The only problem with the addition of TCU besides geography is an unwieldy 17-team basketball conference.
The university, which has about 9, 500 students, regularly tests athletes for drug use, said TCU spokeswoman Lisa Albert.
This is a good move for TCU and the Big 12, but it should have happened a year ago.
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Local celebrities have helped my causes, such as TCU football coach Gary Patterson and Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief.
With Houston out of the picture, TCU has a shot to go back to the BCS for a third consecutive season.
Last season, TCU defeated Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, the traditional postseason home of the Big Ten and Pac-10's top teams.
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"Just look at the bowl games that happened only because of the BCS: USC-Texas, Boise State-Oklahoma, Ohio State-Florida, Auburn-Oregon, TCU-Wisconsin, " Hancock said.
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Meanwhile, TCU joined the Big East to ensure inclusion of a BCS bowl game should they run the table in future years.
Boise beat Virginia Tech and Oregon State earlier this year, TCU beat Oregon State and Baylor, and Utah beat Pittsburgh and Iowa State.
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The TCU provides scalable e learning teacher training including preparation to use ICTs, collaborating in curricula development with seven educational technology departments at universities.
There was a clear drop-off for the other unbeatens as Boise State had 58 points and Cincinnati and TCU were tied with 56 points each.
Griffin made a 15-yard reception in traffic to convert a key third down on the game-winning drive in Baylor's opening 50-48 victory against TCU. Better.
Upon graduation from TCU in 1959 -- after a lackluster basketball career -- Hays joined Southwestern and within a few years was virtually running the company.
The team first made the NCAAs in 2010 and pulled off a win over TCU. They had lost the past two years in their opening games.
"There are days people want to be a head football coach, but today is not one of those days, " Gary Patterson, TCU's head coach, said in a statement.
The Rose Bowl between Wisconsin and TCU is the second hottest bowl ticket according to FanSnap which compares pricing at more than 50 online secondary market ticket sites.
Currently, TCU, playing in the non-Bowl Championship Series Mountain West Conference, does not have an automatic bid but has a guaranteed at-large selection based on its No. 3 ranking.
After adding TCU in December, the Big East Conference is committed to a 10th school for football in time for the 2012 season and that school should be Notre Dame.
Last March, Sports Illustrated reported that the TCU team was the only football program ranked among the nation's top 25 that didn't include a single player with a police record.
It also has the virtue of settling, at least to a degree, the discussions about whether teams like Boise State, Utah, and TCU deserve to be mentioned in national championship discussions.
Boise State and TCU are No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, but not being a member of the six major conferences with automatic bids, could easily be squeezed out of the title game.
The Big Ten also lost the first bowl game of 2011, when Texas Tech beat Northwestern 45-38 in the TicketCity Bowl, and dropped its most meaningful when TCU beat Wisconsin 21-19 in the Rose Bowl.
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But equally clear is the fact that, given the financial landscape of college sports these days and the glass ceiling often confronted by non-AQ schools and conferences, one cannot fault TCU for chasing the money.
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Although TCU, located an average of 1, 140 miles from the Big East schools, does not fit geographically and adds to an already overcrowded basketball league, the Big East had no choice but to beef up football.
Some believed commentators might even be playing favorites on-air: this January, ESPN reporter Erin Andrews told viewers of the TCU-Wisconsin Rose Bowl game that the TCU players were slipping in their brand new Nike cleats.
And perhaps more spitefully, this may motivate some big time schools to avoid future non-conference, early season games against Boise or TCU in an effort to make it harder for these little guys to bolster their resumes.
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Other teams being mentioned as the 10th team are Houston to give TCU a traveling partner, Central Florida, which was ranked in The Top 25 last season, and Temple, which was kicked out of the league in 1994.
The move, which would go into effect during the 2012-13 school year, certainly makes sense in football for both TCU (12-0), a Top Five team all season, and the lackluster Big East suffering through its worst year since forming a football league in 1992.
The best round of the day was a 62 by Web.com Tour player Franklin Corpening, a Fort Worth native who grew up at Colonial and played at TCU. He finished at 8 under and tied for 14th, earning an automatic invitation to play again next year.
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