re: SMU singlehandedly destroyed the SWC. What could destroy the SEC?

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How exactly did SMU destroy the SWC?

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They didn't. The SWC had two major problems:

1. It was centered around one state (even when Arkansas was a member, this was a problem)
2. At one time six of the nine schools were on probation for recruiting violations: the only three that weren't were Arkansas, Baylor (too many poor Baptists in a small town), and Rice (too busy creating the next generation of nerds to worry about football).

Losing Arkansas (one of the conference's three major programs) hastened the end.