Some are worth preserving. Others are not.

Posted on: May 7, 2020 at 22:19:34 CT

I am one who would like to play kansas as much as possible. That game, regardless of sport, is always going to be more interesting to me than virtually any other non-conference opponent we could schedule.

I'll pass on ksu. I have zero feelings about them one way or the other. They are from kansas, but they aren't kansas. There have been relatively few big games between the schools in either major sport. To me, they're a former conference opponent, not a former conference rival.

I will gladly pass on playing Nebraska. They were absolutely a team I'd consider a rival (at least in football), but I also genuinely dislike them, and I feel like they have more to gain by beating us at this point than we have by beating them. I don't want to deal with their fans, I don't want to give them ammo to come into Missouri and recruit our state, and I don't really want to hear anything about them ever again.