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<blockquote data-quote="HUT-Frog" data-source="post: 573877" data-attributes="member: 35582"><p>QUOTE(jugbandxmas @ Jun 10 2010, 12:05 PM) [snapback]573740[/snapback]</p><p>This happened to us last time...sit around on our arse and we got screwed.</p><p></p><p></p><p>You have ZERO clue what happened last time!</p><p></p><p>Eric Hyman especially, with Malcolm Louden and Victor Boschini, busted his [Deleted] to get TCU into a BCS conference. He even tried to get most of C-USA in -- and he damn near pulled it off. What circumvented his efforts was when C-USA commish Britton Banowsky saved his own job by surrending to the Big East.</p><p></p><p>I may get in trouble here, but this kind of ignorance really pisses me off! So I am going to give you a clue what the heck went on.</p><p></p><p>-- Hyman immediately went to the Big East and had a plan to bring C-USA's best parts -- and UH would have been in it -- to immediately reform the Big East. His proposal was very-well received by the Big East presidents. C-USA would have disappeared. (If you look up an alumni magazine at that time, Hyman is quoted as saying that he was pretty confident that TCU would be seated at the BCS table when everything settled.)</p><p></p><p>-- Banowsky woke up in his Lewisville bedroom/office and realized he was about to be unemployed. He ran to the BE commish and worked out a deal to give them Louisville, De Paul, Marquette, Cincinnati, South Florida -- and Charlotte and Saint Louis to the A-10. Banowsky would then raid the lower rungs of the WAC to reformulate his conference -- and keep his job.</p><p></p><p>-- When this shook down, suddenly TCU was on the outside and having to try to fight its way back in. TCU recruited help from American Airlines to show that trips from the Northeast to TCU were shorter and cheaper than trips to Miami (which had just left the conference), in an effort to fight arguments that the distance was too great.</p><p></p><p>-- TCU even floated the idea of football-only membership (and then find a home for other sports), just to get into the BCS.</p><p></p><p>-- TCU even contacted the ACC.</p><p></p><p>However, things didn't work out the way they wanted them to. (And, for the record, TCU was recruited by the MWC -- not the other way as so many want to claim.)</p><p></p><p>All those same factors are against them now. TCU brings football notoriety, but this is not about that. This is about TV -- and the fact is that TCU cannot deliver those numbers like huge state schools.</p><p></p><p>As much as I hate it, TCU has to squeeze into a BCS conference situation. It sucks! But it is reality.</p><p></p><p>I guarantee you that TCU is not sitting idle. They are working the phones.</p><p></p><p>But so is Baylor; so is South Florida; so is Memphis; so is Houston; so is Kansas; so is Kansas State. And you don't see anybody tripping over themselves to get any of them.</p><p></p><p>You need to stop ridiculous accusations and trust that TCU leadership is doing everything that it can -- but they can't sell to people that aren't willing to buy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HUT-Frog, post: 573877, member: 35582"] QUOTE(jugbandxmas @ Jun 10 2010, 12:05 PM) [snapback]573740[/snapback] This happened to us last time...sit around on our arse and we got screwed. You have ZERO clue what happened last time! Eric Hyman especially, with Malcolm Louden and Victor Boschini, busted his [Deleted] to get TCU into a BCS conference. He even tried to get most of C-USA in -- and he damn near pulled it off. What circumvented his efforts was when C-USA commish Britton Banowsky saved his own job by surrending to the Big East. I may get in trouble here, but this kind of ignorance really pisses me off! So I am going to give you a clue what the heck went on. -- Hyman immediately went to the Big East and had a plan to bring C-USA's best parts -- and UH would have been in it -- to immediately reform the Big East. His proposal was very-well received by the Big East presidents. C-USA would have disappeared. (If you look up an alumni magazine at that time, Hyman is quoted as saying that he was pretty confident that TCU would be seated at the BCS table when everything settled.) -- Banowsky woke up in his Lewisville bedroom/office and realized he was about to be unemployed. He ran to the BE commish and worked out a deal to give them Louisville, De Paul, Marquette, Cincinnati, South Florida -- and Charlotte and Saint Louis to the A-10. Banowsky would then raid the lower rungs of the WAC to reformulate his conference -- and keep his job. -- When this shook down, suddenly TCU was on the outside and having to try to fight its way back in. TCU recruited help from American Airlines to show that trips from the Northeast to TCU were shorter and cheaper than trips to Miami (which had just left the conference), in an effort to fight arguments that the distance was too great. -- TCU even floated the idea of football-only membership (and then find a home for other sports), just to get into the BCS. -- TCU even contacted the ACC. However, things didn't work out the way they wanted them to. (And, for the record, TCU was recruited by the MWC -- not the other way as so many want to claim.) All those same factors are against them now. TCU brings football notoriety, but this is not about that. This is about TV -- and the fact is that TCU cannot deliver those numbers like huge state schools. As much as I hate it, TCU has to squeeze into a BCS conference situation. It sucks! But it is reality. I guarantee you that TCU is not sitting idle. They are working the phones. But so is Baylor; so is South Florida; so is Memphis; so is Houston; so is Kansas; so is Kansas State. And you don't see anybody tripping over themselves to get any of them. You need to stop ridiculous accusations and trust that TCU leadership is doing everything that it can -- but they can't sell to people that aren't willing to buy. [/QUOTE]
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