SEC Extends Offer To Missouri

[UNHWildCats]

COLUMBIA | The Southeastern Conference has an offer on the table for Missouri to join its league, and SEC officials are willing to wait for an answer from Missouri until the future of the Big 12 is decided.

That information has come to The Star through a Mizzou booster who spoke directly to a MU official. Another source told The Star on Tuesday that an Oklahoma official had said the SEC is interested in Missouri.

MU chancellor Brady Deaton has gone on record numerous times that, as chairman of the Big 12’s Board of Directors, he is working on keeping the Big 12 together.

But with Texas and Oklahoma regents each authorizing school officials to look elsewhere on Monday, the prospects of a viable Big 12 without either or both of those schools would be in question.

“Apparently they’ve come to us,” the MU booster said of the SEC. “I’ve been told there is an offer on the table.”

That same source said it was the second time the SEC has made an overture to Missouri, the first coming last year.

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[DJH]

"apparently" , "i've been told"

[Grizalltheway]

Seriously, just wake me up when all this realignment bullshit is said and done. Yaaaaaaaaaaawn.

[ODUalum11]

Seriously, just wake me up when all this realignment bullshit is said and done. Yaaaaaaaaaaawn.

+1. None of this is earth shattering news since its already been rumored for months.

[tampajag]

All this realignment is like watching nerds try to get dates.

[ODUalum11]

All this realignment is like watching nerds try to get dates.

[CitadelGrad]

An official from the SEC said no offer has been extended to any school except Texas A&M.

[BlueHen86]

This talk about keeping the Big XII alive is complete BS. The Big XII is dead man walking, these teams are just saying this in order to increase their value to any potential suitor.

Texas is gone as soon as they can find a conference to meet their demands. Looks like that might be the PAC-12, but we'll see.

If Missouri has an offer from the SEC they'd be crazy not to accept it immediately. They will look like smacked asses if the SEC finds a different 14th team while they are waiting for Missouri and pulls the offer.

[CitadelGrad]

This talk about keeping the Big XII alive is complete BS. The Big XII is dead man walking, these teams are just saying this in order to increase their value to any potential suitor.

Texas is gone as soon as they can find a conference to meet their demands. Looks like that might be the PAC-12, but we'll see.

If Missouri has an offer from the SEC they'd be crazy not to accept it immediately. They will look like smacked asses if the SEC finds a different 14th team while they are waiting for Missouri and pulls the offer.

The word on the street is that West Virginia has been rejected by the ACC and SEC.