Big East movement

[Pony81]

1. I don't get the supposed BE love affair with UH. UH has no following in the Houston area as evidenced by their poor attendance. I know SMU has a similar poor attendance but UH isn't 1/10th the academic school of SMU without the tradition / power broker influence.
2. SMU would LOVE to be in TCU's situation now. We would have unequivocally taken a CUSA offer when in the WAC (as we eventually did), and would have (until Utah and BYU bolted) taken a MWC offer. TCU got its act together before SMU - to their credit - and have prospered because of it.
3. TCU, SMU, Baylor, Rice were all bottom feeders in a UT and A&M dominated SWC. Occasionally we jumped up and made a statement but basically we were along for the ride. SMU and TCU have figured this out. We have moved along(unwillingly admitedly) and are now in conference where we can win games, generate fan support (TCU at least), and get alumni interested to the point of increased giving.
4. So, gravity is slowly taking effect. Step 1: Seperate the hangers on from the pack (SMU, TCU, Rice, Houston), Step 2: Seperate the money losers from the money makers (Baylor, TT), Step 3: UT goes independent, forms its own network and continues to print money as it should as the pre-eminent unversity in a wealthy state of 22 million people. A&M joins the SEC to seperate the brand from UT,
5. SMU, BU, TCU,TT, OSU, UH, Rice, ISU, KU, KSU form a B12 light conference and finally have the right balance of academics, athletics and media market share. This is the end game of conference re-alignment.

[froglicious]

Personally I would like to see TCU and SMU in the same conference. This is not an attendance smack post but I think other conferences notice when attendance is in the teens. I would be begging (or giving away tkts) people to come and watch you play. The iron is hot. Houston is getting mentioned because of potential. SMU has a big name coach and a CUSA contender. No reason "The Vard" shouldn't resemble the TCU game (without the Purple) every home game or close to it. It took us 10 years to build our fanbase (insert joke). You guys don't have that luxury. The time is now. Students need to get out of bed, grab their flasks and a sorority girl and get to the game.

Just sayin.

[RGV Pony]

Personally I would like to see TCU and SMU in the same conference. This is not an attendance smack post but I think other conferences notice when attendance is in the teens. I would be begging (or giving away tkts) people to come and watch you play. The iron is hot. Houston is getting mentioned because of potential. SMU has a big name coach and a CUSA contender. No reason "The Vard" shouldn't resemble the TCU game (without the Purple) every home game or close to it. It took us 10 years to build our fanbase (insert joke). You guys don't have that luxury. The time is now. Students need to get out of bed, grab their flasks and a sorority girl and get to the game.

Just sayin.

spot on.

Also, when we're aspiring for a 12-0 season when KP is a jr or sr, wouldnt hurt for all those home games to have a TCU atmosphere