I love my university and team and all

But why is it that sometimes we look like a bunch of monkey's trying to fuck a football?  For the last couple of months we've heard that Missouri to the Big Ten was a "done deal".  Now at about 3 ticks before midnight out of no where comes hick nation swooping in to take the first bid.  And to add insult to injury, the Nebraska chancellor, Harvey Perlman and the athletic director, Tom Osborne take the opportunity to toss Missouri under the bus as they make the announcement that they've applied for Big Ten membership. 
You'd think that as a Missouri fan I'd be used to this.  It's not like this is the first time we've watched as we inexplicably managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. We've seen fifth downs and bicycle kicked balls turn games that were won into just another horrific chapter in the history of what it's like to follow the Tigers.  And then, what could have been the worst part of all of this was the response of our leadership; yes I'm talking about Brady Deaton and Mike Alden saying that they'd been in no discussions with any other conference.  WTF?  I don't know if this is true or not, but if it was then they'd better be on the phone today, and I mean right fucking now trying to contact the commissioner of the SEC, unless they have a written agreement with the Big Ten that this is the way things had to shake out in order to collapse the Big XII and our membership will be announced next week when the conference completes it's implosion.  I don't know about you, but winding up in some makeshift version of the Big East or ACC does absolutely nothing for me.

And so now, we as fans can do nothing but wait.  We have no idea if we were in on this as part of some master plan or if we were just being used by poker players that were far better at this game than our guys were.
When you get down to it, I'm not actually crying for myself or for any of our fans.  Hell, most of us have been at this long enough that we never open a newspaper or log on to the internet without first making sure that our nut cups were firmly and comfortably in place.  The guys that I feel bad for are coaches Gary Pinkel and Mike Anderson who put their faith in the Missouri administration and have worked their asses off to put a product on the field that the university and fans could be proud of.  They, above any of us fans deserve better than what they're getting now.