PonySoprano wrote:Nobody thought TCU would beat USC back in 1998. TCU lobbied hard to get into the Sun Bowl that year because they knew they would have an opportunity to get a signature win. It was a gamble, but it has paid off for them.
TCU lucked into that game. The Sun Bowl had an existing contract with the WAC that ran for a couple of more years and the conference had just imploded. The Sun Bowl was PO'd and still affiliated with the WAC and neither had any interest in letting a Mountain West team go to the Sun Bowl, which left TCU. Furthermore, the Sun Bowl's sponsor at the time was Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo had just been acquired by Norwest Bank (Norwest bought Wells, but kept the name). Norwest had recently bought a lot of smaller banks, including a very well run bank in Fort Worth called Central Bank and Trust. They kept a lot of the officers from that bank and added one to the board of directors and moved a large operation and chunk of management to Fort Worth. In other words, the stars almost litterally had to friggin' align to get TCU in that bowl game and it friggin' happened.
Then, TCU played a poorly coached on its way down USC team that didn't take the game seriously. Hats off to them for winning, though.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.