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<blockquote data-quote="Frogcrates" data-source="post: 1162193" data-attributes="member: 33000"><p>Look, one thing we've got to consider when talking about rivalries is what really drives the rivalry. Traditionally, you've had the classic academic rivalries (Harvard vs. Yale), the bordering states rivalries (UT vs. OU) and the cross-town rivalries (TCU vs. SMU), but the driving issue for so many rivalries has been recruiting.</p><p></p><p>For years TCU had a strong rivalry going with Tech (spurred on enthusiastically by Amon Carter) which was essentially billed as the battle of the two "West Texas schools" of the Southwest Conference. So much of this rivalry though, had to do with access to West Texas recruits. In that era of football, the recruiting hotbeds were generally a product of the industry that was prevalent in a particular region - in West Texas, you went after the sons of ranchers and oil field workers, in the Northeast, you went after the kids of steel workers in places like Pittsburgh, others went after the sons of coal miners, etc.</p><p></p><p>Today is much different (although you still have a lot of the old-school approach going on in some ways). Today, so many of the best players are the children of accountants, engineers and investors who live in wealthy suburbs that have football factory high schools with parents who can afford to put them through football camp every summer (see Southlake Carroll). This different orientation to recruiting changes up the role of rivalries in one of the more important traditional senses. But either way, it doesn't really support a rivalry with Baylor - a team who up until very recently was the epitome of the "don't go to TCU because they're not a BCS school like us" approach to recruiting.</p><p></p><p>A rivalry with Baylor would be a marriage of convenience at best and would serve little purpose for promoting TCU to recruits or applicants. Better, in my view, to just give them all the attention that UT gave to A&M (i.e. very little) - something that irritated the hell out of A&M. I'd take a lot more pleasure in just irritating BU by constantly reminding them of their irrelevance than to to try to build any kind of a contrived rivalry with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frogcrates, post: 1162193, member: 33000"] Look, one thing we've got to consider when talking about rivalries is what really drives the rivalry. Traditionally, you've had the classic academic rivalries (Harvard vs. Yale), the bordering states rivalries (UT vs. OU) and the cross-town rivalries (TCU vs. SMU), but the driving issue for so many rivalries has been recruiting. For years TCU had a strong rivalry going with Tech (spurred on enthusiastically by Amon Carter) which was essentially billed as the battle of the two "West Texas schools" of the Southwest Conference. So much of this rivalry though, had to do with access to West Texas recruits. In that era of football, the recruiting hotbeds were generally a product of the industry that was prevalent in a particular region - in West Texas, you went after the sons of ranchers and oil field workers, in the Northeast, you went after the kids of steel workers in places like Pittsburgh, others went after the sons of coal miners, etc. Today is much different (although you still have a lot of the old-school approach going on in some ways). Today, so many of the best players are the children of accountants, engineers and investors who live in wealthy suburbs that have football factory high schools with parents who can afford to put them through football camp every summer (see Southlake Carroll). This different orientation to recruiting changes up the role of rivalries in one of the more important traditional senses. But either way, it doesn't really support a rivalry with Baylor - a team who up until very recently was the epitome of the "don't go to TCU because they're not a BCS school like us" approach to recruiting. A rivalry with Baylor would be a marriage of convenience at best and would serve little purpose for promoting TCU to recruits or applicants. Better, in my view, to just give them all the attention that UT gave to A&M (i.e. very little) - something that irritated the hell out of A&M. I'd take a lot more pleasure in just irritating BU by constantly reminding them of their irrelevance than to to try to build any kind of a contrived rivalry with them. [/QUOTE]
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