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2018 Offseason News: Pac-12 & CU Opponents
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Because it's Rutgers/ outside the footprint or because you are ok with that Ft Collins game?
Because the game in Fort Collins is preferable to a dumb east coast trip to play Rutgers (???) IMO. Neither is good.
Game in Fort Collins is dumb, but a game in New Jersey is so much worse.
I don't see much upside to beating Rutgers, plus it would almost certainly be an early kickoff game and an easy one to drop after a 4 hours flight to the east coast. No thanks.
Maybe we could get Rutgers to come to Ft. Collins and have Lady GaGa perform at halftime.
Oklahoma has an opening for September 5, 2020.
http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/big-12/oklahoma-sooners.php
@ A&M and OU in one year? Ouch.
I know others here don't feel the same way, but CSU has become a body bag game. The programs have been on completely different trajectories for the past 3 years and the talent gap is widening substantially. I understand not wanting the RMS at Mile High and it's lame that it finishes up in Fort Collins, but it will be a very probable win and satisfying send off to the hiatus to the series.
So we very well could get smoked in that game, but at least it would be more high profile and likely a bigger payout. Not a real fan of 1-off games, so I would want to see a return date from OU.
I think RG needs to avoid being a little too desperate to get out of that CSU game.
Sykobuff
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This folks. Think about it, CU goes up to the greatest stadium ever built, beats the crap out of csu, drop the mic and say bye-bye.
It's already eating at them and the fake "we care about college football in this state" Denver media that this is ending.
Let's send them off proper ****ed.
I'm afraid he's going to use it as leverage on a new series with them. I don't want a new series. I want to see RG either play it and be done (less ideal) or find a replacement game that more than offsets the cost of buying the game out (ideally a neutral site game with a P5 school, but away with a return trip in future works).
Ask Nebraska if they will play a neutral site game in 2020 and back out of the CSU game. Do you think they would say yes to Mile High? Their current OOC that year is South Dakota State, Central Michigan and Cincinnati.
EDIT: HOLY ****, Nebraska-CU in Vegas 2020 opener.
EDIT: HOLY ****, Nebraska-CU in Vegas 2020 opener.
DrunkRalphie
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There will be so much black and gold in that stadium in 2020. It's going to be hilarious to see.
I could get behind that
I think that would be best case scenario. Okay a more meaningful game against an opponent Cu fans would travel for and ditch the CSU game at the same time. Could be rough having essentially two away games against Nebraska with frost and A&M but it would be a blast to play them 5 years in a row. If it were up to me we would play every year anyways.
When you are figuring out the costs you have to factor in that playing CU/RMS/AFA/Wyoming save a lot of money because there is no chartered airplane.
When supply goes down price usually increases. I never thought of the fact that the airlines had so little supply. They could literally tell the NFL and colleges its gonna be three quarters of a million bucks per trip from now on, take it or leave it. I guess some charters could step in. But do you want to take that plane?
When supply goes down price usually increases. I never thought of the fact that the airlines had so little supply. They could literally tell the NFL and colleges its gonna be three quarters of a million bucks per trip from now on, take it or leave it. I guess some charters could step in. But do you want to take that plane?
vinniew_11
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I’d like to see a rotating Front Range series, including Boise State and Utah State. Build the regional brand.
Hopefully he is listening to fans, a lot of time has passed since it was leaked they were near a deal and now. He already dealt with the backlash went on local radio saying he wanted to games on campus and CsU didn’t and that was the hold up. No reason to bring it up again.
I do not mind playing some Front Range teams, but how is playing Utah State going to help a regional brand? We already play Utah every year.
vinniew_11
Well-Known Member
In thier good years, they are very Boise State-ish. And it seemed they had a few Poly names on thier team. Wouldn’t hurt to get those eyes on CU every so often.
**** you!
I think you over-rate them. I can't remember Utah State having Top 25 seasons, let along being anywhere near Boise State level. I do remember they gave Auburn a scare at their place one time. And they have had some good coaches.
But if we're talking about G5 opponents, I'd say that we should be looking at AAC and C-USA opponents in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. We play enough in the MTZ & PTZ by being in the Pac-12 and this region's G5 teams don't do anything to help CU.
Oh, hell yes!
Podcast of Champions is doing a review of every school in the Pac-12. They did the UCLA schools last week and the Arizona schools yesterday. I think the criteria they use could be sort of humbling for our fanbase but we will find out next week. I assume Adam is going to hop on there soon.
1. Does the school have the resources to accomplish goals
2. Recruiting: does the school keep most of the in state kids home and how it it viewed nationally?
3. Politics: Is everyone on the same page and do they want the same things? (Fanbase, boosters and insiders)
1. Do we have the resources? Definitely not but greatly improved from the mid 2000's. I will say there is quite a bit of potential there for this to get better over the next 10 years if Mac can put together a couple more winning seasons. CU and Denver definitely has some more fair weather fans that will take notice.
2. Recruiting: A small but growing instate talent pool that CU probably does okay keeping in state when compared to some of the other states in the Pac-12 (ASU got 1 of the top 10 in their state in 2017 and what looks to be 0 in 2018.) On a national scale I would say that it is more difficult than some schools but a lot of people hold CU and Boulder in high regard.
3. Politics: complete **** show. When everyone is on the same page the football team usually performs well but the bottom is perfectly capable of falling out at any time.
1. Does the school have the resources to accomplish goals
2. Recruiting: does the school keep most of the in state kids home and how it it viewed nationally?
3. Politics: Is everyone on the same page and do they want the same things? (Fanbase, boosters and insiders)
1. Do we have the resources? Definitely not but greatly improved from the mid 2000's. I will say there is quite a bit of potential there for this to get better over the next 10 years if Mac can put together a couple more winning seasons. CU and Denver definitely has some more fair weather fans that will take notice.
2. Recruiting: A small but growing instate talent pool that CU probably does okay keeping in state when compared to some of the other states in the Pac-12 (ASU got 1 of the top 10 in their state in 2017 and what looks to be 0 in 2018.) On a national scale I would say that it is more difficult than some schools but a lot of people hold CU and Boulder in high regard.
3. Politics: complete **** show. When everyone is on the same page the football team usually performs well but the bottom is perfectly capable of falling out at any time.
