Nerdlinger
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RE: Interesting Info on Southwest Conference
(02-07-2018 02:46 PM)Attackcoog Wrote: (02-07-2018 10:04 AM)billybobby777 Wrote: (02-07-2018 04:27 AM)templefootballfan Wrote: then why did the airport 5 split from the WAC at cost of million dollars?
Because the original WAC Mountain time zone schools wanted to play each other and didn't care as much about playinging anyone else. The WAC 16 would have lasted a little longer had the move to permanent divisions not have been decided on at the 1998 WAC Spring meetings. Air Force went nuts when they found out they'd be in a division without Wyoming and Colorado St. That right there initiated the entire collapse of the The WAC 16 experiment of the late 90's.
Ive alway felt that the 16-team WAC would have been just fine had they gone with traditional east-west divisions of 8 each that kept BYU and the front range schools together. When Houston said no, the pieces were actually set up perfect to create an 8 team west with the AF, Wyoming, NM, BYU, Colorado St, SMU, TCU, and Rice. Rather than Tulsa, the 16th school should have been from the west to make the new conference balance.
What about UTEP and Utah?
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