If Claytie had won, he would have said “just sit back and enjoy it…”
(What a moron…)
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Let’s put it this way: the alumni center on Texas A&M’s campus in College Station is named for Clayton Williams. He also donated millions of dollars to the Aggies. So, I think he would have gone along with whatever deal A&M wanted to do; and, if that happened to screw UH, that would have bothered him about as much as it bothered Ann Richards, which is to say, not at all.
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As a matter of fact, Yeoman told me that the two biggest cheaters were Baylor and LSU.
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Where are all the snot noses that claim that’s all ancient history and no one hates us. Well, they did then and it screwed us over, but good.
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We have been out of the SWC longer than we were in it so it is ancient history.
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Not to this 40+ year old guy who remembers SWC so well and became a huge fan of UH during those years and also remember Andre winning the Heisman Trophy. SWC ended in 1994 (when it was announced) and 1995 the final year. 1996 was first year in CUSA, my first year in College (which wasn’t as long as some may think.)
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People who ignore history are doomed to repeat its failures…
When the SWC broke up, we were asleep at the wheel, thinking we would be fine …
We got totally hosed.
I embrace the past, so as to not get blindsided in the future.
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Southwest Classic.
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If Clayton Williams had been governor, I think A&M would have gone straight to the SEC. They wanted to leave the SWC, but weren’t that fired up to join the Big 8 schools.
Theme the tournament with some sort of retro-SWC logo. Probably would make sense to host it in Fort Worth or Dallas if Arkansas participates. Remember how they referred to Reunion Arena as “Barnhill Arena South” during the SWC basketball tournaments due to the large number of Razorback fans in the stands.
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When did she make that Commercial?? Lol…
Bob Bullock was the one who saw to it that Baylor and Tech got in. He had degrees from both and essentially held the state’s purse strings. Richards didn’t care about football. This article and every other I have seen explicitly states how Bullock arranged to get BU and Tech in by bribing/threatening Aggy. There’s nothing on Richards other than her chief of staff laughing at the very thought of her being involved in something having to do with football.
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A friend of mine was a DT at Baylor in the 70’s and played for the Raiders and Vikings in the pros. He was told which Buick dealership to go to after signing day to pick up his new car to drive to campus.
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Yes, and while Tulsa spelled backwards is “a slut” - Baylor spelled backwards (by some less educated folks) might as well be “a hypocrite.” …j/k
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It was a PSA that used to air before showing at Alamo Drafthouse, back when they were a little Austin chain.
Had to have been somewhere around 2005 with that camcorder and Kill Bill music
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Earlier tonight I read some comments from DeLoss Dodds regarding the ESPN SWC article. He commented that the current Big 12 needs to add two more teams to be complete. The self-assured hubris of that guy really eats at me, after driving off Colorado, Nebraska, Mizzou, and TAMU.
Reading the readers’ comments, a lot of folks supported adding UH, but many don’t since it doesn’t really add too many TV eyeballs. More readers seemed to support adding Cincy and BYU to the Big 12 as opposed to UH. I’m not sure the Big 12 will be as competitive as the American once it implodes and both OU and UT go their separate ways.
That’s bs about Houston not adding TV eyeballs. No conference ‘owns’ the Houston tv market, not the B12, not the SEC, none, but the conference smart enough to add UH will have their schools visiting the soon-to-be 3rd largest city in the US, with sizeable alums for just about any school in the nation. That conference will own this city
PS-this is the very reason why the B10 added freakin’ Rutgers and Maryland. Also, Cinci is not going to bring crap for TV market eyeballs. BYU I might buy because of their national following but are they bringing TV eyeballs exactly? No
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I’m not a media expert by any means, but I think the conventional wisdom is that between the Big12 (Texas, Baylor, TTU plus the Okie schools) and the SEC (TAMU and LSU), the Houston area has enough fans and game watchers. So adding UH to the B12 probably doesn’t net too many new viewers, plus the existing B12 members now have the added difficulty of recruiting against UH for Houston-area athletes.
I imagine some sort of realignment will happen within the next two to three years. What if UT, OU, and KU pull out of the B12 and head to greener pastures? Do we want to join a weakened B12? Will the B12 then scramble to fill the void with UH, Cincy, and Memphis? Perhaps this scenario is OK if the B12 remains a P5 conference.
Bottom line, we do need to be more competitive in the American (football wise) and attract more of a local following (butts in seats).
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