Im waiting for FOX to pay $50m to get him the MSU job or anywhere in the B1G.
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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues
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Not just replaced. Replaced with SDSU as an upgrade. These media folks were willfully ignorant to what was about to happen here
Why? They are paying $31m to have him at Colorado and in the Big 12.
Also, can you just shut the **** up from time to time? The only commentary about Colorado football (or the sport of football in general) that you bring to the table is negative.
It would be great if we can keep him and we’ll have to pay a lot if we do. I just see the monied forces in this world, the ones that have already ruined college football with the super conference, not letting him remain an outlier like this for long. The B1G is their money machine. The B1G is particularly savy at rewarding TV people because they in turn reward them (Something the P12 leadership never understood).
Again. FOX is being rewarded for Prime being at CU and moving to the Big 12 at $31m/year far more than they would be if he was at MSU for $80m/year.
To @manhattanbuff comment elsewhere, this is part of the insecurity that others have towards Coach Prime. "They" think it impossible that one person could drive this much attention in CFB, let alone at a place like Colorado, without something being wrong or nefarious about their intentions and methods....because they themselves can't even influence much smaller pools of people. Layer on the racial aspect of this dynamic and it gets much nastier.
Prime is a Unicorn. There’s nobody else like him in existence. He isn’t going to change who he is to suit somebody else’s preferences. And why should he? What he’s doing is working. Spectacularly, I might add. At a certain point, CU will lose a game or two and the novelty will wear off, but that won’t keep him from doing what he’s doing. He’s a special human being. We are extremely fortunate he is here.
Dude, Prime already has the most net worth of any college coach not named Nick Saban. Money is not his motivator. I'm not sure why people don't get this.
This is a dumbass question, but I'll ask it anyway. What would be the penalty for all of the current PAC12 members if they backed out of realignment in order to keep the PAC 12 together? With 8 teams currently ranked in the Top 25, and the buzz about the direction of many programs in the conference not named CU, I am wondering if network execs are rethinking realignment and wondering if they can pay the PAC enough to keep it together.
It's not happening. Networks want consolidation.
The die is cast for now. I can see a scenario down the road where there are no conferences, just divisions within a larger CFB landscape. If/when that happens, we will get back a lot of the regionality that has been lost.
BerkeleyBuff
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Robert Sorell
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Somewhat agree.
His huge net worth is definitely related to being motivated by money.
The difference in salary from one job to the next just doesn't do much to move the needle.
His earning power has way more to do with the image and story he can create. Essentially what the Prime brand can be made into. I think Colorado is one of the best places to do that.
I think he also cares a lot about working with young men to improve their lives, and maybe Colorado is one of the better places to do that.
Is Colorado always going to be the best place for him to do that? Probably not forever.
I expect that he's forthright and honest with the AD, and have no expectation of loyalty. I think that's the way it should be.
If there's a much better opportunity that arises for him, all I'd hope for is the chance for the AD to try and match the opportunity.
When I say money is not the motivator, I mean a coach's salary is not the motivator.
The rest of your post is spot on.
My thought is that there are really two reasons he leaves Colorado to coach elsewhere: either we **** up and he begins to doubt our support and integrity, or he feels like he can better accomplish his mission elsewhere. That's where RG needs to make sure he does what he can to make sure Prime never feels that way on either count.
I would say that the one school I would worry about most is Miami. He could be drawn back to Florida, and Miami is the one place that would let Prime be Prime. The one thing that I would tell Prime if he was considering Miami is that Coral Gables is going to be underwater in 2030, so anyone might want to rethink taking a job about the U.
Robert Sorell
Well-Known Member
The Pac-2 Leftovers Bowl this weekend is kind of a fun game.
First time ever both teams have been ranked.
Go Beavs?
First time ever both teams have been ranked.
Go Beavs?
JonSergeantMajor
Well-Known Member
There’s absolutely no chance! Zero! Bet your house on it!
USC and UCLA have been gone for over a year now. Oregon and UW are gone too. Our pod is gone to the Big-12. None of those teams would want to risk burning any bridges with their new conferences, especially since they were all essentially given life rafts.
At this point, it is what it is. The Pac-12 had something special and they ****ed it up. Most of our exes have been in the Pac-12’s shoes before…
And GK still managed to **** it up.
I get that. But they give us less money than they give the big schools (thats the part none of us likes) and the money tends to get spent on the hot coach. And the Big12 conference games are unlikely to deliver the ratings that the B1G conferences games will. Someone with money will eventually make a move on him.
People will say all we gotta do is wait for our B1G invite. Arent we locked up now for 99 years? That move, if it comes, doesnt solve the problem that money is amplifying two conferences and making it infinitely harder for the rest. Which made the game of college football a lot more interesting because more teams had a chance to upset. Thats the part my negativity is coming from. Theyre destroying tradition.
I appologize. I’ll try to tone it down.
The Conference unfortunately paid the price for making football success secondary to other standards and putting a decade of weak teams with low ratings on TV. If Stanford or Cal unmuzzled their AD and hired excellent coaches their attendance probably goes up.
I would be happier if they all didnt panic and waited a few more weeks before moving. But whats done is done it's too late.
That conference killing is the part I dont like. It takes away that it was interesting when ACC or PAC schools played each other.
But the P12 could just plug and play replacing CU with San Diego State, right Jon?
Darian3Hagan
'89 Player of the Year
Is it too early to start discussing our uneven revenue with the Big12?
If Prime is here for life we should back out and go independent.
The margins on their investment in CU next year are going to be substantially greater than their margins on their investment in the majority of the B1G programs. That is the point. FOX and ESPN are having an out of body experience that one of their mid programs is generating the most expensive ad space in college football right now
HouClone
New Member
Not too early. Answer will be "No" even if Colorado wins the Natty. Big 12 had unequal, didn't work out.
What we need to do is make his assistant coach’s pool one of the highest in college football. If you want to throw more money, throw it at the assistant coaches.