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

PAC MAN said:
Next Sunday, it will not only be my birthday (35 plus ten) but also the last day to declare a new conference home without paying bigger exit fees for the 2025-26 season.

After that, all eyes will turn to the ACC as ESPN will determine the fate of that conference. ESPN has until February 2025 to decide to stay with the ACC until 2036 or blow it all up two years later in 2027.

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It is well past time to break ESPN's hold on sports. Bowl season, a drip...drip....drip of games (some games really poor) just to give ESPN a TV ad slot and exert control.... ESPN has been cutting their quality sports presentations (announcers, analysts, 30for30) for years now. Cable/even now their expensive streaming option is a business model of the past. Get ESPN out and/or make them actually be competitive and I think all sports will benefit. They keep the smaller/local networks out, even if a regional game is a good one. ESPN needs to burn.
 
GRM said:
It is well past time to break ESPN's hold on sports. Bowl season, a drip...drip....drip of games (some games really poor) just to give ESPN a TV ad slot and exert control.... ESPN has been cutting their quality sports presentations (announcers, analysts, 30for30) for years now. Cable/even now their expensive streaming option is a business model of the past. Get ESPN out and/or make them actually be competitive and I think all sports will benefit. They keep the smaller/local networks out, even if a regional game is a good one. ESPN needs to burn.
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ESPN is cutting costs as they move towards a future in streaming. Venu Sports (ESPN, Fox, and Warner) should launch this year followed by ESPN’s standalone streaming channel next year. When you have uncertainty you cut as many costs as possible. ESPN+ has been great by giving non-revenue college sports a platform for fans to watch for one monthly or annual subscription. If more paid RSNs were available, it would mean more money for those college programs but also more money fans will have to pay out so you need to see the positives that ESPN brings to the table.

ESPN is in this position because only Amazon has stepped up to the plate when it comes to those big tech titans. Apple has been moving too slowly and could have saved the PAC-12 if they wanted to. Microsoft could have became involved but their focus is more on AI and videogames. The tech industry is going through many layoffs and it just wouldn’t be good optics to lay people off then announce massive new media rights deals for sports.

The money isn’t there right now to make ESPN sweat.
 
PAC MAN said:
ESPN is cutting costs as they move towards a future in streaming. Venu Sports (ESPN, Fox, and Warner) should launch this year followed by ESPN’s standalone streaming channel next year. When you have uncertainty you cut as many costs as possible. ESPN+ has been great by giving non-revenue college sports a platform for fans to watch for one monthly or annual subscription. If more paid RSNs were available, it would mean more money for those college programs but also more money fans will have to pay out so you need to see the positives that ESPN brings to the table.

ESPN is in this position because only Amazon has stepped up to the plate when it comes to those big tech titans. Apple has been moving too slowly and could have saved the PAC-12 if they wanted to. Microsoft could have became involved but their focus is more on AI and videogames. The tech industry is going through many layoffs and it just wouldn’t be good optics to lay people off then announce massive new media rights deals for sports.

The money isn’t there right now to make ESPN sweat.
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That is great insight on the streaming end. Sounds like more production sites need to be launched. The best for CFB is the Premium/Regional match-ups finding their way to Broadcast TV, with the P-4 splitting the major networks. The ads and viewership should cover those games. Then either paid RSN's or the secondary match-ups being pay per view, rather than requiring tons of subscriptions, so long as the per-game prices are not gouging. They could offer subscriptions on a per conference or per-team basis.

IMO, the RSN's were simply ran out of business by the Cable monopoly, so hopefully streaming may end some of that. Those cable wars were ridiculous. One cable company would get basically an exclusive and then price the others completely out of the market. Then the endless litigation that goes nowhere.
 
2023 Big 12 Football Media Preseason Poll
1. Texas (41), 886 $1
2. Kansas State (14), 858 $6
3. Oklahoma (4), 758 $3
4. Texas Tech (4), 729 $7
5. TCU (3), 727 $10
6. Baylor, 572 $12
7. Oklahoma State (1), 470. $2
8. UCF, 463 $9
9. Kansas, 461 $8
10. Iowa State, 334 $5
11. BYU, 318 $11
12. Houston, 215 $13
13. Cincinnati, 202 $14
14. West Virginia, 129 $4

Above is the 2023 preseason media poll. The $ followed by a number is the actual final standings.
 
Bread said:
Sure, the doubt I can understand if you aren't a fan of the team and don't know what we have. But at least put us above the TCU team that we beat last year and outrecruited in the portal and overall rankings
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There is not a single BIG12 Site that likes the Buffs in any way, shape, or form. Scoff at Prime, point out our record, irritated by our attention, most do not think we will even have a winning record, and speak as though the consistent long term development and culture of the rest of the BIG12 teams is what makes them better than our flashy portal driven team of hooligans out in Boulder. This is going to be a delicious season of pretty much saying that one of your long lost big brothers has come home from the war, and he took some Roids, and he wants his room back.
 
Creebuzz said:
2023 Big 12 Football Media Preseason Poll
1. Texas (41), 886 $1
2. Kansas State (14), 858 $6
3. Oklahoma (4), 758 $3
4. Texas Tech (4), 729 $7
5. TCU (3), 727 $10
6. Baylor, 572 $12
7. Oklahoma State (1), 470. $2
8. UCF, 463 $9
9. Kansas, 461 $8
10. Iowa State, 334 $5
11. BYU, 318 $11
12. Houston, 215 $13
13. Cincinnati, 202 $14
14. West Virginia, 129 $4

Above is the 2023 preseason media poll. The $ followed by a number is the actual final standings.
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Yeah like some people said here, sports journalists are lazy.
 
Bread said:
Sure, the doubt I can understand if you aren't a fan of the team and don't know what we have. But at least put us above the TCU team that we beat last year and outrecruited in the portal and overall rankings
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This receipt has been in my back pocket for a couple of hours now. It'll come back out after we win 8+
 
4BienemyTDs said:
There is not a single BIG12 Site that likes the Buffs in any way, shape, or form. Scoff at Prime, point out our record, irritated by our attention, most do not think we will even have a winning record, and speak as though the consistent long term development and culture of the rest of the BIG12 teams is what makes them better than our flashy portal driven team of hooligans out in Boulder. This is going to be a delicious season of pretty much saying that one of your long lost big brothers has come home from the war, and he took some Roids, and he wants his room back.
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You believe those blowhard rednecks from Big 12 land are capable of taking the time to do the research and analyze things?

1. Coach Prime came from Jackson State whose athletic budget is closer to being D2 just like the other HBCUs so that is a big jump for a relatively new head coach.
2. Coach Prime basically tore the football team down and ran off those FCS and G5 players that didn't belong on a P4 team.
3. Coach Prime took that newly constructed team and beat a team that appeared in the CFP CG on the road. TCU did lose a ton of talent but it doesn't mean they don't know what they are doing. TCU still managed to finish 5th in the 14 team B12 last season and had four more close losses just like us. They only got blown out on the road at KSU and OU.
4. CU lost five games by just one score and those blowhards wouldn't know that the 2015 team had five such losses and showed up in the P12 CCG the following year. We played USC & Oregon and Michigan that year. We should have won all of those games.
5. Those rednecks will just refuse to believe that the Pac-12 was stronger than the Big 12 last season so that means the Buffs took their lumps and in a watered down Big 12, the Buffs without question should at least make a bowl game this year and you got to believe the Buffs can contend for the B12 title.
6. We have not been in a conference without a blue blood program since 1947...no one knows what to expect in the Big 12 and you have to think some Big 12 schools will be lost with not having the opportunity to get up for the likes of Oregon, USC, UT, and OU.
7. CU's players such as SS2 and TH12 played amazing given the jump in competition and they will have a year of P4 football under their belts so they certainly should be better this season.

And thanks to meth, they probably forgot how much they hated losing to CU in the past. They will remember quickly when we beat them.
 
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