JimmyBuff
Well-Known Member
@the doubting jimbo...
i thought you prided yourself on your business sense? well, frankly, you are displaying none of it in this thread.
let me help you out...
expansion isn't going to be based upon CURRENT competitiveness. if it were, they'd take boise state ahead of CU. it is based on a lot of factors including academics and cultural fit and such, but, in the end, it comes down to MONEY.
if the p10 adds utah and CU, they add 2 large and growing television markets. they increase their tv footprint to a larger size than the b12. and, they can add the always-lucrative conf. champ game.
furthermore, if you look around, you'll see that candidates that fit the p10's criteria aren't exactly in large supply. CU is going to be at the very top of their list (presuming they can't steal texas and i don't think that they can).
All you guys are looking at is what helps the Pac 10.. Joining the Pac 10 doesn't make us better, it doesn't improve our facilities and it doesn't change the fact that we'd still be in the middle of the pack at best in the new conference..
Okay let's say Utah and CU are added.. In the Pac 10 North we would be with Washington, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State and Utah.. 4 of the 5 have superior facilities to us and are willingly to continue to spend money on top of money to continue to get them better. How is that a good thing for CU again?
Guarantee if CU is lucky to get an invitation, the admin will run to the Pac 10 thinking oh, well we are out of the Big 12, now we can sit on our hands since there isn't any huge powers in this conference and we'll just win like we did in the 90's.. (much like what they did when the Big 12 was formed)..
Bottom line the Big 12 gave CU the best chance to succeed and they did nothing for years to improve the program.. I don't see anything changing with the current administration and I'd rather not throw away 50 some years of history that we have with our border rivals in the Big 12 North and OU just so we can suck out in the Pac 10 and play Utah every year in November..