Mandel Says Bring Back Southwest Conference
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:31 amhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/09/07/realignment-mailbag/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t11_a2
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In reference to what UT-A should do:
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In reference to what UT-A should do:
My suggestion: Get the band back together. Re-create the Southwest Conference (mostly). Texas, Texas Tech, Houston, Rice, SMU, Baylor and maybe throw in UTEP and Tulsa. Only this time they'll call it the Longhorn Conference, and all games involving Texas will be shown on The Longhorn Network. The league probably won't get an AQ bid, but Texas won't need one. It will schedule Oklahoma, Notre Dame and BYU out of conference to impress the voters, and get its own qualification provision written into the BCS, a la the Irish. Problem solved.