BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

[MileHigh]

The hits just keep coming.

Chip Brown must be one busy guy over at Orangebloods.com, because the news get more crazier every hour.

Brown reports a few minutes ago that Colorado is "expected" to make "big announcement" on Wednesday. Rumor is they're bailing out for the Pac-10. Penalty fee if they leave: $10 million. But, as noted several times, Colorado isn't in good financial shape and may not be able to scratch the check.

I'll believe it when I see Colorado step up to the podium and go Cosmo Kramer "We're out!"

I too will believe it when I see it. And I'll be curious to see if the Denver Post splashes this with a 72-point headline like it did on last week's original Orangebloods report or if they might get some sources of their own.

 

[kickoff-time]

Colorado's Board of Regents is meeting to discuss legal advice about moving to Pac-10.

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_15251417

There could be rumors and innuendo considering the CU AD said last week that there was some merit to the six teams leaving.

But you really think Colorado is going to come out and say it is going to the Pac-10 by tomorrow. By itself in a big announcement.

If indeed Nebraska and Missouri take their chances with the Big Ten and the Big 12 is essentially busted and disbanded, then yes, Colorado would be extremely stupid not to hitch to the Texas Longhorn wagon and join the Pac-10 if given the chance.

But no way CU comes out and says it is going until a few more dominoes fall, mainly that Texas is done with the Big 12 and is looking at going to the Pac-10.

CU needs the Pac-10 or Big 12 or Big Ten much more than the other way around.

This process will be going on all summer or until Texas decides, "Yeah let's forget the Big 12 and hook up with the Californians." Still it's not an overnight deal. heck, the Pac-10 hasn't expanding since 1978, you think it's going to expand by six teams in one week.

 

[mustangj17]

Has anyone been flight tracking private planes in an out of major schools to places like Chicago and other places of conference headquarters?

I know things like this happen for coaching searches.

 

[MileHigh]

Exactly. Colorado is not going to be the first domino to fall.

 

[mb]

If Colorado moves first, it sets up all kinds of wild scenarios. Is it at all out of the realm of possibility that ND freaks out and jumps to the Big Televen and then everything grinds to a halt? Would be wild to see the Pac-10 try to back out of getting just Colorado.

 

[MileHigh]

Also, don't know where CU is going to find $10 million to leave the Big 12. This is a school that is drastically raising tuition costs and couldn't find less than that to buy out Dan Hawkins this past December. Unless Bohn can convince the regents that they will, in time, get loads of money from the new TV contract but won't see a check for three years.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Also, don't know where CU is going to find $10 million to leave the Big 12. This is a school that is drastically raising tuition costs and couldn't find less than that to buy out Dan Hawkins this past December. Unless Bohn can convince the regents that they will, in time, get loads of money from the new TV contract but won't see a check for three years.

I'm guessing they have an invite and aren't going to wait to be pushed out by Baylor.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

The Pac-10 has pursued Colorado for more than a decade. CU and Texas turned down invites awhile back. Maybe the Pac-10 wants CU to get this thing rolling so they don't have to go back and forth with Texas for the next six months. Let's be realistic. Texas is not going to the SEC and it's not going to the Big 10, so it will either stay in the Big 12 (doubtful) or head to the Pac-10.

 

[kickoff-time]

Colorado is not going to move first because Pac-10 expansion does not happen unless the Texas Longhorns are coming. Pac-10 is not stupid enough to add Colorado first. The University of Texas has the biggest athletic budget in major college overall and in football.

Again the Pac-10 is perfectly set up with five natural rivalries.

Pac-10 expansion only makes sense if Texas is one of the schools coming and only in keeping the old Pac-8 together and then placing Arizona schools with the six from Big 12.

A Pac-20 where you have all Big 12 teams minus Nebraska and Missouri (who both go to Big Ten) makes more sense than anything but a Pac-16.


Colorado might not have a choice but to go to Pac-10 if invited unless it wants to be in a league with Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State. It probably would win that football conference at least five out of 10 times.

 

[kickoff-time]

You don't get the choice of Colorado and Texas. Pac-10 knows that if it gets Texas it gets the whole meal deal. Texas only goes if Oklahoma, A&M and the other junior Longhorns are included. Texas doesn't give a shirt about Colorado any more than Baylor does.

 

[Irishcheesehead]

Delany has always wanted ND. The Irish need to see that these conferences move ahead with expansion without them, the alumni will not want to see an independent schedule that includes Ball State, Idaho and East Carolina -- in Dublin.

 

[Oz]

Of COURSE you respect this chancellor more than Missouri's, Oz. If Kansas were approached by another conference, you'd be singing the praises of realignment. If you think you wouldn't, you should be, considering the fact that KU is another weak sister in terms of Big XII football revenue sharing.

The Big XII doesn't distribute TV money evenly. There's no honor in holding a loyalty to a conference that deliberately pumps up certain members at the expense of the others.

Thanks for telling me what I should believe.

No, thank you for not having a coherent response.

Again, there is no honor in holding a loyalty to a conference that screws your beloved Jayhawks. Don't be bitter because they haven't been mentioned in ANY of these scenarios, leaving you to grasp at straws like "Mountain West Conference membership wouldn't be so bad!"

Sometimes, some people don't deserve a coherent response.