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Like children outgrowing old
friends, three charter members of
the Lone Star Conference have left
the fold and, with three Louisiana
schools, have formed a league of
their own.
The Lone Star has been a major
force in small college football, win
ning 10 of the 1 1 NAIA national ti
tles prior to 1979 before stepping up
to NCAA Division II level.
The success rate there was also
impressive with Southwest Texas
posting back-to-back national cham
pionships in 1981 and ’82.
It was perhaps that success that
helped Stephen F. Austin, South
west Texas and Sam Houston to
leave the conference to try their
hand at the NCAA Division 1 level.
The three ex-Lone Star Confer
ence teams along with Louisiana
schools — Northwestern State,
Southeastern Louisiana and Nicholls
State form the new Gulf Star Con
ference.
The conference will compete in
the Division 1 level in all sports ex
cept football, where its members are
in Division 1-AA.
The move from Division II to Di
vision I is more than a change of let
terhead. The increase in football
scholarships alone is from 45 to 75
— and those are necessary to com
pete.
The athletic department budget
at Southwest Texas had to be in
creased by about $500,GOO. The
other schools making the move have
similar adjustments, but will be
spreading them out over several sea
sons.
Southwest Texas Coach John
O’Hara pointed to the support the
move has received in the commu
nity. Donations to the Bobcat athletic
department, he said, have gone
from about $25,000 a few years ago
to more than $200,000 in San Mar
cos alone.
‘‘That gives you an idea of the
kind of support we’ve received,”
O’Hara said.
The ties to the Lone Star were
tough to break — all three departing
members had been with the confer
ence since its inception in 1931.
There was even the suggestion that
the entire conference head for Divi
sion I, but the cost caused some of
the smaller schools to balk.
Rice’s new head coach
cannot ‘outsmart’ SWC
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HOUSTON — Watson Brown
was in grade school when Bill Yeo
man took charge of Houston and
was still quarterbacking at Vander
bilt when Grant Teaff began coach
ing at Baylor, so he is quick to make
one concession in coming to the
Southwest Conference.
“I’m not going to outcoach any
body in this conference,” Rice’s 34-
year-old head football coach said.
“There are great coaches in this con
ference, so the only way we’re going
to be able to beat them is to build as
good of a team as they have.
“It won’t be because I outsmarted
them,” he said.
Brown has one year’s experience
as a head coach, a 4-6-1 season at
Cincinnati. He recognizes the leap
he’s made.
“I’m very fortunate to have the
opportunity to come into a confer
ence like the Southwest Conference.
It is the finest football conference in
the country,” he said.
Youth may be Brown’s strongest
asset in taking charge of the Owls’
football program because it will re
quire a lot of energy to bring a win
ning season to a school that hasn’t
had one in 20 years.
But Brown says at least with Rice,
1-21 over the past two seasons, you
know what you have.
“You know where you are coming
from in building a team and that is
from the ground up,” he said.
To his surprise, though, the atti
tude of his players has not required a
major overhaul.
“You’d expect these kids to be
pretty down and figure they couldn’t
win. But they were enthusiastic dur-
‘7’m better off here than I
was ut Vanderbilt, where
ive were the only private
school in the Southeast
Conference, ” Brown said.
‘Here there's Baylor,
SMU and TCV. You fig
ure you got have a chance
to compete if there are
that many other privates
in the conference."
ing spring training. They believe
they can go out and play with any
body. They want to go out and play
with anybody," he said.
A positive attitude is a necessity in
the SWC, where teams must play an
nual powers such as Texas, Arkansas
and T exas A&M every schedule.
“I’m better off here than I was at
Vanderbilt, where we were the only
private school in the Southeast Con
ference,” Brown said. “Here there's
Baylor, SMU and TCU. You figure
you got have a chance to compete if
there are that many other privates in
the conference.”
But competing with other private
SWC schools is not Brown’s objec
tive. He’s out after I fie five public
schools also. He just doesn’t know
when he’ll get them.
“We’ve got a young team, so yyu
can’t be sure who’s going to do what
or how they’re going to develop. We
got here late for the recruiting sea
son, so that hurt us. You’re tryi
offer a kid a scholarship and tell
who you are at the same time.
“It’s not something 1 can
time schedule on and say ve
have a winner in two or three ye
1 have six years (on a contract),!!
hope it doesn’t take that lonj,
said.
But he knows a turnaround
he accomplished. He saw it at 1;
dei bib as a player.
“I went to Vanderbilt a
for a team that had lost 31 strai;
But we l>eai Maryland in theses
opener on a few lucky bounoa
the hall. Thai’s all it took,
got things rolling and we knti
could win.
“I’ve seen it work and I hoi
will work," he said.
Brown is getting one thingfi
Rite many of his predecessw
not have — financial backing, Sd
of ficials announced with theta
of Brown a new commitment of
building a strong athletic progrx
Rice.
“I’ve l>een pleased with event!
I’ve seen so far. We’ve got
more alumni involvement,
about to hire a fundraiser. IA
we’re headed in the right dire®
he said. “It’s expensive buildin
pi tigram. 1 )< >1 lars count very mud
Some changes have aheadyii
place. A new weight roomandd
mg room were added to Rite
dium this summer.
"When the guys come back in
gust, they aren’t going to recoji
the place,’’ Brown said. The'
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