So did BYU turn us down or are the decision makers in the conference tarded or am I tarded?
If the Big 12 were to expand beyond 10, TCU would have likely been one of those schools anyway. The Big 12 probably saw them as the easiest to get right now, so they take them, make the Big East less stable while making the Big 12 look more stable, possibly add more teams from the dying Big East and convince BYU to join.