Would joining the SEC possibly allow them to draw some midwestern kids that might want to play in the SEC? Who knows. Having said all that, I'm not necessarily thrilled with Mizzou, but if we gotta have a 14th (and we do), we could do worse.
Who says the Boot HAS to go away??? Look at the Big Ten for instance. LOTS of teams play for MULTIPLE traveling trophies. Minnesota, for example plays for Paul Bunyan's Ax vs Wisconsin, The Little Brown Jug vs Michigan, The Floyd of Rosedale vs Iowa.... Mich St plays a couple as does Penn St. We recently started playing for one vs Ole Miss (The Magnolia Bowl) that just hasn't caught on yet in addition to The Boot. I like rivalry trophies and there's no rule that states you can only have ONE trophy game.
I work with a lot of people (I'm in the medical field) from all over the SEC and I asked my Arkansas colleague just the other day about Little Rock and she was perplexed as to why they play games there at all, let alone BIG games. She did tell me that they always did that and when she was in the marching band there, they were doing it. I get that as their states flagship school, that they would WANT to play in their states capital (even though it's 4 hours from their campus), but they should play one of their OOC games there instead...maybe Ole Miss or Miss State or Kentucky or Vandy....but any other game vs a conference opponent should be played up in Fayetteville. You would THINK they make more money utilizing their bigger stadium on-campus than that dump in Little Rock??
Any links go the mizzou boards? Anyone been there to see what they are saying? Are they excited? Cautious? What about wvu? How are they taking the ditching ? They REALLY wanted to come to the sec in a big way. Everyone said that wvu sucks. After the beat down of the lsu fan I must agree. Would have wvu been a stronger team than mizzou? With their limited tv audience I can understand the money part , but that aside, are they really too big a bunch of pricks to be allowed in the family?
I think stoning visiting fans from a member of the conference in which you are hoping will let you in constitutes as a great, BIG, "YES!"
The Iron Bowl was played for years at Legion Field in Birmingham regardless who was the home team each year. (Montgomery is the capitol). Can't remember when they stopped doing that.
As it is known I have a very close friend who is a hog. I attend several games with him because well he is a child of walmart and his dad is a retired walmart exec and I get to sit in their luxury box. Anyway I have had many a conversations about it. They hate it with a passion. They say there are two very very very powerful boosters in the rock that insist they have the LSU game there. But believe the mass majority of hogs hate the rock as it eliminates several homes games for them lost revenue. With the yearly Aggie game in Dallas now they lost yet another home game. The hog faithful is not happy as the prices for boxes and season tickets go up but they really get maybe 3 games of worth in their home stadium. How would that go over with LSU if we played 3 games away from home and two in Shreveport.... Not welll
Didn't understand that one either. I mean, B'ham is nothing more than a dedicated bike ride east on I-20 from Bama's campus. So it's not exactly a "neutral" site I wouldn't think. The game is televised reguardless, so they've always had the TV money but with both programs on-campus stadiums bigger than Legion Field, guess they figured they would just alternate hosting/getting the majority of the ticket sales every year and still making more money than sharing every year at a neutral site. Personally, if I were a player, I would WANT to go to my rival's stadium at least twice in my 4-year career! I mean, any player that has ever played for Texas, OU, UGA and Florida basically will never know what it's like inside their bitter rivals' stadium. Florida players will never know what it's like to play "Between the Hedges" UGA will never know what it's like to play in the Swamp...etc. Can't say that I give 2 sh*ts about any of those 4 teams, but as a college football fan, I don't think I would ever pass up an opportunity to see a game in any of their stadiums.
Forget Shreveport! We didn't like doing a home-and-home with Tulane in the Dome! :shock: (rightfully so, IMO as it will always be more LSU fans than Green Wave...so why not pack 92,000+ to see the game vs 65,000?? No brainer for me)
I *think* a lot, if not all, of Bama's home games in the 1940's were played at Legion... I've got an old suitcase of my Dad's (the man never threw *anything* away) that is filled with student and faculty tickets to football games, annuals, programs, etc. in it (he went to school there, graduated, then taught engineering courses for a few years). ETA: my bad, according to Wiki: The games were played in Birmingham because it had the largest stadium in the state at the time (194x-1983)
