TCU is in DALLAS, a metropolitan area of 5 million people. If TCU was previously unattractive to the Big-12 prior to the many major shake-ups of this past two years, then that isn't BYU's fault. BYU was however the most financially viable (Texas if you will) program in a sea of non-Texas like programs and paying much of the freight for the rest of the conference. That BYU was unhappy with the 16 team WAC is a given, but EIGHT members of that conference bolted, not just BYU. Why a TCU fan would hone in on BYU when the other teams left is a little self serving to his/her opinion, but not very germane to the context of reality. As for leaving the MWC. BYU was offered a substantial amount of money to leave and had already invested a sizable sum of money (in excess of $150 million) for the development of its own broadcast network and distribution system. Aside from the University of Texas' latent attempt to begin a similar process, TCU had never a notion to do the same. The situations are not the same and to decry BYU for bolting the MWC is a very self-centered look at the financial realities of college sports. TCU has never done anything except what was in its own best interest either so any high-and-mighty look down at what BYU did is pretty petty and unrealistic in the business world.