re: TCU has been invited to Big XII

Yeah, I bet The Big East tries to nab a few schools really quick. If that doesn't work, the football conference collapses to be absorbed by whatever conferences or to become independents (?)

Notre Dame isn't going anywhere.
In the long-run I bet the Horns end up with them (Independents)

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So does the Big East file suit against TCU and/or Big 12 now?

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astute observation. the big east has lost boston college, miami, va. tech, syracuse and pittsburg. they sued over the first three and lost.

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They're going to have to bring up the 6% graduation rate

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hey their 8 year graduation rate is 33%

haters gonna hate

Knowing how t.u. works, they probably believe they destabilize the Big East by adding TCU enough to get Notre Dame to abandon ship and join them in the Big 12. I'm saying that's what they're thinking, not what's going to happen. Also, t.u. will stay at a 10 team league for a while, unless Notre Dame, for some ODD reason, decides they do want to join, because they fear that having an actual conference championship game would affect their easy schedule path to a BCS bowl every year.

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Knowing how t.u. works, they probably believe they destabilize the Big East by adding TCU enough to get Notre Dame to abandon ship and join them in the Big 12

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I actually told a Baylor fan this exact thing today - not so much in that Texas would do it in a nefarious way but that it could be an unintended consequence. Actually, I said if Louisville jumped ship THAT would be the thing to destabilize....

I don't ND does anything until it absolutely has to (e.g., NBC is up and/or sweetheart BCS deal is no longer offered).

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Unequal revenue sharing

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This again? Unequal revenue sharing was most adamantly supported by Nebraska, even though Dr. Tom Osborne cited it as the reason for leaving. What can you expect, though, from someone who took up for Lawrence Phillips and said he needed love and understanding after Phillips dragged his girlfriend down a flight of stairs and bashed her head against a mailbox.

Texas and Texas A&M also voted for it; hence, Texas was not alone.

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The Big 12 is a good sports conference, but a bad business conference. Adding TCU only reinforces and magnifies this problem.

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yea, i guess all of those highly rated business schools really flunk the test of real life.

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Good for TCU. They responded to getting left out of the Big 12 by posting 11 winning seasons in the last 15 years. Their previous 11 winning seasons up to the end of the SWC took 40 years (1956-1995). They answered the bell and improved their program.

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Thanks Baloo. Getting left out of the Big 12 was the best thing that could've happened to us. Luckily we figured out shortly after the SWC breakup how great of a marketing tool a good athletic program can be for the university. Then we shelled out money to hire Fran, which led to GMFP. But the gamechanger has been AD Chris Del Conte (CMFDC), who can raise money like nobody else. He's a straight baller and in under 3 years he's moved mountains.


For those who think our fanbase extends 100' from campus, you should take a walk around downtown Fort Worth on a Friday. You'll see the majority of people on the streets in a 700K+ town wearing purple. It wasn't the case when I was there, but the town has adopted the team in a big way. As far as viewership and marketing, there was only one school that the TV partners said their data on projected ad revenue and eyeballs didn't indicate a need to decrease the television contract if they were selected to replace A&M... That was the team selected today.