TCU joining the Big East in all sports

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Running away from Boise St.

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Odd....as that is a very expensive undertaking. Especially with their football team 1 10-2 season away from being at 30k attendance.

GM
 

Talk about a carbon footprint (with spikes no less)!
 

Wow, this makes too much sense. I can't wait to see that TCU/Connecticut tennis match.

It's the latest example of just how much the college athletics landscape is dominated by football.
 

It pulls a nail out of the BCS coffin for now. The Big East is becoming a gateway conference to BCS status. I have to imagine that TCU would bolt from the Big East for the Big XII if they get the chance. The MWC always seems to be knocking on the door of BCS status. They are losing TCU, Utah and BYU, but gaining Boise, Nevada and Fresno. About half of the football teams in the Big East weren't BCS teams a few years ago.
 


So...a lot of gas for an auto BCS bid.

Seriously, how can this be cost effective?
 

Have fun going 2-14 in basketball for the next decade. Is it really worth it to play in the Orange Bowl instead of the Fiesta Bowl?
 


They most likely played better teams in the MWC
 






Why doesn't the Big12 just nut up and take TCU now? It's going to happen eventually.

Oh, that's right. I forgot. Texa$ is a bunch of selfish, greedy b!tches.

If the Big 12 actually had any say in any of this, they would take TCU based on their current football success, and make their absolute best sales pitch ever to Arkansas. But it won't happen and things will remain non-sensical across the country because Texa$ and Notre Dame think they rule college football.
 





MrGopher said:
Why doesn't the Big12 just nut up and take TCU now? It's going to happen eventually.

Oh, that's right. I forgot. Texa$ is a bunch of selfish, greedy b!tches.

If the Big 12 actually had any say in any of this, they would take TCU based on their current football success, and make their absolute best sales pitch ever to Arkansas. But it won't happen and things will remain non-sensical across the country because Texa$ and Notre Dame think they rule college football.
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Sadly they do. Doomsday for the B10 would have been Texas going to the SEC and still somehow not coming up with Notre Dame. ESPN is doing there best to make B10 football look irrelevant and that happen ESPN wouldn't even have to try to make B10 football irrelevant, it simply would have been.
 

Is there any specific reason why Army and Navy are not candidates for Big East expansion? Or just letting them on as football-only members?
 

to be catty...

MrGopher said:
Is there any specific reason why Army and Navy are not candidates for Big East expansion? Or just letting them on as football-only members?
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They are to good?
 




SickAndTiredOfLosingToWI said:
Perhaps, but those same people now consider Colorado to be a Pacific state..... so what is their opinion really worth? :p
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I knew it would make sense to someone that Colorado would be in the Pacific12, while Hawaii would be in the Mountain West.
 

Is this going to save the Big East's AQ status?
 

TheSportsAce said:
Wow, this makes too much sense. I can't wait to see that TCU/Connecticut tennis match.
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re3886 said:
Seriously, how can this be cost effective?
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Yea, thing is they already travel ridiculous distances in the MWC. Don't believe me? Staples at SI.com already fact checked this one:
The news of TCU's move also prompted a lot of "Won't anyone think of the children" moaning about non-revenue sports teams traversing great distances to play games. The complainers probably failed geography. They should consult BatchGeocode.com, a mapping site that calculates straight-line distance. In the Big East, TCU teams will have to travel to such exotic locales as Storrs, Conn. (1,509 miles), Syracuse, N.Y. (1,353 miles), Piscataway, N.J. (1,374 miles) and Tampa, Fla. (945 miles). Had TCU remained in the Mountain West, TCU teams would have traveled to Boise, Idaho (1,267 miles), Reno, Nev. (1,337 miles), Fresno, Calif. (1,303 miles) and San Diego (1,153 miles). If the MWC eventually added Hawaii, you could tack on a 3,763-mile trip.
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Plane tickets are plane tickets. Once you're flying you're already paying about the same. So instead of flying a long way already with no guaranteed BCS money each year they move to a situation where they fly just a much (maybe a bit more) but get a guaranteed slice of the BCS money each season.
 


College Football has indeed entered a "weird" era when the landscape forces schools
such as TCU to join a league such as the Big East.

Regional Flavor- once the true spice of college football- has gone by the wayside. All
we're left with is a tasteless, odorless "same-ness".
 

metrolax said:
College Football has indeed entered a "weird" era when the landscape forces schools
such as TCU to join a league such as the Big East.
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This isn't TCU being forced. This is TCU being courted. The Big East needs TCU's history to keep its AQ. The question is whether this addition will be enough or not:

http://www.bcsfootball.org/news/story?id=5126859

This is devastating to the MWC's goal of securing an AQ.
 

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