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247 Sports: TCU's Dublin Game Represents More Than Football, Leadership Says

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TCU's Dublin Game Represents More Than Football, Leadership Says​

Jamie Plunkett

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TCU will face North Carolina in Dublin, Ireland next year for a Week Zero college football game, and according to university leadership, the trip represents far more than just an opportunity to kick off the season on an international stage.

Chancellor Daniel Pullin, Athletic Director Mike Buddie, and Ireland's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Neale Richmond recently held a panel discussion about the game, and the conversation revealed just how much thought has gone into making this more than a standard football trip.

"We're so proud of our amazing faculty and staff, and the work that we do here in Fort Worth," Pullin said. "In our classrooms, in our performance halls and the laboratories on this beautiful campus. But we also recognize that everything that we're learning in the classroom, teaching our students, is best applied when we're not on campus."

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Dr. Coach Haus

Dr. Coach Haus

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I am not sure that I really care about sending players over there to contribute to their travel and game experience. They are already getting paid. They have more control than we wish at times. At the expense of fans who enjoy home games and are not the filthy rich.
In terms of the World Cup, will the students be put out if TCU is a base camp? Restricted access to areas they may have had access to for security reasons? This might be a stretch from me, but WGAS.

Global brand? Going to Ireland and playing there is helping our global brand? Bringing in more Irish students? In all reality, they want the foreign exchange students because many do not require aid from TCU and those that do are potentially brilliant.
 

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