Wow, is it a full moon or something...amusing reading the throwdown from the sidelines. On the idea of LCA being so close in proximity to the LU entity--I feel that has some merit. I graduated from LU several years prior to that development, but it was rumored at the time. From what I recall, most of the LU students at the time were very wary of this development and many did not have a high opinion of it; among other things, some wondered about the "cross-pollination" of high school students with college students and speculated how long it would be until the first media dirt would hit about a first case of improprieties taken between the students of the two entities.
Since the airing of the goal of 25K, some alumni have speculated that at some point as the school approached the critical mass of 25K on campus, that it was inevitable that TRBC would simply get "folded" into LU as its campus church offering, kind of like the on-campus cathedral that serves the Notre Dame campus. At that point, LU would be the behemoth organization and the church very small in comparison (unless you count attendance the Evangelical way--anyone who is within 1000 yards of the building gets counted twice, once for Sunday School and once for the service)
Again, just reporting what the overriding LU student party line was back in the late 90's.