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2022-09-23: Munene Chauke, waterfall office and an official during the Connecting Africa Conference.

NSHMBA Conference 2012 - Orlando, Florida, October 4th - 6th, 2012

AFGE activists visit Washington, D.C. for the union's legislative conference.

Metro Conference 1975-1995

 

The Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference, known commonly as the Metro Conference (or even less formally as the Metro 6), was founded in 1975, by six institutions who were located in urban metropolitan areas, hence the name.

 

Those founding members were:

 

Cincinnati

 

Louisville

 

Memphis (then known as Memphis State)

 

Saint Louis Univ.

 

Georgia Tech

 

Tulane

 

The conference was built around basketball and never sponsored football, though most members throughout its history had D1 football programs that competed as independents. Backed by its media partner Raycom Sports, the Metro Conference quickly became one of the strongest leagues in college basketball, highlighted by Louisville winning two national championships in the 1980s.

 

Over the years various schools joined and left the conference.

 

Membership timeline:

 

Florida State joined in 1976

 

Georgia Tech left in 1979

 

Virginia Tech joined in 1979

 

Saint Louis left in 1982

 

Southern Miss joined in 1982

 

South Carolina joined in 1983

 

Cincinnati, Memphis, South Carolina, and FSU all left in 1991

 

Charlotte, South Florida, and VCU all joined in 1991

 

Fun fact: The Metro Conference was the first conference to study the viability of a "super conference".

 

In 1990, Raycom Sports was commissioned to conduct a study on a conference that would have included members of the Metro, Atlantic 10, and Big East conferences. Penn State was also included in an early plan prior to them accepting membership to the Big Ten in December of 1989.

 

The proposed conference would have consisted of the following schools:

 

Boston College

 

Cincinnati

 

Pitt

 

Rutgers

 

Syracuse

 

Temple

 

Virginia Tech

 

West Virginia

 

East Carolina

 

Louisville

 

Memphis

 

South Carolina

 

Southern Miss

 

Tulane

 

Florida State

 

Miami

 

Here's a great article from 2011 SportsBusinessJournal.com

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2011/09/26/C...

that goes more in depth about the proposed conference. Really a must-read for any avid cfb fan/history nerd.

 

Fun fact: The Metro Conference was a parent conference to Conference USA.

 

With the proposed super conference never coming to fruition, the Metro Conference was on the verge of collapse as there was growing dissent among member schools over how to share basketball and football revenue. Ultimately some member schools had begun looking elsewhere to join conferences that sponsored football. So in 1995, the Metro and the Great Midwest conferences merged to form Conference USA.

Legacy at Machaca Camp site in Punta Gorda

12 March 2024, Rome, Italy - FAO staff pair during the 4th Global Conference of the World Banana Forum at the FAO Headquarters, (Green room).

 

Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Pier Paolo Cito. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO

AFGE activists travel to Washington, DC for the union's annual Legislative Conference.

GOTO London 2016 Conference, 13th October, Code Node, London. #GOTOldn. Images copyright www.edtelling.com

Delegates work with facilitators and subject matter experts to prioritize issues during the Wiesbaden 2022 Army Family Action Plan Conference. (Photos by Family and MWR Marketing)

A quick shot from the Agile NZ September conference in 2015.

All's Well That Ends Well performed during the Blackfriars Conference at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia on Friday, October 25, 2013.

Photo by Pat Jarrett

Photo taken at the Launch Conference by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.

 

Photo/image credit should read: (cc) Kenneth Yeung - www.snapfoc.us

Conference dinner, Echidna Gully

Scratch Conference 2016

AFGE activists travel to Washington, DC for the union's annual Legislative Conference.

-photo by Keith Mellnick

CITMA - Spring Conference 21st Mar 2024 @ The Waldorf Hotel Aldwych London

Arab Thought Foundation

Annual Conference "Fikr12"

4-5 December 2013

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

FullStack, October 2015 - the conference on JavaScript, Node & Internet of Things. Images copyright of www.edtelling.com

Photographs taken on the second day of the Blackfriars Conference at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia on Thursday, October 24, 2013.

Photo by Pat Jarrett

The First International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention Rome, Italy. Day 1, October 5, 2015. Complete conference information at phlcongress.illinois.edu.

Image © Francesco Vignali Photography

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