Can't meet the academic requirementsNebraska?
Can't meet the academic requirementsNebraska?
Paywall. where's he going with this?Wilner seems to still be in either the denial or bargaining stage.
Kinda reminds me of our first season in the PaC where ESPN did a satirical look into the future with the 2011 and 2012 ESPN Best Case/Worst case for CU where Jon Embree's daughter's fictional bike played a prominent role.Wilner seems to still be in either the denial or bargaining stage.
The 7-5 Buffaloes head to Utah, which is 7-4, with the apparent stakes being a berth in the Sun Bowl. The game is billed as a rivalry game between the Pac-12's two new members.
"Do you guys see this!" an enraged Embree says to his team during a meeting Monday before the game. He holds a bike above his head that it appears someone has vandalized with cheap, red spray paint.
"This is my 15-year-old daughter's bike. Look what they did to it! It used to be black and gold, our beloved colors. And now it is Utah red! Those, those, Utes... they made her cry!"
The meeting room erupts. "They made coach's daughter cry!" rages 6-foot-8 guard Ryan Miller. "We must crush them, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentation of their women!"
It will become known as the "Red Bike Incident." Utes fans will alternately revel in it or deny involvement. Years hence, college football historians will lean back and sagely say, "Yep, that was when those Buffs and Utes really started to hate each other. Might be the most vicious rivalry in all of college football."
Colorado prevails 28-27 in a game that features 195 yards in penalties. The Buffs then stomp Clemson in the Sun Bowl and finish 9-5.
Embree's recruiting class ranks 15th in the nation. The Big 12 falls apart. Nebraska finishes last in the Legends Division of the Big Ten.
The snow comes early and often and is most righteous.
Up next is the Buffaloes most bitter rival... Utah. On Monday, offensive tackle David Bakhtiari walks across the hushed locker room with a cherished piece of Buffs memorabilia: The vandalized bike of Embree's daughter.
Bakhtiari turns, "We will never, ever, forget the beautiful black and golden bike that was made red by our enemies to the West!"
And Stanford and Cal in a conference that is based on the East coast. I can't imagine how that's going to work.I can’t access the Wilner article, but I can envision a scenario where the PAC is reconstituted. Let’s be honest, this nonsense with four B1G members on the West Coast is absurd.
As soon as you open the article, click on the reader view. Bypasses the paywall.Paywall. where's he going with this?
For MTZ/PTZ, if we could start from scratch, I think we'd have a pretty great 14-team conference with UW, UO, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, SDSU | UNLV, UA, ASU, Utah, BYU, Boise St, and CU.I can’t access the Wilner article, but I can envision a scenario where the PAC is reconstituted. Let’s be honest, this nonsense with four B1G members on the West Coast is absurd.
For MTZ/PTZ, if we could start from scratch, I think we'd have a pretty great 14-team conference with UW, UO, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, SDSU | UNLV, UA, ASU, Utah, BYU, Boise St, and CU.
Maybe if there was a new D1 with 56 members (8 divisions of 7 teams each) it could also be grouped like this for the west.
I still think the most likely scenario is the B1G and SEC ultimately just keep expanding to create two "divisions" within each conference.I can’t access the Wilner article, but I can envision a scenario where the PAC is reconstituted. Let’s be honest, this nonsense with four B1G members on the West Coast is absurd.
ComedyPaywall. where's he going with this?
I can’t access the Wilner article, but I can envision a scenario where the PAC is reconstituted. Let’s be honest, this nonsense with four B1G members on the West Coast is absurd.
I’ve pretty much stopped reading any of Wilner’s stuff because he’s routinely taking passive aggressive pot shots at CU on Twitter. It’s sad because back at the start of the Pac12 he was a great source for info on the league.Wilner and Canzano have both been varying levels of moronic/ delusional for months now.
And so it is -
OSU, Wazzu reach scheduling pact with MWC
The Mountain West Conference has agreed to a scheduling agreement with Oregon State and Washington State that will see its football teams play seven conference games plus an additional contest against either the Beavers or Cougars next season.www.espn.com
Think about all the other sports you’d have to schedule. Thats why ND joined the Big East and then the ACC.Paying $7M each to the MWC just to play MWC teams? I would have gone the Indy route.
I for one am thrilled to know that I will still get a justified excuse once or twice per year to be in a public setting amongst a large group of people while shouting "Pound the Beavers!"And so it is -
OSU, Wazzu reach scheduling pact with MWC
The Mountain West Conference has agreed to a scheduling agreement with Oregon State and Washington State that will see its football teams play seven conference games plus an additional contest against either the Beavers or Cougars next season.www.espn.com
Think about all the other sports you’d have to schedule. Thats why ND joined the Big East and then the ACC.
He was taking passive aggressive pot shots at CU long before this round of realignment started.I’ve pretty much stopped reading any of Wilner’s stuff because he’s routinely taking passive aggressive pot shots at CU on Twitter. It’s sad because back at the start of the Pac12 he was a great source for info on the league.
FIFYHe and Canzano are both imminently unemployed.
Paywall. where's he going with this?
Uh his article fantasized about the break up of the ’Super Conferences‘ and a proud return of the Pac12. Thats like the opposite of NFLism.Delusional. He's basically rooting for the NFL-ism of college football so that he can have what he thinks would be relevant games to cover. Essentially a very few teams will go big time and they'll reform a Pac conference out of the teams that don't make the cut.
What he doesn't realize is that in his scenario, the games he's talking about are going to be as relevant as James Madison against Liberty. Very few people are going to care.
Uh his article fantasized about the break up of the ’Super Conferences‘ and a proud return of the Pac12. Thats like the opposite of NFLism.