I know, I used this the other day, but I like it All sports are moving over, but there is one reason this is happening: College football.
With the Big East, TCU, should they win the conference, would get an automatic bowl bid and strengthen their claim to the national championship should things fall into place.
The Big East ain't bad. It's a conference TCU should be able to go into and do very well in. However, it's no group of patsies. In the past five years, South Florida, Rutgers, Louisville, West Virginia, Pitt and Cincinnati have all been a part of the BCS hullabaloo all making major noise.
This season, they're not very good. To the point that Syracuse was tops in the conference like two weeks ago.
Tim Cowlishaw had a column today stating that the move has only college football in mind disregarding the other sports.
No shit. Thanks for that, Tim.
Of course, it's about college football because college football makes you millions. Softball and lacrosse, not so much.
His argument is that it'll stick the good TCU men's basketball program into the pack with Louisville, West Virginia, Syracuse and Pitt.
God forbid TCU quits being the little baby university to the other big schools. God forbid their basketball team should quit playing against state and directional schools and take a step up.
Who knows, maybe TCU basketball will get ... better.
With that said, if TCU had went undefeated in the Big East, does that put them above Oregon in the BCS? Probably not. West Virginia's the only ranked school. Still, no way that TCU was going to jump Oregon and Auburn playing New Mexico and the other chumps in their conference.
The Big XII would've been better, but TCU's making the right move here.
