stonewallpoke
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I still hope you guys are our conference opener next year. Preferably in Stillwater.
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gofrogs152
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I agree about not playing SMU any more. We get no credit if we beat them, lose all credibility if they beat us. And as previously stated by others, it's their Super Bowl every year and it's just another out of conference game for us.
We will now have plenty of games within driving distance for TCU fans, I see very little upside for keeping SMU on the schedule. Let them have the damn skillet...
We will now have plenty of games within driving distance for TCU fans, I see very little upside for keeping SMU on the schedule. Let them have the damn skillet...
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You're living in the WAC, CUSA and MWC past when we benefited locally from playing SMU due to more local press coverage. We will get that press x10 when we play UT, Tech, OU, and Baylor. Screw the Ponies and their crooked refs. Baylor and Tech are our new biggest rivals. Let's quit living in the past.
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More Local press coverage is still more local press coverage. We want those local kids to be TCU fans.. Not UT, Baylor, Tech, or OU fans. The Dallas kid can't afford UT/OU tickets but they can afford TCU/SMU. The only bad thing is losing. You fix that by winning.. Not running away.
Having a non-conference rival is not a bad thing.
I agree on the refs but that's something we can negotiate. Plus, I thought they were going to the Big East.
You're living in the WAC, CUSA and MWC past when we benefited locally from playing SMU due to more local press coverage. We will get that press x10 when we play UT, Tech, OU, and Baylor. Screw the Ponies and their crooked refs. Baylor and Tech are our new biggest rivals. Let's quit living in the past.
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More Local press coverage is still more local press coverage. We want those local kids to be TCU fans.. Not UT, Baylor, Tech, or OU fans. The Dallas kid can't afford UT/OU tickets but they can afford TCU/SMU. The only bad thing is losing. You fix that by winning.. Not running away.
Having a non-conference rival is not a bad thing.
I agree on the refs but that's something we can negotiate. Plus, I thought they were going to the Big East.
Delmonico
Semi-Omnipotent Being
I don't think its a given Missouri leaves in '12. I'd be willing to bet that the ultimate end-game for all of this is that Missouri stays until '13, WV stays in the Big East until then, then all the defectors (including Syr, Pitt, and whomever ends up in the Big East) leave for their destinations at that point. Only TCU and A&M will shift next year.
You don't lose all credibility if SMU beats you. You lose credibility if anyone beats you.
I prefer that every time we lose it's treated like a super bowl for the opposing team.
And had we not gotten knocked off our high horse in 2005 I have a feeling someone else would have. Losing so soon put us under the radar for MWC play instead of becoming everyones big game. We won 2 OT games, 3pts over SDSU, and beat Iowa State by 3 points in the Texas Bowl. Great season that built for better things to come. Not sure we wouldn't have pulled a Hawaii that year if we did make BCS game.
KillerFrog InD KitchenSink
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froginaustin
Active Member
The SEC seems to be somewhat litigation averse. Or at least prudently careful.
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And they've supposedly drawn a schedule for a 13-team conference.
The precedent for departing conference members sticking around for one last year so that the conference departed from will not collapse is sort of set by the WAC-to-MWC membership shift. So leaving Mizzery and WVU, not to mention all the possible defections from C-USA, in their old conferences until 2013 makes sense, as if sense had much to do with any of this.
McFroggin
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So disagreeing with you makes me arrogant? Um get over yourself.
Your argument to play SMU involves more empty seats and local press that we already will get by playing in the Big XII.
Dallas doesn't even care about SMU
You argument is poor at best. Might want to rethink who is arrogant here.
An-Cap Frog
Member
Meh. I'll wait until the Ponies have a good program for any animosity...
Young and Horned
Active Member
Why so?
An-Cap Frog
Member
TCU, your DFW Big XII team!
Thinking we should drop SMU because they are beneath us makes you arrogant. Not sure how you can argue out of that one.
I agree Dallas doesn't care about SMU most of the time with one minor exception.
They seem to care when they play TCU.
If nobody gives a rip when TCU comes to Dallas then you can bring up this stupid argument.
That time is not now and sure the hell won't be next year.
I felt the same way until I saw their idiot fans dance all over our field this year..
I was at Boise and running out onto their field was not in the thought process. Nor was doing a couple of laps around their track. We should play SMU just for the fact that we can mentor them on how to act if they ever do get a good program. It's the neighborly thing to do.
but, you can be Meh. I'm just glad GMFP won't be next year.
2314@work
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Dr. Coach Haus
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ChemicalArts
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I was hoping for a little more enforcement of the No-fans-on-the-field rule after that game.
Not to the level of police brutality or anything, but a few arrests would have been in order.
