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What's your CU sports holiday wish list?

CarolinaBuff said:
The big problem I see with ice hockey is isn't it one of if not the most expensive sport to run outside of football?
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I don't know what Women's Ice Hockey looks like on P&L, but I was reading some articles around the time I posted. It looks like Men's Ice Hockey can generate $6-7M for the top programs and ASU is already bringing in over $5M. AD profitability numbers are tricky to unwind, but it appears that schools only lose a few hundred K on hockey. Revenues are growing, too, because the top revenue producing programs in the 2016-18 time frame were only around $4.5M.
 
CarolinaBuff said:
The big problem I see with ice hockey is isn't it one of if not the most expensive sport to run outside of football?
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Oh yeah. It’s absurd. It’s also a great spectator sport and would be fun to have a D-1 team at CU. Economics is a huge factor and will in all likelihood prevent hockey from ever being added as a sport. But this is the wish list, not the “what’s reasonable and attainable” list.
 
Buffnik said:
I don't know what Women's Ice Hockey looks like on P&L, but I was reading some articles around the time I posted. It looks like Men's Ice Hockey can generate $6-7M for the top programs and ASU is already bringing in over $5M. AD profitability numbers are tricky to unwind, but it appears that schools only lose a few hundred K on hockey. Revenues are growing, too, because the top revenue producing programs in the 2016-18 time frame were only around $4.5M.
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Remember that ASU only has a team because a benefactor funded the entire thing. CU wouldn’t be a top revenue producing team.

That said, I don’t care. I’d love it and would be first in line for season tickets.
 
Here is my ****ing wish list bitches -

1. Sign CP to a long term contract now
2. Massive assistant coach upgrade
3. Multiple OL and LB portal additions

I am a simple person and have few needs. Please make this happen.
 
Go Buffs said:
Here is my ****ing wish list bitches -

1. Sign CP to a long term contract now
2. Massive assistant coach upgrade
3. Multiple OL and LB portal additions

I am a simple person and have few needs. Please make this happen.
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Jimmy Fallon Time GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
 
Not Sure said:
Remember that ASU only has a team because a benefactor funded the entire thing. CU wouldn’t be a top revenue producing team.
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Hence why it is my "if I win a bazillion dollars in the lottery" CU donation.

First another football natty.

Then a hockey team.
 
hawg1 said:
Alamo bowl win
Prime extended

West side
Swimming, baseball and softball added.
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Didn't know where to post this, but my wife, two girls and myself have been loving watching the regionals and now college world series for softball. So much fun to watch.

I'd be so incredible if cu could keep our homegrown softball talent home with their own team.

That is all.
 
Buffs35 said:
Didn't know where to post this, but my wife, two girls and myself have been loving watching the regionals and now college world series for softball. So much fun to watch.

I'd be so incredible if cu could keep our homegrown softball talent home with their own team.

That is all.
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Yeah, unfortunately it doesn't make sense to field a softball team without also fielding a baseball team.
 
skibum said:
Facilities.

We'd have to build them. To be worth building, you'd need to field both teams.
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Why? Isn’t it usually different facilities for baseball and softball that are built as a complex? Or do some schools use the same facilities but design them to be convertible so they can change fences & mounds as needed so baseball & softball can share?
 
Buffnik said:
Why? Isn’t it usually different facilities for baseball and softball that are built as a complex? Or do some schools use the same facilities but design them to be convertible so they can change fences & mounds as needed so baseball & softball can share?
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I don't think all schools do, but a damn good amount do.
 
Buffnik said:
Why? Isn’t it usually different facilities for baseball and softball that are built as a complex? Or do some schools use the same facilities but design them to be convertible so they can change fences & mounds as needed so baseball & softball can share?
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It's cheaper to build one that converts.
 
I am unaware of any college that has one field for both softball and baseball. What do you do with the baseball mound that would essentially be at second base for softball? You'd be relegated to an all dirt infield, or turf with multiple cutouts for bases.

Sharing fields in Little League is one thing, but softball and baseball at the highest level are completely different sports.
 
Buffs35 said:
I am unaware of any college that has one field for both softball and baseball. What do you do with the baseball mound that would essentially be at second base for softball? You'd be relegated to an all dirt infield, or turf with multiple cutouts for bases.

Sharing fields in Little League is one thing, but softball and baseball at the highest level are completely different sports.
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I'm not aware of any college that has 1 facility for both either but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Every college I've visited has separate facilities for both. Not only do you have the mound and dirt infield, but aren't the base paths also shorter?
 
CarolinaBuff said:
I'm not aware of any college that has 1 facility for both either but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Every college I've visited has separate facilities for both. Not only do you have the mound and dirt infield, but aren't the base paths also shorter?
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60 feet instead of 90 for baseball, iirc.
 
Robert Sorell said:
Near term:

1. 9+ Big XII Bball wins and a tourney bid for men and women both
2. Win transfer portal season

Long term:

1. A great seat at the table with the next bit of realignment leading to a natural home that keeps us among the top tier. Step 1 might be getting into a 20 team B1G "Ten", but ultimately I want to see a geographically reasonable realignment that ideally ends up with us back in a group that looks a lot like the original Big XII or Pac12 or some combination thereof. Morgantown, Orlando and Tucson should not be in the same Conference

2. Tad figures out a highly competitive path forward in the NIL and portal era, and gets the institutional and financial support to do it. I'm terrified that we're going to be the bargain basement roster in the Big XII and that it could result in a lot of NIT seasons.
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With Prime here long term.......Fix MBB. Last year was unacceptable.
 
Buffs35 said:
Didn't know where to post this, but my wife, two girls and myself have been loving watching the regionals and now college world series for softball. So much fun to watch.

I'd be so incredible if cu could keep our homegrown softball talent home with their own team.

That is all.
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Man CU softball and baseball would be awesome, especially softball. Colorado has really put out some good talent in recent years.

My wife coaches a softball travel team and previously coached, and coached against, several players who were in the NCAA tournament these last few years. Talking with a lot of those girl's parents, I know they would've stayed if CU had a softball team.

Such a bummer, and I hope one day we have both softball and baseball at CU.
 
I might be the only person on this board who actually attended a CU baseball game.

Baseball/Softball have one advantage in that they’re Spring sports. CU has very few Spring sports offerings - Track and Lacrosse are the only ones that I can think off of the top of my head. Adding additional Spring sports would help even out the calendar a little.

All things being equal, I’d prefer Hockey. Better game, built in local rivalries (although let’s not kid ourselves, DU and CC would be light years ahead of CU), and can be added womens and men’s teams on the same facility to comply with Title IX instead of building two separate facilities.
 
JR Payne magically finds a 3-point shooter on the roster that picks up where Frida left off.

The XC program returns to its highs of the Mark Wetmore era.

Football churns out a 1200 yard rusher in ‘25.
 
boulder77 said:
🖐️

I know I'm just a bit more 35 than most of you jokers (@DBT excepted), but I often went to CU baseball games when I was a student. Shout out to Coach Irv Brown!
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When did they have a.baseball team, the 70's? Dude, Moses had been alive for thousands of years.😀
 
boulder77 said:
I believe it was in the late 70's that they dropped baseball, gymnastics, wrestling, and swimming for budget reasons.
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Would make sense that they were dropped ahead of the 1979-80 school year. 1979 is when the institutional requirements under Title IX were implemented.
 
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