TCU today announced they would join the Big East in 2012. That's right, a team deep in the heart of Texas will now play every year against the likes of UConn, Syracuse, Pitt, West Virginia, Louisville, etc. I can feel the excitement already. Really, what TCU decided to do here was simple; if you can't beat 'em, join em. Though the Big East is hardly a respected football conference (No. 24 is their highest rank), they, being a big name conference, have an automatic bid. As long as the Big East stays crappy, and TCU stays good, TCU will be punching their tickets to a BCS game every year, along with making a lot more money. It's a brilliant move, but it's also a capitulation. The BCS has won, pretty much. Boise State, unless it joins a power conference (which would be awesome), will be the only team left to challenge the system, to maybe inspire some real changes to the post season system. It just got lonelier in non-AQ land.
Also, it's frustrating that the BCS had to create a failsafe system where high ranked non AQs automatically get put into one of the BCS bowls (this year its the Rose Bowl), preventing an awesome Wisconsin-Stanford matchup. TCU-Wisconsin might be fun, but, to be honest, now I'm rooting for plum match ups (having given up on BCS anarchy). Whatever. I'll be watching the Championship and the Rose Bowl, but you won't suck me in with anything else, BCS! And really, wouldn't you watch every game of a BCS playoff? AHHHH the potential awesomeness makes it so much worse that something so crappy exists in its place.
I don't just want this to be a football blog; or a BCS hate blog. So here are some quick other thoughts.
-I have something of a soft spot for Real Madrid this year (because Mesuit Ozil is on the team, making the roster even awesome-r), but the highlights of Barcelona's 5-0 win over Real are still fun to watch. Good luck to the rest of the Champions League.
- The Bulls without Carlos Boozer are actually really good. Derrick Rose is playing on another level right now. When Boozer returns (soon!), I think the team will be among the elite. The Heat have dropped out of that level, so the Bulls will be happy to take that spot.
-Speaking of the Heat (if that hasn't been done enough), I think the fans in Cleveland have it all wrong. The way to really affect LeBron is if no one went to the game Thursday. That would show LeBron that he isn't the center of the Earth, as opposed to booing him, which would only fuel his ego. "I'm so good, I turned a whole city on me by leaving". So if no one made any big deal about it, he would seem meaningless. Some humble pie. But really, that's not going to happen, so I just hope that the Cavaliers beat up on the heat. With Mo Williams having a huge game or something.
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