TCU to the Big East?

I understand why TCU wants to join an AQ conference, but the idea of a Texas school in a conference called the "Big East" is a little reminiscent of that old Pace commercial that mocked the chili made in New York City.

And more seriously, I wonder about the academic and cultural fit. What schools in the Big East are like TCU--private, religious heritage, urban, sizeable endowment, enrollment under 10,000? Some of the basketball schools, maybe, but among the football schools the closest is maybe--Syracuse?

Meanwhile, I agree that Boise must wish they'd joined up somewhere else.