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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 29, 2004 0:32:45 GMT -5
If TCU does win Conference USA this year then I would say that would put the MWC over the top and they should get a BCS bid. Even without TCU they probably deserve it. They have played alot of BCS schools this year and have won alot of those games. Wyoming even beat Ole Miss! At any rate they sure deserve it more than the Big East. Man, I'd love for us to win C-USA. And with Memphis losing to UAB, if we run the table for the rest of the season, we'd at least tie with Memphis or Louisville and/or Southern Miss (who play Memphis and us but not one another) for conference champs if not win it outright. But I doubt that will happen. Either way, as you said, the MWC is already more deserving than the Big East. Next year, the Big East will lose Boston College (a bad thing for the conference) and gain Louisville (a definite plus), South Florida (I used to think this wasn't that great an addition, but I'm not too sure right now), and Cincinnati (another one I'm not so sure about), making next year's Big East a bit better than this year's...but still not as good as the Mountain West. The MWC is not losing anyone, but instead is gaining TCU, a team that has been in the top 25 I think 5 out of the past 7 seasons, more consistent than any other mid-major (we're just having a down year, 'twould seem). So I think the addition of TCU could do nothing but help push the MWC well past the Big East, or at least have no negative effect.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 28, 2004 13:29:36 GMT -5
Yes, sorry, I'm an idiot. I was really tired and typed Big East instead of BCS.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 28, 2004 1:23:47 GMT -5
I'd bet money that Boise will be invited to join the conference this year or next. I honestly expected both schools to be invited after last season (and that wonderful bowl game...despite the fact that we lost, it was one of my favorite games of the 15 or so that I watched last bowl season).
Yes, the geographical constraints are an issue. But I guarantee, it's more of an issue for us than it is for anyone else in the conference. We will have to make at least four trips a year to the Rockies, whereas every other school in the conference will have to travel to Texas once every two years to play us. Sure, we have lots of money backing us here (although only so much of TCU's various gift and endowment fundage is allocated to athletics, believe it or not), but it's still a major issue.
I don't know if us coming in will get the MWC into the BCS just yet, but I'm almost certain it'll at least help the Mountain West's case a bit. Although we'll have to improve this season for that to continue being the case in the future.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 28, 2004 0:54:28 GMT -5
Im glad there are alot of MWC people "in da hizzee" Gives a lonely ol Cowpoke someone to shoot the shit with. While we're roughly on the subject, what do you honestly think of TCU entering the conference? I know what LoboFlyer and AFWX think, but I'm curious to know what other MWC fans think as well. And please, don't hold back on my account (although a more civil expression of your opinion than LoboFlyer used would be nice).
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 28, 2004 0:47:31 GMT -5
Man, for a mid-major (albeit probably the top mid-major, above even the Big Least in quality), the Mountain West sure has lots of representation. LoboFlyer, WyoCowpoke, AFWX...and of course, one fan of a future MWC school (myself, obviously). And I may have missed one or two (not sure if there might be a BYU or Utah fan floating around somewhere). Just an observation.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 19, 2004 20:31:58 GMT -5
Tech is going to KILL TCU this weekend And kill us you did. If we'd actually come back from the locker room after halftime, things would have been different. We might have still lost (although we also might have won, if we'd played the second half the way we played the first half), but it wouldn't have been near as embarassing a loss. My Frogs really let me down.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 17, 2004 1:02:13 GMT -5
My sister goes to TCU so now i have more of a reason to root for them Hah, wonder if I know her. We're not that big a student body, you know. But seriously, I think it's hilarious how one idiot (who I believe spouted this same crap off at the ESPN boards) turned everyone into at least a temporary fan of my school. Go Frogs!
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 16, 2004 3:06:03 GMT -5
Wow, I had you pegged for a decent human being, LoboFlyer. Looks like I was sure wrong.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 16, 2004 1:37:34 GMT -5
HAH! You apparently know nothing about TCU. We are about as far from a "Christian" school as we can be without taking the word out of our name and cutting the monetary links to the Disciples of Christ church (not Church of Christ, the two denominations are VERY different). Although there is a chapel on campus and we have a university minister who leads a prayer at every home football game and a fairly large religion class, the university is on the whole not a religious school. Underclassmen have to take a religion class, but that requirement can be satisfied by an understanding world religion class that, more often than not, makes people a little more doubting of Christianity (that certainly happened with me and several others I know).
TCU has no requirements about attending weekly chapel (like Baylor) and exercises no restriction of the freedom of speech or any other form of expression of non-"Christian" views like supporting gay marriage or abortion (many other religious schools, especially Baptist and Church of Christ schools, do this to a fairly extreme degree). We have one of the biggest percentages of Greek students (i.e. fraternities and sororities, not the ethnicity) of most universities, at about 40 percent of our student population.
Most Christian schools - and many non-Christian schools - would toss students out for any sort of alcohol-related violation. At TCU, even on-campus alcohol violations are little more than a fine, a blemish on your academic record, and a requirement to attend some sort of AA-like program.
I can't think of any other examples of just how wrong that generalization is right now. Just know that there are many generalizations that COULD apply to TCU (a school of rich-kids, a school where diversity means one nonwhite student in a class of 30, a school where frat guys and sorority girls run rampant), but calling us a school of "Bible-thumpers" simply couldn't be more wrong.
Please don't insult my school when you have no idea what you're talking about.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 16, 2004 0:04:18 GMT -5
soonerfan your intitled to your opionion being that its a free country and all but just because someone predicts your team will lose does not make them stupid. It just shows your lack of class, Oh I forgot your from Oklahoma you dont have any class. The end of this comment also displays a lack of class. Watch the hypocrisy, eh, LoboFlyer? Don't be giving the mid-major fans an even worse image than we already have.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 16, 2004 0:02:47 GMT -5
I've always thought Texas had some fugly uniforms.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 16, 2004 0:01:09 GMT -5
I share a hatred for Coach Fran being yet from another school he abandoned, but I think Clemson will come out on top. I hated A&M before Coach Fran arrived and now I hate them even more!! I hope they lose to BAYLOR! That will probably be the only other game they do win this year. Ill cheer for anyone against A&M!! Go Clemson! Actually, I'm not the least bit bitter about him "abandoning" TCU. First of all, I can't blame him for leaving us for Bama. Second of all, Gary Patterson has done wonders with the team since becoming head coach. No, I hate Fran for doing what he did to the Alabama players. He convinced them not to transfer to other schools, to stick with the program through the suspension...and then hightailed it to what is, right now, the second worst team in the Big XII. I used to root for A&M since I'm from Texas and I have many friends and close family there...but Coach Fran can rot in hell.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 15, 2004 14:09:32 GMT -5
As much as I hate Dennis Franchione, I'm gonna go with A&M on this one. And I'm not sure why, it's mostly just a gut feeling. Clemson seems shaky, and I have a feeling that the Aggies are on their way back up (as much as I hate to see Fran win).
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 15, 2004 23:54:50 GMT -5
Damned hurricanes. Don't they know that we have college football to watch.
Inconsiderate storms.
Ooh, does that mean Miami has an advantage this year, since Hurricanes are winning battles all over the place?
Sorry for the bad joke, just couldn't resist.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 15, 2004 14:05:25 GMT -5
Actually, I've not seen anything about Air Force this year, now that you mention it. And now I know why.
I just know that AF has been decent in the past.
And I disagree with you about BYU. I've not been impressed with them since I started following the Mountain West a couple of years ago.
Perhaps Colorado State and New Mexico are the only ones that stand a chance.
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