Across the last few years, Missouri fans have experienced a small crisis of identity having to do with the move to the SEC.
That isn’t to say the move was a negative thing — in fact, there are very few who would ever say Missouri made the wrong move. Conference realignment, however, does come with some existential upheaval: Who is Missouri? What is Missouri doing here? What is Missouri’s purpose?
In the end, Missouri be better off in the SEC, but now it needs to start developing stories that the next generation of Tiger fans can learn and then pass on to the next-next generation of Tiger fans.