Come crawling back. We already own half of your state, good to know we own half of your minds as well
Honestly, as a Colorado fan, this is hugely disappointing. I have no interest the Big 12. No regional connections, no rivalries of note. Definitely no where I will ever travel for a game. Earlier game times, which blow. Consensus of this being lame
The fact that CU is getting a full share from FOX (the one thing that wasn't guaranteed in writing) raises the odds of this causing a waterfall of PAC defections significantly. You know who is super pissed right about now? San Diego State.
I’m assuming that “deal” just got a little weaker if they lose the Denver market. It’s unreal that we’re about a year out from when the PAC said they’d have a deal and they still can’t give Colorado any numbers.
College football is a disaster now. Conferences make zero geographic/numeric sense, but won't change their names cause people are already familiar with "Big 10, Big 12, SEC" etc Now you have teams like Colorado leaving and then rejoining.Greed ruined college football
Nobody really gives a damn about CU...oh yeah, some extra rando sport monies...yay, we have a place to ski now!
3 spots left in the Big 12 liferaft. Looking back at page 60+ of this thread you start to wonder if Arizona and company won't be right behind CU, as they were included in a lot of reporting about Colorado's exit drama.
I get that Tuscon/Phoenix, SLC, Eugene/Portland, Seattle, San Fran/Oakland, etc are probably more exciting points of interest, but given Colorado shared a conference with Kansas, Iowa State, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State for like 60+ years, then you have 15 years with Baylor and Texas Tech, which is longer than your PAC affiliation... there ought to be something to care about. You can poo-poo the sex appeal of the flyover conference, but the proof is in the pudding, it's a more well-run, competitive, lucrative league. Getting in front of eyeballs in Texas, Florida, and the Midwest will do a lot of favors for Colorado. They were going nowhere fast in the PAC, and the PAC was going nowhere even faster. All that being said, you may have a good amount of company from the PAC joining you very soon.
It's crazy to think the PAC had 3 separate chances to avoid all this and fumbled the bag every single time. 2011 could have grabbed several Big 12 properties after the LHN exodus 2021 could have again grabbed several Big 12 properties after the OUT exodus 2022 had effectively the same deal the Big 12 ended up signing on the table and they decided to wait They held all the cards at every single phase of the game over the last decade and are going to end up a pile of ash. Insane.
“Weaker” would be an understatement IMO. The PAC couldn’t even add a MWC school and is now losing another school two days after Klavikoff said he wasn’t concerned about that. Why the schools haven’t canned him is beyond me.
This is what PAC fans are in denial about. As terribad as Colorado has been athletically, Denver was an additive market and the Buffaloes are an additive brand. Imagine being George Kliavkoff trying to put together a media deal while the product you're selling is actively disintegrating. It's going to be very interesting seeing who FOX thinks is worth a full share vs. who wants to leave the PAC. I think Oregon and Washington obviously clear the bar, AZ and Utah probably do too.
