The tote board reads an NIT title for the men’s basketball team, yet another trip to the College World Series for the baseball team, and a 6-7 season with a Liberty Bowl runners-up ribbon for the football team.
TCU football, it’s your turn.
The main (i.e. only) reason TCU was invited into the Big 12 was because of Gary Patterson and the football team. Where TCU is invited the next time college athletics (i.e. football) consolidates, it will again be entirely because of the football team.
When TCU joined the Big 12 in 2012 a cyclical dip in the win-loss column was unavoidable and expected.