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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues

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And that’s our resident history teacher everyone!
 
Except reports are ESPN offered around $30 million early and the idots running the P12 said we want $50.

Pac could be here with a tv contract similar to the B12 but leadership went full retard.
Which still relegates us to the Not P2 level. Vanderbilt and Northwestern meanwhile are happy to bank closer to $100m for sucking.

Its a shame the P12 didnt have this season last year. But its the fault of the P12 leadership for collectively putting academic utopia bs ahead of a quality football product for a decade. Thats the real story in this mess. They made GKs job a lot harder with that stupidity.
 
Which still relegates us to the Not P2 level. Vanderbilt and Northwestern meanwhile are happy to bank closer to $100m for sucking.

Its a shame the P12 didnt have this season last year. But its the fault of the P12 leadership for collectively putting academic utopia bs ahead of a quality football product for a decade. Thats the real story in this mess. They made GKs job a lot harder with that stupidity.
It wouldn’t have mattered. The conference was never making more than $31m/school once SC and UCLA left. Had they had this season 5 years ago, maybe SC and UCLA stay and the P12 can pull a contract more closely aligned with the P2
 
I don't know man.

I feel I've been following realignment as close as most AB members for the last 10+ years and it's not that simple to my head.

If you feel inclined, I'd appreciate you posting sources and walking us through your logic that led to this conclusion.

That's a helluva claim to make with no sources or stated rationale.
Maybe a better statement might be that Fox and ESPN didn‘t want 5 power leagues. I think they actually would have preferred the B12 die, but the P12 refused to deliver the killing blow over academic arrogance and the B12 was willing to do a deal at a price the networks were willing to pay.
 
Except reports are ESPN offered around $30 million early and the idots running the P12 said we want $50.

Pac could be here with a tv contract similar to the B12 but leadership went full retard.
I think that the tv networks didn’t want both the Pac-12 and the Big12 to survive at the $$ level they offered. Big12 accepted first and the Pac-12 died. I don’t think there’s any scenario where both conferences survived.
 
Maybe a better statement might be that Fox and ESPN didn‘t want 5 power leagues. I think they actually would have preferred the B12 die, but the P12 refused to deliver the killing blow over academic arrogance and the B12 was willing to do a deal at a price the networks were willing to pay.
I think ESPN was surprised by Fox countering its UT-OU to the SEC by poaching the Pac-12 for USC-UCLA.

I think they'd have rather seen a Pac-14 that added UH & TCU - or a Pac-16 which also brought in KU & OSU - instead of the Pac dissolving & the Big 12 surviving along with this wonky ACC expansion.
 
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WTF? I don't understand how you could be a fan of college football and be glad that the P12 didn't survive. Even without USC/UCLA it's a hell of a lot more compelling than the truck stop conference we're going to play in starting next year.

While the vast majority agree with you, the ship has sailed. The Truck Stop Conference won, people with teeth lost.
 
WTF? I don't understand how you could be a fan of college football and be glad that the P12 didn't survive. Even without USC/UCLA it's a hell of a lot more compelling than the truck stop conference we're going to play in starting next year.

I'm just thrilled that we got out of that conference for a number of reasons and find the Big 12 far more intriguing.

Those west coast schools will still be playing football although I do agree that it will be disappointing if some longtime rivalries go by the wayside. At least we know that many will continue and hopefully they can find a way to continue some others like UW-WSU and Oregon-OSU.
 
I'm just thrilled that we got out of that conference for a number of reasons and find the Big 12 far more intriguing.

Those west coast schools will still be playing football although I do agree that it will be disappointing if some longtime rivalries go by the wayside. At least we know that many will continue and hopefully they can find a way to continue some others like UW-WSU and Oregon-OSU.
Sadly, they’ll be relegated to CU-CSU status. Maybe not right away but it’s inevitable. UW and Oregon can’t afford that kind of rivalry game in the pursuit of a cfp spot.
 
Sadly, they’ll be relegated to CU-CSU status. Maybe not right away but it’s inevitable. UW and Oregon can’t afford that kind of rivalry game in the pursuit of a cfp spot.

Teams will have a little bigger margin of error with the 12 team playoff. But to your point as conferences get bigger some non-conference games will get squeezed out and rivalry games are never a gimme.
 
Teams will have a little bigger margin of error with the 12 team playoff. But to your point as conferences get bigger some non-conference games will get squeezed out and rivalry games are never a gimme.
Yes. Lets further dillute the regular season for a playoff. When there are 24 teams playing in the playoff. only then will we have a true championship.


Four teams is plenty.
 
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Which four? The four who are going to the XII or the four who are going to the Big 10?

The Big 12's two best teams right now are the ones who are joining the SEC. CU beat one of them already. There's nobody there who I look and say "thats a sure loss" like I did today. Prime instantly becomes a massive fish in a much smaller pond than what we have now next year.
Wait, what??? I’m so confused by this.
 
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