This should be the best offseason of TCU’s existence. The Horned Frogs just won their first Rose Bowl against Big Ten power Wisconsin. The school could start the college football season in yet another lofty place in the Top 25, and the Frogs will be moving into the Big East in 2012, paving the way for more BCS bowl appearances in the future.
Texas Tech Cancels TCU Game; Horned Frogs’ Schedule Imploding
Now, if only they could keep the schedule together.
Texas Tech announced Wednesday that it was chickening out ducking calling off the Red Raiders’ game with TCU -- for the second year in a row. Actually, we’ll go with chickening out; just look at the official reasoning from Tech officials ...
The Red Raiders were to visit the Rose Bowl champion Horned Frogs on Sept. 10 in Fort Worth. Texas Tech, however, needed to drop one nonconference game in order to fit in a ninth Big 12 game and opted to keep its games against New Mexico and Nevada and drop TCU.
... and then consider this:
Texas Tech is still looking for an opponent for Sept. 3. A source said it will seek another road game.
So, to recap: Texas Tech is canceling a road game against TCU to make room for a ninth conference game, even though the Red Raiders are looking for a road game against a nonconference team. Like TCU. No reason to question any motives there, right?
Meanwhile, the Mountain West is considering moving TCU’s game with Boise next year from a home game for TCU -- who will be leaving the conference after 2011 -- to a home game for Boise, which will very much still be around after that. That could leave Frogs fans with a thrilling home schedule to watch, one including such heavyweights as Colorado State, New Mexico, UNLV, Southern Methodist and whatever cannon fodder the TCU athletics department can find to take Texas Tech’s place. But at least TCU fans can take comfort in the fact that they’ll soon join the Big East; no one has ever been afraid of scheduling a Big East team in nonconference play.
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