Quote Originally Posted by MU/Panther View Post
That's why it was sweet having a struggling G'town team beat Michigan State.
I hated that. I want that to be MU. I still don't get why teams root for the other teams in a conference your team plays in to be good?? You should want YOUR team to be the best, year in, year out, and screw everyone else. I take the reverse opinion of most. many think the better the conference, the more it helps MU. I vehemently disagree. Why do you want any of these schools to be good enough they could possibly take recruits from MU, get more notoriety than MU?? Get more national accolades than MU. I don't like MU being an afterthought, and that's exactly what they are right now in a weak conference. That's really sad. I don't want Georgetown to be good, I don't want Nova to be good, I don't want Providence to be better...all that does is give MU more competition. I said it once, I will say it again, I want MU to be the Memphis of this conference. Memphis was always ranked, always had strong recruiting classes(say what you want about how they got them), always made the NCAAs, and that was with the rest of their conference being weak. If MU has to be stuck in this crap hole conference, then the LEAST they should/can do is roll through it on a regular basis. The fact that they can't/may not even finish in the top HALF, let alone be the top 1 or 2 teams in this conference that gets all of you excited, sure as hell doesn't say much for MU does it?? And it sure as hell doesn't do a thing for their national perception(people see them as frauds or just another school that had a nice little run) does it??

And honestly, I'm not sure what it says for all of you that actually LIKE them being in this conference. Settle for less than the best and this is what you get. I personally had/have higher aspirations for MU than to be stuck in this conference. Everyone says "they are where they should be, and with schools they should be with". That's just accepting MU being small time. I don't think like that. I want more/I want them at the highest level possible. This conference is NOT that, football or not...MU should aim higher.