UCF No Longer a Big XII Candidate

[Knight_Light]

Lol TCU was a market pick. Cause Dallas ft worth didn't watch Texas tamu Baylor or Tex tech. They were a GREAT football program in a big market. Their success got them in.

Actually, the only reason why the Big 12 invited TCU was because the Big 12 lost one of their 4 TX member who left to join the SEC.

Big 12 was never going to add a 5th team from the State of TX...but once A&M bolted to join the SEC...Big 12 had to invite someone from the State of TX...and that was TCU.

 

[ucfversusbcs]

Actually, the only reason why the Big 12 invited TCU was because the Big 12 lost one of their 4 TX member who left to join the SEC.

Big 12 was never going to add a 5th team from the State of TX...but once A&M bolted to join the SEC...Big 12 had to invite someone from the State of TX...and that was TCU.

Well they did have other Texas options.

North Texas - 4 time Sun Belt Champion, 5 bowl appearances
SMU - very good in the 80s, had a brief resurgence with June Jones - good enough for an ESPN special, lots of money - 2 time CUSA West Div Champs, 5 bowl appearances since invention of the BCS
Houston - 2006 CUSA champs, 2 time division champs including a CUSA title loss away from a BCS bowl, 9 bowl appearances since invention of the BCS
UTEP - former WAC champ, 5 bowl appearances, Top 25 ranked team during the mid 2000s
UTSA - upstart FBS in a market with no NFL team
Texas State - upstart FBS

but they selected

Texas Christian - 4 times Mountain West champs, 2 times WAC champs, 1 time CUSA champ, 13 bowl appearances (including the Fiesta and Rose Bowl) with a 26-13 record against the BCS/AQ/P5 since the start of the BCS before their invite in 2011.

It seems like a slam dunk to me. Don't underestimate success on the field.

 

[Jaredf29]

Actually, the only reason why the Big 12 invited TCU was because the Big 12 lost one of their 4 TX member who left to join the SEC.

Big 12 was never going to add a 5th team from the State of TX...but once A&M bolted to join the SEC...Big 12 had to invite someone from the State of TX...and that was TCU.

It also took the personal lobbying of Del Conte and Dodds, developing a bromance.

 

[Marvelouz]

Does anyone else here find it odd that ESPN who is against us (FL Market) and is pro UH (saturated Texas market) translates to ESPN strategically setting up the conference to fail? Stay with me for a moment... FOX owns 51% of the Big 12, wouldn't it be in ESPN's best interest to keep FOX from owning ANY Florida market and keeping most of their product in one state so that when the dominoes fall (e.g. OU/TX leaving) and the Big 12 crashes and burns ala Big East - ESPN can swallow up the premier teams on the cheap and leave FOX with practically nothing? Why else would ESPN be against adding UCF as the 4th premier team in the state when California and Texas both have 4 teams (Texas, TCU, Texas Tech, Baylor / California, UCLA, USC, Stanford)?

Do you really think a group of grown men are sitting around a table kicking this idea around? All networks want to increase their revenue of course, but no. No they are not thinking this.

 

[Tiger_Pride76]

By the time expansion talks start up again, Memphis will be back to their old selves.

One can dream. Pretty hard to do when the big time boosters are they one pushing for focus on football. New regime is set up on Normal.

 

[ucfversusbcs]

One can dream. Pretty hard to do when the big time boosters are they one pushing for focus on football. New regime is set up on Normal.

Memphis is the smartest program. They didnt have to upgrade the Liberty Bowl and they have a dead Rivals page.*

 

[AAC6800]

Memphis is the smartest program. They didnt have to upgrade the Liberty Bowl and they have a dead Rivals page.*

The Liberty Bowl is a nice clean place.

 

[MasterKnight]

One can dream. Pretty hard to do when the big time boosters are they one pushing for focus on football. New regime is set up on Normal.

Don't mind him. He fears the inevitable. Memphis will be in the big 12 while UCF gets demoted to the conference USA.