>Absolutely it should still stand if the league is still the same basic >entity with just a few teams added or removed. Obviously leagues can >change >their names and take other structural measures that would make it a grey >area, but simply removing a team or two shouldn't make the records invalid.
This has me thinking - what should be done about records for the WAC and Mountain West conferences? The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) started some time ago (in the 60s I think) consisting of 8 schools - all in the Mountain time zone. In the 70s Arizona and Arizona State left to join the PAC 8, boosting it to PAC 10. To fill in the gap the WAC added a 3 schools - Hawaii, San Diego State, and UNLV. A decade or so later the WAC went on a growth binge and added a whole bunch of far-slung schools, essentially doubling in size. It soon became apparent that this bloated conference was too big and unwieldy, so a group of schools, consisting of all the original WAC schools except UTEP and all of the first round of added schools except Hawaii, broke away to form the Mountain West conference. So the Mountain West conference membership is almost identical to the what the WAC was through much of the 70s and 80s. But the WAC itself still exists with all these other new schools. What would would you make of old WAC records from the 70s? Are they still WAC records, or should the Mountain West claim them? Could both conferences claim them? It's an interesting case. Kurt Bray _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
