Tulsa, SMU and Rice officials are reportedly irked...

[NavyCrimson]

good article from the Tulsa World...

here's the link from the wac board....

From the Tulsa World
November 7, 2003
From Article by Jamie Tramel

Long-range prediction: Texas Christian, which is unbeaten in football this season, is considering a move to the Mountain West Conference rather than staying in a reconfigured Conference USA with TU, SMU and Rice.

Tulsa, SMU and Rice officials are reportedly irked by what they perceive to be a TCU superiority complex, and TU president Dr. Bob Lawless made comments Wednesday indicating that TCU's overall athletic department is not superior to the athletic departments of Rice, SMU and Tulsa, citing examples like Rice's national championship baseball team and TU's nationally prominent basketball program.

On Thursday, Lawless added fuel to the fire.

Wrote Lawless in an e-mail to the Tulsa World, "In terms of conference membership with regard to TCU, I do not know which conference will have TCU as a member in the 2005 year, but I am totally confident that if TCU is a member of Conference USA, Tulsa will defeat TCU in football in the fall of 2005. However, if TCU elects to flee from this conference, there will be no opportunity to demonstrate this result."

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[CoxSMU]

At first I scoffed at the article. But it does present a good point. I think a lot of outsiders are looking at just the footbll programs being added to the C-USA program. But Tulsa, Rice, and SMU do have a lot to offer besides football...