BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

That Mizzou train is never late!

 

That's why, if I'm the SEC, I start talking to Texas Tech about maybe being the 14th team. Texas A&M and Texas Tech would help make the state an SEC state, and it's not like Tech has the option to go west after those plans got put on hold for a second straight summer.

 

No way does the SEC even sniff at Texas Tech.

 

Texas Tech is Iowa State with sagebrush. Has no appeal at all.

 

Once more, with feeling. TCU lacks presence even within the Metroplex. They can't fill a 44,000-seat stadium for most games.

To whoever said a few posts ago that TCU can give you the DFW area while A&M gives you Houston, that's not correct. TCU gives you nothing. A&M already gives you DFW AND Houston AND San Antonio. A&M is a major presence statewide. TCU is a major presence within about a mile of its campus.

 

I don't think a lot of people understand the disdain with which Texas Tech is viewed around the nation. It is widely considered to be basically expanded high school for people who can't really handle college. And Lubbock is on nobody's list of desired or even acceptable road trips.

You take them if you absolutely have to take them, but not as a matter of choice.

 

Is TCU's fan support minimal because it has no support or because it's been sort of banished into leagues the fan base doesn't relate to? If TCU started hosting two games a year out of OU, OSU, A&M and LSU, wouldn't you think the fan base would swell?

Worst-case scenario, they become the Vanderbilt of the West. I think everybody would accept that because the West could use a Vanderbilt in that scenario and TCU would not scoff at the money it would be getting.

I don't think OU and OSU would mind having TCU in the league because they can still tell DFW recruits they'll be there for mom and dad every other year, maybe every year if OU can keep the State Fair Classic going and they should be able to do that given Texas' difficulty in scheduling in this scenario.

 

If the conferences were less panic-stricken, they'd be divvying up the Texas schools so as to have roughly equal access to the Texas TV markets. And TCU would surely qualify there. Why shouldn't the Big 10 and Counting have a school in the Metroplex market?

 

Minus the steroid problem.

 

TCU was IN a conference with Texas, Texas A&M and Arkansas for some time. The argument that "well, more good teams coming in equals better crowds" could be applied to any school ever. They could take North Texas, Lamar or Prairie View A&M were they of that mind.

Vandy called dibsies on their spot a long time ago, and that's why they're in the SEC. If the league dissolved for some reason, do you think they'd have any luck getting in anywhere better than Conference USA?

Oklahoma goes to Dallas once a year already, as you pointed out. They can go (and have gone) to Jerry World for neutral-site games. And they have enough presence in north Texas in particular that even if they never went there for a game, they'd still get their recruits.

 

And way hotter coeds.

 

Because you still want schools that match up with you academically as well as athletically. And being in Texas isn't enough. Oklahoma probably has way more statewide presence in Texas than the second-tier Texas schools. Adding SMU or Houston technically gets you in Texas, but adding Georgia State, Northeastern and Drexel gives the CAA Atlanta, Boston and Philly, but not even close to enough to move the needle.