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Originally Posted by Chiefspants
As a KU fan, I believe athletic success to be more important to a conference than a slightly higher reach in population. The big 12 missed a big opportunity with Louisville, if they wanted WVU, then they should have selected Louisville over the lush tv ratings grab known as TCU.
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I wanted Louisville too, but only because I'm a much bigger hoops fan than football. Fox Sports didn't want them here probably because their reach is so low outside of their home city. TCU was taken because they were available and ATM & Mizzou refused to wait a year to move. (That's why they were both punished financially by the Big 12)
The member schools want to play in Texas as much as possible so they in fact wanted TCU in. And it's a big reason they weren't hot on expanding past 10, because the Northern schools didn't want to bring in others and lose any games down there. If you bring in Louisville & BYU to get to 12, we end up playing games there instead of in Texas.