The new guys are so desperate to be liked.
That really sums it up right there.
Actually I might replace 'liked' with 'seen as important'.
You have Missouri fans swearing up and down that Mizzou actually turned down the B1G (Nebraska was only offered after said rejection) and was the first choice of the SEC.
haha I've seen that too, glad to see I'm not the only one that remembers it differently, granted I was busy moving my family from Wisconsin to Alabama at the time and didn't get the whole story. If I recall correctly there were plenty of rumors that we were going to invite Nebraska and/or Missouri. Then Colorado jumped ship kind of unexpectedly, then the Governor of Missouri and all kinds of people connected to Mizzou were talking up a potential move to the Big Ten and bam Nebraska got invited and they were left out in the cold...I don't remember inviting them and being turned down.