re: Question for Arkansas older fanbase.

I'm not old, but from what I understand/have heard from older alums about the SWC, what we are doing now is pretty similar to what Arkansas did in the early 90's- bolting a fricked, unstable conference for the exact opposite. Unless I'm mistaken, the SEC set the modern quota at 12 and a CCG (which every conference with a pulse just got to this year) with the help of Arkansas and SC.

I would say Arkansas played a very significant role in the "superconference" evolution, as did SC and as we and OU/OK State likely will. Without the first moves by the SEC and Arkansas/SC, who knows what conferences would look like now. I don't consider the Penn State thing all that significant because the Big 10 still remained a conference without divisions or a championship game. It was basically just a slightly larger version of the old status quo conferences.

What I don't know is if Arkansas played the role we are currently playing now, where they instigated expansion and became the 11th team and SC was brought in as 12 to even it out, or both were brought in together. I'm sure y'all know more about that than me.