Tuesday Buff Bites - Colorado Might Start Pac-10 Play in 2011
by Bob_Bell on Jun 15, 2010 9:10 AM MDT
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CU Buffs may make move to Pac-10 in 2011 - Buffzone
With the Pac-10 likely to add Utah and become a 12-team league with a championship game in football as well as starting its own television network, Colorado will probably receive as much, if not more, in annual conference distributions in the future than it would have had it remained in the Big 12. Bohn said it would be premature to speculate on division lineups before the Pac-10 has completed its expansion plans. However, sources said when Bohn informed his coaches and other athletic department staffers last Thursday that CU was switching leagues, he said CU had been promised it will compete in the south division if the conference expanded to only 12 teams.
Paige: Nebraska rivalry isn't lost — McCartney's thinking roses - The Denver Post
The Buffaloes-Cornhuskers football rivalry will not end on Nov. 26, 2010, Bill McCartney announced Monday. "Over? Never. We're not going to miss Nebraska. Colorado and Nebraska will play every year . . . ". . . in the Rose Bowl. "We just don't have to ever go back to Lincoln."When Nebraska decided to go to the Big Ten, it was time for Colorado to go west," McCartney said. "It makes all the sense in the world for so many reasons. First, Colorado was No. 1 academically in the Big 12, and will be competing and recruiting against schools on the same academic level in the Pac-10. We'll be in our element. We couldn't admit the marginal players that some of the schools in the Big 12 like Nebraska could, but we can recruit those guys that are considering Stanford, Cal-Berkeley, UCLA. "Let's face it. The two most important recruiting grounds in the entire country are California and Texas."
Sources close to UteZone indicate that Utah informed the Mountain West Conference Monday of its intentions to leave the conference. When asked about this report, a representative from the Conference could neither confirm nor deny the alleged report. If sources are to be believed then, the deal to invite Utah has already been done, and is merely a formality at this point. All that would remain of course is the announcement from the PAC-10 and a press conference by the University of Utah.
As Colorado moves to the Pac10, I'm told that OT Nate Solder and CB Jimmy Smith received great interest from NFL scouts this offseason.
more links after the jump...
Getting to Know CU ... - Bruins Nation
Bruins Nation, meet the CU Buffaloes. Here's an intro to the newest member of the Pac-10
LosersPac-10 a big loser in conference expansion.1. Pac-10. Commissioner Larry Scott went from potentially nabbing Texas and Oklahoma to instead getting Colorado and most likely Utah. That is not an upgrade for a conference that is desperate to gain the respect — and the eyeballs — of people on the East Coast. Colorado is in disarray. Utah had had very solid football program but does it add ratings and interest to a league that is going to struggle now that USC is going to hit bottom thanks to NCAA sanctions?2. Colorado. While the Buffs have always wanted to align themselves with the Pac-10, they probably didn’t envision this scenario. Losing an alliance with Texas and Oklahoma is going to hurt. Both are more powerful than any team remaining in the Pac-10. They also are going to be losing out on a windfall of cash. It’s yet to be seen whether the Pac-10 will be able to start its own network with a 12-team lineup and how successful it could be with cash flow.
A University of Colorado student who was punched out by CU linebacker Michael Sipili three years ago has won a $160,000 civil judgement against the football player and a former teammate.
Mizzou has mixed feelings about league news - KansasCity.com
That was not the view of every Missouri fan, many of whom dreamed of inclusion into the Big Ten Conference, which added Nebraska on Friday but will stay with 12 teams for now. "I wish they’d called their bluff," said Drew Carver, a longtime Missouri fan living in Phoenix. Carver didn’t like what he heard about Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma receiving more in revenue sharing than Missouri and other Big 12 teams. "Nobody would sign something like that, would they?" Carver said.
Linehan: Tech deserves chance to leave UT's shadow | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Texas is like the schoolyard bully who steals the five bucks your mom gave you for lunch, then gives you a nickel back to keep quiet about it. It's so swollen its president spoke for all Big 12 schools when telling Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott that the 10 remaining schools would stay put. The best explanation for other schools' continued loyalty to Texas is that the Pac-10's interest in Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M was contingent on Texas also joining its conference. Maybe that's the case for Tech, too, but if so, why hasn't the Board of Regents meeting in Lubbock been cancelled? Why is Tech's media relations staff withholding comment until after the regents meet? If Tech's invite is still on the table, it continues to deserve serious consideration. "Where UT goes, Tech will follow," came the message from campus. Great. Another 90 years in the Longhorns' shadow.
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Good news.
Just don’t mess with that September 3rd away game in Honolulu.
by The Notorious R.O.B. on Jun 15, 2010 9:29 AM MDT reply actions
Gotta Love MC
I love McCartney’s comments. “We’ll play ‘em all right, we just won’t have to go back to Lincoln”
This is why I'm happy Texas stayed in the Big 12
Via Stewart Mandel on Twitter (@slmandel):
Unbelievable. The five “leftovers” (KU, KSU, ISU, BU, Mizzou) agreed to sign over their share of CU/NU’s buyout money to UT/OU/A&M.
that's pathetic
hopefully we figure out some way to not pay it too
If Bzdelik can skip out on the money he owes us, maybe we can dine and dash with the Big 12 :-)
by nebraskasux on Jun 15, 2010 11:42 AM MDT up reply actions
Wow......
Maybe they hate socialism or something? lol
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by Hollidayrain on Jun 15, 2010 12:30 PM MDT up reply actions
If Cal, Stanford, UO, OSU, UW, and WSU balk at the CU & Utah in the 12Pac south plan ...
… then here’s a possible solution that I propose:
As a CU alum who lives in Atlanta, I would like to add some thoughts about how a Colorado & Utah Pac12 of two divisions would likely best work for all, based on what I think is fair, especially in handling the four California schools, two in each (North and South) region of that state.
First, it wouldn’t be fair to put all four California schools in the same division. The six schools that would not be in that division would be at a vast disadvantage in recruiting.
Second, this assumes that Cal, Stanford, and the Oregon and Washington schools would refuse to allow a southern division of SC, UCLA, UA, ASU, CU, and Utah, because it would hurt all six of those schools in recruiting fertile Southern California (not to mention in playing in better weather later in the season) and unduly benefit the Arizona and mountain schools.
Third, we see in the Southeast how well it works for traditional rivals like Alabama and Tennessee to play each other every year in football even though they’re in separate SEC divisions. In the ACC, we’ve also seen that it isn’t a disaster to have two divisions created without geographical logic.
SO … applying those SEC and ACC lessons to the Pac-12 …
For football, you could place each of the traditional (and, in the case of Utah & Colorado, new) rivals in separate divisions, along the following lines, so that in each division you have a rival in one of the states of WA, OR, AZ, and in the other region of CA, and in the other part of the Rockies:
Washington
Oregon State
Cal
USC
Arizona State
Colorado
Washington State
Oregon
Stanford
UCLA
Arizona
Utah
You could move those particular groupings around if needed for competitive balance, but that one looks fairly good as of 2010.
The system could be set up so that each of the traditional (or new) rivals would play each other in football outside of its division, as Bama does with Tennessee each year and Georgia does with Auburn each year. You could even make it so that each such game is to end the season, such as Georgia and Georgia Tech and Clemson and South Carolina do (in their case, across conferences, but the same could work across divisions), and such as many of those rivals do already. That would give you five division games each fall, plus a traditional rival for a sixth game, with seventh and eighth games with foes from the other division on a round robin basis like the SEC does, with competitive balancing as best as possible.
In many ways, that would work better in the Pac12 than it does in the SEC, where some of the teams have more than one longstanding traditional rival in the other division, and thus do not get to play that secondary traditional rival every year as once was the case in the smaller SEC before it expanded to 12 teams (for example, Alabama-Georgia; Alabama-Florida; Auburn-Georgia; Auburn-Florida; Auburn-Tennessee are all traditional rivalry games). In the current Pac10, none of the teams has a secondary traditional rival of similar intensity as those SEC examples….
by agulhas78 on Jun 15, 2010 10:47 AM MDT reply actions 1 recs
Intriguing...
This is an intriguing and compelling twist on the football divisions of our new home, especially since all the other Pac schools come geographically paired.
The fun part: what would you name the divisions? I think we should be in the Granola division of the Pac-1x
Great news indeed
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Oh lord
ESPN’s headline for the Big 12 news was: “Texas Saves Big 12”
Puhhleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease. Did they pay you to say that ESPN? Screw you.
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Utah in 2011
In Utah’s press release, it states that they will begin to play in the PAC-12 in 2011. My guess would be that Colorado could also start then too.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/06/17/pac10-utah.ap/index.html
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