empty stadium in shreveport
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They were the B12 Basketball Tourney champions in 2009... They've had a couple of other B12 tournament titles.
Their last regular season title was Softball in 1997. So you're a bit off.
Overall Mizzoulander and the other Missouri(yes not Mizzou, there are no Z's in your state's name) dbag posters on this site are annoying, but you guys really need to drop the obsession with Missouri. Yes their fan attendance is terrible, but all of these posts bashing them are getting as old as their annoying posters hanging around here. Just let them go be the new Arkansas of the SEC already. That way they can be mediocre for awhile until they figure out they need to cheat to be competitive.
You mean the two hour trip to Lawrence? What about the three hour drives to Ames or Manhattan? Oh wait, you have to make a vacation out of football road trips now. Sucks to be you!
I can always tell when I've made a really strong point around here. Nobody bothers to address it, but they always respond with some variation of:
Was Shreveport empty? Yep. Is that a bad thing for Missouri? Maybe, maybe not.
"You'll get killed in the SEC!"
"You have no Big 12 titles!"
"Your fans don't travel!"
"You are imbreeders!"
And that's fine...trash talk keeps message boards in business. But if I responded to you with lame retorts like "52-17!" or stuff like that, you wouldn't think that I was being witty...you'd think I was being an *******. And none of us would be on the original topic."You have no Big 12 titles!"
"Your fans don't travel!"
"You are imbreeders!"
Was Shreveport empty? Yep. Is that a bad thing for Missouri? Maybe, maybe not.
Wait a minute. So what is your point then? Anyone can say they made a point, but actually making one is another story.
You have gotta be ******** me with the last comment..there was a reason a 6-6 ISU team passed an 8-4 Missery team in 09...Missou SUCKS at traveling.. probably the worst in the BIG 12... Yeah good luck with the buzz saw of a schedule next year.. maybe you can win 4 games... and maybe a game in the conference.
To Knoxville? Oxford? Athens? Hell yes.
No offense, but I grew up near Ames. I live 30 minutes from Ames. And I've had my fill of Ames.
Some folks love it. Some don't. To each his own.
As for Manhattan, Stillwater, Lubbock, etc., I'd lump them in with Shreveport. No thank you.
I'm more than willing to give up my own proximity to road games for more compelling matchups and the overall strength and stability of the university.
Have you seen Shreveport? Blytheville looks like a metropolis compared to it. Vicksburg is cosmopolitan compared to it.
Define "rivalry." If you mean two teams that have played each other for a long time, yes that will change. If you define rivalry as two teams with an intense passion for playing and beating the other, then Missouri has one...barely.
KU fans don't show up for ANY games until they're team is winning. That rivalry is more about hate than competition now. It's best to let it rest for a few years...it will be back.
Here's my point: it doesn't really benefit Missouri to have a fan base that travels well to insignificant bowl games.
It's FAR more important to have a fan base that goes to your HOME games than to a minor bowl. Mizzou has that now...despite the mediocre record, they still ranked in the Top 25 for attendance this year.
Sure, it's nice to be thought of as a fan base that travels to bowl games, but how does that benefit your team? It's not like you get more money...it's pooled in the conference. There's no extra exposure...no one but hard-core football fans watch ANY bowl before New Year's, unless their team is playing.
If Missouri (or any other BCS team) gets 6 wins, they're bowling. I personally don't think that 7-5 teams deserve a bowl game (not a popular view around here I assume). But if my 7-5 team gets a bowl game, all I care about is the win. Independence, Pinstripe, Texas, Holiday, Insight...I don't care.
So unless you're playing for real stakes, then one bowl is just as good as another. Take the extra practices, treat the players to a good time, get the win.
I'll catch it on TV.
You'll be 10th in avg attendance in the sec, so don't travel and don't stack up that well in your new conference.
Nope. 12 wins in 2007, a #1 ranking at Thanksgiving...and no BCS bowl. It's late and I'm not going to look this up, but I THINK no team from a BCS conference has ever finished higher (#4) without playing in a BCS bowl game.
This is exactly what my one friend who graduated from Mizzou said. My only question is, you say you support your team, yet you don't attend a bowl game and cheer them on. Some fans you are. The greatest fans stick with their team no matter what, whether it's a mediocre bowl game, the NC or a team that is 2-10. From what I see Mizzou doesn't have those fans.
