(09-24-2015 11:27 AM)brista21 Wrote: (09-24-2015 10:37 AM)adcorbett Wrote: ' Wrote:Dame would give up their Independent Status to join this League.
I don't know if independence was as big a deal to ND back then since there were plenty of independent teams. I think that became more valuable to them as they became one of the last holdouts and the last major independent for most of the last 25 years. Just my opinion though.
I would tend to agree, but Terry would know more than we would. Plus in that conference they'd get their USC, Navy, Army (was a regular fixture for them still) and Pitt games in no problem.
There was also the Magnolia League proposal: Duke, Rice, Vandy, Tulane, SMU and I believe some combination of Wake, Baylor and TCU were all considered as well.
Notre Dame would be happy with the trifecta of the service academies. Could this league lure some of the Big 10 to join them?
I think this article back then was trying to form a conference that is like an NFL type to get viewers and people to attend games.
If they do something like this today? Some of the schools in the major conferences would not get in like Kansas, Kansas State, Baylor, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Iowa, Iowa State, Oregon, Oregon State, Alabama, Arkansas, Ole Miss., Auburn, Georgia, South Carolina, West Virginia and Clemson.
Schools in, Washington (Seattle), California, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Colorado, Colorado State, New Mexico, Texas, TCU, SMU, Houston, Oklahoma, Missouri, Minnesota, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Rice, Notre Dame, Tulane, Memphis, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisville, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Cincinnati, Syracuse, San Diego State, UNLV, UNR, Rutgers, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Army, Navy, Air Force, Maryland, Boston College, North Carolina, NC State, Duke, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Florida, Florida State, Miami Florida, Virginia, Virginia Tech and LSU.
Others could be San Diego State, Fresno State, Sacramento State, Portland State, Boise State, Utah State, Montana, North Dakota State, Colorado State-Pueblo, UTEP, UTSA, Angelo State, West Texas A&M, Tulsa, Central Oklahoma, Wichita State, NW Missouri State, Missouri State, UALR, Northern Illinois, Ball State, Indianapolis, Dayton, Cleveland State, Chattanooga, Southern Miss, Jackson State, UAB, Alabama State, Georgia Southern, UCF, USF, Old Dominion, Georgetown, Stony Brook, Delaware, Temple, Villanova, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U. Conn. and some others.
What they wanted to do was to combat the NFL at the time by bringing all the best schools together.