A lot of you sound like that character "Louie", Humphrey Bogart's character's protagonist in the classic movie "Casablanca"! You are "shocked", "shocked", that SBC opponents, among a lot of others, frankly", hold MU's basketball personnel, players, in such low regard!
You were just as tone deaf a decade ago as were the MU administration, i.e., President, AD, etc., and many of the "Stuck in the 50s" Huntington's "Movers and Shakers" who were beating the drums loudly back then to "bring Danny home"! At the same time many national college basketball observers, pundits, etc., seriously questioned D'Antoni's credentials, ability to successfully recruit, etc. Too bad so many of those same folks in H-Town and at MU were lax in their visits back then to their nearest Beltone store to get NEW and/or upgraded hearing aids!!