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Missouri’s Big 12 replacement shatters bowl records

January 5, 2012 By

West Virginia will eventually replace the Missouri Tigers in the Big 12 and Wednesday night’s performance at the Orange Bowl certainly made schools like Texas and Oklahoma to sit up and take notice.

Just days after Baylor set the bowl record for points scored in a game in their 67-56 win over Washington in the Alamo Bowl, WVU responded with a 70-33 win over Clemson.

Quarterback Geno Smith tied the record for any bowl game with six touchdown passes. Smith went 31 for 42, and had 401 yards passing to break Tom Brady’s Orange Bowl record. Smith also ran for a score, helping West Virginia move to 3-0 all-time in BCS bowl games.

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Waiting game continues for Mizzou

November 2, 2011 By

The Big 12 was in Morgantown to officially welcome West Virginia to the conference and interim commissioner Chuck Neinas says he fully expects the Mountaineers to join the Big 12 next season. The Big East says it plans to hold West Virginia to their contract which requires a 27 month waiting period before leaving the conference. As a result, West Virginia filed a lawsuit against the Big East.

Meanwhile Missouri still waits in the balance for word from the SEC. All signs certainly point to Missouri moving on. The Big 12 has omitted Missouri from its roster of schools for 2012. There was the SEC website mix up that posted a story last Thursday during game six of the World Series stating the SEC accepted Missouri (the story was written to be released this past Monday). And, MU Chancellor Brady Deaton was set to leave for a conference in India on Monday, but delayed those travel plans.

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West Virginia sues Big East

November 1, 2011 By

West Virginia filed a civil lawsuit against the Big East in an attempt to leave the conference in 2012 to join the Big 12. The suit blames commissioner John Marinatto for the instability of the conference. WVU hopes to answer that breach of contract by alleging the Big East did nothing to protect the remaining six football schools once Pitt, Syracuse and TCU left. That, WVU claims, created instability, plus the lawsuit alleges Cincinnati, Rutgers and UConn had discussions with the ACC, SEC, Big 12 and Big Ten.

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Big 12 invites WVU, SEC acknowledges web mistake

October 28, 2011 By

West Virginia, will leave the Big East conference after being formally invited Friday to join the Big 12. Big East spokesman John Paquette confirmed that the conference has been notified of West Virginia’s intentions to leave. The Big 12, meanwhile, plans to remain at 10 schools and is waiting on the departure of Missouri, which has yet to receive a formal invitation to join the Southeastern Conference.

However, SEC officials said Friday that the league’s web vendor mistakenly published a news release Thursday night announcing Missouri as the conference’s newest member. Missouri officials are currently deciding whether to leave the Big 12 for the SEC. The news release, published on the SEC’s website for a few minutes Thursday night, Missouri apparently already has made up its mind. The news story on the SEC site had a release date of Oct. 31.

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Nothing new on Mizzou’s move out of the Big 12

October 21, 2011 By

Following a two day Board of Curators meeting that wrapped up late Friday morning, there was no new announcement from the University of Missouri that they are leaving the Big 12 for the SEC. However, the board unanimously gave Chancellor Brady Deaton the authority to leave.

“We will be making a decision about pursuing an application to another conference, if we deem that in the best interests of the university,” said Deaton, who was joined by interim University of Missouri president Steve Owens and MU athletic director Mike Alden at the press briefing.

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