TCU to join Big East?

#3
#3
Don't know how accurate it is but saw a statement yesterday that said it was 1300 miles from TCU to UConn and 1200 miles from Nebraska to PennSt.
 
#4
#4
I don't consider leaving the MWC for BCS leagues running for the hills. More like running for greener pastures.
 
#5
#5
I wonder if Big East will make TCU a Texas/Big XII type deal. Give them a bigger piece of the pie. TCU would be in same situation as FSU back in the 90s.
 
#7
#7
Why is that a bad thing for them?

Who wouldn't want to move from one conference where you have to play Utah and BYU (Air Force and Wyoming are interchangeably decent teams as well) to be in the running for an at-large, instead of pasting the Big Least and getting an automatic bid?

Then after those two leave, then they get replaced by an equally solid Nevada, Fresno St. and Boise St.
 
#8
#8
Well all the good Mountain West Teams are leaving. So much for it becoming a BCS conference. Its better than the Big East
 
#9
#9
tri_vol said:
I wonder if Big East will make TCU a Texas/Big XII type deal. Give them a bigger piece of the pie. TCU would be in same situation as FSU back in the 90s.
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Texas didn't get offered any more than aTm and Ou this preseason. Furthermore, when Beebe folded in exit negotiations to Nebraska and Colorado, these "pieces of the pie" became considerably smaller.
 
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#10
UTK said:
Well all the good Mountain West Teams are leaving. So much for it becoming a BCS conference. Its better than the Big East
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They're being immediately replaced by on of the ten best football programs in America in Boise, a ranked nevada and Fresno who can be a pretty damn decent squad from time to time. The mountain west is getting better.

If Utah and byu had stayed, it would absolutely have been a power conference.
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#12
#12
spudvol said:
Don't know how accurate it is but saw a statement yesterday that said it was 1300 miles from TCU to UConn and 1200 miles from Nebraska to PennSt.
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i'd have to be inclined to say that nebraska's - being a much bigger school / athletic program - has alot more money to spend on that kind of travel then TCU


plus that's nebraska only making 1 trip that far every 2years (possibly 2 in a year if a basketball game was played there as well)


TCU would be making....probably 4 trips in the football season cross-country possibly including some combination of 4 out of Uconn, Syracuse, Rutgers, Pitt, USF, or WVU
 
#13
#13
more i've been looking on the internet makes me think this is just a rumor in response to a bunch of things written about how the Big East teams are performing the worst of all the BCS conferences (last i saw i think was 15-13?)
 
#15
#15
TrueOrange said:
more i've been looking on the internet makes me think this is just a rumor in response to a bunch of things written about how the Big East teams are performing the worst of all the BCS conferences (last i saw i think was 15-13?)
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They're the only BCS conference without a ranked team. Big East sucks.
 
#22
#22
Top to bottom the MWC would destroy the Big East. The Big East has the auto bid based on perennial perception.
 
#23
#23
top to bottom really?

Texas Christian > West Virginia
Utah > Pittsburgh (barely as evident by the game this year)
South Florida > BYU (at least this year)
Air Force > Cincinnati (barely)
Rutgers > Colorado Sate
Connecticut > UNLV
Louisville > New Mexico
Syracuse > Wyoming
 
#24
#24
BYU is having a very down year and would manhandle USF most years.

On a year-to-year basis, the top half of the MWC would destroy the top half of the Big East. Bottom half, Big East wins.
 
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