Welcome to the Big XII TCU!!!!!

[bocabull]

It's nice to swap out the Rose Bowl Champ for gomer A&M. Way to knock off Boise St. Huge upgrade getting TCU and West Virginia over gomer and missouri.

 

[chicubfn]

Overcame the reffing to win! :ed

 

[AdaSooner]

Overcame the reffing to win! :ed

Yes, they did. That bogus pass interference call on fourth down was a batant attempt to give BSU the game. Justice was served when Boise's kicker missed a short field goal to give TCU the win.

Congrats, Horn Frogs! It would have been a crime if the officials had stolen that game from you.

 

[thebigabd]

Rose Bowl champs and one of the best football programs in the nation since 2005 in exchange for an A&M team that has had 3-4 losing seasons since then. Those idiots were ranked pre-season #8 and they are now 5-5, 3-4.

 

[seniorsooner]

It's nice to swap out the Rose Bowl Champ for gomer A&M. Way to knock off Boise St. Huge upgrade getting TCU and West Virginia over gomer and missouri.

So are you going to start chanting "Big Twelve! Big Twelve! Big Twelve!"?

 

[playmakr]

lol at the SEC taking a couple of our doormats off our hands.

 

[bocabull]

So are you going to start chanting "Big Twelve! Big Twelve! Big Twelve!"?

Thought never even crossed my mind. But anybody who thinks the Big XII is weaker now than it was 2 years ago is not very smart.

The 10 team model will be proven to be the best model both for revenue and competition. Nebraska, A&M, Missouri & Colorado all left for reasons that had nothing to do with competition. They left because they wanted to feel loved and maybe make a few extra bucks. They left because they are weak and short sighted.

The key to the 10 team model is having strong programs that cement your national reputation which will explode TV revenues. A&M and Missouri were jokes and everybody knows it. TCU and West Virginia keep adding skins to their wall and it's only going to increase, especially TCU. They have become an NFL pipeline and it's only going to get stronger.

 

[WTSooner]

Thought never even crossed my mind. But anybody who thinks the Big XII is weaker now than it was 2 years ago is not very smart.

The 10 team model will be proven to be the best model both for revenue and competition. Nebraska, A&M, Missouri & Colorado all left for reasons that had nothing to do with competition. They left because they wanted to feel loved and maybe make a few extra bucks. They left because they are weak and short sighted.

The key to the 10 team model is having strong programs that cement your national reputation which will explode TV revenues. A&M and Missouri were jokes and everybody knows it. TCU and West Virginia keep adding skins to their wall and it's only going to increase, especially TCU. They have become an NFL pipeline and it's only going to get stronger.

Just don't flip flop on yourself when the Big 12 adds additional teams in a few years.

I'm guessing that any money saved by not having to split with two extra teams (taking into account that not having those two teams also costs us money), is offset by what we'd make off a conference championship game.

Also, don't complain the first time not having a conference championship game hurts OU. That day will come, as that game was a big part of OU's accomplishments over the past decade.

 

[stoops4pres]

Rose Bowl champs and one of the best football programs in the nation since 2005 in exchange for an A&M team that has had 3-4 losing seasons since then. Those idiots were ranked pre-season #8 and they are now 5-5, 3-4.

Spot-on. It's laughable considering all of A&M's resources yet they once again underachieve.

Also, Brandon Carter is a stud, TCU got rewarded for stealing him away from OU. He would probably be getting some PT in OU's rotation now that Broyles went down.

 

[bocabull]

I'm guessing that any money saved by not having to split with two extra teams (taking into account that not having those two teams also costs us money), is offset by what we'd make off a conference championship game.

This is a big fallacy. Every Big XII team plays 9 conference games instead of 8 which means the marquee programs all play an extra game. More important the best teams in the conference are all likely to play on championship weekend. OU and Texas could never both play on that day before.

For example this year the OU-OSU game will be more more lucrative than the ACC or Big-10 conference title games. The entire nation will be glued to our game just like they will be the SEC and Pac-12 game (assuming Oregon makes it there with 1 loss).

The big TV money is for games with National Title implications. Period. As long as the Big XII has the marquee teams playing the first Saturday of December when the other conference titles games are played and as long as we have teams in the national hunt we don't lose any revenue. And we split with less teams.

 

[campbest]

Yes, they did. That bogus pass interference call on fourth down was a batant attempt to give BSU the game. Justice was served when Boise's kicker missed a short field goal to give TCU the win.

Congrats, Horn Frogs! It would have been a crime if the officials had stolen that game from you.

The officials were from the Big XII...why would they blatantly give the game to Boise State?

 

[TheGimper]

The officials were from the Big XII...why would they blatantly give the game to Boise State?

Why would a conference game have officials from a completely different conference?

 

[sys]

i'm not thrilled with tcu & wvu. and i'll miss mu a lot. but i like 10 teams more than 12, i hope they resist expansion for expansion's sake.

 

[campbest]

Why would a conference game have officials from a completely different conference?

Quality...it was the marquee game this year in the MWC, the two teams knew one was leaving and probably wanted a neutral crew. This crew also did the LSU-Oregon game in Dallas.

 

[badger]

It's nice to swap out the Rose Bowl Champ for gomer A&M. Way to knock off Boise St. Huge upgrade getting TCU and West Virginia over gomer and missouri.

I will miss A&M for their weirdness and Mizzou for their um... for some reason... but it was cool to see TCU give the country a big large gift on never having to year about Bois Estate in the nat'l title picture again... for at least another season.

I guess I'll miss aTm and Tigger more for their basketball than their football, but Huggie coming back for his pitchforks and torches yearly with KSU just sounds too fun. Welcome back, traitor

 

[AdaSooner]

The officials were from the Big XII...why would they blatantly give the game to Boise State?

Boise State's home field in front of a partisan crowd? I have no idea. All I know is that it was a horrible call with the game on the line that had all of the earmarks of a "gift" at the hands of the official who made it.

Besides, it's not like a Big 12 crew is infallible. Look no further than the Texas Tech "touchdown" that never crossed the goal line in Lubbock a few years back, for an example of what I mean.

 

[campbest]

Boise State's home field in front of a partisan crowd? I have no idea. All I know is that it was a horrible call with the game on the line that had all of the earmarks of a "gift" at the hands of the official who made it.

Besides, it's not like a Big 12 crew is infallible. Look no further than the Texas Tech "touchdown" that never crossed the goal line in Lubbock a few years back, for an example of what I mean.

If you want to say it was a bad call and leave it at that, I would agree with you. But to insinuate the call was made on purpose to give Boise the game is pretty laughable. Especially since the crew was from a conference the perpetrator will soon be joining.

 

[stoops4pres]

Boise State's home field in front of a partisan crowd? I have no idea. All I know is that it was a horrible call with the game on the line that had all of the earmarks of a "gift" at the hands of the official who made it.

Besides, it's not like a Big 12 crew is infallible. Look no further than the Texas Tech "touchdown" that never crossed the goal line in Lubbock a few years back, for an example of what I mean.

Not to mention, that bogus reception that the Tech player made on 4th down that clearly did not cross the first down marker... Yet the refs gave it to them.

Had the refs made the right call and ruled it turnover on downs, would've been ball game for OU.