Big -12 ...TCU

meangreener · February 18, 2014

They had a down year in football. Didn't they have a plethora of injuries and were also pretty young? Maybe it's just me but as long as Gary Patterson is there they'll be fine. They may not dominate but there's no reason why they could not be a very solid and good B12 team. As for basketball they haven't been good since the Billy Tubbs era if I'm not mistaken. Hey Chuuuuck.

TCU will not have success in the B12 with Gary Patterson. Mark it.

If they want to ever pull a Baylor they'll need to fire him and that will not happen for a very long time. Interesting position TCU is in. Not a bad position, just an odd one.

Edited February 18, 2014 by meangreener

BillySee58 · February 18, 2014

TCU finished ranked (AP poll) 6,7,2, and 14 in the four years leading up to their move to the Big XII. If they weren't ready to move up, then no team ever will be. Also, it's not like their first season in the Big XII was a disaster. They won 7 games, lost a very close bowl game to Michigan State, and beat UT on the road. Doesn't sound so bad to me. This past season was a down year, and it would have been a disappointment in either the MWC or the Big XII. Every team in the nation has a down year now and then.

QB play was the difference between TCU of the last two years and TCU during those 4 years of finishing top 15, more so than the move to the big 12. If their qb play would've been anywhere near the play they were getting from Dalton and pre-suspension Pachall, they would've won plenty more games the last two years. They've been competitive in every game and they have one of the best, if not the best, d-line in the big 12.

They've recruited to the point where if they have good, on a big 12 standard, qb play they will be successful. Coach Mac has a system in place where if we get at least average qb play, on a CUSA standard, we will be in the hunt for the west division title. If we were ever in the big 12 we would need much more than that from the qb position to be competitive in the big 12.

There are two programs in the big 12 that can compete for the big 12 championship with average qb play, and that is Texas and OU and even that has been their downfall over the past few years and helped lead to the rise of schools like OSU and Baylor. I like our potential over TCU if we were to enter the big 12, especially with us being a large public school, but we too would fall into the group of every team in that conference not named OU or Texas. Our success would be dependent, not solely but mainly, on qb play. Just as TCU's is now.

Edited February 18, 2014 by BillySee58