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Big 12(-2 or 3) looking at TCU
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<blockquote data-quote="Deep Purple" data-source="post: 904536" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>This is purely PR. They're not seriously interested in TCU for several reasons:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">TCU would add to their football quality, but adds nothing to their broadcast footprint. Through UT and OU, the Bevo Conference is already well-established in the DFW media market. They don't need TCU for market reasons</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">With a 43,000-capacity football stadium (48,000-50,000 with SRO), TCU doesn't offer an attractive road venue. If we expanded to 50,000 capacity, perhaps, but we're not there yet.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Unlike most teams in the Bevo Conference in most years, TCU is a genuine threat to semi-regularly beat UT and OU, possibly in their house, but particularly in Fort Worth. Not sure about OU, but UT definitely doesn't want increased risk of on-field competition.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Even outside the of the conference, TCU is already making significant inroads into poaching Texas recruits that UT and OU have also targeted. Why give TCU a bigger in-state recruiting profile than we already have?</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If they were to offer TCU, there is a genuine possibility TCU would decline and opt to stay with the Big East due to equal revenue-sharing and maintaining a football identity independent of the smothering sway of UT. That would be humiliating and unacceptable.</li> </ul><p>It ain't gonna happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deep Purple, post: 904536, member: 17"] This is purely PR. They're not seriously interested in TCU for several reasons: [list][*]TCU would add to their football quality, but adds nothing to their broadcast footprint. Through UT and OU, the Bevo Conference is already well-established in the DFW media market. They don't need TCU for market reasons[/list] [list][*]With a 43,000-capacity football stadium (48,000-50,000 with SRO), TCU doesn't offer an attractive road venue. If we expanded to 50,000 capacity, perhaps, but we're not there yet.[/list] [list][*]Unlike most teams in the Bevo Conference in most years, TCU is a genuine threat to semi-regularly beat UT and OU, possibly in their house, but particularly in Fort Worth. Not sure about OU, but UT definitely doesn't want increased risk of on-field competition.[/list] [list][*]Even outside the of the conference, TCU is already making significant inroads into poaching Texas recruits that UT and OU have also targeted. Why give TCU a bigger in-state recruiting profile than we already have?[/list] [list][*]If they were to offer TCU, there is a genuine possibility TCU would decline and opt to stay with the Big East due to equal revenue-sharing and maintaining a football identity independent of the smothering sway of UT. That would be humiliating and unacceptable.[/list] It ain't gonna happen. [/QUOTE]
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