I'm back to my negative posts. Hey, guys, have you so quickly forgotten? TCU can't market its football team, how do you expect us to be able to market and comunicate about our entire university and the merits of us being in a particular conference? we have no communications or marketing. Like it or not, Baylor has done a remarkable job. They have positioend themselves as a "state" university, right there with Texas, A&M and Texas Tech. They heck with TCU, Houston, Smu, etc., etc. Baylor has marvelously leveraged their political and monetary clout. At the TCU-Baylor baseball tourney game, I sat with a state senator friend of mine. Throughout the game, the Baylor president and AD were coming up to him, discussing the conference issue, asking his opinion and having him make telephone calls. Did you see our AD and Chancellor in Austin on Sunday? They looked like a couple of bozos going out onto the field. Del Conte went first, realized he had forgotten the chancellor and went back to get him. It was humorous and embarrassing. Folks, because of what has played out with the Big 12/10 and how Baylor has successfully positioned things, we are even more so today positioned as a private university in Fort Worth that is of little importance or has little impact on the State of Texas. And if you weren't really jacked off because of the op-ed piece in the Star-Telegram this morning by Bob Simpson, Mark White and Drayotn McLane, then you aren't a real Horned Frog. The Star-Telegram should be flooded with 1,000 letters to the editor by this weekend, touting the benefits of TCU. I'd be surprised if more than three are received by the newspaper. If we aren't willing to shout and fight for our alma mater, then we really ought to quit the whinning, woe-is-me stuff, too. We may be able to beat certain teams in athletic arenas, but these days we're getting our behinds kicked where it matters most.
