This is most encouraging! Sounds like by years end we might see an invite to the P-10.
http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_14979982
http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_14979982
Sounds far-fetched, right? Which part? That Musburger will still be announcing college football games in 2015? Or that Colorado could be playing for a conference title?
No question that there is mutual interest from CU and the Pac-10; we just need to know that there is another school in the same situation (not named Texas).
We got the funk, in the trunk. We are so close...., apparently we got matches, 'cuz this was place was burned down, down to the ground, we got a bubble, we got a Boyle, we got Juicebox, we got da Flatirons, we got Ralphie and a burning desire to be "in the top half of the Big 12". What more do you need?I am struggling to understand the quote from Chip Kelley: "Colorado is one of the haves" ok... what is it exactly we have footballwise?
I am struggling to understand the quote from Chip Kelley: "Colorado is one of the haves" ok... what is it exactly we have footballwise?
I like the idea about having the championship game hosted by the higher ranked team. That is how it should be. No more half empty stadiums. **** that ****.
I like that idea. nik for Pac12 commish!Agree. Though I'd say higher ranked unless the lower ranked team won the head-to-head matchup earlier that season.
Nice. I like your thinking here....I'm bummed because I don't see things getting better in the short term, but I like the way you paint the long term picture.One of the best on-campus game environments in the nation, one of the top 25 programs of all time (wins & prestige), one of the few programs that have both a national championship and a Heisman winner, etc., etc. Think about this: we're coming off a decade that we consider awful. But we won the Big 12 North 4/10 years, won 1 Big 12 Championship, were within a couple hundredths of BCS points of playing in a national championship game, had 9 1st team All Americans, and in 2009 we still had 25 CU guys playing in the NFL.
Sometimes, I think we sell ourselves short. It's like Buff Nation is in a state of depression and has trouble seeing what others see. We are one of the "haves" of college football. Just like the University of Washington (a very similar program, university and media market) had several down years, it didn't change the fact that they're one of the big boys in college football. Let's not forget that CU is also in that number. Better days are ahead.
Edit: Just like the football team talked about getting their "swag" back and started acting like that this spring, we as a fan base need to get our swag back too. Screw it. I'm there. I'm going to be a cocky fan this year and from now on. And I'm not taking any more crap from fans of other teams.
Agree. Though I'd say higher ranked unless the lower ranked team won the head-to-head matchup earlier that season.
If they're going to have one of the participants in the championship game host it, then the criteria for hosting it should be, in this order:
1. Better conference record
2. If tied in conference record, then whoever won head-to-head match-up if they played
3. Higher ranked team
Uhhh, hate to be a downer here, but Larry Scott says nothing about CU in the entire article. It seems to me that this article doesn't tell us anything new, right? Well, I guess Chip Kelley likes CU, but that's about it. I'm still being cautious with respect to the Pac 10. My concern is that it's been so anti-change for so long that it will stand pat and not do anything...
I am struggling to understand the quote from Chip Kelley: "Colorado is one of the haves" ok... what is it exactly we have footballwise?
One of the best on-campus game environments in the nation, one of the top 25 programs of all time (wins & prestige), one of the few programs that have both a national championship and a Heisman winner, etc., etc. Think about this: we're coming off a decade that we consider awful. But we won the Big 12 North 4/10 years, won 1 Big 12 Championship, were within a couple hundredths of BCS points of playing in a national championship game, had 9 1st team All Americans, and in 2009 we still had 25 CU guys playing in the NFL.
Sometimes, I think we sell ourselves short. It's like Buff Nation is in a state of depression and has trouble seeing what others see. We are one of the "haves" of college football. Just like the University of Washington (a very similar program, university and media market) had several down years, it didn't change the fact that they're one of the big boys in college football. Let's not forget that CU is also in that number. Better days are ahead.
Edit: Just like the football team talked about getting their "swag" back and started acting like that this spring, we as a fan base need to get our swag back too. Screw it. I'm there. I'm going to be a cocky fan this year and from now on. And I'm not taking any more crap from fans of other teams.
Ordinarily, I'd agree with you about the Pac... except for one thing that makes this situation completely different. You don't hire away an expensive new management team with a history of lucratively managing expansions, sponsorships and television contracts if you are going to stand pat.
Ordinarily, I'd agree with you about the Pac... except for one thing that makes this situation completely different. You don't hire away an expensive new management team with a history of lucratively managing expansions, sponsorships and television contracts if you are going to stand pat.
Why are so many fans clamoring for a move to the Pac-10? It is a weaker conference top-to-bottom, and how is getting destroyed by USC any better than getting destroyed by Texas?
Changing conferences doesn't make our football team better. I think a lot of you think that it does.
I see a big disadvantage in conference prestige here. If you are the second best team in the Big 12, you will go to a BCS bowl more often than not. Can't say the same for the Pac-10. I see the #2 spot in the B12 as a hell of a lot more of a realistic ambition when the stars align every 7-10 years than #1 in the Pac10.
There are peripheral advantages for making the move, to be sure, but I think most CU fans that are all about this just want to something new and shiny to get excited about since the program is so down right now.
When the B12 renegotiates its TV contract, I am sure that it will be more lucrative than what the Pac-10 has to offer financially. In the long run, a switch is a lateral move at absolute best.
My opinion?
1. better fit school wise
2. better travel destinations
3. less haves vs have nots
4. Possibility of getting a baseball team back
5. Rose Bowl
6. alumni living in the Pac-10 states
You do it for a lot of reasons, many of which have been detailed here. I keep coming back to one very telling statistic, which is that there are more CU alumni in the state of California than in all of the non-Colorado Big 12 states combined. People love to talk about how CU doesn't travel well. That's a load of hooey. Look at how many CU fans went out to the ASU game a couple years ago. Or the UCLA game, or the USC game... Are you picking up on the trend, here? CU fans don't have to "travel" to the West Coast. They're already there.
You do it for a lot of reasons, many of which have been detailed here. I keep coming back to one very telling statistic, which is that there are more CU alumni in the state of California than in all of the non-Colorado Big 12 states combined. People love to talk about how CU doesn't travel well. That's a load of hooey. Look at how many CU fans went out to the ASU game a couple years ago. Or the UCLA game, or the USC game... Are you picking up on the trend, here? CU fans don't have to "travel" to the West Coast. They're already there.