Tell me about the SWC

[Underdog 28539]

UA fans were one of the reasons I was excited for their inclusion to the SEC, folks said they were great during the ‘78 FF.  Hogs made the FF in ‘78 and damn near again in ‘79 had it not been for some scrub from Indiana St.

[Beau Vine 54178]

12 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

I'm 38 and remember the Nolan Richardson vs Penders games..  Richardson had some talented teams , shame the Todd Day, Oliver Miller, Lee Mayberry teams didn't win the championship....NOT

I have a lot of respect for Nolan.  His first year or two... not smooth there with a noticeable portion of the fanbase because he wasn't Eddie Sutton and because he wasn't white. 

Students used to be able sit literally right behind the other team's bench at SMU, and we would heckle him mercilessly.  I remember his first year there, we were beating the crap out of them and a group of Arky fans up in the corner unfurled a banner that said "I'd crawl to Kentucky to bring Eddie Sutton back."  

A couple of minutes later, a friend of mine used the word "damn" while yelling at him, and Nolan went nuts, asking security to kick him out for cursing.  

I felt bad for him and wondered how he was going to make it, but he got it figured out.  

Of course, they eventually ran him off and they haven't been the same since.

[Texas Ex '02 11]

Growing up as a fan of the Horns in the 80s with both parents Texas Exes, I will always have a disdain for Arky. Then after Houston Nutt gave the upside down Horns in Austin and traveling to Fayetteville in 2004, it just reminded me how much I hated them from my youth. I love that they have won exactly 0 SEC football titles since joining in 1992. Now aggy is carrying on the same tradition of winning jack squat in SEC football along with Arky. Good luck with that hunert year decision... The aggy tears will be epic this fall, even moreso than usual, each time they falter under ol Jimbo. Can't wait. Keep bringing the lulz to Longhorn Nation. Good theater.

[Beau Vine 54178]

3 minutes ago, Underdog said:

UA fans were one of the reasons I was excited for their inclusion to the SEC, folks said they were great during the ‘78 FF.  Hogs made the FF in ‘78 and damn near again in ‘79 had it not been for some scrub from Indiana St.

The SWC tournament at Reunion Arena was always completely packed with Arky fans.  

I remember going in 1988 when I was a senior at SMU.  We had won the league, had won our semi-final, and the second semi-final was Arkansas and Baylor.  17K people, and 15K were Arky fans.  

I sat in the middle of a bunch of them, and most of them talked to me about what a great team SMU had and how they'd love to have players like Kato Armstrong and Carlton McKinney.  At halftime of their game, they brought the SMU team out to recognize them as regular season champs, and the Arkansas fans gave them a standing O.  Just great fans.

Again, I think the shitty part of their fanbase took over when they won it all in the 90s.  

[TexasBeta 1261]

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[Texas Ex '02 11]

I remember watching that '87 game on TV when I was a kid (I was 8 then). Good times... Beating them in the last second in Little Rock! Couldn't have been scripted any better.

[PencilPusher 454]

32 minutes ago, TexasBeta said:

When we had to play Arkansas in the elite 8 in 1990 that really sucked. We could have made the final 4 that year. Maybe.

89-90 Horns

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"Come Dance with Lance and the Runnin' Horns to the Elite 8" - T shirts that showed up on campus the day after we beat Xavier in the Sweet 16. One of the best sports moments from when I was in school.  Guillermo "Panama" Myers with the big block against Purdue to get into the Sweet 16. BMW offense.......it was all fun.

The 1990 tournament also had Loyola Marymount make the Elite 8 before getting clobbered by UNLV. Fun times watching the tourney that year. 

[kopp0e 1135]

Last SWC game for Texas @ aggy, before beginning XIl conference competition...

 

[Thiefery 4995]

1 hour ago, PencilPusher said:

"Come Dance with Lance and the Runnin' Horns to the Elite 8" - T shirts that showed up on campus the day after we beat Xavier in the Sweet 16. One of the best sports moments from when I was in school.  Guillermo "Panama" Myers with the big block against Purdue to get into the Sweet 16. BMW offense.......it was all fun.

The 1990 tournament also had Loyola Marymount make the Elite 8 before getting clobbered by UNLV. Fun times watching the tourney that year. 

i used to think Mays was gonna be a superstar in the nba..shows you what a ten yr old thinks..

[Beau Vine 54178]

1 minute ago, Thiefery said:

i used to think Mays was gonna be a superstar in the nba..shows you what a ten yr old thinks..

Mays and Blanks had NBA talent, but they just had zero idea how to play defense, thanks to Tanning Booth Tom.

Ironically, they were both brought here by Weltlich, and they probably had a better chance of making the NBA if he had coached them. 

[Thiefery 4995]

2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Mays and Blanks had NBA talent, but they just had zero idea how to play defense, thanks to Tanning Booth Tom.

Ironically, they were both brought here by Weltlich, and they probably had a better chance of making the NBA if he had coached them. 

Luke Axell and Gabe Munoke agree with you lol

[Zepol87 9177]

I love these threads. Do not remember anything of the SWC due to being young but my cousin hated Arkansas and had SWC stuff all over my grandparents house. 

[Underdog 28539]

Fucking Strollin’ Nolan not even getting T’d up walking off the court in that game against UT, believe the Horns ended up losing that game. 

[Longboard Horn 40262]

[smokebomb 357]

 

[Scholz 11938]

2 hours ago, kopp0e said:

Last SWC game for Texas @ aggy, before beginning XIl conference competition...

That's awesome.  Phil Fucking Dawson in what looks like the stone ages.  Dude's still in the league.

Also, James Brown was the most underrated UT QB ever.

Also, wish we had a TE like Pat Fitzgerald.

[PencilPusher 454]

Growing up in Austin, I remember the big games were always:

OU for national relevance

Arky for SWC relevance

Aggies were rarely  in the discussion for SWC glory post WWII until Jackie "FedEx" Sherrill came along. Sure, they would win a championship here or there, but from 1960-the early 80's, it was Texas and Arkansas. If memory serves, from 1960-1984, A&M won maybe 2 conference championships....same as Baylor who was dreadful until Teaff came along. Only Rice, Tech, and TCU won fewer during that period.

The A&M game was interesting and state pride was certainly at stake, but the OU and Arkansas games had much more at stake. Hell, UH was a bigger deal in the late 70's early 80's because they had better teams and were competing for the SWC championship during that period (to say nothing of the 90 UH game)

That was also during the time that not every game was on TV....remember listening to the dulcet tones of the great Ron Franklin during the early 80's on KVET 1300

[TexasBeta 1261]

Csb regarding Ron Franklin. His grandson played with my son in pop warner football. Sitting in the stands I hear his voice and it’s him! He’s talking to his son all game and I’m back in college watching a SWC game while he calls the game.


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[bad motherfucker 315]

I attended the 69 game in Fayettenam.  Got two tix from a classmate in physics. I had no date and no time to get one so me and my roomie drove from about 3pm to the middle of the night on the most treacherous fucking roads I have ever been on.  The people were horrible, the weather was horrible, and the drive back was horrible.  But I'd do it all again right now.  15-14!

Edited April 12, 2018 by bad motherfucker

[Armybrat 40797]

13 hours ago, bad motherfucker said:

I attended the 69 game in Fayettenam.  Got two tix from a classmate in physics. I had no date and no time to get one so me and my roomie drove from about 3pm to the middle of the night on the most treacherous fucking roads I have ever been on.  The people were horrible, the weather was horrible, and the drive back was horrible.  But I'd do it all again right now.  15-14!

My brother drove up for that game. On the way back home he tried to fill up his VW, but not one station in Arkansaws would sell him any gas. He barely made it across the state line to fill it up. Toothless grandma hawg fans everywhere flipping the bird at his Texas plates.

DKR wasn't joking when he said it was like parachuting into Russia.

Edited April 12, 2018 by Armybrat

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

Just rewatched the 1990 UH game. Amazing how "revolutionary" everyone thought the Run & Shoot was at the time. Now, it's called "offense".

[Don Johnson 4751]

 

[High Plains Drifter 11011]

On 4/11/2018 at 2:01 AM, Longboard Horn said:

True that. Arky hate used to be stronger than hate for ousucks back in those days.

It really was. And the OU hate for Nebraska was far stronger than their hate of UT.

[TexasBeta 1261]

 

 

Then that sob came waltzing back in for overtime.

 

We had them.

 

 

 

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[TexasBeta 1261]

Just rewatched the 1990 UH game. Amazing how "revolutionary" everyone thought the Run & Shoot was at the time. Now, it's called "offense".

Loudest game I’ve been to at Memorial. I thought Hadnot would be the next great back at Texas.

We hit Klingler like id never seen a quarterback get hit ... all night.




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[PencilPusher 454]

1 hour ago, Don Johnson said:

 

I was at this game sitting at the very front of the student section. As Beta said, we had this game......was pissed when Strollin Nolan strolled right back into the building after what we thought was an ejection. 

Kinda liked the silver jerseys though........

[TornACL 7693]

Erwin Center sounds loud AF in that Strollin Nolan game video.

[PhillyD 1257]

It amazes me that I just watched that clip of that Texas/Arkansas game and became my 18 year old self again and pissed off all over again.  I will hate Todd Day, Lee Mayberry, and Oliver Miller forever.  Nolan Richardson was a fucking coward for leaving that game and then crawling back in.

[Scholz 11938]

 

[Underdog 28539]

That was a busy court UT had back then.  

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

1 hour ago, TexasBeta said:

 

Loudest game I’ve been to at Memorial. I thought Hadnot would be the next great back at Texas.

We hit Klingler like id never seen a quarterback get hit ... all night.
 

 

Yeah, my voice was shot for a solid week after that game.

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

If we started playing Arky again on a yearly basis the hate would be cranked to 11 in about five minutes. Texas vs Arkansas is gasoline drenched gunpowder infused with nitroglycerine tucked inside a hydrogen bomb. In some ways I think the hatred was even more pure than Sooner hate. 

 

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

Aggy is a whole other deal. They are the little brother you stiffarm on the head while he flails away at you...And in the end, they are Texans, even if they are really annoying Texans. That's a family feud, in short. Arky and BlowU are actual vermin. 

[pch 1259]

On 4/5/2018 at 12:59 PM, Armybrat said:

But Humble Radio's Kern Tip voice ain't ever coming back unfortunately.

Kern Tipps and Connie Alexander after him made the Humble broadcasting network a great way to experience a ballgame if you were not there.  Listened to many a Texas game during hunting season and loved the SWC back in the 60's. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19169]

On 4/11/2018 at 6:25 PM, PencilPusher said:

The 1990 tournament also had Loyola Marymount make the Elite 8 before getting clobbered by UNLV. Fun times watching the tourney that year. 

The 1990 tournament was one of the best ever.  Hank Gathers from Loyola Marymount died during their conference tournament and they went on a heck of an inspirational run.  Bo Kimble shot the first free throw of every game left handed in memory of Gathers (and swished every one of them if I recall correctly).

LMU's beat down of defending national champ Michigan in the second round was probably the best display of offensive basketball I have ever seen in my life.  Those guys couldn't miss and beat Michigan by 34 and it wasn't even that close.

[Fudge Nuggets 19169]

On 4/12/2018 at 8:31 PM, PhillyD said:

It amazes me that I just watched that clip of that Texas/Arkansas game and became my 18 year old self again and pissed off all over again.  I will hate Todd Day, Lee Mayberry, and Oliver Miller forever.  Nolan Richardson was a fucking coward for leaving that game and then crawling back in.

Say what you will, but Mayberry and Day were bad dudes.  Mayberry's behind the back, between the legs 25 footer to send it to OT was unreal.

[Dewey 3286]

As a kid, I always admired the Barn, some ruckus crowds, remember when UNLV went there, pretty sure it was 1 vs 2, jealous of that atmosphere. College ball needs more of that.

 

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Their fans are terrible though

[EastTexan 662]

On April 8, 2018 at 10:02 PM, BlueGreySky said:

 

One of my favorite aggy stories because
1) it’s true
2) it sounds like something outta fucking Animal House complete with over ragey (fake) rotc and Delta House (MOB).

 

 

Yes. Is there somewhere a vid of the MOBs performance on that glorious day in the SWC?

[NeverMarryAStripper 21850]

I remember one year when my BIL was in the aggy band. He was a senior, so it would have been early 80s. The aggy band controlled all of their moments by whistle. They were performing at Rice and several MOB members had whistles that they started blowing randomly. Aggy band members were turning every which way in total confusion. Eventually they just halted the halftime show and walked off the field. There was no love lost between aggy and the MOB.

[C-Man 27172]

On 4/11/2018 at 2:11 AM, Longboard Horn said:

 

That game was orgasmic. I covered it for The Daily Texan and remembered high-fiving my fellow DT cohort under the table on positive Texas plays. I also remember the press box effectively moving when they do that stupid-ass sideways sway thing. It was also the only time we beat aggy in my five years at UT.

[C-Man 27172]

On 4/14/2018 at 11:01 AM, Fudge Nuggets said:

The 1990 tournament was one of the best ever.  Hank Gathers from Loyola Marymount died during their conference tournament and they went on a heck of an inspirational run.  Bo Kimble shot the first free throw of every game left handed in memory of Gathers (and swished every one of them if I recall correctly).

LMU's beat down of defending national champ Michigan in the second round was probably the best display of offensive basketball I have ever seen in my life.  Those guys couldn't miss and beat Michigan by 34 and it wasn't even that close.

I just went down the 1990 tournament wormhole and according to Wiki, about a yard or two away from Gathers when he collapsed on the court was Portland Pilots guard Erik Spoelstra.

[kopp0e 1135]

Not an actual SWC game, but this was during the last days of the SWC in the annual Texas-OU game, in which Stonie "Stonewall" Clark would.not.move.an.inch on James Allen...

Growing up in Oklahoma, I always admired this game, but realised that Texas as a state/ school & the citizens of, are some baaaaaad shut yo mouth mo-fo's..! #Respect..!

 

[HOOK'EMHOOAH 1610]

On 4/11/2018 at 7:45 PM, bad motherfucker said:

I attended the 69 game in Fayettenam.  Got two tix from a classmate in physics. I had no date and no time to get one so me and my roomie drove from about 3pm to the middle of the night on the most treacherous fucking roads I have ever been on.  The people were horrible, the weather was horrible, and the drive back was horrible.  But I'd do it all again right now.  15-14!

Congratulations, you treasonous piece of shit. You dont deserve to count yourself amongst us. You might as well don crimson and move to where you belong - north of the Red goddamned River. Fuck you and everything you are about.

[Longboard Horn 40262]

[kopp0e 1135]

I hope the current rivalries with many schools in the Lone Star State, continue as conference foes in the future... That is, (other than Baylor) as I'd rather have Rice in the league...

 

[GhostofDanJones 336]

Shit let's boot out Baylor and bring in Rice.

[kopp0e 1135]

[kopp0e 1135]

6 hours ago, GhostofDanJones said:

Shit let's boot out Baylor and bring in Rice.

Agreed... 

Having a respected AAU school in the Houston area, while re-uniting old rivalries..!

 

[ousux 5595]

From my freshman year in '96:
 
 

I'd buy one of those and wear it in 2018..

and possibly beyond.

[KaiserSoze 997]

Somewhere on the Tech campus there's a really cool tribute to the SWC on the engineering key where I stubbed/broke my toe the night before I graduated... it represented every school in the conference. Even the Owls were included.

 

 

I hope it's still there.