TCU to BE done deal?

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FanHouse learns TCU has accepted full membership to Big East. Will join league in 2012-13. TCU Accepts Offer from Big East -- NCAAFB FanHouse


Texas Christian University has accepted an invitation to become an all-sports member to the Big East Conference, industry sources told FanHouse.

The Horned Frogs will join the league beginning on July 1, 2012 and begin play in the Big East in the 2012-13 school year.

The addition of the Horned Frogs will immediately bolster the football league. It also would increase the basketball membership to 17 teams.

The Horned Frogs (12-0) are ranked No. 3 in the current BCS rankings and are guaranteed a BCS bowl. By adding TCU for the 2012-13 school year, the Horned Frogs would take "all of their data to their new league," BCS spokesman Bill Hancock told FanHouse.

However, the current four-year evaluation period for the BCS concludes in December 2011, so TCU's past BCS rankings – three consecutive top 11 BCS rankings, including this year – would not transfer to the Big East unless it joined the league before the 2012-13 school year.

The current 2008-11 evaluation period is being used to determine if a seventh conference earns automatic qualifying status for the 2012 and 2013 regular seasons – and the Mountain West (TCU's current home) will not qualify. The Big East, however, already has its automatic qualifying status for the 2012 and 2013 regular seasons by virtue of the contracts, Hancock said.

Adding TCU also would strengthen its position when the league starts renegotiating its television contracts that expires after the 2013 season.

TCU will be located an average of 1,140 miles from the other football league members.

There had been speculation that TCU would join the league as a football-only member and would try to place its non-football sports in the WAC. However, TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte previous told The Sporting News if the Horned Frogs leave the Mountain West, they would not do so as a football-only member.

Big East commissioner John Marinatto had previously told FanHouse that if the Big East added new members before the current TV contracts expire, the league could seek to renegotiate.

"Membership -- quality membership and quality inventory -- drives value," Marinatto said. "We're certainly cognizant of the value that expansion and quality inventory would bring to a television partner."

The Big East had said a few weeks ago it wanted to get its football membership to 10 teams. The league also made an offer to Villanova, a member in all sports but football, to move up from FCS to the Big East.

"Villanova has been obviously a member of the conference for 30 years," Marinatto told FanHouse. "We've encouraged them for a number of years going back to 1997 to do whatever they feel is in their best interest. I think they're in the process of evaluating that question and if they evaluate it in the affirmative, we'll obviously have a conversation about membership."

The league expects to get an answer from Villanova by the end of the 2010-11 school year.
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Sucks for travelling fans if true. I just do not see how anything in Tejas is regarding as being "east"!!
 
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TCU is doing what they need to do. Good move by them and I bet they wish this year counted
 
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Big East's next move should be adding UCF. Then CUSA can add Florida Atlantic or Troy.

I think Mountain West's next move is adding Hawaii.

And WAC's next move will be adding Montana.


MWC
Air Force
Boise State
Colorado State
Fresno State
Hawaii
Nevada
New Mexico
San Diego State
UNLV
Wyoming

WAC
Denver - All sports but football
Idaho
Louisiana Tech
Montana
New Mexico State
San Jose State
Texas State
UT-San Antonio
Utah State

:pukeb:
 
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Seriously though... if that happens, can't we just kick the WAC down to FCS? That does not look like an FBS conference. Worse than SunBelt.

Louisiana Tech might as well just bolt for SunBelt. If they are lucky, Big East will take a CUSA team and CUSA will give Louisiana Tech their spot.
 
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utvolpj said:
TCU is doing what they need to do. Good move by them and I bet they wish this year counted
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I'm not sure if I like it as much. They're going to be far out of their recruiting base, and I'd be a bit concerned about their future post Patterson. I have no idea how their other sports are doing, so I can't say much about that.
 
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I'd have to take a look at their roster in order to comment on "where" they are getting their players, but I would assume very few come from Big Least territory. Im sure they will continue to succeed regardless of this change.
 
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As soon as TCU gets to the Big East, their AQ status will be taken away and TCU will be screwed again. Book it, D-U-N, dun.
 
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TXVOL07 said:
I said it last night, and I'll repeat it now, Austin wants no part of the Frogs.
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i kinda figured too that, since money was such a big issue in keeping what will be left of the big 12 together, the conference wouldnt want to have to lessen the new amounts received by dividing them up amongst yet another team
 
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IMO, geographically it's not a good fit. I think they should join the big 12 & Boise state in the big 12 north
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