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Originally Posted by kcchief19
Funny thing is that the writer of that article, Dennis Dodd, is a Missouri alum. For some reason he's been dead set againt Missouri going to the Big 12 and has done everything he can to argue against it.
At the time and even now I think it was mistake to vote to move the Big 12 office. However, we made the deal because the Texas schools agreed to leave the Big 12 basketball tournament in KC and never touch it ... and agreement that reneged on. It was a good deal except you can't trust the trading partner.
As for Hatchell, KU and Nebraska gave us no choice. They backed the KU athletic director Bob Frederick for the commissioner job, and politically with the fans, politicians and everyone else, there was no way Missouri could vote for Frederick. If the roles had been reversed, no way would KU have voted Dan Devine for commissioner. The North should have identified a consensus candidate without ties to any school. Instead, KU and Nebraska forced us into the Hatchell or Frederick. We tried to broker a deal with the south to at least get something for their commissioner and HQ.
How did we not all realize at the time the Big 12 was doomed to fail because everyone hated everyone else?
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I don't know where you're getting that KC was promised the Big 12 basketball tourney every year if the headquarters were moved to Dallas because I don't remember that being discussed at all. If so you would have seen KU, KSU, NU, and ISU potentially voting in favor of that more so than Colorado. The fact is MU betrayed the rest of the north just as Colorado did.
As for Bob Frederick, why would you not want a guy with Big 8 ties over a guy who helped sink the SWC? Heck, KSU had less love for Bob Frederick and they were smart enough not to put their eggs in the Hatchell basket. You can say what you want, but Frederick was a much better choice as commissioner than a proven failure like Hatchell. Frederick may not have been the best athletic director, but the guy would have been right at hom as commissioner of a conference. No, Missouri made their choices.