QUOTE(tcugdu @ Jun 8 2010, 04:02 PM) [snapback]571795[/snapback]
we left more conferences than Texas.
What the hell are you talking about now?
TCU has not been the demise of ANY conference (got left by UTurd, Texas A and Um, and the two coattail riders - plus Arky - in the SWC) and got left by the Mountain West Eight when we were in the WAC, then got left by Cincinnati, Louisville, and South Florida in CUSA.
That we left after a conference was gutted is not even close to substantively the same as what Texas, A&M, and the others have done...which if this deal goes down, is effectively destroy two conferences that were doing just fine. Even if Nebraska and Mizzou leave first...you telling me the Big XII wouldn't be just fine with Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor, Kansas, Colorado, Kansas State, Iowa State, and two of either TCU, BYU, and Utah?
Hell, that'd make it a BETTER football conference. But watch Texas jump ship leaving more folks who bent over backwards for them out in the cold.
Texas is the girl everyone's chasing, and that's great for them. But bein' pretty doesn't give you integrity.
And comparing what Texas will (if it goes down) have done to TWO perfectly good conferences now to TCU bolting conferences whose major members already left them is pure folly! Take off the burnt orange blinders and even you could easily see that, right?