6-10" Keith DeWitt commits to MU (Missouri, not Marquette)

[ChicosBailBonds]

Our MU was also after him.  So Missouri lands this 6'10" kid...article touches briefly on Snaer as well.


http://blogs.columbiatribune.com/basketball/2008/08/big_man_commits_to_tigers.html

[mwbauer7]

That has always annoyed me. Why does the University of Missouri refer to itself as "MU"?

[sailwi]

I have asked the question before but have never gotten an answer as to why most of the old Big 8 schools refer to themselves as OU, KU, MU, CU but their formal title is the University of ....

[bma725]

Tough to call him a kid when he's 22 and married.  Can't say this is surprising though, Missouri promised him a starting job right away.

[OneMadWarrior]

I believe Missouri usually calls itself Mizzou. But we are a better school anyway.

[bilsu]

That has always annoyed me. Why does the University of Missouri refer to itself as "MU"?

Because UM is Michigan

[Coach Norman Dale]

I have asked the question before but have never gotten an answer as to why most of the old Big 8 schools refer to themselves as OU, KU, MU, CU but their formal title is the University of ....

I had the same question -- years ago, a good friend of mine from IU (Indiana University, not University of Idaho ) moved to Kansas City and I asked him about this bizarre form of dyslexia that plagues that area of the country.  He claims he has done some "man on the street" research and has uncovered no real reason for it.  So the mystery lingers.

[mwbauer7]

Because UM is Michigan

So come up with something original, like Mizzou--and stick with it, rather than a backwards, abbreviation.

[MARQKC]

That has always annoyed me. Why does the University of Missouri refer to itself as "MU"?

I live in Missouri, and all my Mizzou friends (including two brothers who went there) have the same question about Marquette.

then there is the University of Kansas, aka KU, not to be confused with the University of Kentucky, aka U of K.

Mizzou is a cheer, too: "M-I-Z" goes one side of the arena; "Z-O-U" responds the other.

So Big 12.

So Midwest suburban gone off to a land grant college town.

So pukey.

But then, it beats "rock chalk jayhawk."

[ChicosBailBonds]

I live in Missouri, and all my Mizzou friends (including two brothers who went there) have the same question about Marquette.

then there is the University of Kansas, aka KU, not to be confused with the University of Kentucky, aka U of K.

Mizzou is a cheer, too: "M-I-Z" goes one side of the arena; "Z-O-U" responds the other.

So Big 12.

So Midwest suburban gone off to a land grant college town.

So pukey.

But then, it beats "rock chalk jayhawk."

As a KU alum, I'll greatly disagree with you on that.  ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK.  National champs my friend!   

[jmayer1]

I live in Missouri, and all my Mizzou friends (including two brothers who went there) have the same question about Marquette.

Maybe you should hang out with people who are more intellectual because it is Marquette University and the University of Missouri.  "all my Mizzou friends (including two brothers who went there)" should take a class in appropriate language.