Poll: Who do you want Missouri to play every year?
by ECFIVESTER on Nov 7, 2011 12:45 PM EST
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In the wake of Missouri coming to the SEC finally being official. The proposals I've seen have the Tigers in the SEC East, the conference keeping an 8 game schedule with (6 division games, 1 protected cross-division rival, and a rotation of the other 6 cross division teams to fill the last spot), and the (one that I find still up in the air) Missouri playing Texas A&M every year as protected cross division rivals.
There are two methods of thought for Missouri regarding who they want to play as a cross division every year. There's the let's play Texas A&M and then we can recruit Texas and Florida theory. I for one find this to be rather illogical, because their games will be on in Texas regardless if they play A&M every year or not. Besides, they still have 4 non conference games to schedule, 1 going to Kansas, 1 going to Baylor (TX), and possibly the other to Illinois.
The other line of thought is Missouri and Arkansas share a geographical and potential historical rivalry already rooted here, just untapped. Some of the best rivalries in college football are the so-called Border wars. Which Missouri already has with Kansas and Illinois. Why not Arkansas? Going this route would mean that at least one of your conference games is a short trip down the road, albeit to Fayetteville ... but it will allow Tiger fans to feel smarter every other year.
If this plan happens the obvious question is then, who does Texas A&M play? This is where things get interesting. If A&M is given South Carolina, you will have two teams furthest apart play each other every year. While it would be a good competitive game that the Gamecock fan base would welcome with open arms (as it would extend their recruiting into Texas), one would have to wonder how well a rivalry could be maintained with such distances for students and alumni to traverse.
The other option has a bit of intrigue involved. Texas A&M against Kentucky would feature the two schools legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant coached before heading to Alabama. While not as much of an intriguing match-up, Kentucky and A&M have not been that far apart in terms of on field success in recent years.
To this I give you the poll.
Please be kind and use good grammar.
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There's a lot of chatter
that LSU and UF want out of their game. Supposedly UF would take A&M, LSU would take SC, and Mizzou would take Arkansas.
Who knows what’s true or not.
Oh, come on. Don't leave your uncle T-bag hangin'.
I want everyone to get out of their games
12 years is too long to cycle through.
and that way the schedule is fair to everyone.
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No way that happens
the only reason Mizzou is in the East is because Bama wants to play Tennessee every year
Perfect (pur-fec-t): the only person on earth, besides Tim Tebow, in the 21st century to be without fault is gatorhippy.
I agree it won't happen
We had to lose the Auburn rivalry. Bama needs to sacrifice this time.
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But …
’Bama vs. Tenn > UF vs. Auburn.
It always has been that way.
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Having a 12 year rotation is a bigger problem to me
then losing UT-Bama
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I’m just saying, Bama and UT aren’t going to stop with that. No matter what. That’s just my opinion on the matter.
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according to who, tho?
personally im still fired up after this years loss, which is our 3rd loss in a row…to end on that note would be like sitting on your shoe accidentally.
I guess, just my personal opinion on the matter when looking at it from a non-biased point of view. Granted, I’m of the younger generation, I’m 27, so I wasn’t around when we played Auburn every year.
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that would be interesting
Would allow Florida to dip into the Texas recruiting ground, and with Coach Boom just coming from Texas, we’d have a better leg up than expected.
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I’d be okay with us going into Texas a little bit.
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Yeah not too much
We have enough Home grown talent here.
But they do seem to produce really good running backs out there. Something we lack.
Perfect (pur-fec-t): the only person on earth, besides Tim Tebow, in the 21st century to be without fault is gatorhippy.
Yep. Gotta keep the home guys first. Then cherry pick the national ones we want. “State of Gators” to steal a line from The U.
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how about
Nation of Gators … as in Gator Nation!
Perfect (pur-fec-t): the only person on earth, besides Tim Tebow, in the 21st century to be without fault is gatorhippy.
There we go.
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Exactly
I meant something the Florida Gators lack, not the state of Florida. CJ Spiller, Emmitt Smith, T. Richardson, and many more amazing backs came from this wonderful Sunshine State, but for Florida to have one has been like rain in the desert especially after Spurrier left, I mean Faison was ok, but I wouldn’t call him elite.
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yeah
It’s funny I tend to think if we had him, last year we’d only have lost 3 games max, and this year we’d have beaten Bama, Auburn and UGA, leaving us with 8-1 mark heading into So Car … Personally i’d almost say we’d have a chance against LSU too, but they are pretty good (and some what a team of destiny). I don’t think Johnny would’ve been hurt in the Bama game because we would’ve run the ball more.
but then again, our O-line has played suspect at times this year. And If keeping richardson means I would’ve had to endure another season of the dive master … not sure how I’d take that.
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Now that I think about it
If we had Richardson, we might have Addazio as the HC. Because he would run the dive play every down like he did with Tebow and Richardson would have lines like 34 carries for 175 yards and 3 TDs.
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But a running back needs lanes to run through
and our o-line tends to believe that lanes are a myth something found in movies and sotrybooks.
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Have them play Texas A&M for a bit. See if it works out.
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hey yall, Mizzou fan and alum here
I just wanted to say thanks to those of you who stopped by RMN to welcome us to our new athletics home.. most of us are looking forward to the benefits and challenges of the SEC. We’re all excited at the opportunity to interact with a new bunch of fans who are passionate about the game and about their team.
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oh and Re: the question
I would much rather we play Arkansas.. we’ve been in a conference with the aggies for some time now and a strong rivalry hasn’t really developed there. I think the potential for a Mizzou-Arky rivalry is great and would be fairly immediate in coming to the surface, especially given the recent defection of a certain coach in a certain sport involving a bouncy ball and a hoop with a net.
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Yeah, but Arkansas and Texas A&M is a great rivalry from the get-go. Arky is probably fair game to switch things up because they were just lumped into playing Carolina because they were being new.
But I just think that if everything else were to stay same, I could see something like:
Arky vs. A&M
Missouri vs. South Carolina
As being the “new” designated rivals.
With that being said, as long as some of the cross-divisional rivalries are preserved, (like say Auburn-Georgia, Bama-Tennessee, maybe Florida-LSU as I really, really like that game), than I wouldn’t be opposed to a bigger switch up of things.
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errr.. those aren't cross-divisional games
or am I missing something here?
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those aren’t cross division games, Arky plays A&M no matter what, they are both in the west. and Missouri will play South Car because they are both in the east. (sounds weird, I know)
So Missouri having Arkansas as their cross division rival would only switch up from playing South Carolina every year. I think the Hogs and the Cocks would be ok with that.
Perfect (pur-fec-t): the only person on earth, besides Tim Tebow, in the 21st century to be without fault is gatorhippy.
Yeah, crap. That’s what I meant.
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Can’t wait for the fun to begin. Also, thanks for stopping by.
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I voted to make the new kids play each other
I love the LSU rivalry. Plus, it’s the best road trip in the conference, so we the fans benefit.
Mizzou and A&M is very natural because of their Big 12 roots. Even if they haven’t had a big rivalry to this point – they could institute the Big 12 trophy and play for that each year.
I am excited to have 2 new places to visit since the only remaining ones I have now are Atarkville and Fayetteville.
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