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Even the Governor Says Mizzou Should Listen to the Big 10
But back to academics and a thing called the CIC, or the Committee for Institutional Cooperation.
The CIC is the collegiate academic equivalent of the athletic BCS. Composed of the current members of the Big 10 and the University of Chicago, the CIC is a consortium of academic cooperation and grant money that each year means millions to every one of its members.
No other athletic-based conference in the nation - short of the Ivy League - has anything like this that is so valuable to all of the league members.
It is why Brady Deaton and Jay Nixon are willing to listen, even eager to listen. It is why the Big 12 better take seriously the possibility that Missouri will take its footballs, and basketballs, and baseballs away from the New Southwest Conference and find a better deal in the Big Ten.
The CIC is the collegiate academic equivalent of the athletic BCS. Composed of the current members of the Big 10 and the University of Chicago, the CIC is a consortium of academic cooperation and grant money that each year means millions to every one of its members.
No other athletic-based conference in the nation - short of the Ivy League - has anything like this that is so valuable to all of the league members.
It is why Brady Deaton and Jay Nixon are willing to listen, even eager to listen. It is why the Big 12 better take seriously the possibility that Missouri will take its footballs, and basketballs, and baseballs away from the New Southwest Conference and find a better deal in the Big Ten.
Other candidates listed by the Detroit columnist were Syracuse, UConn,. Cincinnati, Louisville. And Wojnowski’s opinion is that none of those schools “bring enough.”
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