After announcing chancellor Brady Deaton had been granted power to make decisions about conference alignment, the Missouri Tigers board of curators answered questions from assembled media. They did not answer very many questions about UM's new retirement plan, but they did get one about the school's search for a new president.
Conference Realignment: Missouri Plans To Play In New Conference In 2012
Almost all of the queries related to conference realignment. Almost all answers amounted to, “Wait and see what Deaton comes up with.” One of the few specific answers they did give was about when they expect to join their new conference.
Despite Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas’ insistence that the Tigers will remain for another year, Missouri said they expect to play in their elected conference in 2012.
Calculate it at 99 percent certainty that Missouri will soon announce Deaton has decided the school’s athletic programs will leave the Big 12. Then there’s paperwork to file, and there are council of elders meetings to hold, and there’s a show of caution to be made.
But no school empowers an administrator to make a decision about conference realignment unless it’s made a decision about conference realignment.
For more, keep checking Mizzou blog Rock M Nation. And stay tuned here for more conference realignment news.
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