How does the Big East benefit here?

TCU is coming to the Big East Conference in all sports, in 2012. Good for them they beat the system. They will finish this season undefeated and never had any shot at being in the National Championship game. So they thought how can we stay in a weak conference but still qualify for the BCS National Championship? Answer: The Big East.

The Horned Frogs are bringing their excellent football team to a below average football conference  and their below average basketball team to a great basketball conference. TCU is making out like bandits here. Their football team will get a great bowl game every year and their basketball team will be in the national spotlight for the first time ever.

The Big East is in no way improved. TCU is not going to make athletes want to go to Pitt or WVU. If anything it may eventually cost the Big East its automatic qualifying bid. This is because TCU will shine the light on how terrible these teams really are. If the NCAA sees TCU in six straight Orange Bowls they will get suspicious. Also the basketball conference is immediately weaker. After last years horrible showings by UConn, Villanova, and Georgetown in the tournament they needed something to show that the conference was getting better. Adding a not-so-good team does not do that. So why did the Big East want TCU? Money drives the world so they had to figure they would make more, I just don't see how.

The biggest knock I have heard against TCU moving is "the strain on the student athletes" mainly the additional travel time. Well you know who you can blame all of this on? The BCS and the NCAA. The NCAA's job is to protect and help student athletes but they honestly don't care about the athletes. If the BCS made it at all possible for TCU to win a National Championship they would have stayed in their conference and said to hell with the added travel time. Yet another problem with the Bowl "Championship" System.