tcu vs baylor
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About the actual game, or more accurately the reporting on it.
The ESPN headline for this game reads "Baylor makes 8 3-pointers in 91-58 win at TCU". That doesn't seem like a big deal to me at all. So I start reading the article, and the very first sentance puts everything into perspective. "Brady Heslip scored 24 points while making eight of Baylor's season-high 16 3-pointers." I think I know what everyones reaction will be to this but here goes...
I understand they want to get these recaps up pretty quickly after the game is over, but couldn't they take an extra 3 seconds and fact check the headline of the article? You know, the thing that makes people want to click and read?
The ESPN headline for this game reads "Baylor makes 8 3-pointers in 91-58 win at TCU". That doesn't seem like a big deal to me at all. So I start reading the article, and the very first sentance puts everything into perspective. "Brady Heslip scored 24 points while making eight of Baylor's season-high 16 3-pointers." I think I know what everyones reaction will be to this but here goes...
I understand they want to get these recaps up pretty quickly after the game is over, but couldn't they take an extra 3 seconds and fact check the headline of the article? You know, the thing that makes people want to click and read?
Tcu was added for football money. Dallas is the fifth largest tv market in a football crazy state. It has nothing to do with their athletic success in anything but football. They've been a pretty good team now for 10 years and the big12 needed 10. Tcu was the obvious choice
TCU made a hell of a lot more sense than BYU/Air Force/Colo St, which were some of the other teams thrown out (at least initially) when it came to conference expansion. Conference realignment was PURELY football related, and TCU made more sense than L'ville or anybody in the ACC. Anybody who thinks that a sport not named football had anything to do with conference realignment is beyond helping to understand conference realignment.
You darn right TCU was added for football.
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I can name a plethora of teams I'd rather have from the ACC than TCU. What a horrible add to the conference.
Mr Hindsight.
Look, TCU was the right add because we just lost A&M. TCU football has been great as of late and the threat was more Texas players would be playing in other conferences. We pulled the trigger on them bEFORE UL won the basketball championship and before they won a BCS bowl. I wish we would have gotten them instead but no one would have thought TCU football would have been as bad as they have been since joining.
Sometimes I wish the Big 12 would get back to 12 teams, and 2 divisions, but then again I like seeing ISU play every team in football and twice in basketball each year.
One team that I think could deserve consideration now would be SMU although their football stadium only seats 32,000 and the program is not quite back to what it once was.
One team that I think could deserve consideration now would be SMU although their football stadium only seats 32,000 and the program is not quite back to what it once was.
assuming the league is financially viable as is, i hope we stay at ten. the round robin format is unique and exclusive. we crown to faux champions anymore. i love it in all sports.
