When I first saw this I couldn't believe the disappearence of the College swim porgarms. The Big Ten so far has kind avoided this with the Illinois Men team as the only college program dropped from the Big Ten Conference. On futher analyzing this I thought on the Men's side that 14 programs were cut from the original Southwest and Big 8 Conferences and only 3 had remained. But then I forgot that TCU and Houston are now in Conference USA and have teams. That still 5 programs gone from the original 9 teams in the Southwest and 7 programs gone from the Big 8 with Missouri the only remaining school from that original conference.
The Women duplicate the Men from the original Southwest Conference but have 4 (half) from the original Big 8 Conference. The net loss here is 9 programs with Nebraska, Kanas, and Iowa State for the Women in the original Big 8. I thought SMU had a team posssibly in another conference. Whats confusing about this is the transfering of schools to different conferences and not keeping track of them. TCU has gone from SW to WAC to Conference USA. Its mostly with the old SW Conference because 3 schools apiece went to the Big 8 and WAC. And one went to each of the SEC and Conference USA with the original breakup.
Rob, did you happen to swim for Bob Groseth who is now the coach of Northwestern. I think he was at Iowa State in the late 70's and early 80's.
When I first saw this I couldn't believe the disappearence of the College swim porgarms. The Big Ten so far has kind avoided this with the Illinois Men team as the only college program dropped from the Big Ten Conference. On futher analyzing this I thought on the Men's side that 14 programs were cut from the original Southwest and Big 8 Conferences and only 3 had remained. But then I forgot that TCU and Houston are now in Conference USA and have teams. That still 5 programs gone from the original 9 teams in the Southwest and 7 programs gone from the Big 8 with Missouri the only remaining school from that original conference.
The Women duplicate the Men from the original Southwest Conference but have 4 (half) from the original Big 8 Conference. The net loss here is 9 programs with Nebraska, Kanas, and Iowa State for the Women in the original Big 8. I thought SMU had a team posssibly in another conference. Whats confusing about this is the transfering of schools to different conferences and not keeping track of them. TCU has gone from SW to WAC to Conference USA. Its mostly with the old SW Conference because 3 schools apiece went to the Big 8 and WAC. And one went to each of the SEC and Conference USA with the original breakup.
Rob, did you happen to swim for Bob Groseth who is now the coach of Northwestern. I think he was at Iowa State in the late 70's and early 80's.
