Good thing the Big 12 added UCF, Cincy, Houston and BYU
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College Football Realignment
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Because so many of you have been chirping for years about how valuable BYU is because of the Mormon audience.
There are only about 7 million Mormons in the entire United States, they don't all watch college football, and those who do aren't necessarily BYU fans. That affiliation is a nice bump that increases viewership (which is likely comprised of mostly non-Mormons) for their games, but it's not that big of a deal outside of the resources the church has at its disposal to support their athletic programs with facilities and recruiting.
Need the Prime Effect to continue which has to include a 10+ win season in the next couple years. Do that, and I think the Colorado brand is more sustainable in life after Prime
Iowa st???
Bingo. Crucial.
Going to guess those games were Texas, Miami (bowl,) KSU twice, Utah or Memphis in the bowl.
Also going to guess that if they did the top 50 instead of 100 their number would drop a lot.
From a pure Investment Analysis standpoint, somehow investing $100M or more in the next 3 years on our roster and maybe more on the whole program and the West Stands is the BEST possible investment in the University of Colorado ever if it leads to a B1G invite
Big ask.
As I've said before eventually it won't even be a B1G (or SEC) invite. It is simply a matter of being in or being out when the whole thing goes to re-organization.
And to the people who think that will be eigth conferences of eight or some other configuration of 50-65 schools it won't be.
It will most likely end up between 30 and 45, upper limit 48 but likely lower. The money involved is huge and the big money programs have no interest or intention of sharing one dime more than they have to with the schools that aren't generating that money.
Disolving the whole thing lets them get rid of the Northwesterns, Vandy, Mississippi State, Purdue, UCLA, etc. For the most part anyone in red on the chart isn't coming. Anyone in yellow on the chart but only there because of games with the schools in green better be worried.
If you are talking about dumping say the 10 schools at the bottom that is instantly another +/- $20 million each for the say 35-40 schools who make the cut.
We already know that for many of these schools history and loyalty and all the rest of that stuff is great to talk about but $20 million per year goes from talk to action.
7 million doesn't mean much when you have 25 per household huddled around the TV
This is the most important few years in CU history. Not just athletic department. The whole university. Building the brand and having enough success with Prime to sustain post-Prime and position us in the Top 35 final pro-college league without the Coach Mac fall off, is crucial.
Pilotbuff
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I would even consider the academies in this pool as well.
If there has been any type of communication with the B1G (Yes I get a new structure could evolve), then CU has to go all in, and that includes an Investor of some kind to come in and support Coach Prime at the highest possible levels to be a dominant performer. Staub and Juju have 3 years or more each and thus we need to build this roster into a monster. We have every possible good metric going for us including AAU, Market, Research, Hospital, etc, and with the new Broncos Stadium, we honestly have a place that would be a great place for CFP games.
When I look at UCLA, the well known financial challenges they were having with athletics, and the numbers they draw... it cements my belief that the B1G took them with USC because it would break the Pac-12. It wasn't about what UCLA did for the B1G. Stanford would have given them more academic prestige, a major metro addition, and an equivalent rivalry for USC (while also making the conference more attractive to Notre Dame). It was because the Pac-12 could have survived and thrived as long as it still had the LA market. It was predatory.
The Pac 12 had the opportunity to survive with Oregon and Washington still part of it, but they thought they could do better than the TV deal with ESPN and Fox that the Big 12 ultimately took. There was enough money for one more deal and the Big 12 took it.
So, if your point is that UCLA leaving destabilized the Pac 12 in the same way OU/UT destabilized the Big 12, leaving room for only one of those to survive, then I agree. I don’t agree it was a move to specifically kill off the Pac 12, though.