Texas A.D. Dodds Takes A Shot At Mizzou

By the way, I hope DeLost is enjoying the fact that Mizzou took the Big 12's second largest TV market with it to the SEC while aTm gave the SEC a major TV foothold on Dodds' home turf. Texass arrogance in allowing those schools to leave has hurt the B12 big time. So let's add it up: B12 loses its second and third largest TV markets in Missouri and Colorado. SEC has to start sharing the huge Texas makret with the SEC. B12 also loses Nebraska's tiny TV market but with it loses a team with a huge regional if not national following. What does the B12 pick up in TV markets: West Freakin' Virginia. TCU adds nothing -- absolutely nothing -- to the TV markets. SEC wins big time. B12 loses big time.

February 14, 2012

Mr. Deloss Dodds, Athletics Director

University of Texas at Austin

P.O. Box 7399

Austin, TX   78713-7399

            Re:  “Take a school like Missouri.  Our bad years are better than their good years.”

Dear Mr. Dodds:

            When the facts don’t support a statement like this, I usually consider the speaker an arrogant blow-hard.

            Here are the facts:

11/12/11          Men’s Football                       17-5     Mizzou over Texas

1/14/12            Men’s Basketball                    84-73   Mizzou over Texas

1/30/12            Men’s Basketball                    67-66   Mizzou over Texas    

3/9/12              Men’s Basketball                    81-67   Mizzou over Texas

5/4/12              Men’s Baseball                       4-6       Texas over Mizzou

5/5/12              Men’s Baseball                       5-4       Mizzou over Texas

5/6/12              Men’s Baseball                       7-6       Mizzou over Texas

5/23/12            Men’s Baseball                       5-0       Mizzou over Texas

            That makes you an arrogant blow-hard.  Your bad years are just bad years, even by Missouri standards.  That is especially true given the fact that your budget is $134 million (USA Today) and lowly Missouri’s is $54 million (Columbia Business Times).  $80 million can only buy you one win in major men’s sports?  Wow!  What an idiot.  Keep your Big 12 minus two, we will enjoy the parity and honesty of the SEC.

                                                                                                            Yours truly,

                                                                                                            Lynn N. Bock

                                                                                                            New Madrid, MO

                                                                                                            University of Missouri ‘85

Cc:  Editor, Austin American-Statesman      

Dodds is a dweeb. Mizzou kicked their arses in almost every sport last year. DeLost thought Mizzou would never leave no matter how badly it was treated. He was dead wrong. And totally surprised.

Mizzou and A&M fans take note from the post's. MOST SEC fans has your back unlike the Little 12-2 fans. That doesn't mean we won't try to beat you in competition. OFF the field we are FAMILY.

Okay, I'm a fan of Spurrier. Stebe makes some of the dumbest, most colorful, funny, prescient and hilariously out of place comments in college ball. He really pisses people off, and then they just laugh and go, "That's Steve". I mean, what would a pre season be without Steve poking fun at Georgia (at least I assume he's poking fun).

But DeLoss seems to have a complex that requires him to bad mouth other programs as a way of elevating his. And this is the guy who pretty much called the shots in the BigXII before MU and A&M's departure? Every team in the Big XII should send those two schools athletic departments an anuual thank you card for forcing this guys institution to give some up to the rest of the conference.

The SEC has its problems, but we don't have DeLoss......

What I find interesting is the comments to the article.  This is from the t.u. flagship newspaper, the Austin American-Statesman!!!  The t-sips get it.  Guess losing is getting to them.  Hopefully DeLo$$ and Mack will be there for a while. 

Pretty dumb comment by dodds.

Top 3 out of the last 6 seasons for Mizzou

12-2 10-3 10-4

Bottom 3 out of the last 6 seasons for Texas

5-7 8-5 9-4

And in Basketbal Mizzou has been significantly better than Texas for a while now.

In baseball Mizzou won the series with Texas last year and won the Big 12 title.

So I’m not sure what sport that would be true in. Not Softball, Mizzou has been above Texas there for a few years. Women’s soccer has been pretty even. Maybe tennis? Track and field? And this is considering UT’s budget is twice the size of Mizzou’s.

Can't spell loss without DeLoss lately, either. He needs to worry about putting out the fires surrounding his own school right now, never mind about us.

And people wonder why we left?  Thanks to the SEC once again for making us feel welcome and part of the family.  I remember the Georgia fans at our first SEC football telling how we helped with the academic profile and were impressed with campus.  The only school that wanted to be back in a conference with Texas was TCU-at least four schools have bolted from Texas and never looked back.

Wow. Well, like they say, bad publicity is better than no publicity.

That really is odd (can't spell Dodds without it!). I'd be shocked if a (non-Spurrier) coach said that let alone the AD. Geez, be a professional and represent your school with some dignity.

Please, please Mr. Dodds, don't ever retire.

Dodds is a buffoon. Every time he opens his mouth, it makes MUs decision to leave the big twelve even better. He's jealous of A&M's success in the SEC, so he's taking pot shots at Missouri,