re: Facts about Texas “destroying” two conferences.

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the SWC ceased to exist for many reasons.
1. Probation, ironically due to member schools turning each other in. SMU, TCU, and Houston were the biggest hits.
2. Oilers and Cowboys removing the eyes of their respective markets from college football, with regards to SMU, Rice, Houston, and TCU.
3. The Big 12 wanted those 2 markets, and could get them via Texas and the Ags.

The reality is, new money TV contracts, paired with the afore mentioned under performing schools from a viewership standpoint, killed the SWC.

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Sorry this is a bit long and will cause some eye bleeding.


The reality is, the SWC of the early and mid '80s was very strong. SMU was Top 5. Texas played for the NC in '83. Arkansas was strong and always in the mix for the Championship and no one liked playing there.
Baylor was a very solid program and still in the Grant Teaff era. Tech was a fun and dangerous program with Spike Dykes. Houston was playing NY Day games and had a Heisman winner. TCU had a brief revival under Jim Wacker. Rice sucked but at least they had a cool old stadium and they were the smart kids with the funny band.

Texas started picking off schools one by one as they were vulnerable using the NCAA and Dallas Morning News to do their dirty work because they controlled both. By the late '80s Arkansas had avoided the NCAA monster but had had enough and went to the SEC.

The reality is, the man who created and ran the investigations and enforcement of NCAA violations was a Texas Law Prof that was a brilliant legal mind and a complete a-hole and deeply biased SOB. The reality is that the Editor of the DMN was also a Tsip lackey who went out investigative reporters on everyone but especially SMU and A&M who in the 80's were the biggest threat to Texas.

The reality is Texas was a complete dumpster fire by the early 90s and were losing their minds. A&M won 6 SWC Titles in 8 years and beat Texas 10 of 11. They absolutely were beside themselves with rage.

The reality is that the first investigation that led to A&M's probation in '88 and Jackie's firing the NCAA admitted they could not actually prove anything. A&M was put on probation because Jackie basically told them to frick themselves because he knew everyone was cheating and it was a witch hunt so they used his lack of cooperation as "lack of institutional control" as the reason for the probation. A&M rebuilt again quickly under RC and won 3 more titles and AGAIN the DMN had an investigative reporter finding some kids who had Summer jobs but apparently didn't come to work every day and they put us on probation again (threatening the death penalty). A&M was off TV in '94 and ineligible but went undefeated anyway.

The reality is that when the Big 12 started it was arguably the strongest conference in football. Nebraska was the best program in CFB. A&M had just won 6 SWC Titles and was a powerhouse. Colorado won the NC in '90 and was still a very strong team. KState was just emerging through their best football period. Then you also had Texas and OU of course rebuilding. Yet barely a decade later and it had all gone to crap again.

The reality is, Texas is a terrible business partner that thinks everyone wants to be them and that the rules for everyone else do not apply to them. They also think they are a benevolent god like institution that generously allows other programs to bask in their glow on occasion and have never done anything wrong because as gods they are infallible.