Victory
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There’s truth to it we just don’t like it.
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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues
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So Dodd isn't credible? He may not be right, but he does seems credible to me. At this point I don't think anybody knows anything other than we don't know. I wish they would get on with it, but the dragging it out makes it look like the P12 doesn't have a viable offer....
Victory
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RG likely gave it away when he said in a perfect world we’d love to be in the P12… the problem with that statement is we already are in the P12. It’s not a conference we hope to join one day.
So he likely meant it as we would have loved to stay but the reality is we can’t. Now why can’t we?
1) Either the money isn’t there after all
2) We really don’t have a deal but are hopeful
3) We don’t have a deal and not hopeful
4) 2 or 3 but ESPN and Fox want us in the B12 because they don’t have any headliners in that conference and it makes the investment more valuable (i.e., the networks don’t care about CU or the B12 they just want value from the next 5-7 years they paid for the tv rights)
5) We have a deal and RG just doesn’t know
I think you lay it out well. Hard to know what the heck is going on, but it does not look good for the P12. Maybe somebody pulls a rabbit out of the hat, but I am preparing myself for the Big Buc-ee's Conference.
PAC and ACC aren't merging.
Victory
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According to Brian Howell ACC odds are now on the board:
“A few weeks ago, I would have said 80% Pac-12, 20% Big 12.
Today, I'd say 57% Pac-12, 41% Big 12, 2% ACC.”
Also
Victory
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Nothing would be better than to rip the hope out of every B12 fans heart at the last moment. That’s what I’m ready for.
i am ready for it, whatever it is.
tell the hookers to hide under the big desk-- it is armored.
BuffBronco
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Colorado to go Independent and sign $100 million per season exclusive deal with Amazon Prime
"Prime only on Prime"
In all seriousness, something we'd never worried about was CU's tier 3 content because we didn't make much from it. No big deal that it was all rolled into the conference. Now it might matter a whole hell of a lot. We have LHN-like opportunities as long as Prime is HC.
Oregon could actually tell the B1G that they would come aboard for $0 in years 1, 2 and 3, and then take 50%, and then 100% in year 5 and it would still be a win for Oregon and the B1G once they figure out all the other revenues. Same goes for Washington, and it would likely not affect the other teams, and it would still be a good investment over the PAC deal if it is less than $30 million per year.
RG knows the numbers, and he is backing away from the table very slowly
Whereas, CU goes to the BIG12 and we become probably a top 3 team in that league and the discussion about the CFP is mute.
Big Jim
WTF?
I’m in agreement with your third sentence but it is conflict with the second. Dodds is no more in-the-know then Canzano or you or me. Dodds source on this week’s regularly scheduled piece is in fact Brian Howell’s BDC story.
Dodds, Canzano and everyone in the middle is just throwing out the propoganda they are given by their preferred sources. Dodds is generally tied to Endevour
Marketing’s talking points in favor of the Big12 and Canzano from the Pac12.
One of these days CU will announce they are staying in the Pac12 or moving to the Big12 and that will be when Dodds, Canzano and the rest of us will know what is going on.
Howell doesn't know ****. He had no clue Coach Prime was coming.
2% ? Lol
Big Jim
WTF?
Well…Dodds piece today was built on the foundation of Howell’s interview with RG…and “Howell doesn’t know ****”…therefore Dodds knows less than ****.
Nobody knows **** right now, it’s just you and a few others throwing **** against the wall hoping it will stick.
Victory
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This seems super far fetched but let’s say Prime does deliver. We become a power. I think he will deliver. We would net $31M a year and get massively ripped off in the process with no exit in sight. If it goes as planned we’ll be driving more revenue than almost all B1G and SEC teams ratings & ad spend wise. And we won’t be able to leverage it into a conference upgrade because we’ll be foolishly locked in to the B12.
We’ll be stuck contemplating these kinds of creative revenue ideas above because it’ll beat the alternative of staring at the wall of $31M every year as Rutgers and Missouri almost 3x our revenue simply because they did not screw up realignment decisions when the opportunity arose.
In terms of ratings, there's a damn good chance that CU is a national broadcast and the largest cumulative audience of any team's broadcasts for our 5 September games (TCU, NU, CSU, UO, USC).
Victory
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I’ll take it a step further. We will easily be #1 in ratings. Writing is on the wall. The hatred gives it away. The spring game gave it away. The fascination has reached molten lava levels of hot. They won’t be able to help it. Everyone has to watch us. The super fans. The casuals. Soccer moms. NASCAR dads. They’re all in.
Now what we do with that opportunity? It should be let’s f’ing play it out. Let it happen first and then talk realignment. To do so beforehand is just ridiculous. Sign whatever deal and give ourselves an out to look around after this year. It’s so damn obvious idk how we don’t see this. The answer is right in front of our face.
videos of CU practice and team meetings and such are getting more eyeballs than some magic mid november matchup between ucf and ksu will ever get.
CU, the Pac, and Prime: experience the difference.
What about Gen X ?
Big Jim
WTF?
Probably, Boomers are responsible for about 80% of what is screwed up in this country. They inherited 18% and sports bloggers are responsible for the other 2%.
Staying out of it - and pretending they don't care. Would rather stay in the PAC, but might as well let the dumb Millennials take bullets from the angry and out-of-touch Boomers.
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Not sure.
Gen X thinks everyone is full of sh!t, every conference is bullsh!t, and all media outlets are horsesh!t. So, fvck it. Whatever happens, we'll abide it as fans, Coach Prime will dominate, and everyone will love us or hate us while paying way too much attention to us.