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Goose, I've always admired and respected your opinions as well-thought out and nuanced. But this!!!!??? I can only conclude you buy your chile at Walmart. And this has nothing, nothing at all to do with me being a native Puebloan who now lives on the state line and has to deal with NM paranoia/snobbery regarding Hatch every fall.
The top 6 teams in the Big 12 season in their conference schedule were:
Steel city ftmfw!
If it was those 3, our hoops home slate would be sick. Plus, throw in a B1G, SEC or Big East since the Big 12 actually does those challenge events with those conferences (which I think is more compelling for fans than the Pac-SWAC hoops challenge).
The only difference is the resources given to the programs. If CU went to the B1G, I have zero doubt Deion would be given a blank check to do whatever is necessary to succeed.
As I've said repeatedly throughout this thread, I think we're losing Tad to retirement no matter what within the next 3 years. Does this move accelerate it? That's my only question. I'm more worried about being hamstrung on replacing him.
Retirement? I don’t think so, bud, you’re not that lucky. We’re gonna lose Tad when he takes the Kansas job next year after Self unexpectedly retires. That will be Tad and CU’s first year back in the Big12, but not together.
You know how to hurt a man.
On that note, Rutgers is investing like crazy. With the step up, their basketball is better than ever and their football is becoming very competitive with the resources they've given Schiano. NJ is a very solid home base for recruiting and money (which does reach into the Philly suburbs & NY Hudson Valley)- just that the residents have never cared about the state university's sports teams.
Going back to CU, the narrative here seems to be that Tad and JR might not be willing to compete with the best. Do I expect them to compete consistently with the top of the Big 12? No, but they didn’t really do that consistently with the Pac 12, so maybe this move actually gives the AD and programs a kick in the ass
Helps that it's on the main light rail line, though. But, yeah, Piscataway isn't exactly the garden spot of the Garden State.
Well, sort of. The closest station is three miles to the stadium.
Passenger train vs freight is what I was trying to say.
She's definitely a west coast girl. From the time she moved to Vancouver as a kid through college and all her coaching stops, CU is the farthest east she's ever called home. But I don't see a Big 12 move as an issue (not that I've got insider knowledge here). I always figured she'd stay unless potentially a school like USC, Stanford, UCLA, Oregon or Washington offered money beyond what CU will pay its WBB coach.
I take this as a personal attack.
