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

I’m this case, we gotta hope BYU stabs Utah in the heart and locks them out of B12 with either Arizona or ASU and take Denver + Phoenix markets instead with CU and an Arizona school to get one in each market
 
I’m this case, we gotta hope BYU stabs Utah in the heart and locks them out of B12 with either Arizona or ASU and take Denver + Phoenix markets instead with CU and an Arizona school to get one in each market
Yeah, I was going to say, it could also be 1 Arizona and 1 Mountain school that get invited. Denver is bigger than SLC, but Utah significantly better brand than CU at the moment. A Utah and ASU add to go with Oregon and UW would certainly be the Big 12's most appealing 4 in terms of brand and current on field prestige. I can't imagine the Big 12 wants to leave out the Denver market, though.

Kind of have to hope ASU and UA are connected at the hip
 
If you don’t jump at the Big12 now, CU might be left without a viable path in a year or two and end up in the MWC.

IMO, the Pac12 is finished. If it wasn’t for the B1G waiting on ND, then UO and Wash would already be gone. As soon as the SEC or B1G offer they’re gone and so is the conference. The media companies know this and it will greatly impact the deal that the PAC gets now.
I guess the way I see it is if the Pac 10 stays together for now at the same money the Big 18 would bring, UW and Oregon would simply jump to one of the big conferences in a few years and then the 4 corner schools would leave for the Big 12 at that time. The landscape has completely changed in the past week, and I don't think it's going to stop changing for at least another 5-10 years, so all I'm saying is maybe it's not going to be in our best interests to get locked into an ACC style GOR with the Big 18 at $30m per year.
 
Big thing CU has going for it, even in terms of the Big Ten, is Denver has big Midwestern fan bases. Despite the mythology of the Cali invasion of CO, the influx of newcomers over the past 20 years has been mostly from Big Ten and Big 12 country.

That's definitely not true in UT, OR, or WA, not sure about AZ.
 
I guess the way I see it is if the Pac 10 stays together for now at the same money the Big 18 would bring, UW and Oregon would simply jump to one of the big conferences in a few years and then the 4 corner schools would leave for the Big 12 at that time. The landscape has completely changed in the past week, and I don't think it's going to stop changing for at least another 5-10 years, so all I'm saying is maybe it's not going to be in our best interests to get locked into an ACC style GOR with the Big 18 at $30m per year.

Issue is if the ACC GOR gets imploded, only 5 ACC schools go to the P2 conferences, OR and WA go, and we are ****ed when the Big 12 loads up on ACC refugees and we've got a Pac-8 that is definitely G5.

IMO, we get the chance to go Big 12, we do it, sign the GOR, and if someone bigger actually came knocking on the door (it ain't happening), we deal with it then.
 
Some of the "in the know" posters on 247 are saying that BYU is lobbying hard against adding Utah and that the Big 12 covets Denver.

Imagine being Utah, winning a P5 conference last year, being a dark horse CFP contender in 2022, and being relegated BACK to the Mountain West in 2 years because of your traditionally G5 level mormon counterparts accepted an invite to the Big 12 a year earlier
 
I still have no idea how an 18 member league with only one, maybe two, “brands” is going to make enough money to sustain anything close to competitive balance as a conference that will still be considered a “power conference”

The expanded Big 12 and ACC will not be power conferences so just toss that thought out the window. Those two are going to be pretty competitive conferences and there is definitely a market for something like that. This is still going to force schools to make more of their money on their own especially at the ticket office. That is something that CU will need to continue working on such as the west side of Folsom Field and The Keg getting renovated.

CU is in far better shape than before the basketball practice facilities & Champions Center were built. Had we not built those two, we would be headed to the MWC or a PAC that will be MWC 2.0.

If the P12N is sold to ESPN and all PAC games that are not on the air or cable can be on ESPN+, I’m ok with CU staying in the PAC. If CU moves to the Big 12, that’s awesome. What I will not be okay with is if CU stays in the PAC and the P12N remains the same. It is not good business if people can’t see your product and CU will continue to suffer as a result.

That is why my #1 concern is being able to see CU and with the Altitude TV saga going into its 4th year and people not watching a Stanley Cup winning team should be pulling for something where you are able to watch them in the first place.
 
Some of the "in the know" posters on 247 are saying that BYU is lobbying hard against adding Utah and that the Big 12 covets Denver.

Imagine being Utah, winning a P5 conference last year, being a dark horse CFP contender in 2022, and being relegated BACK to the Mountain West in 2 years because of your traditionally G5 level mormon counterparts accepted an invite to the Big 12 a year earlier
That would be great for the memes
 
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RG maybe, definitely on Dorrell, don’t think anyone is thrilled with him. RG did get some people to donate and actually take care of some issues so he hasn’t been all bad. But who was that woman that was supposed to donate an undisclosed amount that was the largest? I don’t remember much about it now but was it an endowment? When she dies? I don’t know how this **** works lol.
RG pissed a lot of people off with the mediocre KD hire after proclaiming to be all about championships. Kelli Brooks made a big donation a while back, but has cooled her major financial support as well.
 
Some of the "in the know" posters on 247 are saying that BYU is lobbying hard against adding Utah and that the Big 12 covets Denver.

Imagine being Utah, winning a P5 conference last year, being a dark horse CFP contender in 2022, and being relegated BACK to the Mountain West in 2 years because of your traditionally G5 level mormon counterparts accepted an invite to the Big 12 a year earlier

I can't imagine that BYU has veto power.
 
I think MHVer3 is one of those people that just likes to repackage stuff he has seen on the internet (fan boards, tweets, etc) and post it as fact. He does not seem to have any real in anywhere.

The big problem the Pac12-2 has is the PAC12 network and a bad media deal, otherwise they would be more attractive. The lack of games that anyone could see is a real problem and one the Trojans complained about for awhile saying it was having a major impact on recruiting and also left the PAC out of the playoffs. The only thing the Big 12 has going for it is no PAC12 network. It is one thing to play a game at night and it is another thing to play it on a network no one gets.

In any business you deal with issues that hold you back. I hope in this media negotiations the PACN is dealt with efficiently. If they want to cling to it in the hopes that it will be valuable someday, it will sink them.
 
RG pissed a lot of people off with the mediocre KD hire after proclaiming to be all about championships. Kelli Brooks made a big donation a while back, but has cooled her major financial support as well.

That’s probably true, they go hand in hand. That’s disappointing that we can’t do anything right. Maybe if we had momentum boosters would be interested in donating.
 
The more I think about it all, I wonder if the 6 Pac teams are waiting to see what the media deals would be for the Pac10 relative to the Big18. Speculation that Pac10 would be $300m or $30m per. Also speculation that a Big18 would be $500-$600m ($28-$33m per).

Not much of a difference between the two and I have to imagine neither Oregon or Washington want to get locked into a long term deal with any conference outside the B1G or SEC right now, so maybe they are thinking it makes more sense to roll with the P10 for the next few years at $30m/program.

Big 18 would be more stable and safe long term, but I’m not sure what the incentive is for anyone to really move right now if the money is the same.
The P12 media number was valued at $250 million before U$C and UCLA left. It didn’t go up.
 
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