Why missouri left the big 12

The department is significantly behind the majority of its conference counterparts, especially upper-echelon athletic programs at schools such as Alabama and Georgia, in revenue from ticket sales, licensing, advertisements and sponsorships. And most recently, the football, softball and baseball programs were hit with one-year postseason bans and recruiting limitations by the NCAA for academic fraud.

Attempting to discern where Missouri would stand today if it had stayed in the Big 12 is nearly impossible. Thank you for reading! Sign Up. Log In. Purchase a Subscription. We hope that you continue to enjoy our free content. Edit Close. Sign Up Log In. Have fun with that! However since then, the Tigers are in SEC games and does anyone believe that record will get any closer to. Highly unlikely. And with the Tigers in the SEC East, they remain geographically out of place from the large majority of the division.

But finding some common opponent to hate has not even been in the equation for the Tigers. Meantime, the recruiting has taken a hit. Nothing ensures football will always draw audiences just because people play it. College football is also popular because tons of schools compete every season in power leagues. Now eight schools future in a power leagues are at risk. Yes, Texas and Oklahoma will undoubtedly make more money in the next decade than the decade before.

This is probably all part of a plan to eventually get a smaller field to a champions league in college football. When has short-term financial interest ever led to long-term financial peril? So good luck to the Longhorns winning with fewer advantages and less appeasement from the SEC. If the cost of the Big 12 meant not appeasing or losing to Texas enough, then the Big 12 died a good death.

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Found the story interesting? Like us on Facebook to see similar stories. Truth is, the Big 12 only has itself to blame for this disaster, the loss of a second founding member of the Big Eight Colorado joined in , which turned into the Big 12 when four Texas schools came to town.

The frustration was obvious this past summer as Tigers coach Gary Pinkel repeatedly voiced his anger with the Big When you have Nebraska leave one year. Colorado leaves. Three really good football teams," Pinkel said in a September radio interview.

So, the Tigers packed their bags and went to any other league in the country. A sizable sect of the fan population might have preferred the Big Ten, but hey, if the SEC needs a 14th, here come the Tigers. Not exactly ideal company. Now, it's leaving to join programs like LSU, Alabama, Tennessee and Florida, who have been glued together since , 25 years after the Big Eight was formed.