TCU-BYU won't be Thanksgiving weekend

TCU and BYU, former rivals in the Mountain West Conference, are likely to meet for a nonconference game in 2011, but a source at TCU said the game, contrary to reports, will not be played Thanksgiving Day weekend at Cowboys Stadium.
TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte said the Horned Frogs are still finalizing their nonconference opponents for the 2011 season.
BYU, which will play as an independent after being a member of the MWC since 1999, has two open dates left on its fall schedule. TCU, which lost two home games when Texas Tech backed out of a game in September at Amon G. Carter Stadium, and when the MWC switched the Horned Frogs' game with Boise State from Fort Worth to Boise, Idaho, has been trying to fill its schedule with another marquee opponent.
Another high profile potential nonconference opponent for TCU (besides BYU), which moves to the Big East in 2012, is being negotiated currently for a potential neutral site stadium, not necessarily Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
No games have been officially confirmed, but TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte said TCU's schedule will be released soon.
-- Stefan Stevenson

Comments

[J V Donnant]

And in related news, today the Student Senate at Texas Tech formally approved the change of the school's mascot from Yosemite Sam to the Prairie Chicken, effective at the end of the current school term.

[DFdub]

So much for never scheduling BYU again...

[Jim White]

I have a question for anyone who might know the answer-- Why did TCU settle for joining the Big East instead of holding out for the Big 12? It seems like the Big 12 would want to add a team like TCU to help make up for the loss of Nebraska and Colorado. TCU has a very good and classy program, is a good school and is a perfect geographic fit for the Big 12. I've heard it said that the remaining Big 12 teams are afraid of TCU. I realize that TCU is strong now, but like every program it will have off years and would probably be challenged by Big 12 teams that are not-so-strong now. Did the Big 12 black ball the Frogs?
Thanks.
--Jim White

[Roy]

Television. The number of Longhorns, Sooners, Aggies, Raiders, Bears and even Cornhusker fans living in the DFW area is immense. The TV networks already own that huge market with the teams they have and the "Frog Base" wouldn't add many viewers. However, if they were in the Big 12, Amon Carter (or Cowboy) Stadium would be sold out for every home game and attended by a sea of Orange, Red, Maroon, Black and Green to cheer on the visiting teams. Instead the Frogs are following the Dallas Cowboys to New York (Syracuse), Philadelphia (Villanova) and Washington, D.C. (W. Virginia) and will be seen in markets which make DFW seem small. (That's why the Cowboys wanted in the NFL East back in 1960 - Television)