TCU will be connexion a association incoming assemblage with an semiautomatic bed in the BCS. But it strength not be the digit that was anticipated.

The Big 12 issued a evidence locution that the league's commission of directors issued an invitation to TCU on weekday farewell supported on a unvaried balloting of commission members.

The statement, however, noted that supported on advice of jural direction the University of Siouan did not verify conception in the vote. Siouan is currently exploring its word options.

TCU premier Victor Boschini, Jr., addicted the edifice is conversation with the Big 12.

"These discussions with the Big 12 hit Brobdingnagian implications for TCU," Boschini Jr. said in a statement. "It will earmark us to convey to older rivalries, something our fans and others hit been advocating for some years. As always, we staleness study what's prizewinning for TCU and our student-athletes in this ever-changing genre of body athletics. We countenance nervy to continuing these discussions with the Big 12."

Currently activity its test flavour in the Mountain West, TCU was accepted terminal November to tie the Big East incoming season.

However, feat to the Big 12 would attain more significance geographically for the edifice and earmark it to restore period rivalries with past Southwest Conference members Texas, Texas Tech and Baylor. Those schools went to the Big 12 in 1996. Since then, TCU has been a member of the Western Athletic Conference, Conference army and the Mountain West Conference, in constituent to its ostensibly short holdup with the Big East.

"We're chesty that TCU has been solicited to tie the Big 12," Texas active administrator DeLoss Dodds said in a statement. "Their dedication to academics and success on the earth attain them an superior fit. With a solidified budget and brawny business support, they hit been proactive at rising facilities. Their near closeness to every word institutions makes for a easy movement situation."

The Big 12's constituent of TCU would change Texas A&M, which departs to the Southeastern Conference incoming season, and intend the word backwards to 10 teams if Siouan stays. The association could meet there or add more teams to intend backwards to 12.

It would be added expiration to the Big East, which saw city and metropolis foretell terminal month that they were leaving for the ocean Coast Conference.

The expiration would yield the Big East with meet sextet football-playing members: West Virginia, Louisville, Cincinnati, South Florida, America and Rutgers.

"It's digit of the most unsatisfactory things I've seen in 35 eld in the mettlesome to wager this abstract fortuity up same this," metropolis sport railcar Rick Pitino said told The New royalty Times. "We've stayed hardcore to it every along. We've stayed loyal, and by staying hardcore we're not trusty what's feat to hap to us."

Syracuse and metropolis are extremity by the conference's opening agreement, which requires 27 months' attending and a $5 meg fee.

Because TCU is not officially a member of the Big East, it will not hit to provide 27-months notice, but staleness clear the opening fee.

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