More like middle stakes poker…
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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues
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241Volcanos
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A Big12 without Texas, OU, A&M, Nubs and Mizzou is not at all like the Big12 we left. Joining a conf led by Okie St and Baylor? No thanks.
Medford M.
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The ACC schools that will make it are ones like Louisville, that have money to burn and are willing to do it.
What are the other options? Where is the realistic choice in which we end up connected with ANY marquee program? Or two?
We are at dock watching the buttend of that ship leave the harbor—ironically called…the stern….
Fair.
They're not turning their noses up at the MTZ schools though, and would be thrilled with UO and UW.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
Of course. Hell I'd be thrilled if they came along with us and the AZ schools.
But now they're a very solid conference after the B1G/SEC tier. OSU, Baylor and TCU have all been right there in the final week in the CFP conversation in various years and Cincinnati just made the playoff. Iowa State has good success in recent years and BYU is a solid national brand.
And we know it's about football but the Big12 has the last 2 national champions in hoops.
As of this moment, money to burn has not exactly been Oregon's saving grace. They could be in the Big Ten eventually, but they're being treated like redheaded stepchildren right now.
SINKRATZ
PhD in Analogy
If you told me that Oregon and Washington were completely committed to sticking with the PAC long term, you might be right, but they seem to want out as bad as we do. A PAC that loses USC, UCLA, Washington, and Oregon is a G5 level conference.
I'll be working after putting kids in bed tonight. And by working, I mean getting caught up on the 15 new pages that happened during dinner time.
Same here dammit lol!
Fair enough, but we are excited to join a conference where the three most historically significant football programs are ASU, BYU and CU - none of which are currently in the conference.
Thisuniversityisf’ed!
Well-Known Member
Their playing musical chairs right now and CU needs to find a chair before they’re left on the outside looking in. P12 won’t have any marquee programs pretty soon and I’ll take the current B12 over what’s in the PAC 8.
i dont know what kind of poker tables youve sat on, but were talking a few hundred million and essentially the existence of some businesses who gross 9 figures here. id say thats pretty high stakes.
I understand, and I’m not “excited” about being forced into any of these choices, especially in the high stakes game of musical chairs the asshats at USC/UCLA started for everyone else without warning.
These sorts of decisions should happen with due consideration and not under the gun of someone else’s sociopathy.
I think all the members of the (former) PAC12 should refuse to schedule any future games with either USC or UCLA, as payback for doing this with just a couple hours left before the deadline for financial sanctions for everyone else in the conference.
Thisuniversityisf’ed!
Well-Known Member
Yeah don’t think anyone here is thrilled this is even a discussion.
**** you SC. We never even got to beat you, god that hurts lol. I will root for your demise you ****s.
buffinbama
Well-Known Member
Hopefully we pull a Mel Tucker by telling the Pac we are committed then sneak out in the middle of the night to something better
And if we are staying put with the PAC12, what’s the point of the sudden meeting of the BOR?
ahoelsken
Well-Known Member
USC and UCLA if this actually happens:
I'm not making anything of the statement coming from CU today-You're committed to the Pac 12 until you have a better option come along.
Vic Victory
Well-Known Member
The Big 12 only appears stable because they are adding as many weak and vulnerable schools as possible - who are mostly resigned to the fact that their strength is literally in their numbers - to turn themselves into an unmovable blob. They suck. They’re a construct of your mind. A figment of your imagination.
Here are our options:
-Have balls of steel and parlay this into an SEC invite
-Lock Oregon and Washington into whatever media deal for a revised Pac 12 (+ others?)
-Ransom the Big 10 to add us as a lower tier school (we need incriminating docs)
-Join the Big 12 and end up on ESPN+ for the next 10 years
-Strike a deal with the ACC that doesn’t tear up their existing agreement (because many would be poached by B10 and SEC) but adds to their bottom line
-Go further west and add Beijing University and Tokyo State
Here are our options:
-Have balls of steel and parlay this into an SEC invite
-Lock Oregon and Washington into whatever media deal for a revised Pac 12 (+ others?)
-Ransom the Big 10 to add us as a lower tier school (we need incriminating docs)
-Join the Big 12 and end up on ESPN+ for the next 10 years
-Strike a deal with the ACC that doesn’t tear up their existing agreement (because many would be poached by B10 and SEC) but adds to their bottom line
-Go further west and add Beijing University and Tokyo State
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say we don’t need emergency legal advice to stay in the P12
In objective terms, it is high stakes. Compared to the conferences that matter, the money is pretty mediocre.
The current Big 12 has 100% of its memberships with far superior football products than the one Colorado offers but somehow they’re not good enough. This is comedy.