Baylor vs Texas

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#29
It was the conference formed by the Texas schools and Arkansas, and lasted up until 1995 or so.

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A lot of those stories you hear about texas, A&M, SMU (and its death penalty), TCU, etc, were from that period in time. It big enough that it would likely have also been a BCS conference had it lasted until 1998.


It was also rampant with cheating, corruption, etc, amongst the schools. That's what eventually led to it folding.

After that happened the Big 8 reached out and offered membership to 4 of the schools (Texas, A&M, Texas Tech, and Baylor - which went out of its way, supposedly going behind people's backs - to make sure TCU nor SMU got that last invitation) and became the Big 12 and Arkansas moved to the SEC.
 
#30
#30
TrueOrange said:
Not the reason.

There's not two teams available that bring in enough revenue to make it worthwhile.


They'd just be serving the same pie but every team getting a smaller piece rather than how they have it now (which is that each team gets a larger piece - per school - than the other BCS conferences because, while it's a 10 team conference, they're still splitting a TV contract the base numbers of which were designed around paying for 12 teams).
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Being 2 short is the reason. Agree with there not being a strong two, though.
 
#31
#31
BIG XII CHAMPS


Goodbye Floyd Casey Stadium

Bye bye Mack Brown
 
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TrueOrange said:
It was the conference formed by the Texas schools and Arkansas, and lasted up until 1995 or so.

Southwest Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A lot of those stories you hear about texas, A&M, SMU (and its death penalty), TCU, etc, were from that period in time. It big enough that it would likely have also been a BCS conference had it lasted until 1998.


It was also rampant with cheating, corruption, etc, amongst the schools. That's what eventually led to it folding.

After that happened the Big 8 reached out and offered membership to 4 of the schools (Texas, A&M, Texas Tech, and Baylor - which went out of its way, supposedly going behind people's backs - to make sure TCU nor SMU got that last invitation) and became the Big 12 and Arkansas moved to the SEC.
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Great info! Thanks bud!
 
#40
#40
865dude said:
You guys should probably hope mack stays, or they hire a Dooley.
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Wish they would hang on to him but that ship has sailed. Maybe they'll screw the pooch with a McWilliams/Makovick type hire.
 
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