Mizzou

[IASTATE07]

This is why I hope Mizzou loses every game they ever play and find their recent athletic failures entertaining. Karma is a *****

Karma came quickly bc from that moment it's been about all downhill for their basketball team.

 

[JP4CY]

Karma came quickly bc from that moment it's been about all downhill for their basketball team.

After the first couple SEC years their football team was decent but they lost all their Big 12 caliber speed and they are now turrible.

 

[cyclonedave25]

Greetings from Missouri. Before I touch on basketball, I want to congratulate ISU on their huge win in Norman yesterday. For many years ISU was my second favorite team in the Big XII and for the last few years they have been my favorite. There are many Mizzou fans who feel the same. In fact, after out game next month, I hope you win all your games until if/when we would meet in the postseason.

I'm old and attended every Mizzou/ISU football game and all but one or two basketball games in Columbia since 1972 and a few others before that while I was a student. I was very happy to see this game on our schedule though I freely admit when it was announced, my only question was how many points we would lose by. As has been mentioned in this thread a few things have changed since then.

I have enjoyed reading all of this and I do want to address a couple items that were brought up early on. Someone compared Missouri hiring Michael Porter, SR to kansas hiring Danny Manning's dad. The only similarity is they are both fathers of star recruits. Michael Porter, SR was the Director of Basketball Operations for three years and then an assistant coach another three years for the Mizzou women's basketball team. There he worked for his sister-in-law, Robin Pingeton. His wife Lisa Becker Porter, Robin's sister, was a star player at the University of Iowa in the 1980s after averaging 58 points per game as a senior at Jefferson High in Cedar Rapids. I believe she then played professionally for a time overseas. She and her husband are both 6'4".

Two years ago, then Coach Kim Anderson, tried to hire Porter, SR to be his assistant on the men's team. However, considering the dumpster fire we were at the time he turned it down. Then Lorenzo Romar who had played with Porter, SR on Athletes in Action and is Michael JR's Godfather hired Sr to be an assistant at Washington and later JR. signed an LOI and Jontay gave a verbal. The Porter family consists of five boys and three girls, with the two oldest girls being on the Mizzou women's team. Even before Romar was fired, he had sent feelers back to the Mizzou AD through his sister-in-law, that they might be interested in returning to Columbia where they had lived for six years. They are a unique family and that's an understatement. All eight kids were/are home-schooled through elementary school and are as close-knit as you will find anywhere. When Romar was fired, that was the end of the Porters in Washington. So Porter, SR has seven years experience in college basketball, the last four as an assistant coach, with the last one on the Washington men's team.

Also, after Jeremiah Tilmon was released from his LOI to Illinois some thought they would block him to Mizzou just like a lot of Illini fans did. However, the block rule only applies to the transfer of players already enrolled in school. There is no blocking of a player who had never been enrolled in school.

Finally, if you haven't already heard, the ticket situation isn't good for those wanting to attnd and who don't already have tickets. The entire arena is sold out for the season. The only available single game tickets will if an opposing team returns some of theirs. Though the attendance has been awful the last few years. the Hearnes Center was sold out for many years in the 1980s and 90s though there were often a lot of no-shows for some of the low-level non-conference games.

Needless to say, nothing quite like this has ever happened before. No doubt the last three horrible years plus the fact that our football team is having a horrible year has only intensified the interest. Good luck to finding tickets at a reasonable price to those who want to attend.

I hope to see some of you there and good luck again in every other game.

Will Tilmon be suspended for this game for his MIP arrest during the summer? Or will Cuonzo just kind of sweep it under the rug?

 

[State43]

I am surprised to hear most fans are thrilled to be in the SEC having watched every sport that matters go down the toilet. "Money and stability" favor the school, not the fan so from a fan's stand point, it's a silly way to look at it. Most Nebraska fans even say they are not happy about the conference minus being away from Texas.

 

[mj4cy]

After the first couple SEC years their football team was decent but they lost all their Big 12 caliber speed and they are now turrible.

And the Texas footprint is only going to get you so far. Telling a recruit "Hey we play a game in Texas like once every four years" isn't going to cut it. Just ask Nebraska how great it is to lose the Texas footprint.

 

[WastedTalent]

I am surprised to hear most fans are thrilled to be in the SEC having watched every sport that matters go down the toilet. "Money and stability" favor the school, not the fan so from a fan's stand point, it's a silly way to look at it. Most Nebraska fans even say they are not happy about the conference minus being away from Texas.

I think it depends who you're talking too. All the Mizzou fans I know, which are from either northern Missouri or Iowa, are not pleased about the move to the SEC. However, I could see why Mizzou fans in Southeast Missouri would love it. I'm certain most Missouri fans in Kansas City, would rather be in the Big 12.

 

[CyCrazy]

Most fans are thrilled to be in the SEC. Of course there are always a few who are against anything including motherhood and apple pie! While we enjoyed the long-time rivalries of the Big 8 and then Big XII, we are loving the stability and money from the SEC and the SEC Network alone makes the move outstanding. It's also great to not be at the mercy of Texas and have one or two schools run much of the conference. We have been full members, both financial and otherwise, since Day 1.

I'm not the only one here who would love to see our schools play on an annual basis or close to it in both basketball and football.

Good, go post on an SEC board.

 

[JP4CY]

It's also great to not be at the mercy of Texas and have one or two schools run much of the conference. We have been full members, both financial and otherwise, since Day

Alabama runs football. You may not believe it but Mizzou is now a bottom feeder.
24/7 has Mizzou's class 11th,14th,13th,12th, 13th,13th,13th,13th from their inaugural year thru 2018.
And besides Kentucky, and occasionally Florida, does anyone in the SEC really care about basketball?
My favorite though is when Mizzou left the Big 12 and they asked if they could still wrestle in the conference since the SEC doesn't have it.

 

[ExCyment]

Most fans are thrilled to be in the SEC. Of course there are always a few who are against anything including motherhood and apple pie! While we enjoyed the long-time rivalries of the Big 8 and then Big XII, we are loving the stability and money from the SEC and the SEC Network alone makes the move outstanding. It's also great to not be at the mercy of Texas and have one or two schools run much of the conference. We have been full members, both financial and otherwise, since Day 1.

I'm not the only one here who would love to see our schools play on an annual basis or close to it in both basketball and football.

Then those fans are idiots. Quite the opposite I hear from fans when I visit the Branson area. Thanks for cutting and running on your longtime conference mates. May you forever dwell in the SEC basement.

 

[rholtgraves]

Most fans are thrilled to be in the SEC. Of course there are always a few who are against anything including motherhood and apple pie! While we enjoyed the long-time rivalries of the Big 8 and then Big XII, we are loving the stability and money from the SEC and the SEC Network alone makes the move outstanding. It's also great to not be at the mercy of Texas and have one or two schools run much of the conference. We have been full members, both financial and otherwise, since Day 1.

I'm not the only one here who would love to see our schools play on an annual basis or close to it in both basketball and football.

That is not what I hear from the Mizzou fans I know.

 

[CrossCyed]

"“I just put a shirt on after the game that I bought in the bookstore. I love the Big 12. I’m a Big 12 guy.”
Kim English, when asked why he chose to don an SEC t-shirt after Mizzou’s win over Baylor and pose holding the Big 12 Tournament championship trophy outside Sprint Center, 810 AM"

Worst part is that Kim is easily the most likable guy to come out of Mizzou.

The stability argument is ********. The league was unstable because schools like Mizzou chose to leave. It's like someone spilling paint thinner as they leave and then complain about how flammable the house is.

 

[FinalFourCy]

I am surprised to hear most fans are thrilled to be in the SEC having watched every sport that matters go down the toilet. "Money and stability" favor the school, not the fan so from a fan's stand point, it's a silly way to look at it. Most Nebraska fans even say they are not happy about the conference minus being away from Texas.

What fans?

I don't miss Missouri at all, albeit I think they'd be a couple easier wins for FB and MBB (there are only so many Porters).

 

[Cyched]

This is why I hope Mizzou loses every game they ever play and find their recent athletic failures entertaining. Karma is a *****

Nebraska football's continued decline is sweeter to me, but Mizzou hoops falling off a cliff is a close 2nd.

 

[CycloneVet]

**** Mizzou

 

[3rdGenClone]

Anyone else going to the MU/KU exhibition game this Sunday? I get it's an exhibition, but I'm curious to see how much of this Mizzou hype is warranted.

 

[cyclonpediaJoe]

Anyone else going to the MU/KU exhibition game this Sunday? I get it's an exhibition, but I'm curious to see how much of this Mizzou hype is warranted.

I don't think people are allowed to go are they? I'm just waiting on Mizzou season tickets to be mailed out so the ISU game doesn't cost $175 on stubhub.

 

[rholtgraves]

Anyone else going to the MU/KU exhibition game this Sunday? I get it's an exhibition, but I'm curious to see how much of this Mizzou hype is warranted.

The Porter hype is warranted. Don't know how good of a team they will be early on though.

 

[rholtgraves]

I don't think people are allowed to go are they? I'm just waiting on Mizzou season tickets to be mailed out so the ISU game doesn't cost $175 on stubhub.

They are doing it to raise money for hurricane relief so you can definitely go.

 

[chuckd4735]

That is not what I hear from the Mizzou fans I know.

Same here. I work with a lot of Mizzou fans. There are a few who love the move to the SEC just because they use it as an argument for why they were one of the top teams in the Big 12, but a vast majority would take the Big 12 back in a heartbeat.

 

[chuckd4735]

This is why I hope Mizzou loses every game they ever play and find their recent athletic failures entertaining. Karma is a *****

I was so salty after that loss to Texas in the 2012 Big 12 tourney because I badly wanted one last crack at Mizzou. No doubt in my mind we would of beat them if we played them in KC.