HOOVER, Ala. • Believe it or not, it's been almost 10 years since Mike Slive officially welcomed Mizzou to its new home in the Southeastern Conference during a reception at the student union on campus in CoMo.
The late SEC commissioner Slive, former Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel, former Tigers athletics director Mike Alden, former Mizzou chancellor Brady Deaton, former SEC board of presidents chairman Bernie Machen and others intimately involved in the Tigers’ decision to depart the teetering Big 12 for the greener pastures of the SEC deserve a fresh round of applause right now.
If anyone out there was still wondering if Mizzou would ever come to regret, even just a little bit, its decision to hitch its wagon to the most powerful conference in college football, the answer arrived Wednesday afternoon in a report from the Houston Chronicle that shook college sports to its core.