by EastStang » Thu Oct 30, 2003 11:22 am
Rice and SMU are not world beaters in hoops, but have decent teams which occasionally can pull off an upset. This year's team is young, full of sophomores and juniors. By the time SMU joins CUSA, you'll have a team of mostly juniors and seniors. They should be pretty competitve enough by then to give the Tigers a good game.
As far as TCU moving to the MWC, I'll believe it when I see it. If they go, they'll be the long term losers. MWC is no closer to a BCS bid than CUSA. Its TV contract is about to be cut. The only draws are AFA and BYU. With CUSA having Army and Navy as partial members, they equal AFA for drawing power. UH should bring more fans to Ft. Worth than BYU. The rest of CUSA would certainly do better at Ft. Worth for the Frogs than UNLV, Wyoming, SDS, UNM and Utah. TCU would forfeit money to leave CUSA and pay money to join the MWC. But hey, its their nickel.
UNC better keep that Ram away from Peruna