After all, this seems to have come well after Mizzou made a decision to explore its options. All these says that the Mizzou exercised that option for the SEC. There isn’t anything here that could change a tortious interference claim for good or bad.

As for Mizzou being worth it, I wanted WVU but it appears the decision has been made.

…that’s just so left field that it makes sense (sorta). The SEC is notoriously tight lipped on such matters, but in order to avoid the 13 team disaster plan schedule they “release” this to force the Big XII-II-I+1-I+I into negotiating the early release of Missouri (and West Virginia).

As much as it pains me to say this, Clay Travis has the logical conclusion on his site. Missouri to SEC, West Va to Big Whatever, and the SEC and Big Whatever agree to preserve the Big East’s AQ bid for X years beyond the current agreement.

It’s really not a weird error. Someone probably prepared all that stuff by request for the SEC and put it online without any links to it to save time when the actual announcement (which many people pegged for last Monday) came through. Someone probably forgot to take it down, which is an easy mistake to make when there’s nothing linking to it directly.

How it came to light, I don’t know, but I’ll bet it had been sitting on the site for the whole week. SBNation has functionality for posting things without links to them like that. It’s common for web site content management systems.