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The "4 Corners" are now even more justified in working to strengthen alliances. Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Arizona State all being AAU universities within the region and representing the 3 major growth states and metros from the Mountain Zone is a strong foundation for partnering. True peers.
You could do it without them and be at 10. They'd consider the invite at that point and, frankly, their current conference would probably be happy if they left.
i do admit that i hate the idea of the truck stop 12 marginally less if all 4 corners join. at least we won't be alone in our disdain for our new conference brethren.
We haven’t heard of CU working with the others. UA and ASU seem to be tight. They’re aligned publicly. CU doesn’t seem to be aligned with anyone publicly than ourselves. That’s not entirely different than UO but we seem to have put the most distance between ourselves and the rest of the conference.
Still just waiting for the PAC deal to be announced.
CU goes to the B1G or SEC and our football budget will increase to give us a fighting chance at competing. In hoops, we're not going to get the funding to go up to compete with Big XII teams. And that's fine, we're gonna need that money for football. Football is what gets the money for everything else, and it's the big thing here. But we're going to see a drop in men's hoops with this move. That's not a reason to not go to the Big XII (having to associate with Baylor is), but there are going to be a lot of changes to the athletic department and not all of them are going to be positive. The only hope for hoops is that we only have to spend 3-5 years in the B12 before we are able to jump to the B1G and we can ride that conference's ridiculously overrated metrics to tournament appearances again.
This thread does represent copious ****ing around.
Depends on the details. There are 881 student athletes that attend UCLA. Let’s say they are required to be paid minimum wage. Could be $10-20M. Idk how it’ll shake out that was just an example.
This is coming from my Oregon source.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.
I don't believe anyone losses credibility in alignment talk that's a source. Everytime we say a Big XII source including my guys have lost credibility, they end up correct. I called out both of my contacts with the Big XII and said they are lying about ESPN. They were right. If anything, is my Washington contact lying. She's been saying they will be in the B1G. They are still in the Pac-12. Is she now lacking credibility?
Ill LOL if were the only one that goes to that **** hole dumpster fire of a conference and the rest stay.
Bruh. Were not going to the B1G. Nor is anyone else. The next move is TV making a Super Conference of 16 that includes some kind of relegation system. Thats how Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Rutgers, and Nebraska get left behind. Thats also TV affords future giant payouts. The revenue is shrinking in TV land.
Ummm. That is trademarked, bitch.
Your source misunderstands the mission of the Ivys….
On this issue, your "source" is incorrect. So very incorrect that it definitely strains their credibility, for sure.
Good thing Casa Bonita is re-opening.
AAU status is so incredibly arbitrary. There are some very good schools who aren’t AAU schools. I honestly don’t believe it’s a valuable measuring stick at all.
I get the requirements, but it’s still rather arbitrary. So South Florida is an AAU school but Georgia isn’t? Here locally, DU is not an AAU school but is ranked higher than many of the schools that are, including CU. As a measure of academic prestige, AAU status seems rather self serving.
More likely your source conflated things. Stanford and Cal could realistically drop from FBS football and join the Ivy League if certain dominoes fell (UW & UO to B1G, CU, UA, ASU & UU to B12, no B1G to Cal & Furd). Especially possible for Stanford to make that call.
The B12 isn’t in a position to demand CU do anything.
Thats the spirit!
