FWST: Old neighbors Arkansas, TCU won’t recognize one another
By Gil LeBreton [email protected]
They left in a huff, as I recall.
The Texas schools didn’t like them, they said. The referees — who were all from Texas, they claimed — didn’t like them.
And once the Southeastern Conference decided to expand and began waving big-time TV bucks at Arkansas, the Razorbacks were gone.
Seventy-six years in the Southwest Conference became an instant memory, as the Hogs gleefully put the likes of Austin, College Station, Fort Worth, Waco and Lubbock in their RVs’ rearview mirrors.
College football’s expansion era had begun.