BuffBronco
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same thing was said 12 years ago
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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues
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same thing was said 12 years ago
Sure feels like forever
If I'm RG, I'd fight to get into the B1G on equal terms with other members - but my real bottom line is that I'd accept a reduced share on a deal that climbed the ladder to parity over the term of the upcoming media deal.
And if I'm being honest, I'm sitting there with no leverage and no other option that might keep CU relevant so I'd probably take whatever sh!t sandwich they pushed to me while celebrating that they even offered me.
The difference to me is the amount of money to fund our program that would be available in the big 10 (in the very uncertain event the fates smile upon us) compared to that available in the pac 12 then and now.
I want whatever you’re drinking.
correct. we have no leverage. none of the leftovers do. it is now a beauty contest and whichever beauty queen contestant consents to do the filthiest things for the fewest dollars is going to have a leg up. or 2 legs such as it may be.
The fact that you even think an offer would come is nuts.
think it through-- with pac dollars there is no way we could match the meat-chicken state offer. didn't even try. that doesn't happen if we are at a competitive revenue place and coaches are going to want to be in the super conferences. the best from elsewhere will take jobs that aren't Michigan or ohio state just like they do in the sec. and this principle runs to recruiting too.
there are no sure things but i would rather try to be relevant on a big budget than whatever the **** is about to happen to us otherwise.
the big flaw in all this is we aren't driving the bus and could easily get left out. probably will.
FIFY
this is PROBABLY correct. it is not yet CERTAIN. we are basically on the bubble and have to hope for some really ****ing good luck.
so. we are probably ****ed.
This program has been a zombie for some time. The CU we knew and loved has been gone from the vessel for a long time, all that remained was a husk stumbling aimlessly and now that bloated husk has mostly rotted away and this is the headshot coming to end it...
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The moment OU and UT declined the P12 offer we were ****ed. We just didnt know it. And the way the rest of the cards have played? We would probably have still been ****ed even if OU snd UT joined
caught some bad breaks for sure and shot ourselves in the foot multiple times too.
figured it was near fatal for years now but held out a hope. it is a tiny ****ing hope now.
The main things giving me hope are:
1. I don't think the shakeout stops here because there are too many top tier media markets the networks won't want to leave off the table.
2. Hope that the B1G is sincere about the "only AAU members" criteria it has followed and has reiterated.
3. Hope that the ACC holds together out of GoR 1st mover fear for long enough to avoid that competition in this round.
Do you guys think RG being on the college football playoff committee could help us at all?
In B4 Notre Dame jumps to the Big10... then Stanford is a shoe-in
No.
I think the B1G is done adding. For now. I think the TV gods told them Two Teams and only two teams and thats all theyre willing to pay. That seems to be the nature of it now. You dont just get a giant renewal of rights for Big money. You have to add something else these days. so we both, conference and network, make more Big Big money. DeliverIng the #2 TV market is a pretty nice add for the Tv monster.
The next round a few years from now might see two more schools get in. Maybe thank god O and W dont end up leaving? Maybe we all compete (for a change) for the next two spots the B1G adds.
Maybe CU gets a little religion admin wise about what's happening. Or maybe we just dont GAF. I dunno. But were certainly at a fork in the roads And were going way too fast, its dark, and its really muddy and we have to turn.
Ill say this: I wouldnt want to be Rutgers, Illinois, Indiana, Vanderbilt or Miss State right now. At some point this cluster **** is going to get so far out of hand that they will have to start culling schools that dont add value.
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I think you play too many video games.
We are getting exactly what we deserve for the way we have treated football for the last 10, no 20 years. Exactly what we deserve
i think that is a very likely possibility. but, i also know that there are teams of really really smart bean-counters at the network and they are doing math for all the various scenarios as we speak. and, this is also why IF the big adds any more teams they will get reduced rev shares.
Unless Warren suddenly gets a phone call from South Bend
this is the gospel ****ing truth and this outcome was literally communicated to the then-asshole idiots in charge, point by ****ing point, by boosters that mattered.
but, the arrogant pricks ignored all the facts and now we all get to eat the pile of **** they laid in front of us.
CU is soooo special. we are sooo different. sooooo superior.... those ****ing pricks.
CU to the SEC. Now the Flatirons will matter again.
Hopefully more than it did with NIL preparedness.
why would nd do that? now? you are again missing the forest for the trees. they have a tv contract. they have good scheduled games. they have a lights out great recruiting class. why would they change anything NOW? and they are tied into NBC. you are not making sense.
What has CU handled well that gives you any hope?
Is this crazy?
I'm leaning toward the USC/UCLA news probably being a good thing in my life.
Either A: CU gags its way into a B1G invite that would keep us in the top tier of divisions and give us the financial resources to believe things could be great again.
Or B: CU is left out, the dream officially dies, we can stop deluding ourselves while wasting so much time/money/emotion on Buffs football, use the games as a low key social event, and realize that for basketball fans we aren't hurt by this and are probably helped by the school's budget & focus shifting to hoops.
Frankly, both options are better than what's been going on -if we're being real- since the 2003 scandal.
I'm leaning toward the USC/UCLA news probably being a good thing in my life.
Either A: CU gags its way into a B1G invite that would keep us in the top tier of divisions and give us the financial resources to believe things could be great again.
Or B: CU is left out, the dream officially dies, we can stop deluding ourselves while wasting so much time/money/emotion on Buffs football, use the games as a low key social event, and realize that for basketball fans we aren't hurt by this and are probably helped by the school's budget & focus shifting to hoops.
Frankly, both options are better than what's been going on -if we're being real- since the 2003 scandal.