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Im hearing some very disturbing news today on the TCU back channels. There have been multiple posts this morning on the message boards, from some posters who have shown to be very much on the inside, including one who I know works in the ADs office. Basically, they are saying that the SEC did in fact begin to talk more seriously to TCU about joining in recent weeks, and that the Big XII schools quickly moved to prevent this from happening. We have been talking to the SEC for over a year, meaning we have been bugging them and trying to sell TCU, and they have kinda said, "that’s nice, but we have some other schools higher on the list we are talking too as well". We kinda left them alone until the A&M deal, knowing they would need a 14th. But, in the last few weeks, (maybe the Wetzel article had an impact) the tone from the SEC got serious, and some folks were starting to think going into the last weekend, that maybe TCU could actually be the 14th SEC team. Then, this week that dream died a sudden death.
Apparently, some Big XII officials made a quiet handshake deal that if the SEC would refrain from offering TCU, then the Big XII schools would back away from the legal roadblock they have been trying to throw up to stop A&M from joining. SEC always had A&M higher than TCU, and so the agreed to back off and told TCU sorry. The news gets even more disturbing as apparently this BigXII move was agreed to by most of the BigXII, but for different reasons. Supposedly the majority of the teams agreed to it, as a condition that the BigXII would invite TCU, a move that OU for one is in favor of. But then after the Big XII got the SEC to back off, then UT basically reneged on the TCU invite. Essentially, the second part of this is that UT has turned on the rest of the Big XII on inviting TCU, and is instead trying to talk to numerous other schools about a Big XII invite. This matches with some of the rumors that have been reported this week, that the Big XII is looking at BYU, WVU, and Louisville. The WVU and Louisville rumors are particularly unsettling for TCU because it further destabilizes the Big East.
I know some of you will dismiss this as message board chatter but the people who have posted this are not you every day clowns. On the Rivals pay site, there is one guy who is never wrong when he divulges what is going on inside the Justin Center (Athletic Dept), one guy that we know works in the ADs office has basically said that all this information was in fact relayed to our AD from various other Conference officials. It appears as though UT in particular is doing everything it can to keep TCU from joining the SEC, the BigXII, and even destabilizing the BE by trying to grab some of those schools for the crumbling BigXII instead! One poster even pointed out that before this latest round of rumors that had the 4 Big XII schools (UT,Tech,OU,OkSt) going to the PAC 12, that the PAC officials had been in contact with TCU joining! There was quote from PAC commissioner Larry Scott that TCU was someone they were looking at, last month, then BAM! a fresh set of rumors about UT going to the PAC with OU, OKSt, and Tech in tow. This has already died down and has no substance, but its sure took the focus off of TCU to the PAC.
Im hearing some very disturbing news today on the TCU back channels. There have been multiple posts this morning on the message boards, from some posters who have shown to be very much on the inside, including one who I know works in the ADs office. Basically, they are saying that the SEC did in fact begin to talk more seriously to TCU about joining in recent weeks, and that the Big XII schools quickly moved to prevent this from happening. We have been talking to the SEC for over a year, meaning we have been bugging them and trying to sell TCU, and they have kinda said, "that’s nice, but we have some other schools higher on the list we are talking too as well". We kinda left them alone until the A&M deal, knowing they would need a 14th. But, in the last few weeks, (maybe the Wetzel article had an impact) the tone from the SEC got serious, and some folks were starting to think going into the last weekend, that maybe TCU could actually be the 14th SEC team. Then, this week that dream died a sudden death.
Apparently, some Big XII officials made a quiet handshake deal that if the SEC would refrain from offering TCU, then the Big XII schools would back away from the legal roadblock they have been trying to throw up to stop A&M from joining. SEC always had A&M higher than TCU, and so the agreed to back off and told TCU sorry. The news gets even more disturbing as apparently this BigXII move was agreed to by most of the BigXII, but for different reasons. Supposedly the majority of the teams agreed to it, as a condition that the BigXII would invite TCU, a move that OU for one is in favor of. But then after the Big XII got the SEC to back off, then UT basically reneged on the TCU invite. Essentially, the second part of this is that UT has turned on the rest of the Big XII on inviting TCU, and is instead trying to talk to numerous other schools about a Big XII invite. This matches with some of the rumors that have been reported this week, that the Big XII is looking at BYU, WVU, and Louisville. The WVU and Louisville rumors are particularly unsettling for TCU because it further destabilizes the Big East.
I know some of you will dismiss this as message board chatter but the people who have posted this are not you every day clowns. On the Rivals pay site, there is one guy who is never wrong when he divulges what is going on inside the Justin Center (Athletic Dept), one guy that we know works in the ADs office has basically said that all this information was in fact relayed to our AD from various other Conference officials. It appears as though UT in particular is doing everything it can to keep TCU from joining the SEC, the BigXII, and even destabilizing the BE by trying to grab some of those schools for the crumbling BigXII instead! One poster even pointed out that before this latest round of rumors that had the 4 Big XII schools (UT,Tech,OU,OkSt) going to the PAC 12, that the PAC officials had been in contact with TCU joining! There was quote from PAC commissioner Larry Scott that TCU was someone they were looking at, last month, then BAM! a fresh set of rumors about UT going to the PAC with OU, OKSt, and Tech in tow. This has already died down and has no substance, but its sure took the focus off of TCU to the PAC.
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