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RE: Interesting Info on Southwest Conference
(02-02-2018 05:18 PM)Attackcoog Wrote: Back then, my preferred path forward was to rebuild the SWC around the core of remaining schools. I think we only needed 2 more under the existing rules. My second favorite option was to move as a group to a new conference. We could have moved to the WAC doing just that--but UH passed on that opportunity as well.
From what I understand, the UH administration at the time thought that the remaining private schools would not be good partners going forward and that we would be better off aligning with other large public schools. The fact UH passed on options 1 and 2 above in favor of a spread out conference where our fans had zero connection to anyone we played would seem to support what ive heard. Personally, as a college football fan above all else, I absolutely hated the idea of CUSA. It seemed to be much more of a basketball first conference that I didnt think would be a very good fit for the vast majority of UH fans (or the casual college football fans in the city).
UH had too high an opinion of its value and too low an opinion of TCU, SMU and Rice. It would have been better off rebuilding the SWC instead of abandoning it. Add the same football schools-Louisville, Cincinnati, Memphis, Tulane, Southern Miss. Maybe Tulsa to get to 10. Putting back together a lot of the football schools from the MVC of the 60s/70s.
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