What's new
AllBuffs | Unofficial fan site for the University of Colorado at Boulder Athletics programs

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • Prime Time. Prime Time. Its a new era for Colorado football. Consider signing up for a club membership! For $20/year, you can get access to all the special features at Allbuffs, including club member only forums, dark mode, avatars and best of all no ads ! But seriously, please sign up so that we can pay the bills. No one earns money here, and we can use your $20 to keep this hellhole running. You can sign up for a club membership by navigating to your account in the upper right and clicking on "Account Upgrades". Make it happen!

CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues

I could see a panic move of going back for SDSU or SDSU, SMU and BSU or something to get back to 10 or even 12 and forcing them to take fractional shares to appease current members. But yeah, aside from that, a 9 team conference is no go unless they enough money for exclusively filling Thursday Friday and Saturday Pac 12 after dark
Fractional share of what? If 2 schools leave the media negotiations start over for the 8 leftovers. If more leve its really bad.
 
There’s nothing that’s going to happen with the ACC. They’d have to blow up their GOR (not happening) or P12 schools would have to agree to join it (also not happening)
There were rumors about ACC adding P12 schools pro rata several months back. Let’s see if we see those pop up again. And I’d sign up for the ACC GOR > B12 exit fee any day of the week.
 
I don’t know how the university sells a move the alumni base isn’t fully behind. Just flat out odd. There had to be a path to get $31M a year some other way.
We wouldn’t be leaving if the P12 had a serviceable offer. Not to mention the P12 is wildly unstable and we just guaranteed ourselves a spot with leaders who row the same direction. P12 leaders couldn’t manage a lemonade stand

The California alumni base has done f***-all the last decade. Apathy is the vibe of those transplants. Pull more kids from Texas into the student body that are passionate and donate to sports.
 
I'm thrilled for you, and I'm thrilled that ITB now won't go on a killing spree because of his anger issues, but man... we really need football to take off now because if they don't this is going to get ugly.
If coach Prime turns out to be a bust and we jumped to the little 12 …. Oy.
 
I could actually see

UA
ASU
UO
UW
Cal

All joining us in the now Big18. Scheduling is weird, but not impossible with 18 members.

You could do 6 groups of three: For 8 conference games, you play the two others in your group every year, plus one from each of the other 6. For 9, you play two others in your group, plus another fixed one from outside your group, and then one from each other group.

You could also do 3 groups of 6: For 9 conference games, you play the 5 others in your group every year, plus two each from the other two groups. For 8 conference games you do 5 in your group plus either a rotating 1 and 2 from the other groups, or a "5 in your group, plus one fixed opponent outside your group, plus an additional one from each other group."

Stanford goes independent, and Utah gets screwed.

Scheduling works better with 14 or 16 than 18, and I'll leave "accretive" and other considerations aside, but

1. I think Cal or UA are the most likely to get the conference to 14. My money would honestly be on Cal.

2. If it's 16, I think it's Cal, and two of: UA, UO, UW and ASU. I honestly don't know which two of those are out - definitely one of the Arizona schools - after that I dunno, unless UO or UW steps on their own dick and/or the WSU/OSU politicians get involved.

I think Utah is going to get cock blocked by BYU - their only hope is for the Pac to survive in some quasi-recognizable format.

The Pac itself will survive. It may not be recognizable, but I think it will technically survive as a conference. I will remind you that the Big East still exists (although counterpoint: the SWC does not).

More schools are leaving the Pac, and many will be joining. CSU may finally get their dreamed of invite. Of course, when they get to the party, they're going to find out that the cool kids have already moved on to a bigger, better party. They'll be fine, they're used to that sequence of events by now.
 
Last edited:
We wouldn’t be leaving if the P12 had a serviceable offer. Not to mention the P12 is wildly unstable and we just guaranteed ourselves a spot with leaders who row the same direction. P12 leaders couldn’t manage a lemonade stand

The California alumni base has done f***-all the last decade. Apathy is the vibe of those transplants. Pull more kids from Texas into the student body that are passionate and donate to sports.
There’s no sugarcoating it. P12 was all talk. The Apple deal and all that were smoke and mirrors. They had nothing the whole time.
 
We wouldn’t be leaving if the P12 had a serviceable offer. Not to mention the P12 is wildly unstable and we just guaranteed ourselves a spot with leaders who row the same direction. P12 leaders couldn’t manage a lemonade stand

The California alumni base has done f***-all the last decade. Apathy is the vibe of those transplants. Pull more kids from Texas into the student body that are passionate and donate to sports.
First paragraph is justifiable. The 2nd is pure unadulterated bull ****.

But you know you do you. You want to land whales for support? Go where the money is. Texas and California. We don’t know who promised what to whom.
 
The California alumni base has done f***-all the last decade. Apathy is the vibe of those transplants. Pull more kids from Texas into the student body that are passionate and donate to sports.


Screen_Shot_2020-10-05_at_11.51.58_AM.png
 
The GOR ends at some point but the B12 exit fee doesn’t. Also, playing against FSU and Miami and recruiting FL against them is light years better than UCF. I’d sign up CU for that.
But when everything changes in 6 years, the ACC will still be ****ed. And their GOR is not just an exit fee. It’s given up all media rights for the entire term of the current ACC GOR. So if FSU wants to jump to SEC, all the SEC TV money they’d get goes back to the ACC until 2036.

The ACC is the worse off of all conferences except the Pac 12 at this point but only because they have a contract and stability.
 
First paragraph is justifiable. The 2nd is pure unadulterated bull ****.

But you know you do you. You want to land whales for support? Go where the money is. Texas and California. We don’t know who promised what to whom.
Agree, the Cali fan base showed up. I personally take responsibility for several wins at Maples and hazing the tree huggers (who are super nice people btw).
 
First paragraph is justifiable. The 2nd is pure unadulterated bull ****.

But you know you do you. You want to land whales for support? Go where the money is. Texas and California. We don’t know who promised what to whom.
Prime will bring more money to this program in the next few years than what CU has gained by joining the Pac 12. The wallets open for winning, not to play two games per year in the state of California.
 
Stupid question time...

Maybe I'm dense, but I don't get this meme? Haven't 5 different schools from the Big 12 made the move to the B1G or SEC, basically the opposite of what this is implying? Is there some hidden irony in this post I'm missing?
It isn’t what it was before. It is what it is now. But hey count me in if the money is right. If we just helped uo and uw get big invites I am less enthusiastic
 
But when everything changes in 6 years, the ACC will still be ****ed. And their GOR is not just an exit fee. It’s given up all media rights for the entire term of the current ACC GOR. So if FSU wants to jump to SEC, all the SEC TV money they’d get goes back to the ACC until 2036.

The ACC is the worse off of all conferences except the Pac 12 at this point but only because they have a contract and stability.
Give me the ACC for the next 13 years vs the B12 for eternity. That’s all I’m sayin.
 
But when everything changes in 6 years, the ACC will still be ****ed. And their GOR is not just an exit fee. It’s given up all media rights for the entire term of the current ACC GOR. So if FSU wants to jump to SEC, all the SEC TV money they’d get goes back to the ACC until 2036.

The ACC is the worse off of all conferences except the Pac 12 at this point but only because they have a contract and stability.
You may be better off in the PAC than ACC if you’re actually trying to win. PAC’s exit fee will be a gift card to Urban Air. Win the conference for a few years, make a run and someone may poach you. ACC you’re stuck.
 
Back
Top