CFP Bracket…

[This Ain't Chopped Liver]

Some of that big money spent on a luxury football stadium and football training facilities should have been spent on a new basketball arena like Baylor’s and to support the 15 basketball scholarship players now allowed in 2025-26 with NIL.

The front porch of the annual Big Dance and March Madness brackets to promote TCU and entertain its alumni. I have been saying this for over ten years.

TCU got lucky with Patterson more than resurrecting football and became football crazed and thus could not then see the smart bet to move forward with at a small private school - hoops. Thank goodness Dixon came anyway.

 

[FroggleRock]

Some of that big money spent on a luxury football stadium and football training facilities should have been spent on a new basketball arena like Baylor’s and to support the 15 basketball scholarship players now allowed in 2025-26 with NIL.

The front porch of the The Big Dance and March Madness to promote TCU and entertain its alumni. I have been saying this for years.

The Frogs got lucky with Patterson resurrecting football but then couldn’t see the smart bet to move forward on - hoops. Thank goodness Dixon came anyway.

Agree on the basketball arena. Much better than the old obviously. But I was pretty underwhelmed at the final product. It just feels too much like the old one.

 

[Horned Toad]

I’m at the point where I’d call their bluff if I was in charge of the Big 12 and the ACC. I’d get with all the other conferences outside the SEC and BIG and get them all to agree to break off the NCAA basketball championship if they don’t quit trying to hog every damn spot and dollar available in athletics because it’s not too long before they try something like this with basketball too. This is pretty much the only leverage the smaller conferences have to play.

 

[froginaustin]

The damage has basically already been done, a lot of people just don’t realize it and/or refuse to accept it.

There is no way we’ll be able to keep up with the blue bloods on the field under this structure of pay for play and more importantly unlimited transferring. Whether we should futilely try and keep up is a very legitimate question.

There's no guarantee that what we have will last forever.
I'm willing to be patient, and see how things develop.
I don't pretend to know what might come next, but I think it's unrealistic to think that unlimited transfer and unlimited payments to players will last indefinitely.
Hang on a few years, anyway, before making an irreversible step because of a present situation that may not be permanent. TCU can commit athletic hari-kari another day, if that's really necessary at all.

 

[Wexahu]

There's no guarantee that what we have will last forever.
I'm willing to be patient, and see how things develop.
I don't pretend to know what might come next, but I think it's unrealistic to think that unlimited transfer and unlimited payments to players will last indefinitely.
Hang on a few years, anyway, before making an irreversible step because of a present situation that may not be permanent. TCU can commit athletic hari-kari another day, if that's really necessary at all.

That's fair.

But given how almost every decision made thus far seems to totally ignore competitive balance, I have serious doubts anything meaningful will get done anytime soon.

Hopefully ratings continue to fall (I think this year's CFP ratings were underwhelming and less than they expected), then they'll be forced to do something sooner rather than later. In the near term though, they'll continue to chase money by doing more short-sighted things that hurt the game even more, like further expanding the playoffs. We'll get to the point where the regular season is almost meaningless, then what?