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Speaking of sportswriters, a little extra from Denver: It’s been 10 years since CU decided to leave behind the Big 12 in favor of the Pac-12. This series examines what has happened since, as the Pac-12 has struggled to maintain national relevance, the Buffs football program has floundered and the school has watched its former Big 12 peers pass it by in terms of revenue and resources. Part I: Where is CU 10 years later? Part II: How lagging Pac-12 revenue affects CU Part III: Recruiting and the California gold rush Part IV: Culture and rivals in the Pac-12 Part V: What the future holds for CU TL:DR - We totally made the right decision, but, like nothing worked out well. Who knew?! From Oregon, who seems to hate Scott with a passion reserved for few things: Canzano: Pac-12 Networks facing questions and a cloudy path Tl:DR "One high-ranking conference official told me: "No media company wanted to partner with the Pac-12. ESPN declined. FOX, CBS, even the Discovery Channel declined. Nobody knows this. “We weren’t wanted.”"

Taking the over

They are not playing with the team they started the year with. Lost a bunch to injuries and sit outs.

As opposed to whom? Power Five - Total Defense (through December 3rd, 2020) Conference Avg Games Average Rank Average of Yds/Play Big 12 8.20 54.00 5.48 Big Ten 5.14 58.14 5.50 SEC 7.86 65.07 5.87 Pac12 2.92 70.83 5.86 ACC 8.93 74.50 5.74 AAC 8.18 79.73 5.78 FBS Average 6.85 67.13 5.71

It doesn't seem money is really a factor. If he wanted to jump for money he could and, while he's not in the top 20 of coaches salaries, he's not rubbing nickels together. What's a better financial move? Keep a job making $4m a year (avg) over 10 years where they won't fire you for a bad year or get canned in 4 years where you make $5-6m and then can't get picked up again at a major level? Obviously, don't know the guy, but hearing @Al_4_ISU talk, my guess is what he wants most isn't the highest paycheck, but more where he can do it his way. Can he do that at Michigan, or does he have to do it the Michigan way? Or like FSU, is it a Jimbo battle between what he wants, vs what the boosters want? If the Cyclones can give him a blank slate to do what he wants, how he wants, the job security to not have to be 10 wins a year to keep his job, and the facilities to stay in the race, what does he really gain by moving if he's already prepping to play in championship games? I know you said Penn State doesn't seem to fit, Al, but for me Ohio State and Michigan don't really fit. Yes, both are blue bloods, midwest, mega money. But if you're not recruiting the 5 stars and running the ship the way they want it run, you're not going to be there long. Neither are really "blue collar" approach jobs. Penn State could be that, basically ISU on steroids. Either way, wouldn't shock me at all if he ended up at one of those three or ended up doing what @Parliament mentions in being the next Snyder, or Fry, or Ferenz, or Gundy, or Beamer, or Patterson, or Fitzgerald, or Dantonio, or Cutcliffe, etc. None of those guys are in jobs that have significantly more advantages than he has currently, and they all stuck around.

Didn't Fry build Iowa?

This deserves repeating. I'm all for scraping them off still.

Crowe: Frank asked me, "Jack, what would you think about us going to the SEC?" I told him, "Let me tell you something, Frank. We have a hard time beating Texas here. There's five Texases over there. Five." Prophetic

This

Muschamp is available.

"Probably" sounds like quitter talk

Name checks out.

Just when you thought it had all gone away... Majority of Power Five schools favor breaking away to form own division within NCAA, survey shows

You know you'll go running back when she calls.

The Pac 12 stopped playing sports?

Court order says Big Ten must turn over documents Excerpt: Full:

This is definitely the case. Only about half the kids at WVU are in state, the rest are from Pittsburgh and DC.

had to go find a picture to see if I remembered them right, yup, this should the look. Definitely unique

They should go back to those Trice throwbacks. I thought those were the best unis they had