My point doesn't involve visiting fans. My point involves fans that have come to TCU games because they wanted to root for someone locally. Now, we aren't a neutral team to them. We are the enemy. And believe me--I remember in the SWC days, staying in Tulsa so we didn't have to spend any money in Fayetteville when playing the pigs. I would have NEVER even THOUGHT of going to an SMU, Rice, UT, or A&M game if they weren't playing us. Are we headed there?
And I think someone asked earlier, but I've lost the thread...how much are tickets going to be in the Big12? I've heard minimum $40/ticket/game. That's pretty steep and will further dampen enthusiasm among our casual fans, I'm afraid.
I'm not against this move--in fact, this (or the Big East) was all I thought we should have bothered to leave any of the non-auto-qualifying conferences for. I'm just concerned, now that some time has passed, what are the long-term consequences to our program going to be (not on the field--that's no concern to me at all with GP at the helm).