Which school are we?

[Duncan]

The beginning of the end was when Arkansas announced it would leave for the Southeastern Conference in 1990. The death blow came in 1993 when Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Baylor accepted invitations to join with the members of the Big Eight Conference to form the Big 12 Conference. Soon afterward, SMU, TCU and Rice accepted invitations to join the Western Athletic Conference, while Houston joined Conference USA. In May 1996, after the completions of championship matches in baseball and track & field, the Southwest Conference was officially dissolved.

[MadCat]

Baylor

[Rage Against the McKee]

Baylor

Baylor landed in a power conference for political reasons. I don't see this happening to us, as we are not tied to KU (and nobody wants KU).

[Rage Against the McKee]

I think the best parallel is SMU. They rose to great heights once, only to fall. We didn't cheat as much (or succeed as much) as them, though.

[MadCat]

I think the best parallel is SMU. They rose to great heights once, only to fall. We didn't cheat as much (or succeed as much) as them, though.

  Agreed...we are a lesser SMU sans death penalty.

[SkinnyBenny]

Does anybody else kind of think this is all karma for us poaching the SWC?  I mean I was basically 11 at the time so I didn't pay that much attention/don't remember exactly how that went down.

[felix rex]

I don't think we poached it so much as saved it once it had become a more or less Texas-only conference.