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By The Armorer on September 1, 2011 | | Comments (8)
The Big Eight, I mean, Big 12, er, make that the <Big 12, dammit, now it's the Narrowing Nine.  Pretty soon, it will be the Tri-State Conference.

Meh again.  Nothing is sacred anymore.


There is some good news.  Hosting Matters says they'll soon migrate the site to a new server.  We currently reside on an old slow server, by ourselves, that is apparently run by union gnomes. 

Hopefully the NRLB will allow the move.

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By Boquisucio on September 1, 2011 1:21 PM
As a fellow ex-Big-Eighter, I also feel whipsawed.  Somehow the Soon-To-Be "The Elastic-Eleven" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
 
By Quartermaster on September 1, 2011 8:36 PM
 The mighty Southwest Conference covered only two states when we lived in San Antonio in '69-'71.

I'm not sure what all the noise is about. College sports has never meant much to me. Sports got in the way at Tennessee Tech and many of us wished they would simply go away. It was even worse at plaves like UT Knoxville and Vanderbilt. Knoxville is still a place to avoid on home game days, and it isn't because of the students either. NCAA is a pathetic farce riding herd on a bunch of semi-pro programs, but just can bring themselves to own up to teh truth.
 
By Tim on September 2, 2011 8:40 AM
Pretty soon Kansas will be the best team left in the conference, so there's that.
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 2, 2011 9:08 AM
QM -  back in the day, both my father and I were part of your problem.  We both played (well, I mostly practiced) at Mizzou.  It's a nostalgia thing.  I don't care near as much as it seems, even if I probably care more than I admit to myself.
   
By J.M. Heinrichs on September 2, 2011 4:25 PM
Senator Byrd visits?

Cheers
 
By Quartermaster on September 3, 2011 4:22 PM
 My apathy towards college sports is generated by the fact that the varsity teams are ringers. Overwhelmongly they did not gain entrance through the normal academic route, and they really aren't students. Not many graduate either.

NCAA used to allow separate dorms for teh jocks, and they shoulda kept it that way. Most of the football squad was not able to gain admission by the normal standards, and the black jocks were little more than thugs. If the varsity squads were actually representative of teh student body I would have a much different view. But, alas, they are not.
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 4, 2011 7:00 AM
There are grains and veins of truth in your comment, QM, but I will say that back in the 70's, my era at Mizzou, the thug element was not as prevalent.  There were butthead arrogant jerks who behaved badly, but the distinction wasn't racially aligned, and, in my rosy memory, there weren't that many of them.  But then I've got friends who played Div II football who were flummoxed and accused me of lying when I told them I never found any "envelopes with cash" in my wall-locker, much less on a weekly basis.