Posted on 11/20/2011 5:15:25 PM PST by SoJoCo
Rivalries do end, and rarely are the reasons satisfactory to fans. Sometimes it’s because of a change in conference. Other times one school will feel disrespected by the other. With the Border War — the second-most-played series nationally at 119 games — it is a combination. MU left the conference, and KU, hurt that its longtime partner chose to depart, reacted with a “good riddance.”
In other words: The hate that kept this rivalry going through two World Wars and plenty of bad football is the very thing that will likely put an end to this unmatched period of border brawling.
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I don’t know if the other members of your football pinglist would find this interesting or not. Your call.
UF plays FSU.
SoCar plays Clemson.
UK plays UL.
UGa plays GaTech.
If the UMo. v. KU series end in various sports or for that matter the aTm v. UTx series it will be the fault of the schools involved.
From my prior reading on this it is KU that claims it will end the UMo v. KU matchup, particularly in basketball. It remains to be seen if they do AND IF KU FANS WILL PUT UP WITH THAT.
Agreed. But out of conference opponents have been scheduled going out two or three years, and since the Big 12 plans on replacing both A&M and Mizzou with new conference members then Kansas will be playing TCU or West Virginia on the last Saturday of the season. So Mizzou will have to find someone else to play. And after a two or three year hiatus the Border War will be dead anyway and Missouri will have killed it. Simple as that.
If UTx or KU desire, they can certainly buy out one of their out of conference nobodies and play aTm or UMo, respectively, if they desire. Also I bet that for example UWVa or TCU would be happy to schedule it so they could play Pitt and SMU, respectively, that last weekend too.
I know that highly desired at University of Northern Illinois game is tough to give up for 2012, but I bet there is a buyout in the contract. So if KU want to play UMo, they can easily do so.
Hard to see how. Missouri already has three out of conference games scheduled. Add six games against their fellow division members and three against teams from the other division and that's 12 games. So I think I'll get a bigger kick out of watching Missouri lose to their SEC compatriots than I will watching them play Kansas.
Besides, Mizzou walked away from the rivalry. The end of the Border War is on them. No use in pretending otherwise.
I explained how. So it is a matter of will.
If KU does not desire to play UMo or vice-versa, then it was not much of a rivalry to begin with and they wont. If it is important to KU and UMo to play, then they will play. Everything I have read including what you have said, indicates KU is the one bailing on the “rivalry.” That is certainly KU’s right, but it really shows it was not much of a rivalry afterall.
Missouri walked away from the rivalry so please drop the pretense that it's all KUs fault. They chose money over tradition, and now they want to have their cake and eat it too. No.
Be serious. I am a neutral observer. I hold no brief for or against KU or UMo. The real thing going on here is that KU is afraid it will end up in a mid to low major conference ala Memphis. UMo was in that danger too and acted proactively.
I understand the KU worry. If UTx bails, the Big 10 is done. As it is now, it is becoming more and more the becoming more and more like a mid to low major conference.
But one way KU can hang with the big boys some still is to continue their rivalry with UMo. And again I just looked it up, GaTech bailed on the SEC and UGa and GaTech never missed a game. It appears UMo is willing to continue its series with KU. So the only issue is is KU too small and jealous to do so.
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