If Colorado were good, I would go on road trips.
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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues
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I've been to three CU @ ASU games. Combined score is 150-50. I don't particularly want to go to another.
Bingo.
hell, I canceled my season tickets because of time and family stuff. But i wasnt all that sad to see them go given that we were bad.
Ill be in Seattle in Nov to see us get crushed by UW. My Dad will fly from Miami for it. but there is another angle to that for me.
When I was in Seattle for the MSU game there were a lot of MSU fans around campus. Thats something you see when fans are optimistic about their team. I havent been optimistic About CU football since 2001 or so.
I can't even tell you how miserable it was watching the massacre in Tallahassee. My buddies wanted to road trip every year and I noped out after that.
Fair enough on road trips, but I am addressing the freaks here on Allbuffs. You’re lovable freaks, but freaks nonetheless. Not sure the location of a November game matters all that much. When the time comes, take the cash, go to the big 12, make fun of them, and get sauced in some ****ty bar in Waco. You won’t care where you are if CU actually wins.
I have more fun in ****ty towns. But I only want to go to those ****ty towns if we don't suck.
I was a big proponent of the PAC 12. It seemed like a great fit at the time. But a decade later, no PAC 12 fans come to Allbuffs to engage. We get more traffic from Huskers, and random OOC opponents. I’m frankly bored with the PAC 12. Zero passion. And when I make a mistake, I own it, and fix it. I honestly believe going back to the Big 12 is the right move for CU.
The main reason for joining with the P12 was connecting with alums to drive donations. Champions Center was good confirmation of the decision. But now that we're hearing all this chatter about the AD being broke, I don't think we can use this justification any more.
I think the alumni engagement over one game per year in SoCal is oversold. You become engaged with winning, not location.
Academic collaboration is also way oversold.
The one area where league affiliation does appear to be important is marketing. There is a degree of academic prestige associated with being in a certain league. And that is really what CU is holding on to.
At least it's not Nebraska.
There was that one Utah guy last year. Super nice guy
I'll take Seattle, Salt Lake, LA, Palo Alto and Berkley over Ames, Waco, Stoolwater, Manhatten and Lawrence any ****ing day and 4 times on Sunday.
Right. That’s a small minority of college football road trips. Also, who gives a ****? Do you travel for a game a great football atmosphere or do you travel for a vacation with a game mixed in?
Yep. Made a week of it and we stayed on St. George Island. Also saw them play FSU in Jacksonville.
Those are the road trips we get if we end up in a pac-12 big-12 hybrid. Lose ALL the good pac-12 locations, get all the **** ass mid-western middle of ****ing nowhere ****holes.
We also lose Vegas as a Bball tournament site.
I cannot emphasize this enough: when we joined what was the P10, that was the top conference. The conference was mismanaged and things didn’t turn out well.
Something that will no longer be the case.
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I don’t think you understand that the Pac10 is unlikely to exist in this scenario, so it doesn’t really matter.
Nebraska, it’s not for
Yeah, and if CU plays like they are this year, they'll get curb stomped in the BigXII, too. My perception is that fans were somewhat willing to stomach the curb stompings to make a weekend trip to places like Seattle or LA. I'm not going to watch the Buffs get smashed *AND* be in Lubbock.
We have our own network and distribution system, we'll show you!
Shhhh !! don't tell that to Wilner and Canzano... to them everything is fine. Just yesterday on their radio show/POD cast they said something much higher
BlackNGold
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Unfortunately the future of CU football and athletics is no longer in the hands of CU. People scoff at the idea of dropping football but that may be on the table within the next 5 years. If the PAC 12 TV deal is in the range of $20 million per year than CU will have to consider options which may include dropping to a Mountain West type conference and the PAC might already be there. It is becoming clearer the narrative of the Power 5 conferences is going by the wayside. It is becoming the Power 2 with another tier falling below that. The Big 10 is talking about $100 M per school per year payout. There is no way that PAC schools can compete with that with a $20 M payout per school.
Schools like CU are going to have to reevaluate how much they spend. Pac 12 schools will not be able to pay the Salaries to coaches that Big 10 schools do. There is going to have to be shift from what the system is today. I believe adding more schools removes more money than it adds.
What I hope happens (and this is really a hope) is the Big 10 decides to tie up the major TV markets in the west and invite CU, UW, ASU, and Stanford. That gives them Denver, Seattle, Phoenix and Bay Area TV markets. Oregon has been good but lacks a major TV market. Other than that type of scenario, CU is toast. Big12 or the Pac makes no difference as the money differential between those conferences and the Power 2 is too great to compete with.
CU football is dying and fans are worried about road trip quality.
Schools like CU are going to have to reevaluate how much they spend. Pac 12 schools will not be able to pay the Salaries to coaches that Big 10 schools do. There is going to have to be shift from what the system is today. I believe adding more schools removes more money than it adds.
What I hope happens (and this is really a hope) is the Big 10 decides to tie up the major TV markets in the west and invite CU, UW, ASU, and Stanford. That gives them Denver, Seattle, Phoenix and Bay Area TV markets. Oregon has been good but lacks a major TV market. Other than that type of scenario, CU is toast. Big12 or the Pac makes no difference as the money differential between those conferences and the Power 2 is too great to compete with.
CU football is dying and fans are worried about road trip quality.