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RE: Interesting Info on Southwest Conference
(02-02-2018 01:37 PM)Attackcoog Wrote: (02-02-2018 12:58 PM)esayem Wrote: I found this cool resource: https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw...00023.html
It has a ton of info on the Southwest Conference. Simple searches provided some interesting tidbits:
"Conference Expansion
East Carolina University General Information, 1993-1994
University of Southwestern Louisiana General Information, 1994"
"Tulane Proposal to Join the SWC, 1991"
"Conference Expansion, 1990"
"Conference Expansion, 1992"
I knew about the second one when Tulane was narrowly denied admission, but the ECU and USL bit is particularly interesting. They must have been some of the few independents after C-USA was formed. I know the SWC only considered inviting independents.
Two of the latter expansion files (1994) were likely related to the left behinds looking at possible options for rebuilding the conference. Interest in doing so was fairly low with the UH administration (which I always thought was a mistake) and the 4 remaining teams couldnt reach a consensus on who to invite. In the end, they went their separate ways a let the conference die.
That makes sense; the four schools that joined the Big 8 were invited in February 1994.
Quote:Four Southwest Conference members - Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Baylor - have been invited to join the Big Eight Conference beginning with the 1996-97 school year, the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Post and the Dallas Morning News reported in their editions today.
The Chronicle quoted three SWC school presidents and the Post and the Morning News cited sources in both leagues. The Post said the schools have until Friday to give the Big Eight a decision.
The remaining four teams in the 79-year-old SWC - Southern Methodist, Texas Christian, Rice and Houston - have been told they were not invited to join the Big Eight, the newspapers said.
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