Dan Beebe Interview in the Columbia Tribune

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I knew bebe was a pompas @$ but in this article he takes it two a new level. Could somebody tell me WTH this windbag was talking about with this statement.

Another thing is, for any of our institutions, attaching themselves to a part of the country that's losing a lot of its population and probably tax base would have to be carefully inspected. Right now, Missouri is connected to a part of the country that's growing, not losing population and tax base. Probably the second- or third-highest alumni and supporter base for Missouri, like a lot of our programs, is the state of Texas and west of here. I think that kind of connection should be carefully considered. To what part of the country do you want to be connected to so you have a strong future 20, 30, 40 years from now?

So if Mizzou moves to the big 10 people would move out of Missouri causing less tax revenue???? :dunno I cannot be reading that right.

What he's saying is that places within the Big 10 (ie Detroit) are losing population and tax base while places within the Big 12 (ie most of Texas) are seeing population and tax increases. The same can be said with regards to the Pac 10 considering the tax base and population decreases going on in the state of California.

ESPN's Ivan Maisel coincidentally just wrote an informative article on Rust Belt economics and its impact on football recruiting. I posted it here.