Big 12 Media Day: Gary Pinkel

I enjoy dome visor as well as night visor. Sometimes Pinkel wears a pith helmet thing too.

I’d like to see him in this hat:

Damn Scip, that ending was a curbstomping.

It did have a sort of American History X feel, didn’t it.

“What’s it like to think you’re a nine and find out you’re a six and a half?”

It’s like walking in on your girlfriend banging another dude, and instead of stopping or panicking, she just asks you to close the door on your way out and continues to get tenderized like a pork loin.

So I’m told.

I still think our “trusted” (wink, wink) conference partners are full of shit when it comes to the blame game toward Mizzou. MU was contacted by the B10 in the form of seeking information about the university, but were never offered a chance to apply. There isn’t a school in the B12 that would’ve spurned interest in the Big Ten had they been contacted. I know it, you guys know it. Nebraska has been more than full of it in trying to blame Mizzou for being a reason they had to look elsewhere. Beebe and whomever demanded that he demand loyalty to the B12 from MU and Nebrasky, can stick it too. The height of hypocrisy considering more than half of the conference had their legs in the air for some other conference. Other than a politicallly incorrect, but largely accurate comment by the Gov, the only thing MU officials really ever said was that they were not going to close their ears to opportunities (especially when there wasn’t a single B12 institution that could be counted on to give two shits about MU). Equating Mizzou’’s actions to the behavior of a floozy, makes for a nice shot but doesn’t pass the smell test. The truth is that MU’s administration basically has done what a responsible administration would do: Listen to options that may be better for their school, work to solidfy the best of a bad situation when those options were made clear were not available. But Mizzou isn’t the reason NU and CU are gone. They left because they had a better option and took it. MU could’ve never been part of the conversation and this would’ve happened. Afterall, the B10 announced its intention to shop, no Mizzou. As for MU coaches, you may or may not find it interesting to know that I am not aware of a single MU coach that wanted to move to the B10, but understood the financial/academic advantages that the Big12 cannot match. Athletically, they are content with the B12.

Finally, the talk about Mizzou to ConfUSA or the MWC is so much BS too. If the conferences ever go to 16, MU isn’t going to sit like an island surrounded by superconferences. It will land somewhere. Frankly, the Big East football playing institutions and the 4 in the North should’ve taken this opportunity to look at an arrangement. That would have been a conference where any team could rise or fall on the strength of how there AD was run, and not been as subject to the Yankee syndrome where a couple of schools are so geographically, demographically and financially advantaged that the best one could hope for is a black swan event to occur for your school.

@MizzouDude99

Seems like someone stil doesn’t understand they’re a 6 1/2.

B10 contacted TX and were basically blown off.

I have a sister at Mizzou so I’m not looking to pile on but what is it you think you offer? TV sets? No. Athletics? No. I think you have like one conference championship in 14 years and that was a conference tourney.

Several points . . .

The fact that that the Ohio St. AD informed that UT had relayed that they had a “Tech” problem makes me think that Texas didn’t exactly blow off the B10. More like, “Hey, we would be interested but have you ever had to deal with an Aggie/Raider/Bear alum/politician before?”

MU is a definite 7 so knock it off with the 6.5 business.

MU has a lot to offer, mostly bogus championship glory notwithstanding. (I mean, really, who goes around crowing about Baylor’s tennis titles, Colorado’s amazing cross country success or Okie State’s wrestling/golf prowess?) MU ranks somewhere in the top 25 to 40 of BCS program appearances in NCAA tournaments and bowl games. This include periods of darkness from around 1984 to 1996 when MU refused to even compete for a Poulan Weedeater Bowl appearance or the general suckitude Qdog brought to hoops (hey, who has time to coach when there are coeds to bang and white, powdery substances to ingest?).

MU has an attractive campus/facilities. One of the oldest memberships in the AAU. One of the highest achieving student bodies in the B12. And a highly underrated amount of hot tail on campus. This is not the stuff of Conf USA or even the Mountain West.

MU should be playing Georgia (you know, occasionally very good, often underachieving) to UT’s Florida, A&M’s Auburn and Okie’s Bama in the new BigTex. At worst, we’re the Ole Miss of the Big 12, with hot chicks, a great party, a few sporting moments and an attractive campus, waiting for the offspring of Chase Daniel to matriculate to Columbia for our next run at glory.

or even the Mountain West.

You need to visit TCU, it will change your life.

I’ll give you South Carolina or Ole Miss in your analogy. UGA has more money, historical success, and natural recruiting.

@Biz
It did!

MD99 -
Lighten up, Francis…

there’s some tail in CUSA…SMU!

you have 1 title in a men’s sport and 7 total. worst in big 12. if i were you i would hope for some cross country or gymnastics titles. i went to the TX game in columbia last year and yes the campus and the town are great so maybe pinkel needs to learn to recruit to your strengths.

Nobody gives a shit about conference championships in anything other than football and men’s hoops at the end of the day. So I’m not really bothered that MU is outclassed in B12 titles because Baylor’s tennis program brings home the hardware. I know MU’s AD is solid in most sports and hardly the bottom feeder that some want to paint it to be because it hasn’t won a B12 title. Nobody is going to give MU credit for the softball team going to two straight CWS in softball. Or the women’s soccer team winning the B12. Or the volleyball team making the NCAA tourney. Or individual championships in wrestling . . . because at the end of the day, thats weak smack and so is the B12 title slam that is often pulled out as a way to badmouth Mizzou as somehow not being worthy.

You boys better watch it. You may make me throw my visor on the ground in anger . . . and then it’s going to be on! You don’t want to mess with the 4th most golf prickiest dude in the B12 . . .

Your friend,

MizzouFrancis99

I think the problem that people have with Mizzou isn’t that they listened to the Big Ten, it’s that they didn’t even bother with the pretense that they were interested in keeping the Big XII together. That is until they realized the Big Ten was just talking to them for the chance to bang their sister (Nebraska). Then they suddenly became real Interested in keeping the conference together.

I can see that FlamingMonkeyAss (always wanted to type that out). But, at least MU should be respected for its honesty and candor in signaling to the Big 12, “Hey fellas, uh, if the B10 wants us, we would be pretty freakin’ stupid to not go . . . just to let you know.” Contrast that with the BS that Nebraska supplied, blaming everyone but their own good judgement for leaving. I think it is important to note that the Big Ten started this, not Mizzou or anyone else for that matter. If they don’t announce to the free world and certain parts of Utah that they are looking to expand, MU is a “proud member of the B12”. We’re not that pissed to be left in the BigTex now. More embarrassed that a similar, if not subpar, university such as Nebraska got the invite instead of us (Neb football won out, no doubt). I think MU fans are fired up about playing everyone in the BigTex every year, and will gladly accept the opportunity to be bent over a barrel, not once but twice in a season by both OU and UT. Hoops will also be much more fun. So that was a welcome development out of this situation. I frankly think it will develop deeper ties between the South schools and what’s left of the North to get rid of the divisions. Or maybe we will go through all this in a few more years. Who knows?

I really like Austin. I really don’t have any hard feelings against UT other than I think MU and most of the other B12 schools need the Cowboy Hippie Chic side of Austin to lead the B12 (you know, the type of people that would like to play a round of golf with say Willie Nelson and Ray Benson before adjourning to Willie’s bus) and not so much the people who feel more inclined toward Wubya, Rove and think JR Ewing is a model for living.

Finally, I have been reading Barking Carnival for years and enjoy getting the takes from those outside the Mizzou cocoon. It is also made up of smart, witty, smart assess or, in other words, the type of people that I’ve always enjoyed.

I agree with your entire last post, Mizzou.

Mizzoudude, well put re Mizzou’s candor. I really don’t have any problem with how it was handled, aside from Gov. Nixon spouting off. Big 10 flirted, we flirted back. Big freakin’ deal. NU went for a better academic conference and a much more stable environment and BLAMED Mizzou. Why not THANK Mizzou? Bunch of petty BS.

What’s it like to think you’re a nine and find out you’re a six and a half?

Yes – that’s essentially what I’ve written many times. What’s it like? Sucks ass.

I know there will be an iPhone SDK. I was thinking about buying the original iPhone but now im not sure. Is the iPhone SDK an actual phone or is it a software u can download onto your real iPhone?

don’t think Elizabeth Edwards deserved that, appearing in an essay with Pinkel and all…