From: https://magazine.tcu.edu/winter-2011/original-conference-call/In November 1998, the Board of Trustees approved an $8 million package to make TCU “a nationally prominent athletics program.” A slew of facilities were constructed as TCU worked to reverse perceptions. At the time, TCU football had suffered 30 losing seasons in 38 years.
That $8 million was money well spent.From: https://magazine.tcu.edu/winter-2011/original-conference-call/
$8 million in 1998 is worth $16.3M today. I know most/all of that $60M gets spent or reinvested each year...but that was a good investment by any measure.
Nope, it isn't. We kinda used to have a chance because monied programs like Texas would have to eat and live with their recruiting misses, which everyone always has. Now they just discard them and go take buy other's recruiting hits to cover up the mistakes.There’s Texas and then everybody else. That’s all I see. It takes TAMU + Tech ADDED TOGETHER to match Texas. There’s less difference between Rice and TCU than TCU and Texas. And it’s just getting started. This [ Finebaum ] ain’t fun no more…
It is as it always was. There's UT, and then there's everybody else...There’s Texas and then everybody else. That’s all I see. It takes TAMU + Tech ADDED TOGETHER to match Texas. There’s less difference between Rice and TCU than TCU and Texas. And it’s just getting started. This [ Finebaum ] ain’t fun no more…
oh, doom and gloom. doom and goom.There’s Texas and then everybody else. That’s all I see. It takes TAMU + Tech ADDED TOGETHER to match Texas. There’s less difference between Rice and TCU than TCU and Texas. And it’s just getting started. This [ Finebaum ] ain’t fun no more…
There ya go. That’s the difference. It has always been Texas and then everyone else. But this dynamic changed the whole ballgame. It’s not doom and gloom to realize the changes have dramatically hurt schools like TCU’s chances at competing for a national title, or even national relevance, in football.Nope, it isn't. We kinda used to have a chance because monied programs like Texas would have to eat and live with their recruiting misses, which everyone always has. Now they just discard them and go take buy other's recruiting hits to cover up the mistakes.

