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re: Are LSU fans a little jealous...
Posted on 12/29/10 at 9:10 pm to DaleDenton
Posted on 12/29/10 at 9:10 pm to DaleDenton
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Probably had to do with the fact that Texas politics played the part of who went to join the big 8 and who was left to form/join Con-USA/MWC.
Texas politics was not going to let the 4 that went split apart, so that would have left Arkansas with TCU as the Big8 wasn't going to not take Texas...
I did not know that. Thanks!
It is a shame because I have a lot of respect for your football program. Just cannot (at nearly the age of FIFY) ever see Arky as anything but a SWC team. However, I do recognize that younger fans will eventually see them as our rival (just like I see Tulane and Ole Miss that way).
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Posted on 12/29/10 at 9:28 pm to Wolfhound45
Arky is going to have to win the west a few more times and be the "Team to Beat" for a while to develope a rivalry. With LSU. Arky has been playing the spoiler role far to often to be taken seriously.
Posted on 12/29/10 at 9:32 pm to Wolfhound45
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I did not know that. Thanks!
It is a shame because I have a lot of respect for your football program. Just cannot (at nearly the age of FIFY) ever see Arky as anything but a SWC team. However, I do recognize that younger fans will eventually see them as our rival (just like I see Tulane and Ole Miss that way).
Texas was suppose to come to the SEC with us, but the state legislature told them they could not.
In one of Broyles last decent decisions made he saw the writing on the wall and left Texas behind. It was confirmed to him after the Big12 that the SWC was destined to collapse and had Arkansas stayed we would have been on the outside looking in during the conference realignment.
We originally had the choice between joining the SEC or what became the SWC but included OU and Okie State at that time, apparently it was a tough decision based on how different, culturally, Arkansas was from Texas/Oklahoma, yet how Arkansas was able to "identify" with them better than the other southern states...
This post was edited on 12/29/10 at 9:34 pm
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