TCU Head Coach: I Know Something You Don’t Know
TCU head coach Gary Patterson has left a cryptic remark for us all:
“All I can tell you is this: Just wait and see in the next two weeks before you make any judgments and see what happens in the national landscape,” Patterson said. “Things that I know that maybe you don’t know. That’s all I’m going to tell you.”
Wah?!?! Let’s see here, there’s only two things Gary Patterson could know that we could not- the fate of the MWC or the fate of TCU. So which do we not know?
One thing is certain about the MWC, they seem to be good and the WAC seems to be in trouble. Only BYU can be the screw factor here. They could still bolt for the WAC and convince Boise State, SDSU and UNLV to go with them, and they would. This leaves the MWC in a heap of trouble. But BYU would have to have a real vendetta against the MWC for that to happen, so I don’t see it. As of right now, BYU is a member of the MWC.
So could Patterson be speaking of TCU’s future and its effect on the national landscape? There’s only one thing that could mean- TCU is in talks with the Big XII. Face it, you know they don’t want to end up a mere 10 team conference. They want, even need, 12 teams to be relevant. TCU would be a great pick up. Houston would be a great pickup, or maybe even Air Force. My guess is this: TCU has a contingency plan that only Gary Patterson, myself, and all of you reading this know about. If the MWC goes to pot, they have an exit strategy.
Can’t say as that I blame them much. From the looks of it the MWC was poised to go down and out. And Craig Thompson has the audacity to insult our intelligence and say the invites to Fresno State and Nevada coinciding with BYU’s statements is nothing more than a coincidence. Yeah, right, didn’t you just say you weren’t going to expand further a few weeks ago? What happened to that?
Now he is saying they don’t need 12 teams. Is this guy a complete nut job? Can he ever say the right thing? This guy needs to be fired and fast. Someone with vision needs to get in there, get 12 teams, get a conference championship and get a real TV contract. Thompson has proved completely inadequate and even incompetent. Just trying to keep the league together doesn’t count as thriving in my book. Send this clown packing and get to 12 teams already. If they could pick up Montana as soon as they are able to make the jump that would be their best move for sure.
TCU isn’t about to let Houston, UTEP or any other Texas school into the MWC, you can count on that. So all the other WAC teams suck and Hawaii is going to be independent for sure. What’s that leave you? Woo back Utah or grab Montana as fast as the FBS will let them in. That’s the only choice they have.
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Sloppy,
What TCU knows is not that they’re about to join the Big 12. It’s that BYU shared their plan with them to keep them in the loop so they wouldn’t panic.
I think it’s interesting you say TCU would never allow UTEP or Houston to join the MWC, yet you think Texas and A&M and Tech would so easily let TCU into the Big 12. That seems contradictory. Frankly, UT, A&M and TT have a lot more to lose by letting TCU jump up to their level than TCU loses by Houston or UTEP joining the MWC.
“Let’s see here, there’s only two things Gary Patterson could know that we could not- the fate of the MWC or the fate of TCU. So which do we not know?”
3rd possibility: Gary Patterson is secretly from the future, and has seen the great D-1AA revolution of 2010: Florida A&M defeating Miami, Samford defeating Florida State, UC Davis defeating Cal, and Eastern Illinois defeating Iowa. And that’s just week one!
In all seriousness, you’re probably right about the exit strategy, though there’s always the chance that it’s just Patterson throwing up a smokescreen before the season starts.
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Patterson is just throwing his wrench in to gum up the works.
BYU announcing independence won’t make any difference to what “might” happen with the BIG 12.
BYU going independent is a foregone conclusion, they have a national and international tv network, a new broadcast facility and a nation wide fan base, they would be stupid not to take advantage of all that.
How does BYU do that best? Put their games on “pay for view,” Sell season tv tickets for $75 to $150 dollars for an all season sports pass, and sign up just 100,000 homes. For the average LDS family of four, that works out to less than $2 a ticket, at $150 a year for all BYU sports.
BYU has ask the mwc to allow BYUtv to be the third broadcasting partner and broadcast all BYU home games on pfv and, give visiting teams a larger guarantee. Along with allowing fans of visiting teams the chance to support their team by purchasing single game pfv tickets. Its possible the visiting team would set their own price for their game pfv tickets, increasing their income.
There are 950,000 homes “just” in Utah, and BYU sells out their stadium every year. And contrary to wild rumors, The University of Utah does not own the SLC or Utah tv market, BYU does, and by a very large margin!
Bob