Mean Purple
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yup, people would gladly go to San Diego.
TCU is not a G5 (non power) conference anymore. Have not been in a long while. Too many feel we have to still accept those limited rewards.
SB Nation: TCU Football Bowl Projections
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TCU is not a G5 (non power) conference anymore. Have not been in a long while. Too many feel we have to still accept those limited rewards.
froginmn
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The playoffs have combined with the transfer portal to ruin just about every bowl game.
I can't imagine anyone traveling to a non-NY6 or playoff game within the last few years expecting their bowl to be an actual representation of either team.
Every bowl game from now on is an opportunity to visit the town, see old friends and enjoy a football game that's slightly unfamiliar.
Horned Frog Country
Overachieving Frog Hero
I feel like the program needs to remember where it came from and still have a sense of humility. This program needs to stay focused and keep winning so detractors can’t keep tearing this program down.
We also need to know who the real enemy is of TCU. I feel like ESPN would love nothing more than to see TCU play at a real low level or drop football altogether. What makes it obvious is what Stephen A Smith said about this program after the Georgia loss. The fact that nobody at ESPN corrected him that TCU actually did earn its way to the championship game which had nothing to do with excluding Florida State is very telling. The incoming athletic director would be wise to work behind the scenes to try reduce the power and influence of ESPN in college sports.
We also need to know who the real enemy is of TCU. I feel like ESPN would love nothing more than to see TCU play at a real low level or drop football altogether. What makes it obvious is what Stephen A Smith said about this program after the Georgia loss. The fact that nobody at ESPN corrected him that TCU actually did earn its way to the championship game which had nothing to do with excluding Florida State is very telling. The incoming athletic director would be wise to work behind the scenes to try reduce the power and influence of ESPN in college sports.
Diehard
Moderator
Absolutely!
Diehard
Moderator
We need another CDC. Not sure we would be playing in NM if he were still here. A hell of a politician.
Unfortunately if it's ESPN calling the shots all they care about is how many fans they have and what kind of ratings they'll draw. They'll go with a big public school over a smaller private school every time.
This is not true.
FrogAbroad
Full Member
The networks are in the eyeballs business. The bowl committees are in the butts business. And sometimes the less influential institutions just get the business.
Where has it been reported? On a message board? There is nothing anywhere by legitimate news sites about a bid being rejected. It wouldn't even make sense. Donati wouldn't have even known which bowl was taking who a week ago.
They have more alumni because they're a big state school. This stuff is going to happen every year in this league. The Big 12 needs to be like the SEC and not release it's schools to bowls until they know who the opponents are.
Instead, the Big 12 allows bowls to choose who they want regardless of who has the better team or who beat who. A week ago no one knew who was going to which bowl and there were no invites to turn down. The real issue is there were a huge number of 8-4 Big 12 teams and it was a logjam.
On the surface it's not fair, but they also beat both the Big 12 championship game participants while TCU lost to UCF and Houston. They had better wins and better losses when you consider the entire body of work.
froginmn
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If Jeremy thinks this or has sources, why doesn't he tweet it publicly?
I hope anyone who believes what they read on a paid message board wonders about that.
There were people on this board who knew we were headed to New Mexico last week. If Donati didn't know, it is because he was busy in South Carolina.
So, they do that all the time. Some of them have connections and find out who the preferences are by the bowls. It wouldn't be hard to figure out that if one bowl wants KSU and one bowl wants CU and one bowl wants TT and the other wants BU that the next thing left is the NM Bowl.
Donati wouldn't have called the Liberty Bowl before anyone knew who they were going to pick to say "If you invite us we're turning it down.". It doesn't make any sense, and even if he hated them enough to do it he's smart enough to know the news would get out about it and it would reflect more poorly on him than anyone else. I haven't seen it anywhere on Twitter or from any news source whatsoever, just from this message board.
That means nothing other than someone might have known the various bowls' preferences and figured out the only thing left was NM Bowl. I still haven't heard one even halfway plausible reason that Donati would have called them before receiving an invite to turn them down; No AD would do that before a bid has been issued even if they hated the prior experience.
And I"m not even sure a Big 12 school can turn down a bowl bid; Conferences tend to kiss the rearends of their bowl partners because they want to have more bowl tie-ins. That whole Donati story makes absolutely no sense.
Toad Jones
Active Member
I believe Doniti had his best thoughts when he said no to the Liberty Bowl. He was hoping for a better venue and was probably led to believe that could happen. But the pieces had to fall in place, and they didn't. He probably had help in those thoughts from a broadcasting company arranging bowls. It was a problem TCU had created in the won/lost record.
Doniti seemed unable to understand the velvet touch needed by a savvy AD. He's gone, hooray!!!, and I'm wondering who will make the decision on a new AD. Here to for TCU has employed an agency to assist except on the Doniti decision. Boy oh boy, I dream of having CDC back. He simply was fantastic positioning TCU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not bad for a PK (preacher's kid)
FloridaFrog76129
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An-Cap Frog
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The Humble Pie Bowl!
Sangria Wine
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Maybe when we grow up we can be just like SMU!
