TCU to the Big East

In a stunning move, the MWC suddenly invites, Notre Dame, West Virginia, Rutgers and Syracuse...



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CougarClaw wrote:
In a stunning move, the MWC suddenly invites, Notre Dame, West Virginia, Rutgers and Syracuse...



oops, I thought this was a THIS JUST IN thread

Post of the day!

This makes too much sense not to happen. The Big East is worried about getting raided, so it needs to add some quality teams. Picking up TCU would add a new market (Texas) where it does not currently have a footprint and strengthen its football numbers for evaluation. There is quite a bit of distance between teams, but then again, South Florida (in Tampa) is not exactly close to the other teams either.



Maybe it's a character flaw, but something about the MWC imploding after Utah, BYU, and TCU abandons it just pleases me. :D Especially since Nevada and Fresno will arrive to find the party has left the building. :lol:

Andy Katz was pretty much on top of the BYU-Independence saga. I'd think with his connections to a basketball conference like the Big East, he has to have heard some rumblings about this as well.

Cougarfan87 wrote:
Especially since Nevada and Fresno will arrive to find the party has left the building. :lol:

AND they payed $5 mil apiece just to get into that party...

ABYUFAN wrote:

Especially since Nevada and Fresno will arrive to find the party has left the building. :lol:

AND they payed $5 mil apiece just to get into that party...

$5 million is a lot to spend to add trips to Laramie.

Makes you wonder if TCU announces something, will Boise St., Fresno, and UNR still decide to make the jump to the MWC? I tend to think they would have a better deal staying in the WAC and renegotiating with ESPN instead of joining a crappy deal in the MWC with a TV station that is probably about to go under. Then again, ESPN might have fewer dollars to give out to them now. :D

Mars wrote:


Who's afraid of the Big Bad East?



http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/tcu-wary-of-move-to-big-east.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



"Several members of the TCU athletic department staff expressed trepidation over a potential move to The Big East. The trepidation is that TCU has figured out how to be wildly successful in the MWC in every sport but men's basketball, and a shift to a new conference will mean another adjustment and transition period. One coach told me there are no guarantees that the level of success the school has attained in one league will translate to another."

That's truly pathetic. It's the Big East for pete's sake, not the SEC.

Cougarfan87 wrote:

Who's afraid of the Big Bad East?



http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/tcu-wary-of-move-to-big-east.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



"Several members of the TCU athletic department staff expressed trepidation over a potential move to The Big East. The trepidation is that TCU has figured out how to be wildly successful in the MWC in every sport but men's basketball, and a shift to a new conference will mean another adjustment and transition period. One coach told me there are no guarantees that the level of success the school has attained in one league will translate to another."

That's truly pathetic. It's the Big East for pete's sake, not the SEC.

WORSE THAN THAT ... IT'S LIKE SAYING "WE GOT LUCKY ONCE, EITHER WE MAY NOT GET LUCKY AGAIN, OR WE'RE TOO LAZY TO TRY" :sick: :skeptic: :sulk:

Cougarfan87 wrote:
Makes you wonder if TCU announces something, will Boise St., Fresno, and UNR still decide to make the jump to the MWC? I tend to think they would have a better deal staying in the WAC and renegotiating with ESPN instead of joining a crappy deal in the MWC with a TV station that is probably about to go under. Then again, ESPN might have fewer dollars to give out to them now. :D

They'd be fools not to. And if they did, I wonder if BYU's non-sports would join the WAC... probably not, but it's a neat thought.

Italics wrote:

Makes you wonder if TCU announces something, will Boise St., Fresno, and UNR still decide to make the jump to the MWC? I tend to think they would have a better deal staying in the WAC and renegotiating with ESPN instead of joining a crappy deal in the MWC with a TV station that is probably about to go under. Then again, ESPN might have fewer dollars to give out to them now. :D

They'd be fools not to. And if they did, I wonder if BYU's non-sports would join the WAC... probably not, but it's a neat thought.

There is no way that BYU would do that to the WCC at this point. Anyway, its not much of an upgrade from the wcc.



tcu is a bunch of panzies.

Mars wrote:


Who's afraid of the Big Bad East?



http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/tcu-wary-of-move-to-big-east.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



"Several members of the TCU athletic department staff expressed trepidation over a potential move to The Big East. The trepidation is that TCU has figured out how to be wildly successful in the MWC in every sport but men's basketball, and a shift to a new conference will mean another adjustment and transition period. One coach told me there are no guarantees that the level of success the school has attained in one league will translate to another."

What a bunch of wimps! You'd think of schools TCU--the team that has gone from SWC to WAC to CUSA to MWC all in the last 15 years--would have no problem adjusting to a new conference. They're pros at it.

It is called coaching job security. Sounds like some coaches are comfy in the MWC and feel secure there, and are worried that less success for their program in the Big Least might we getting canned. It is a bit wimpy and not ambitious but I understand the human nature. They fail to see the upside though. More pay with Big least $$$, higher profile for TCU, etc.

Lawboy wrote:
It is called coaching job security. Sounds like some coaches are comfy in the MWC and feel secure there, and are worried that less success for their program in the Big Least might we getting canned. It is a bit wimpy and not ambitious but I understand the human nature. They fail to see the upside though. More pay with Big least $$$, higher profile for TCU, etc.

No Mtn!!! That should be all the motivation they need. Unless they were a big huge supporter of Hair over BYU's independence move, we all heard what Gary Patterson said, and now have painted themselves into a corner.

Mars wrote:


Who's afraid of the Big Bad East?



http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/tcu-wary-of-move-to-big-east.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



".... The trepidation is that TCU has figured out how to be wildly successful in the MWC in every sport but men's basketball...."

TCU has done well in football, baseball, and mens' and women's tennis. Other than those, they've won exactly one championship. That's hardly wildly successfull in all sports except men's basketball...

Florwood wrote:

Who's afraid of the Big Bad East?



http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/tcu-wary-of-move-to-big-east.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



".... The trepidation is that TCU has figured out how to be wildly successful in the MWC in every sport but men's basketball...."

TCU has done well in football, baseball, and mens' and women's tennis. Other than those, they've won exactly one championship. That's hardly wildly successfull in all sports except men's basketball...

That is what I was wondering too! I think it was a typo, I think they meant "mildly successful".

TCU wins the Big East easily, Big East is an AQ conf, so TCU would be crazy to stick around in the MWC if a Big East invite came.



Then we will get to laugh as Patterson eats his words.

I'm telling you guys there will be no Big East invite and here's why: those dudes back east are FASHIONISTAS! and have you seen overweight Patterson in one of his skin tight shirts? EEEK! NY would be in an uproar! ;)