{"id":549,"date":"2011-10-04T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T00:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2011-10-04T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T03:23:13","slug":"conferencepocalypse-ii-m-i-z-s-e-c-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/conferencepocalypse-ii-m-i-z-s-e-c-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferencepocalypse II: M-I-Z S-E-C, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ISU_MU_rockM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-551\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ISU_MU_rockM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ISU_MU_rockM.jpg 595w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ISU_MU_rockM-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2011\/10\/04\/3187337\/missouri-board-of-curators-votes.html\">&#8220;Missouri Board of Curators votes to explore leaving Big 12&#8221;<\/a>. This is what Nebraska did before leaving. This is what A&amp;M did before leaving. This is what Oklahoma, Texas, and Oklahoma State all did before the Pac-12 decided to stand pat.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska to the Big Ten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/article\/20100830\/BIGRED\/708309872\">happened in a week<\/a> \u2014 really, less than 48 hours. The SEC presidents meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstribune.com\/news\/2011\/oct\/02\/could-be-defining-week-conference-shuffle\/\">tomorrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An SEC with three Tigers and two Columbias. A Big Ten with 12 and a Big 12 with a number TBA. The end to the longest football rivalry west of the Mississippi and three others over 90 years. The destruction of Kansas City&#8217;s historical position in college athletics. This is quite possibly the near-future state of things.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Longer\/updated version of first linked article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20111004\/SPORTS020602\/310040094\/Missouri-curators-vote-to-explore-leaving-Big-12\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Missouri Board of Curators votes to explore leaving Big 12&#8221;. This is what Nebraska did before leaving. This is what A&amp;M did before leaving. This is what Oklahoma, Texas, and Oklahoma State all did before the Pac-12 decided to stand &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/conferencepocalypse-ii-m-i-z-s-e-c-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}