SWC

[FlourBluffHorn]

Its time to bring back the SWC and get rid of the big 12 and have it like it used to be, more real football , constant coaches every year, players that wanted to play, no Star system, you ask them if they wanted to play for you instead of trying to kiss their asses to play for you, politics were minimal and the stadium was full all the time standing room only and player practiced like there was no tomorrow, coaches tearing their asses up cause they missed a block, coaches going over to the bench with a blackboard and teaching them the other team while they was playing not standing on sidelines with ear phones clapping, you used to not be able to bring whole team to sidelines on timeouts, they drank where they played in the huddle area, all the goal was to get to Cotton Bowl anyway ya could...now look at this mess!



Hook'em

 

[LonghornMM]

I would love to see all of the former SWC schools reunited and throw in OU and OSU as well under the old name. The Big 12 can't continue as it is for very much longer.

 

[CAHorn47]

The problem with the old SWC inn 2015 is geographic footprint. The goal of conferences today is maximizing TV revenue, which means eyeballs, which means TV markets. A Texas/Oklahoma-centric conference would not garner the kind of mega-TV deals being landed by conferences today. And, after all, money is the lubricant that keeps the athletics machines moving.

 

[speedstrength]

The mega tv deals are on the way out. Right now the big TV money is coming from cable TV subscribers who don't watch sports. Its estimated that ESPN and ESPN2 bring in around 6 bucks per subscriber and they have to be on the basic tier. Currently ESPN has about 86 million subscribers which is down from a high of about 94 million but only about 30 million subscribers regularly watch sports so 2/3rds of their subscription revenue come from people who don't watch programming. As cord cutting takes off cable companies are going to have to rework their business model. The major disruptions will be when google fiber is in more major TV markets wireless broadband becomes more affordable. The wireless broadband thing will really take off if the FCC reallocates the spectrum held for analog TV signals.

 

[BringBackRoyal]

Being in the SWC (and refusing to cheat with the big boys) was the primary reason we sucked for so long after the NCAA lost the power to regulate conference TV rights. The coaching hires were merely a symptom of the root problem.

If you enjoy seeing all of the top talent (1) leave the conference for schools that play on TV, or (2) play for conference schools that cheat with abandon, then, yes, by all means bring back the SWC or something like it.