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<blockquote data-quote="Limey Frog" data-source="post: 3238205" data-attributes="member: 16969"><p>That's true of West Virginia; it isn't true of north Texas. Historically I would say that football in the state of Texas has benefitted from there being more programs rather than fewer. Would football at schools like TCU, Baylor, and SMU ever have reached the levels they have (at different times) reached if it weren't for the rabid, internecine culture of in-state rivalry that fueled the SWC? I don't think so. Would TCU have survived the long, dark night of the '60s-'90s unless we'd been tethered to that culture? Again, I think not. I think if you pick TCU football in 1970 up and drop it western Iowa, it slides into obscurity and never comes back. Yes, a lot of people did the hard work of bringing our program back and, in one sense, we didn't ride anyone's coattails. But in another sense, I think what has been done in Fort Worth is only possible within a broader context of college football in the state of Texas. SMU is part of that culture and history, and in a very real and important sense I think we owe what TCU football is partly to SMU football's existence.</p><p></p><p>Again, college football generally, and in Texas in particular, is nothing without rivalries. That isn't a "business" proposition, it's a cultural one.</p><p></p><p>Play the Ponies; beat the Ponies; pown the Ponies.</p><p></p><p>Honor thy father and mother, so that thou mayest have long life in the land, etc. etc. etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Limey Frog, post: 3238205, member: 16969"] That's true of West Virginia; it isn't true of north Texas. Historically I would say that football in the state of Texas has benefitted from there being more programs rather than fewer. Would football at schools like TCU, Baylor, and SMU ever have reached the levels they have (at different times) reached if it weren't for the rabid, internecine culture of in-state rivalry that fueled the SWC? I don't think so. Would TCU have survived the long, dark night of the '60s-'90s unless we'd been tethered to that culture? Again, I think not. I think if you pick TCU football in 1970 up and drop it western Iowa, it slides into obscurity and never comes back. Yes, a lot of people did the hard work of bringing our program back and, in one sense, we didn't ride anyone's coattails. But in another sense, I think what has been done in Fort Worth is only possible within a broader context of college football in the state of Texas. SMU is part of that culture and history, and in a very real and important sense I think we owe what TCU football is partly to SMU football's existence. Again, college football generally, and in Texas in particular, is nothing without rivalries. That isn't a "business" proposition, it's a cultural one. Play the Ponies; beat the Ponies; pown the Ponies. Honor thy father and mother, so that thou mayest have long life in the land, etc. etc. etc. [/QUOTE]
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