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Official realignment thread - SEC formally invites OU and Texas to join the conference in 2025
Genuinely curious what exactly you mean?
A well-financed CU football program can recruit California and Texas effectively without even playing in those states regularly. Get the right recruiters with that BIG money, drop a few bags (nothing crazy), and look out.
Wasn't Meat supposed to do that in Cali?
Pretty clear why he was available. He is not breaking the bank.
I don't know how we keep getting invited to the cool parties but I'm not complainingGet the **** out of here with this nonsense. Let's stop talking about culture fits and ****ty road trips. ****braska is more of a rival than pretty much anybody in the Pac 12 is for CU. If we get a B1G invite, we need to accept it-regardless of what USC or anybody else in the Pac 12 does.
Dodd mentions CU here-the idea that the B1G's push west includes LA, Seattle, and maybe Portland but not Denver (IDGAF about Phoenix) seems a little odd.
College football realignment fallout: What's next with Texas, Oklahoma stating intent to leave Big 12 for SEC
Look for the Big Ten to make some moves -- quickly -- and TV networks to have their saywww.cbssports.com
ahoelsken
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Let's have some fun then-On #2, think of the trash talk material with A&M though lol. So much material with them over money and Texas. Its awesome.
On #3-You talked about the culture of the Big 12. Texas could not have pulled off getting subservience from 9 schools off back then because they weren't dominating the Big 12 like they do now-the north schools (Nebraska, us, and to a lesser extent K-State) were. We joke about NU not having been the same since 2001-but the track record that program has been on makes that truth.....They've played for......2 conference championships since then?
I bring them getting GameDay in 2019 up because it shows ESPN thinks they're a brand still. Had that game not happened, 2010's realignment doesn't happen because Nebraska carried the league they were in. If Texas had wanted to join the SEC in 1998 say, the response would have been something like "See ya!" because the other schools know they'd have been fine.
ahoelsken
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Geography does matter to an extent I think-We are essentially in the Denver metro area as a school. CU football games were/are appointment television for even Jim Benemann (most famous CSU grad I can think of) when CU's nationally relevant. Another angle here-especially in terms of a C2C Big 10 might be the economics involved with non-revenue sports. Denver's an easy plane flight from the west coast and most of the Big 10. Boulder would be really popular with any current Big 10 fanbase.
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If the Big 10 calls just answer the phone "yes"
I'm sure we would **** it up though.
Getting $10-15 million more a year should raise our hiring ability. It those folks can’t get it done, at least we’ll get beat by some good teams.
Supposedly the new Big 8 is forming an expansion committee. If they manage to stay together pretty sure they’d be considered a no vote on playoff expansion considering that initiative is probably what made Texas and OU comfortable with this move.
Also have to wonder if multiple losses are suddenly going to be more acceptable for ranking teams by the media since presumably the SEC will finally be playing 9 conference games.
Also have to wonder if multiple losses are suddenly going to be more acceptable for ranking teams by the media since presumably the SEC will finally be playing 9 conference games.
Even with more teams, that conference is still irrelevant. They’re the Randolph and Mortimer Duke of conferences (right after they get hustled by Billy Ray and Louis and are facing the margin call).
Car handies.
Or continue to get stomped for less money…and not be able to use more money to get better.
Notice I said “for me” as I live in that bygone forgotten pothole and would love to have the buffs regularly playing in close proximity to me, you Virgin.
BerkeleyBuff
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Not a chance in hell. At four teams the Big 8 has as much chance or less than the current Pac 12 of making the playoffs. They'll absolutely vote to expand so that they feel at least one team from their conference can make it each year.
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We just keep standing in the corner, licking our eyebrows, and the cool chicks still want us at their parties. Weird.
Lol the leftovers have a way smaller chance of making the 4 team playoff than the pac 12, come on now that conference is shot and each school is looking at an annual decrease in revenue of around 25 million in just tv money. They can try to expand but it would be pretty pointless from a power conference standpoint and schools would leave in a heartbeat if another offer came. The thing the big 12 is going to hurt by is that they are not going to make much more than the AAC so expansion could be tough and that is if no teams leave.
Also have to wonder if moving to the B1G might provoke a culture change in the CU attitude towards football.
PAC12 has a lot of schools that can't decide how good they want to be at football. Winning NCs in gymnastics, tennis, water polo, and yes cross country is great but being to good at football is somehow a negative.
B1G has some highly respected universities that somehow accomplish that while trying to win football games.
As this point I’m really interested to see if fox is willing to pay for the pac 12 adding texas schools (TCU, houston, SMU and TTU) because they just lost their only power conference games in the state. Are they willing to eat a little money in the short term to grow their presence and ratings with those schools or do they just focus on the markets they already have. They seem a lot more reluctant to invest the money in live rights that espn is the last couple of years but maybe this is a breaking point for them since espn basically ****ed them over.
I don't see it happening here. Outside of members of this board, Coloradans don't seem interested in watching sports not played by millionaires.
BerkeleyBuff
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? I don't disagree with anything you said. My point was no way in hell the Big 8 vote down playoff expansion.
I’m surprised you want to be associated with schools like Michigan, Penn State, Ohio State, and MSU. All have had really bad sexual abuse scandals. Why the change in attitude?
I understand that part. I guess I question whether or not CU would ever support spending that kind of money on a CFB staff. Maybe it’s easier with all the money in the AD, but the political fighting over approval would be nauseating at best.