Division I separated into Division I-A (the predecessor to the FBS) and I-AA (predecessor of the FCS) prior to the 1978 season.
1978-1981 SLC was 1-A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_N...rogram_changes
1982 SLC dropped to 1-AAThis was the first season the Ivy League, Southern Conference, and Southland Conference competed at the I-AA (FCS) level.[7] Southwestern Louisiana] was the only team from those three conferences to remain in Division I-A, becoming an independent.
- Ivy League — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale
- Southern Conference — Appalachian State, Chattanooga, East Tennessee State, Furman, Marshall, The Citadel, VMI, and Western Carolina
- Southland Conference — Arkansas State, Lamar, Louisiana Tech, McNeese State, and Texas–Arlington
- Southwestern Louisiana, who had been a member of the Southland during the 1981 season, remained in Division I-A as an Independent. The school was renamed the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1999.
Just curious, but 1A was not called 1A until there was a 1AA right? Before that it was division 1 which confuses many Tech fans who have forgotten that we played in two division 1 bowl games in the 70s when there were only 11 or 12 bowl games total. Many of our fans are as confused about our "1A" history as they are about powder blue being on of our original colors.
More specifically for that era and to the best of my recollection, one of the three '80's state champ teams had no players go on to play at "major" colleges and that was a source of pride for Childress (state champ with no superstars). The '90 team was loaded, however.
Rodney Young - LSU and NY Giants
Bobby Williams - LSU
Roymon Malcom - Auburn
Charles Green - Nebraska
Brad Laird - NSU
Marsh Buice - McNeese
There may have been more but I can't remember.
I also may be forgetting a few but here are some additions to that 90 list. A few of these guys were Jrs on the all-world 90 team but signed as Seniors.
John Carr, WR Tech
Bryan Houston DT, ulm
Young, OL Grambling
Bonner Seamans, OL Northwestern State
Shane Coleman, OL SAU
Ron Ainsworth, DS Tech
Rutgers Logo/Old Ruston
New Ruston Logo
I think the New logo would have been better off w/o the Serifs. It would look sharp with the rounded edges. I'm guessing someone has that already trademarked and they wanted something that was uniquely theirs.
They now have 10 years to stop using the Rutgers logo.
BTW there was no lawsuit and our friends at Learfield, though not the Tech office, were in the middle of this ridiculous exchange.
Met a guy today that is a Rutgers alum. We discussed schools a bit and I brought up the tornado & Ruston High "R" thing.
He couldn't believe his school took a high school to task on the logo. He didn't think anyone would confuse a high school in Louisiana with a university in New Jersey regardless the logo. The cease & desist was out of line but he guessed he wasn't surprised by the school's admin.
Here's a good essay from Marquette Sports Law https://scholarship.law.marquette.ed...sist%20logo%22
In El Paso, New Mexico, Cathedral High School had been known as the Fighting Irish in the community for eighty-six years. Eighty-six years! Now they will just be known as the Irish.
Wisconsin has asked nearly forty schools in over two dozen states to stop using its logo and phase out its use on Web sites, uniforms and elsewhere.