CDC is getting blasted on twitter and responding. If the OSU statement were false, he would happily refute it at this point. He can't.
Ohio State Home and Home?
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Gary's Shirtless Revenge
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Agreed he is awesome, but he is far from perfect... Example: Have you ever heard of +4?
Gary's Shirtless Revenge
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I think you are being sarcastic, but to be clear: TCU has never seemed to care about folks selling tickets on StubHub, nor folks buying fewer tickets.
ScottPatrick
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It is so tough to get the big programs to AGC and this was going to be huge so I understand the disappointment. However there have been rumors for a long time that OSU was going to buy-out of the deal. Not sure if they were true but if so CDC made the best move he could possibly have made, if not true then $5 mill is not enough. He could raise that on a good Thursday night dinner.
Doubt we ever get the full story but on surface it really looks bad.
Doubt we ever get the full story but on surface it really looks bad.
Dogfrog
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Oh, they care about Stubhub sales. There is an official TCU/Stubhub partnership which is promoted on gofrogs.
Big Frog II
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Well the good news is that everyone can purchase beer at the game.
Ron Swanson
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Why stop scheduling them? So we can avoid having to play huge opponents in games the whole CFB world talks about for months in advance in prime time at the biggest stadium in the world for $5MM pay days?
Oh the horror!!!!
I'd much rather have a home & home with Minnesota or Colorado /sarcasm
Ron Swanson
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I get that these kind of suck for the TCU season ticket holder, and I certainly don't want them all the time, but games like this against marquee opponents are good for our brand and are also exciting.
Definitely not worth bitching about for hours on twitter or a message board.
Definitely not worth bitching about for hours on twitter or a message board.
AroundWorldFrog
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Personally, I'm also guessing recruits will flip about this.
Wait, bad wording. Recruits will really, really like going to AT&T Stadium.
RollToad
Baylor is Trash.
Do you even internet, bro?
AroundWorldFrog
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It's like some people are just finding out that CFB is a business. A huge one.
It's somewhat disappointing because I wanted to experience the atmosphere in Columbus while pulling for my Frogs. But on the bright side who ever thought that TCU would have the opportunity to play Ohio State 5-10 years ago? TCU just landed one of the nations top recruited QBs in Robinson. Let that sink in. A kid that decided to stay close to home now has an opportunity to play against an elite program in his back yard. And those of us that live here will get to drive 20 minutes to see that game. Perspective.
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tcumaniac
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It's either that or that we're willing to throw our fans under the bus for $5million.
I know we're used to being the big bad horned frogs that will face anyone, anytime, any place. But maybe Patterson said "hey. Winning the big 12 and getting to the CFP is hard enough. We don't need to be facing Urban Meyer two years in a row if we don't have to."
TCURiggs
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This is my only real hangup. We lose a HUGE home game and now will have to shell out another $200-$300/per minimum (if you plan on parking/tailgating) to go to this "neutral site" game where we're going to be outnumbered 3 to 1. The game will be fun, and likely a highly touted event that weekend, but this move hurt season ticket holders' pockets. CDC says it's "good for the enterprise," but it's at the expense of those who support the enterprise the most.
Having said all of that, I'm not going to witch to CDC about it on Twitter. Chalk it up to "big business."
TCURiggs
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It's definitely the former. Welcome to big time athletics.
This is what's wrong with college football. I was on TCU side about fans buying through TCU for bowl games to make TCU look better but screw that because it's a "business" for fans too. Let's say we make the playoffs that year. We spend $300 bucks at Jerry world and then they expect us to go the the semi finals and championship games? Give me a break it's a business. What a load of crap
Really?
As I was saying, this thing was a mutual agreement. If you think our coaches and admin were begging and super excited to play OSU two years in a row I think you're nuts.
I hope we don't play Purdue, SMU and an FCS team in 2019. That'd be embarrassing. But don't be shocked if it happens.
