When You Think Of The Big East, Think Of TCU And DePaul

I might be all for it anyway though. I’d like the Big East to something, anything, to show us that it does indeed still have a pulse. Hell, worst case scenario we have another football team in here and maybe we can get some Texas recruits out of it.

Said big east football. Not conference. This is an awesome idea on several levels for BE football.

I think this would be a good idea. I wrote something about this a while ago as fan post. I’d look for it, but I’m too lazy.

First, what difference does it make that TCU is in Texas? The Big East has clearly doesn’t think of itself as an eastern entity after the invite of DePaul. It could, maybe, possibly, perhaps expand the TV footprint with the Dallas/Ft Worth market. But, remember that TCU is small for TX standards. According to Wikipedia, TCU has less than 10K students. This pales in comparison to UT, ATM, UTEP, and so forth. So, I imagine the TV expansion would be moderate at best, negligible at worst, but likely minimal.

 I also think It’d be nice for Syracuse to have another private school in the football conference. Not that it matters too much, but with the exit of BC and The U, Syracuse is the only the private school left in BE football. I don’t count ND. Maybe some type of new rivalry would emerge between TCU and SU.

Also, I’m kind of hoping TCU comes in for all sports, not exclusively football. With the additions of Nova and TCU, the BE can kick Notre Dame the hell out. The BE would gain a strong football team in TCU, and lose a very mediocre basketball team in Notre Dame. The BE could then negotiate bowl tie-ins without a “Notre Dame Option” or whatever.

I doubt TCU will join, but stranger things have happened.

Add them just for football. Why the hell not? They’re good, it weakens a conference that is a threat to our BCS status, and it gives them a BCS bid and gives our conference what is (currently) a top 10 program. Also, it gives the conference more recruiting inroads into Texas. No downside, aside from initial snickering. The travel cost issue won’t come up either, if it is just for football.

I’m in favor.

Who knows if it will work but at least it’s aggressive. If you ask me, the whole midwest DePaul and Marquette expansion is an epic failure. Could a move into Texas be any worse?

Andre Ware could have been a good NFL QB is he played like, now, instead of back when fast elusive QBs with marginal accuracy were a novelty (ahem, Michael Vick). This only makes sense in a football standpoint, although I really, really hate DePaul being in this conference more and more.

and go…..nowhere…. but dear god I love juicy gossip

and on that note:

Texans? TEXANS? WE DONT NEED NO STINKIN TEXANS!

I keep hearing stuff about the Big East losing its BCS status. why would that be? Is there any better FCS conferences that would get moved up in their Entirety to a 1A division? Or are you talking about it being completely cannibalized by other BCS conferences in one gruesome orgiastic free for all, with the leftovers scrambling for cover in other conferences?

Big East application for membership

School name:

*Year founded:

*Number of current students:

*Current conference affiliation:

*Location:

Date available to join:

• These questions are not mandatory, we don’t care about anything but the school name, and when you can pack your bags. We don’t want to say we’re desperate, but we’re F**KING desperate.

To make this form simpler for you here are the top 5 schools we are targeting. If you believe your program can match these fine schools please feel free to send in your application.

Webster University
Centenary College
Bryant University
Houston Baptist
Scottsdale Community College Fighting Artichokes

This would make TCU’s conference progression read like this:
Southwest conference
Western Athletic Conference
CUSA, where we were going to be in the West division, had we remained another year.
Mountain West Conference
Big East Conference.

As much as I’d love a BCS bid, it seems more than a little off to me. But if the Cowboys can be in the NFC East while the Rangers are in the NL West I’ll deal.

And yeah, we’re a tiny university, but we’ve had 13 years of strong bowl level seasons now, 6 ten win+ seasons in the past ten years, and even if the fans don’t care about us as much as the Aggies or Longhorns, we’re as valuable a recruiting piece as you can find. Being able to sell Texas kids on playing a few games in front of their family and friends can make committing to go to school in New England a lot more appealing.

TCU, with its recruiting base, will win 5 of the next 10 national championships

First off, Texas loves football period. HS, college, pros, they grow solid players and it is almost a religion for many in that state.

Second, expansion into the area will not only help broaden the fan base but the recruiting base as well. Nobody will mistake TCU for Texas or Texas A&M but who cares, they have a solid football program and people in the area will once a week see various teams in the Big East playing them. Some may attend SU just to play against TCU and get that one home game every two years back there. And if while in town for a game, one of the SU assistants happens to stop by a Texas HS to check out a game or two and see what he likes, would that be so wrong?

Last, I love the Big East just as much as the next guy but holy hell, it’s not like this is the SEC here and will make the conference weaker, we already have other teams for that. I don’t think it is too far of a stretch to think TCU may actually recruit better players if they play in a better division and therefore make the whole conference stronger. Add who you can get and let the rest sort itself out. I would love to see the military schools join myself but right now, take what we can get.