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2022-09-23: Munene Chauke, waterfall office and an official during the Connecting Africa 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.
12 March 2024, Rome, Italy - FAO staff pair during the 4th Global Conference of the World Banana Forum at the FAO Headquarters, (Green room).
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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)
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
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AFGE activists travel to Washington, DC for the union's annual Legislative Conference.
-photo by Keith Mellnick
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