TCU series extended to 2030?

[geno]

Over on the UT forum, their "new" AD Del Conte seems to say that before he left TCU, he extended the SMU series to 2030. He's always bragging about what he did over in Ft Worth, and this one has the Frogs fretting over on their Forum. Anybody know if that series with the Frogs has actually been extended that long?

[Bergermeister]

If I were TCU, I'd drop us like a hot potato. (If I were TCU)

[AusTxPony]

^^^Really? Why? Pretty sure win against a pretty good team. Plus usually a sellout and bragging rights. Short travel. What's not to like.

[leopold]

What's not to like is that we have everything to gain from the game and they have everything to lose.

- They don't need a rival. They play UT, Baylor, and TT, plus other teams that their fans care about such as OU, OSU, KSU, etc. Plus, they have shown the ability to schedule OOC games that matter, such as LSU, Ohio State, Arkansas, and Vanderbilt.
- They bring people to our stadium. We don't bring people to theirs.
- If they beat us they gain nothing. If we beat them we beat a potential top 10 team, year in and out. They last time we beat them it probably cost them a MUCH bigger bowl slot later in the season.

It hurts to say this but we add nothing to that schedule except for the possibility of an easy win, and see what happens if we beat them a couple of years in a row - it will be like Arky when we beat them three years in a row in the mid-nineties.

[AusTxPony]

If we can beat them, then they are not a Top Ten school! So let’s beat them a couple of years in a row and then they can drop us, the cowards.

[solomouse]

some of their older generous alums want nothing more than to beat anything that has to do with Dallas,even SMU...Yes, their money talks.

[East Coast Mustang]

^^^Really? Why? Pretty sure win against a pretty good team. Plus usually a sellout and bragging rights. Short travel. What's not to like.

Yeah, seriously. Not sure who’d they replace us with that would be better for them—they already schedule one P5 OOC and one FCS each year; they’re not going to add another P5 OOC or FCS school.

[Stallion]

They might drop us to add another home game-especially in years their 9 game conference schedule has 4 Home and 5 Away games. No real reason for Big 12 teams to play Away non-conference games especially in the 4-5 years so they can have 7 home games

[East Coast Mustang]

They might drop us to add another home game-especially in years their 9 game conference schedule has 4 Home and 5 Away games. No real reason for Big 12 teams to play Away non-conference games especially in the 4-5 years so they can have 7 home games

Perhaps, but in 12 years I wonder how economically feasible it will be for a private school like TCU to pay seven figures for another home game vs. a Sun Belt team, given the way things are going with declining attendance in CFB and people preferring to watch games on TV versus sit outside and watch a blowout. I guess you can keep the season ticket holders on the hook for another one though.

[Stallion]

First, they don't have to pay anything close to 7 figures. In 2017 the median for one of those early September games was in the $375-400,000 range. Note SMU paid NTSU $100,000 because its a recurring, regional rivalry

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/n ... 643143001/

45,000 x $90 per ticket=$4,050,000
Plus Big 12 TV revenue for Home Team
Plus concessions and the ridiculous Parking rates charged. Hell just Parking is probably worth about $400,000. Throw in Tailgate revenue which is substantial. They sold out the stadium since it was expanded (minus Road allotment and student tickets) so they just have to worry about filling the 2,000 nonconference road allotment which SMU can't even fill.