Missouri State to Divison 1?

LOL is the best response. they suck at almost everything.

have you been to Plaster? its a dump. HS stadiums in TX are nicer
and B12 to SEC was a power 5 to power 5.
this is a jump to the big leagues.
Realistically to compete in football they need to build a 50-60k capacity stadium with state of the art facilities. Plaster holds 17,500
Northwestern just did this, and it cost 800million.
unless Bass Pro wants to pay for it, who would? Hammonds is long gone

This is so laughable and it’s really a Bball move to get into a more prestige’s bball conference, but SMS they don’t deserve the name Missouri state, can’t even compete in the basketball conference they are in and their football is atrocious.

SMS a girls basketball school! Trying to compete in football!!!

As a Grad of SMS I fully stand by my statement they have done nothing to earn that name. SMS pitched a Karen fit about how SMS was holding back their athletic programs and that a Name Change would elevate them to Mizzou status!!! Well they have not whizzed a drop in football or basketball since they changed the name and built new facilities.

I’m proud as a SMS grad to donate my hard earned cash monthly to Mizzou university and to give nothing to MSU cough cough!!

That university is ran by a bunch of girls basketball loving donors and alumni. Jeez I recall when President Keiser had to fight off the women bball/donors fans etc. who wanted the FCS football program to go D3 non-schollie …..so more money could be put into Women Sports!!! Like anyone but Parents/Grandparents and Old Folks care about Women's Sports. 


And I had read that CUSA media deal was for 750,000 per year per team not 2mil. Maybe the article I read was older. Either way SMS is not going to be relevant in either sport because they cannot compete in the NIL and top flight talent doesn’t want to come to the Hillbilly university in the Ozarks and to make it worse the School won’t put up with some of the things you have to deal with to acquire urban talent to actually compete.


I have major doubts that the Move to D1 in football will some how create or convert all the Springfield and surrounding area Basketball fans to football fans. Look at how jenky and subpar the Springfield Public Schools are in Football and how the Programs are second fiddle to Basketball and Baseball.  In truth the Springfield Metro area is just ate up with the Round ball always has been and probably always will be. That is why in the Ozark bowl it was a Team From the SCA and the Big 8 region who got the invite, cause a lot of the Springfield area schools had minimal interest or didn't even play football at that time. 



In reality MSU/SMS should be D2..... because they are Closer to a Missouri Southern or a North West Missouri state athletically than a Power 5 program. At Least Semo understand their place in Division on Basketball and FCS football.  The Bears clearly have no clue..... about how to ruin a athletic program. 

Now as the academic side sure the Name change has had some benefit although I think they greatly exaggerate that as well what else can the do after they Fought so hard to become one of many MSU universities across the Nation.  They are a Big Diploma Generator no doubt about that. 

My favorite thing sometimes about Watching MSU on TV is when ESPN/Fox has listed them as Mizz st. LOL that is so wonderful it almost hurts. 

I'd rather SMS be competitive and have the ability to win on the gridiron and hardwood than to get a few more bucks to squander and waste and not be competitive in the Division they are in now.

I guess if your goal is to be Ark. St. or North Texas then it's the right move.

And soon the days of Mid-Majors even making the Dance will be over and getting paid to play P4 schools is gonna die as well or those payouts greatly reduced. All the P4 including the SEC are soon gonna go to a 9 game conference schedule and with the playoffs as a carrot they are going to strong arm the G5 schools into playing them without the massive payout's or any payouts at all.

The ultimate goal is for there to be 3 super conferences, as it appears the B10 is going to 20 teams if the rumors are correct and the SEC will follow that path as well to keep up. I'd say the ACC and B12 lose there best teams to the B10/SEC conferences then the left overs of the ACC and the B12 join together to form the 3rd super conference. Once that happens most of the G5 schools are gonna be locked out of most stuff and be even more irrelevant than now.

I recall with Slive the former Commish of the SEC talked about in Basketball having only P5 schools at that time making the Dance in the field of 64 and zero mid-majors.... Sankey has alluded to the same thing. The major Conference schools want the NCAA revenue from the Big Dance... the NCAA get's nothing from football at all, the bowl money TV revenue etc. is conference controlled. The NCAA organization is fully funded by the tourney in March. If the Big 3 conferences break away then all that Revenue can be split up between the 60ish teams in the Super Conference.

Jeez even the new Playoff system in football is Strong Arming Notre Dame into a Conference... Only teams that play in a Conference can get a Bye game!

This is all about $$$$$$$$$$$$$ and schools like SMS etc. have no business in the same league or competing against the Power Teams at all.

Saying SMS is going to benefit from being a bigger Nobody now than they was before because the get a few more bucks that won't make a difference in their ability to compete in College sports clearly tells me all I need to know about your Opinion.

Being a Big Fish in a Little Pound is better than being a small fish in the ocean. To put it another way SMS is a 5'5 blind guy trying to play Center in the NBA!!!


SMS could be a power house in D2 or in the FCS division if they would of tried to compete and commit to doing it correctly as opposed to hamstringing coaches Like Randy Ball ,BP & all the other Football coaches from acquiring D1 cast off's with character flaws and such that could of made SMS dang good. But NOPE the MSU administration doesn't want any of that type of stuff.

I can't see SMS rolling out super Hot Hostess for Recruits either and all that implies!!! Let alone making sure that the Local LEO are on board with keeping certain things under wraps.

I'm just a realist and if you can't compete in the football division your in now why move up and if you haven't competed in the basketball Division and conference your in now for years why pretend you will some day in another conference? I can't see how winning 1 or 2 games a year in football is going to help or being the same program in CUSA is going to elevate the program either.

SMS could of been a top program in FCS football but they hamstrung the program and worked against it to benefit SMS Basketball. So now they want to try and compete in D1 football? It's maddening. Wouldn't it of been great if SMS would of been a National Title winner in FCS multiple times.... they clearly could of been if they would of invested. They didn't but now they think they can get fans and the community to buy into the Losing at a higher level? Insanity. Frustrating, Stupid and Laughable. 

Gotta agree….

only way they hitting 15k is if they convince a P5 school to come to Springfield.  and that extra 10k to watch the other team