Put Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, TCU, Texas Tech, Arkansas, Houston, Rice, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and SMU in a new league.
Call it the Southwestern Conference.
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Anonymous
I dont think “modest proposals” are actually supposed to be serious…
University of Miami Blanket Maker
Hire Ron Meyer and find the next Eric Dickerson and Craig James RB combo and you’ve got yourself a nostalgic nucleus for Southwestern Conference dominance.
Even though Jonathan Swift would agree with the Anonymous poster about when to use the phrase “a modest proposal” I’m a fan of the title that caught my attention.
Anonymous
Nah…makes too much sense (non-financially speaking). Besides it includes too many of those dirty have-nots.
Arkansas fan
no thanks.
Leland
Dear Arkansas fan,
Oh, maybe not….
http://www.sportingnews.com/college-football/article/2010-06-17/arkansas-reportedly-put-out-feelers-big-12
If we could poach LSU also, the Big XII would be a pretty good conference (AND numerically correct; whodathunkit).
Who is LSU’s big rival in the SEC? I don’t remember anything along the lines of a Auburn-Alabama or a Florida-Georgia rivalry, so maybe grabbing LSU isn’t ridiculously impossible. Just highly unlikely.
AUman76
Tulane use to be LSU’s big rival but I believe that series has been discontinued. By the way, I do believe The Green Wave was in the SEC once apon a time.
The bammer game is big for the tiggers as is the one with Ole Miss. So far as a rivalry like AU-UA? They ain’t but one of dem thar Iron Bowls. Sure Florida-Gawja is hyped as big but not even UGa and GT compares to the Iron Bowl. Have to look at games like daOSU-UM, USC-ND, UT-TA&M and in the old big 8..UO-Nebraska.
How bout UT,A&M,TT,Baylor,SMU,Houston,Rice,Okie,Okie State,Kansas,Mizzu and Iowa State? Could also consider Tulane, Memphis, Tulsa and Southern Miss if you wanyted a so called super conference. All those teams are a fit geographically and would open the TV market to the deep south if Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi schools were added. All three schools have tradionally played a semi SEC schedule, at least until joining their current conference.
If the SEC were to add 4 teams Southern Miss, FSU, Clemson and UNC would be good fits for travel and TV market reasons. Texas Ttams joining the SEC ain’t a gonna happen anytime soon……not unless A&M revolts and succeeds from the State of Texas.
AUman76
ooops Kansas State might wanna join that new conference too. Maybe 16 teams would actually work better for that conference.