Star reporter/Mizzou homer pushing idea of secession to Big Ten

The Kansas City Star‘s Missouri Tigers cheerleader beat writer Mike DeArmond has been banging the secession drum, saying Mizzou might leave the Big 12 for the Big 11 Ten ever since the Insight and Independence bowls took a pass on the 8-4 Tigers, sending them to Houston to play in the Texas Bowl.

The story in yesterday’s edition of the Star is pretty straightforward; the same can’t be said for DeArmond’s Campus Corner blogs. His musings have sounded like a spoiled child whining about spending December in Houston.

“If Big Ten Called, Missouri Would Listen,”

DeArmond titled his Monday blog. He claimed Missouri’s willingness to listen “with an enthusiastic

ear” was more than “just some ploy to gain leverage with the power

brokers of the Big 12.”

No. Couldn’t be a ploy to get some of the Big Ten’s sweet, sweet TV and bowl money.