TCU and the Big East
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 02-12-2010
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Goodbye TCU….It is a shame that the Mountain West could not be one of the money conferences, then I think we could have kept TCU around. However, this year you could have kicked butt in the Big East….Next year, well, I’m not so sure….You may come to regret this move, not only in football but basketball… I am sure you will make more money, but a year or two years down the road, what then?….well, come to think of it you had trouble holding your own in the Mountain West in basketball, the Big East will kick your butt there….Your girl players are pretty good..I just don’t see you fitting in very good there, football or basketball….Why should a fellow like me worry about it anyway, it’s all about money….The have’s have and the have not’s want…..so goes life….it still ain’t right….
So, TCU is leaving the Mountain West. I guess they came to realize that there are few green pastures in the western mountains. There is a green valley here and there, and a few white peaks; but greenery, both in terms of scenery and dollars, are things that the Lord generally withheld when He made the Mountain West. TCU evidenty wants more than “enchantment blowing in the wind”. They have plenty of that in west Texas anyhow. If only we had allowed ourselves to join the atomic world, uranium mining and processing would now be a huge industry in the Mountain West, and dollars would be flowing like water.
Of course the main thing for TCU is the automatic football berth in the BCS. It would be something if this is the last good team they have for a while. But yes, it is about money. University of Texas says their football program bring in around 80 million a year…I think Alabama is ab out the same…The difference is good football programs and the BCS bowls available to them…big money….
Yeah! But our overpaid, under performing coach gets close to a fifth of it. Money does no one very much good if it is wasted along the way. Barack Obama and the Democrats are a case in point.
I remember one of the early days pro player talking about getting a 5000 dollar bonus and that was top dollar in his day. Things have changed huh?
I am not certain if things have really changed all that much in any other way than rampant inflation. That 5000 of bonus money was backed with gold and was likely worth about as much as the increase in salary that St. Nick received after the 2009 season. I’ve heard that a typical PFC in our modern army makes $39,000 a year. I doubt if that PFC is all that much better off than I was in the Air Force in the Sixties with my gold-backed $1200, other than the fact that this PFC probably has a much better chance of dying violently in battle.