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De-coupling football from the rest makes sense. No reason that conferences couldn't do Big East type deals for Basketball + Tier 3 (Olympic) rights separate from them Football deal. I think that leads to more value since everything seems like an insignificant throw-in when packaged with Football.
UConn is not a “major” team and is not the “only” team in that area and certainly isn’t the “only major” team in NE.
Only mediocre if you’re not comparing it relative to the history of CU basketball. Measuring against what’s been normal for this program it’s probably been the single most prosperous era in the history of the program. Colorado has occasionally had a couple of tournament bids over the span of 5 years when they’ve had top talent (Chauncey, Harrison, etc) but to my knowledge they’ve never been a roughly 50% bid receiver over a 10+ years like this. And the immediate future definitely looks brighter than the recent past right now.
Maybe a little but the SEC also dominates football recruiting partially because they’re located in a talent rich region of the country. That dynamic doesn’t matter as much in hoops - the Dukes, Kentuckys, Kansas’, and UConn’s of the basketball world don’t just rely on local talent. So CU basketball still is what it was just now in a league that would be even harder to win.
It also helps being ESPN's house league for football. The constant SEC is the best propaganda eventually became a self-fulfilling prophecy./
If they are in a P5, they're a major team.
UConn is a solid school. It’s a state flagship. Mbb. An area that hasn’t had a great college football team since Syracuse in the 90s.
Have to agree here. Ivy League. Service academies. I’m sure the P12 has looked at all of these options and more just to check the box but it doesn’t make sense.Your source is highly questionable. That shows an incredible lack of understanding. Any of the Ivy’s leaving the Ivy League would be the most shocking event in college football. They dont offer sports scholarships yet suddenly they will to be in the Pac? Those schools dont need exposure to get students and never have.
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The article wasn’t clear. There’s no exit fee for leaving the P12. The B12 exit fee would still apply if we join.This changes my perspective on the potential move a bit:
How much sense would a Big 12 return make for Colorado?
No Pac-12 school has been more receptive to joining the Big 12, sources said, than Colorado. But what would be best for the Buffaloes?
The Big 12 wants them. They’d have the support of ESPN and Fox as full-share members. There’s no early exit fee.
Your "source" lost all credibility
There's a great case for a conference of academic heavyweights that don't really want to play big boy football with the investments and compromises that are now required.
Stanford and Cal would both love that, but ya, there's no incentive for Northwestern or Vandy to leave the money of the B1G/ SEC.
CU going to the Big XII is going to be bad for men's hoops. Very bad.
If we’re being honest about it, it’ll be near impossible to win a conference title there. We’d have to step it up a notch the likes of which we’ve never seen and invest in mbb big time. Would love to see that kind of investment but nothing tells me we’d actually do that.
It's bad if afraid of playing some of the very best in college basketball.
I know, Kansas will finally realize they need to steal Tad. Just devastating.
They’re not in the P5. Just inviting a school to join your conference doesn’t make them a major team. Hell there are programs currently in the P5 I wouldn’t consider major teams (Wazzu, Vandy, etc.)
Only in the same way going to the B1G or SEC would be bad for CU football. I’m all on board with MBB fans being happy with the program under Tad relative to the program success as a whole, but is what we’ve seen over the past few years from the program really what gets you excited?
Travel partners in terms of being able to play multiple schools on a single road trip. CU can play Cal and Stanford on a single road trip without having to get on an airplane between games. Not sure CU/ Utah offer the same sort of advantage.
