This is why Mizzou and Texas A&M hates Texas

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Since Colorado, Texas Light, Nebraska, Missouri have left, their combined CCG record is 0-4.

I guess relying on other programs for revenue is better than competing in sports.

The whorns didn't destroy the shitty SWC. The SWC was doomed to failure because all of it's teams, except one (Arky), were located in the same state in the age of TV contracts. There was no TV market money to be had.

Of those teams, three were private schools with crap programs, zero attendance, zero ticket sales, and zero TV market interest (Rice, TCU, SMU) and SMU had it's program killed by the NCAA (death penalty), while Houston was on probation.

The SWC was never going to survive and their TV money was drying up. Texas was the first to pull the fire alarm and do what the other teams all knew was coming anyway and everybody else yelled "FIRE!" and scattered.

Your right of calling yourself a Texan should automatically be removed

History Lesson for the People who like to live in the land of the Ignorant.

The SWC was created out of the SIAA. The SIAA also birthed the SoCon which ultimately led to the SEC. Texas and A&M were the only SWC members included in the SIAA. When Texas and A&M left the association it was the early 1900's and Birmingham Alabama was the only industrialized city in the South with heavy industry. This is important because Texas and A&M attempted to pull Ole Miss and LSU to the SWC along with them. They had a meeting set up in Dallas but Ole Miss and LSU never arrived and stayed attached with Bama.
Texas invited Arkansas and the Oklahoma schools. I have never found the truthful reasons why the Oklahoma schools left but they left pretty quickly to the MVC which created the Big 8.
Even with Arkansas and Texas schools the SWC for the most of the early 20th century was the conference that all conferences looked to as the premier football conference. It was superior in every aspect because of the rivarlies, location and more importantly the football. Doak Walker, Sammy Baugh, Bobby Layne and Davey O'Brein came out of this conference. Names that are forever memorialized on trophies handed out at the end of the year.
The first blow to the Southwest conference came when the Dallas Cowboys entered the NFL, second came with the introduction of Texas Tech, third came with the introduction of Houston and the final blow came with the introduction of nefarious recruiting tactics first done by Ron Meyer and SMU and then Jackie Sherril and A&M.
The most important blow of them all was the 1984 Supreme Court ruling that gave the right to broadcast games to the universities and not the NCAA. With the universities having control they could bundle the rights to the conferences who then had the ability to sell the rights to television networks like ESPN. The main university behind this was the University of Oklahoma. You have to ask OU why they believed in would be better for them to control their television rights. From everything I heard college football even on the radio was better before the ruling then after.

Texas had nothing to do with the destruction of the Southwest Conference. It was an amazing conference while it lasted but like the Big 8 is has a continued legacy in the Big XII.
The SWC nor the Big 8 will die until the Big XII dies.

It’s 2:43 am and you, a Longhorn, is on an SEC board posting about A&M ...


Obsession at its ... most pathetic.

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It’s 2:43 am and you, a Longhorn, is on an SEC board posting about A&M ...

Obsession at its ... most pathetic.

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Timestamp smack. Epic.

You are posting about Texas at 2:43am.. i’m posting on PCT about the break up of the SWC.

Everybody cheated back then and that especially included Texas. Texas just was pissed that everyone else was playing the same game and they were starting to lose. Hell the NCAA finally had to even give Texas the slightest of slaps on the wrist in the '80s for doing so.

That's all really just a distraction from the fact Texas has always only wanted to play in a conference that they dominated in every way. The concept of equality and working together simply doesn't compute. The only purpose any other school has is to serve them. They are horrific business partners and leaving them is the best thing to ever happen to A&M, most recently evidenced by how A&M surpassed them in AD revenue to take over the #1 spot nationally at $194 million.

The Big 12 now only stays together because no one can leave. The only schools that would have any chance of another conference wanting them (Texas, OU, and Kansas) are all stuck because now they are tied to their weaker public schools in their respective states that would fall out of the Power 5 if the Big 12 broke up. Politically they can't leave them now. The 4 schools that could leave have all gone.

The funniest thing to me was DeLoss Dodds sealed your fate through his arrogance. He came out and publicly stated that as long as Texas was there the Big 12 was viable. What he didn't think about was how he put handcuffs on your school while giving A&M its freedom to leave by destroying the only argument that could be used against A&M politically to force us to stay in the Big Dumpster Fire.

So enjoy your pathetic existence in the disaster that is the Big 12 (with 10 teams) that you created. We will continue to laugh at you as you suffer through another failed coaching hire and we just snap our fingers and take Jimbo Fisher from FSU. I will never get tired of watching Texas suffer.