Do They Have The Distance

Earlier today, TCU announced that they will move to the Big East in 2012. It was a huge move. Good in some ways and bad in others. To start on the positive side, the main reason is that they are an automatic qualifying conference. TCU will be moving in all sports, though. It will be a tough road for the basketball team in that dominating conference. Most of the Big East coaches did not want them to join in all sports. That will leave the Big East with 17 teams. Another thing will be that they don't have a supporting fan base that will travel to a lot of games. Also, the distance between schools in the Big East is longer than just trying to fly up to Wyoming or even to drive to New Mexico. We will see how this all plays out when TCU has to take on more tough opponents.