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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues
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What's your point?
ScreamingBeagle
Active Member
When Lauren Boebert is from your state you probably don't have the high-ground.
What if I ride my bike?
She blocked me on twitter for trying to explain parts of speech.
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I like to believe that we exceed your commitment to excellence, dorks.
That this perspective and the importance of the LA market was a primary reason why CU was in the conference. Take that away and you have to wonder why you should stay. Makes it much easier to leave. Kind of like if you took a job then after being pretty happy for a while your boss left and they moved the corporate office. It's no longer what you signed up for.
Victory
Well-Known Member
The best thing RG has said about the B12 is it includes Houston and the Houston market, mentioned it twice, and that’s where we’ve recruited well in the past. Neither of these guys seem that enthusiastic about what they’re getting into. Phil seemed to inadvertently say the move will upset alumni relations in California.
I don't think anyone will blame CU for leaving. I think it is widely understood that USC and UCLA destroyed the conference.
God I love politics on this board!
GET HIM FRED!
The CA (particularly SoCal) factor is very real and it's significant. It's why I've been such a big proponent of SDSU. It has about nothing to do with the Aztecs and everything to do with that geography's importance to CU. I lived off and on in San Diego County for years. I can't remember meeting a single Aztec fan and never went there for a single game. That's irrelevant. If it was a school in a city I enjoy and have some good feelings about, I'd be talking up UNLV since Nikita went there and it's the best road trip in the west. But back to SDSU, lots of CU alums and prospective students & lots of recruiting success in SD & OC.
For the university priorities, SDSU and ASU would probably be the best adds for us.
Time for me to roll out the welcome mat.
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Who is this guy?
Victory
Well-Known Member
Makes it all the more strange they didn’t add SDSU immediately after losing USC and UCLA. To your point, it keeps everyone involved in the area. So dumb. Nothing anyone can do about it now other than the B12 adding SDSU. We’ll see if it goes that route.
A little uncomplimentary of a group of institutions that just Saved Your Ass.
He also said that USC and UCLA leaving basically eliminated their ability to connect with alumni in SoCal...
You keep saying no one seems excited. Ya, no one wanted to move. Everyone enjoyed the travel locations and teams in the conference. They gave the conference 13 months to figure something out. Anything. And they couldnt, so Colorado HAD to move on.
A few gems from Wilner here:
"If a school participates in a conference for 12 years, wins no major championships, churns through five football coaches, then decides to leave, was it really ever there?" (didn't we win the MBB tournament the first year?)
"Also, CU’s departure is, at this moment, more about the psychological toll it could have on the remaining Pac-12 schools than any material damage sustained by the exit. The Buffaloes can be replaced, and easily so. They have made little competitive impact and lack the brand value and media market to kneecap the Pac-12 as it negotiates a broadcast contract." (Ha, we shall see. Hello Mountain West + Stanford).
"Of the 10 current members, Colorado is the only school the Pac-12 can lose in the realignment game without triggering either mass panic or a rush to the door that decimates the league." (do emergency meetings count as panic?)
"Our strong suspicion is that Kliavkoff has accounted for CU’s possible exit in his media rights negotiations and will pivot to Plan B." (ah yes, the media rights get better without Colorado).
"One president, DiStefano, took the option. Could others follow?" (is DeStefano our president now or is Jon Wilner a hack?)
"If a school participates in a conference for 12 years, wins no major championships, churns through five football coaches, then decides to leave, was it really ever there?" (didn't we win the MBB tournament the first year?)
"Also, CU’s departure is, at this moment, more about the psychological toll it could have on the remaining Pac-12 schools than any material damage sustained by the exit. The Buffaloes can be replaced, and easily so. They have made little competitive impact and lack the brand value and media market to kneecap the Pac-12 as it negotiates a broadcast contract." (Ha, we shall see. Hello Mountain West + Stanford).
"Of the 10 current members, Colorado is the only school the Pac-12 can lose in the realignment game without triggering either mass panic or a rush to the door that decimates the league." (do emergency meetings count as panic?)
"Our strong suspicion is that Kliavkoff has accounted for CU’s possible exit in his media rights negotiations and will pivot to Plan B." (ah yes, the media rights get better without Colorado).
"One president, DiStefano, took the option. Could others follow?" (is DeStefano our president now or is Jon Wilner a hack?)
It comes with Hulu Live and Disney plus. Works out because I have Hulu Live. I hated having to get Sling or Fubo for another $40, which basically mirrored Hulu Live, MINUS a couple of other things i want for the rest of the year. But if I had to just get ESPN +, I'd be cool with that.
A new guy that won't shut up about politics!
I suspect he's going to be proven wrong in short order. The Titanic is sinking and there aren't enough life boats for everyone. CU got one, though.
About sums up my response to today's news. When we went to the Pac-12 I hung on every moment of it, I don't know if its the portal, the teams in the division, the way the Pac got lost, the ****ty roadies available to us, or macro level changes in CFB - But I'm having a hard time caring 5% as much as last time.
Holy ****! The one team that is driving significant national interest, is the one that is dispensable in media negotiations. Bravo!
One thing I always hated about the Pac-12 was this strange attitude of superiority from the Pac-8 schools and conference media where even the AZ schools weren't fully treated the same as the originals. I always felt that their dream was to find 4 more AAU or close enough members to the east so we could be a 16 team conference where the original Pac-8 schools could be separated from the desert & mountain people except for a couple games and a conference tournament. They wanted and needed the markets & money, but hated the expansion of their little club.
I'm only relieved that CU has a home for at least the next six seasons after this season. I think the pro-Big 12 CU Buff fan group feels that way too.
I wonder why Stanford wasn't picked up in the top time slot for national broadcasts the first 2 weeks of the season. It certainly doesn't compute for Wilner.
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