SMU is no joke
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Limey Frog
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We won't get the same benefit of the doubt that SEC teams get by scheduling the same non-conference garbage they do. It's one rule for them and another for us. By making our schedule less interesting for fans we're just getting screwed twice.a) TCU ends up with a schedule that looks a little more like an SEC schedule, going forward with dropping the SMU series as planned.
b) SMU don't need TCU anyway, now that they are in a P-4conference.
c) SMU seems to have been really, really cheezed by TCU dropping the series; no reason to help them out with that.
Rationalize all you want... to the 7th degree. SMU is good they will kick ass in this 12 team playoff.
Limey Frog
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I wasn't saying anything about that. I'm saying we should keep playing SMU and it's chicken poop of us to drop them.
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Mean Purple
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If SMU keeps playing well the next few years, that game is a huge bonus. I think we should keep playing them regardless.
Mean Purple
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We are going to drop a conference game and play an absolute nobody D2 school the second to last week of the season?a) TCU ends up with a schedule that looks a little more like an SEC schedule, going forward with dropping the SMU series as planned.
b) SMU don't need TCU anyway, now that they are in a P-4
c) SMU seems to have been really, really cheezed by TCU dropping the series; no reason to help them out with that.
The only reason to not play SMU is because we are afraid to lose, and that's embarrassing. If we play them every year, they are going to beat us sometimes. That's the way sports works. BFD.
TCU-SMU should be on the schedule every year, without even giving it a thought.
Limey Frog
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ADJD justified it by saying that big time programs need at least seven home games, and season ticket holders deserve that. But look at our schedule next year: https://fbschedules.com/2025-tcu-football-schedule/
SMU, Baylor, Colorado, Iowa State, Cincinnati, and Abilene Christian at home; North Carolina, Houston, ASU, BYU, K-State, and WVU away. That looks pretty exciting to me. If I lived close enough to Fort Worth to have season tickets I wouldn't be looking at that thinking that i really wanted to get another Abilene Christian on there and free up some real estate with a little less SMU.
All this talk about the best way to make the playoff is so much rubbish. TCU will have a team good enough to make the playoff maybe once every 5ish year if we're lucky, but fans wait eight months for football season every year, and any non-meaningful game on the schedule diminishes the value of that season when it comes. If TCU is good enough to win the Big XII, playing SMU instead of a second pointless non-conference Rent-a-win U game isn't going to keep us out of the playoff.
And if they are a playoff team there is no shame in losing. Not that I want that to happen but keep it on the schedule.
