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The 4 main detriments of re-engaging with ku

Posted on: October 22, 2019 at 10:05:39 CT
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1. For MU to reach their full potential, ku is a terrible benchmark to establish. At an overall athletic department level MU should expect to easily be superior to ku, and winning a border war should not be a mark of significant achievement. In the past it allowed MU to trumpet something of little national significance while not striving to reach our potential, and now that we are in the best conference against major opponents such a perspective will be even more detrimental long term.

2. ku has the worst fanbase in America, by a huge degree. Being associated with them in any capacity is bad for MU.

3. It is fundamentally impossible to receive a fair outcome playing on the road there, and more often than not it is impossible to receive a fair outcome playing them at home. It requires building into the contest the assumption that one must be at least 15 points better on a given day so as to not allow the in game frustrations to cause a loss of focus while things play out, and frequently even being that superior on a given day is not sufficient.

4. This is the most important one....ku operates on an entirely unlevel playing field. They make no attempts to try to adhere to the rules everyone else is governed by, and when it is exposed that they didn't they go to great lengths to ensure that they receive no meaningful punishment. To ask our coaching staff to be judged based on comparisons to a program that operates entirely outside the rules we require them to adhere to and for our student athletes to be judged based on competition against professional players is absurd. It has directly led to a multitude of NCAA issues at MU, and will put extreme pressure on our current staff to do the same. MU can fundamentally not operate in the same manner that ku does in terms of men's basketball, so creating a rivalry knowing that to be true will end up burning MU eventually.
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The 4 main detriments of re-engaging with ku - FIJItiger MU - 10/22 10:05:39
     You’re humiliating yourself - Iam4Mizzou MU - 10/22 10:08:46
          Not buying it, you are bright enough to know that - FIJItiger MU - 10/22 10:09:49
               You’re losing touch with reality - Iam4Mizzou MU - 10/22 10:13:15




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