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I have to admit, as much as I loath Nebraska, I'm gonna miss playing them every year. This game has caused me a lot of heartbreak over the years, but it's also brought me a lot of joy. Being at Folsom Field in '86 and '01 were two of the greatest moments of my life. Being at Memorial Stadium in '81, '83 and '94 were three of the worst.

Obviously, having grown up in NE makes this rivalry (yeah, fuck off, it IS a rivalry, goddamnit) even more meaningful to me. Some of my best friends are Husker fans. My mom is one. My sister is one. Hell, there's even a starter from the '94 MNC team on my Facebook friends list, for chrissakes. In many ways, that makes me want to see the Buffs beat the shit out of the Huskers every year that much more. Let's face it, having 'bode for a year on a bunch of semi-anonymous message board posters is nice, but having 'bode on friends and family that you actually interact with in real life is that much sweeter.

But this isn't about 'bode for a year. This is about 'bode for the indefinite future. Regardless of Friday's outcome, Huskerfan can always point to the lopsided overall series record, but you know it's going to haunt them for a long time when CU shits all over the Huskers' hopes of winning a conference championship on their way out the door.

This is CU's last chance to kick Nebraska square in the nuts, and the stars have aligned perfectly for it. Husker Nation is in a tizzy about perceived officiating slights in the aTm game and the evil conspiracy by the Grand Order of Beebe. Taylor Martinez is banged up and bitter, Pelini is on the precipice of an aneurysm and NU's once-foregone spot in the CCG is hanging by a thread. Meanwhile, the Buffs have turned into a completely different team. Two weeks ago, they had a 3-6 record, the worst coach in the country and had just given up 35 4th-quarter points to the worst team in the conference. Now they're 5-6, on the brink of bowl eligibility and have an interim head coach with nothing to lose and everything to gain. The writing is on the wall. Come Friday, the streets of Lincoln will run red with a million scarlet tears as the legions of Husker fans cry their way back home to the farm. So let it be written, so let it be done.

Cornhusker, HFAL, H4ever and Danimal, it's been a blast talking shit with you guys for the past decade-plus. You guys are all solid dudes, as were the Husker fans who have come and gone, like AK in Bugaha, Shaz and DMX (who I actually met in a bar here in Tempe several years ago). Now if any of you crybabies manage to wash the sand out of your vuh-jay-jays in time to make a sig bet, you know where to find me.

CU 24 NU 20

Shoulder to shoulder we will fight, fight, fight.

You're quality even if you're a buff fan, Mike. Let me get back to you on this one. I'm hittin' the sack tonight.

Call my shot first, though:

NU 28 (the players' resolve overcomes Watson's ineptness and more shit calls by Beebe's crew)

CU 13

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Let's face it, having 'bode for a year on a bunch of semi-anonymous message board posters is nice, but having 'bode on friends and family that you actually interact with in real life is that much sweeter.

See War, Border.

Well said, Mike. Some of us in here fight such battles along the state line every day. As for the rest of your take:

If there IS a God....

Go Buffs!

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Being at Folsom Field in '86 and '01 were two of the greatest moments of my life. Being at Memorial Stadium in '81, '83 and '94 were three of the worst.

You must have been just a little kid for some of the games you mentioned there. Just curious: how did you become a CU fan at such a young age, particularly if the rest of your household was Husker fans?

Some of us Buckeye fans are excited about playing both the Buffs and the Huskers next season. :D

L45B wrote:Some of us Buckeye fans are excited about playing both the Buffs and the Huskers next season. :D

better get your cheat machine and high holy orders from the Big Ten offices ready if you want to beat Nebraska.

Terry in Crapchester wrote:

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Being at Folsom Field in '86 and '01 were two of the greatest moments of my life. Being at Memorial Stadium in '81, '83 and '94 were three of the worst.

You must have been just a little kid for some of the games you mentioned there. Just curious: how did you become a CU fan at such a young age, particularly if the rest of your household was Husker fans?

My family moved from Wheat Ridge, CO to Beatrice, NE in 1979, when I was 6. When we got there, I quickly noticed that everyone was a Nebraska fan (I was a really observant child). I just decided to cheer for Colorado because that's where I was from. I suppose a part of it was trying to be different, but I wasn't purposely trying to pick Nebraska's rival. Back then, CU was just another of the "little 6." If I had set out to cheer for a team just to annoy my Husker friends, I'd have picked Oklahoma.

My dad was a CU grad too, although he stayed neutral on the rivalry. He took me to those games in the early '80s at Memorial Stadium. My mom and sister weren't with us, but I honestly can't remember who he cheered for, if anyone. I can't recall any specifics from those games, but I'll never forget the scores. They scarred me...

Mike,

I will gladly accept your sig bet and to tell you the truth....I'm getting a little sentimental at the thought of this year being the last year of our annual clash that McCartney made so much better. And to think this year is also the end of such things as the LONGEST ongoing series in CFB history: NU vs. KU Sucks I tell ya. I'm going to miss Oklahoma, too. Texas already partially took that away at the inception of the SWC part deux (Big 12).

It's natural to blame Nebraska for walking away, and CU for that matter. But honestly....in the overall scheme of things....can you blame either school? Let us not forget that Texas shopped around for a new conference prior to NU or CU. Money-grubbing power happy cocksuckers is what they are. Liars, thieves, and grown men who steal from student athletes and have no regrets.

They are bitches through and through and the failed, corrupt conference from whence they came (SWC) should of told the Big 8 out front that they are a collective group of corrupt cocksuckers with little or no redeeming value. What a failed experiment the SCW part deux was...it is doomed to fail.

The irony in it all is how often the liars and cocksuckers from down south profess their faith in God. Add hypocrites to the list.

With that.....name the bet Mike. And here's to a CLEAN, hard-fought finale sans any SWC II interference or corruption.

I've been trying to come up with a decent bet for the last couple days. How about this:

Winner picks a sig and avatar for the loser. Loser has to keep both of them until the loser's basketball team beats the winner's team or until the end of the NCAA basketball tourney, whichever comes first.

Sound good?

The Good riddance to Bad Rubbish Bowl.

If there is anything I am really thankful for this Thanksgiving in the college football world it's unloading the classless trash in the North.

SunCoastSooner wrote:The Good riddance to Bad Rubbish Bowl.

If there is anything I am really thankful for this Thanksgiving in the college football world it's unloading the classless trash in the North.

Yeah, I'm sure sucking Texas' cock will be a lot more palatable when there's no one there to remind you how gay it is...

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:

SunCoastSooner wrote:The Good riddance to Bad Rubbish Bowl.

If there is anything I am really thankful for this Thanksgiving in the college football world it's unloading the classless trash in the North.

Yeah, I'm sure sucking Texas' cock will be a lot more palatable when there's no one there to remind you how gay it is...

Yeah that's what it is... I think you should be focussed on how to save your bankrupt athletic department. The dead weight is floating away.

Considering that CU and NU have repped the North in 9 of 14 Big 12 CCGs, your "dead weight" analogy doesn't hold much water. Enjoy your little circle jerk while it lasts. CU will be just fine in the premiere football conference in the country. Now don't you have a Bedlam thread to go tard up?

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Considering that CU and NU have repped the North in 9 of 14 Big 12 CCGs, your "dead weight" analogy doesn't hold much water. Enjoy your little circle jerk while it lasts. CU will be just fine in the premiere football conference in the country. Now don't you have a Bedlam thread to go tard up?

And yet the two of you combined still only have as many combined conference titles as Texass who is second in the south in the number of titles. Congrats on KYOA.

CU makes a total of three PAC12 schools that have felt the wrath of the neuheisel.

Has any conference ever had 3 teams, a full 25% of it's members, feeling ill-effects from one head coach?

I kinda doubt it.

I will be missing the series as well. My wife isn't too excited about playing Iowa the same weekend every year because it's Iowa.

I will miss playing on the day after Thanksgiving.

The CU games were always unpredictable.

Some highlights I'll always remember:

- Being away at my brother's wedding in Pittsburgh in 1986 to find out later that night that NU lost to CU.
- Stomping CU in 1994 when they were ranked No 2 24-7.
- Losing to CU in 2001 when I was stuck at work, which didn't allow any internet, radios, or TVs. One guy brought one in, though, and I was dismayed every time I walked by his desk to see that NU was down by another touchdown each time I walked by.
- Beating CU in 2008 when Alex Henery kicked a 57-yard field goal to go ahead and then Suh swatting away Hawkins on the way to the endzone.
- Losing to CU in 1989 when another sibling got married, which started a 0-3 string of NU losses to CU when a sibling got married.
- Losing to CU in 1990 when I was at the game (my sister got married the week prior). We all lost our voices cheering and sounded like we all had our vocal chords burned the next few days. My roommate was so drunk by the 3rd quarter he was chanting "Defense! Defense!" during a tv timeout... when teams were lining up for a kickoff... a kickoff to NU.
- Tying in 1991 when snowballs streamed the field, which I guess should have been a penalty on the crowd (even then we were screwed! ;-) ). Watched the game with a CU fan that was a friend of my friend. After NU misses the field goal that would have won it, he turns to us and says and I quote, "You guys got so lucky!" What?
- Beating CU 52-7 the next year when I thought we would lose that game.
- Getting married in the summer of 1997 instead of the fall. I basically forced my wife to abandon her dreams of a fall wedding because of the curse that we were 0-3 against CU when a sibling got married in the fall. She conceded, something she still grumbles about, but NU won that coming fall and then went on to share the NC. You're welcome NU fans.
- Overtime in 1999 when NU had a 24-point lead in the fourth quarter! With the game tied, NU fumbles at CU's 16-yard line with a minute left. Then CU misses a 37-yard field goal to go to OT.
- Losing in 2004 to snap our bowl streak and non-losing season streak.
- Beating them in 2005 when the refs kicked out the entire student section. It's something I've never seen before or since. It made a great showing by NU even more enjoyable. Yes, it was Callahan, but at least he got that game right.

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:I've been trying to come up with a decent bet for the last couple days. How about this:

Winner picks a sig and avatar for the loser. Loser has to keep both of them until the loser's basketball team beats the winner's team or until the end of the NCAA basketball tourney, whichever comes first.

Sound good?

Sounds great, Mike! Should we lose, I may need your help as you can see I don't have an avatar. Here's to a great finale this afternoon! May the best team this day win.

SunCoastSooner wrote:

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Considering that CU and NU have repped the North in 9 of 14 Big 12 CCGs, your "dead weight" analogy doesn't hold much water. Enjoy your little circle jerk while it lasts. CU will be just fine in the premiere football conference in the country. Now don't you have a Bedlam thread to go tard up?

And yet the two of you combined still only have as many combined conference titles as Texass who is second in the south in the number of titles. Congrats on KYOA.

Shocker.....Sooner fan sucking Tejas cock. Tell the truth sweetheart...you have a bicycle tire-patched Vince Young blow up doll.

H4ever wrote:

SunCoastSooner wrote:

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Considering that CU and NU have repped the North in 9 of 14 Big 12 CCGs, your "dead weight" analogy doesn't hold much water. Enjoy your little circle jerk while it lasts. CU will be just fine in the premiere football conference in the country. Now don't you have a Bedlam thread to go tard up?

And yet the two of you combined still only have as many combined conference titles as Texass who is second in the south in the number of titles. Congrats on KYOA.

Shocker.....Sooner fan sucking Tejas cock. Tell the truth sweetheart...you have a bicycle tire-patched Vince Young blow up doll.

more context and reading comprehension runza. he's lumping you in as an even *lesser* participant as far as having even less than the paucity of titles garnered by Texas. what he is saying in the Big XII grand scheme of things (and, doesn't even mention no CU or NU titles since 2001!)....you are a 2nd degree bitch. not even a top level bitch like UT. OU 6; UT 3; CU and NU 3.

need to get over this tendency to let your interpretation of everything be overdetermined by your inability to see anything other than the square peg NU hero narrative you guys are foisting on anything that moves. like Jon at a fat chick party, you can't stop going into the bathroom to pull another one off.

King Crimson wrote:

H4ever wrote:

Shocker.....Sooner fan sucking Tejas cock. Tell the truth sweetheart...you have a bicycle tire-patched Vince Young blow up doll.

more context and reading comprehension runza. he's lumping you in as an even *lesser* participant as far as having even less than the paucity of titles garnered by Texas. what he is saying in the Big XII grand scheme of things (and, doesn't even mention no CU or NU titles since 2001!)....you are a 2nd degree bitch. not even a top level bitch like UT. OU 6; UT 3; CU and NU 3.

need to get over this tendency to let your interpretation of everything be overdetermined by your inability to see anything other than the square peg NU hero narrative you guys are foisting on anything that moves. like Jon at a fat chick party, you can't stop going into the bathroom to pull another one off.

Like I said....OU fan couldn't make a point without rubbing Tejas cock one more time. Now get back in the Longhorn stable like the trick you are until the conference overloard/Pimp comes to collect from it's top bitch.

You really aren't this stupid are you?

another swing and a miss for you.

H4ever wrote:

King Crimson wrote:

H4ever wrote:

Shocker.....Sooner fan sucking Tejas cock. Tell the truth sweetheart...you have a bicycle tire-patched Vince Young blow up doll.

more context and reading comprehension runza. he's lumping you in as an even *lesser* participant as far as having even less than the paucity of titles garnered by Texas. what he is saying in the Big XII grand scheme of things (and, doesn't even mention no CU or NU titles since 2001!)....you are a 2nd degree bitch. not even a top level bitch like UT. OU 6; UT 3; CU and NU 3.

need to get over this tendency to let your interpretation of everything be overdetermined by your inability to see anything other than the square peg NU hero narrative you guys are foisting on anything that moves. like Jon at a fat chick party, you can't stop going into the bathroom to pull another one off.

Like I said....OU fan couldn't make a point without rubbing Tejas cock one more time. Now get back in the Longhorn stable like the trick you are until the conference overloard/Pimp comes to collect from it's top bitch.

You really aren't this stupid are you?

You have fun being the trailer trash of the Big Ten; Iowa fan thanks you for giddily taking the label off them. We don't need to rub Texas cock, we stayed where our money and tradition are which is in the current conference; something that Nebraska has discovered that their claim to of any sort was just considered second class to real competition from a true rival. The SEC wanted us and Aggie and we spurned them just like we have you hillbillies twice; once in 1995 when we made it perfectly clear you were just a second rate also ran game compared to the Red River shootout... you know that game that the conference champion has come out of nine times and produced one of the players for the national title six times. Poor little Fusker has been put in his place for the last decade and a half as to where they stand with everyone and it even been made more abundantly clear in the last 9 months.

The Televen are going to have fun with you whiny, overinflated egotists, in their conference as their members on this board have already observed and regretting your incoming presence even before it officially commenced.

Oklahoma will survive just fine losing one of our traditional stepping stones and collect an even larger check at the end of season too boot. Maybe in a decade we will be in the SEC or a Pacific conference, maybe not... but either way Nebraska crying and running away like the little bitches they have been to us throughout the majority of college football history with the exception of two small stints, is no skin off our backs.

Now go get patted on your head and collect your charity wellfare check from Ohio State and Michigan because you just became to them what you have been to OU and Texas for the last 15 years; just something tolerated and given lip service toward while we ran roughshod over your athletic department and collected fatter checks because of it.

SunCoastSooner wrote:

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Considering that CU and NU have repped the North in 9 of 14 Big 12 CCGs, your "dead weight" analogy doesn't hold much water. Enjoy your little circle jerk while it lasts. CU will be just fine in the premiere football conference in the country. Now don't you have a Bedlam thread to go tard up?

And yet the two of you combined still only have as many combined conference titles as Texass who is second in the south in the number of titles. Congrats on KYOA.

Which is still more than the other eight members of the conference combined. So your take is that the Texas 10 is somehow better off for losing two of the four best teams in the conference? And you're saying I'm the one KYOAing here? Epic take, dude. You really nailed it.

Damn. Props to the 'skers for showing up today. Not much to say. That was a pretty thorough ass kicking. Good for Cody Hawkins for becoming CU's all-time passing leader. He might not be a great QB, but he's a good kid and he probably shouldered way more of the blame for CU's ineptitude over the past four years than he deserved.

H4ever, I'll change my sig whenever you come up with something. The avatar will have to wait til I get back into town next week. Good luck in the CCG. I think I might actually have to cheer for you guys. <shudder>

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:having 'bode on friends and family that you actually interact with in real life is that much sweeter

Truer words have never been spoken. It's all about beating down your rivals.

Was at the game today. The crowd was great throughout.

There were several funny things about this game.

- My wife pointed to Bo Pelini on the sidelines. Usually, Bo stands right behind the line judge. Today, he stayed at least 10 to 20 yards away from him. It was obvious that someone, probably Tom, told him that he should just only yell at the ref when he had a very important point, not just yell the entire game.
- Every time a flag was thrown, the crowd would boo and wave yellow flags, but then would cheer when it wasn't for Nebraska. They still ended up with 8 penalties to CU's 6 penalties though. All in all, the crowd around me commented that they thought the refs were more than fair.

Congrats to Cody for getting the CU passing record. I was rooting for CU to keep scoring in the 4th, but only because I picked NU to not cover. Oh well...

Cody Green finally had a great game. I was very happy for him. He was OK in one start against Baylor last year and horrible in the other against OU when he got pulled. This year, he played horrible in mop up duty and not so good in replacement duty for Martinez. He was OK against ISU. This game, he played with a lot of confidence. He didn't make any mistakes that I saw. He held onto the ball. He ran it well a couple of times. And he ran the zone read fairly well, which he's struggled with. I feel a lot better going into the CCG if Martinez doesn't start. Green really needed a game like this.

With that said, we had a big injury at RE (Meredith). Helu and Burkhead are banged up at RB, but probably will be fine. A couple of our linemen are clearly banged up.

So long CU. It's been fun, interesting, aggravating, heartbreaking and exciting. Good luck next year in the Pac 10. I'll probably be rooting for you.

It will be strange not playing Colorado any longer. It was indeed much more interesting after they became viable. I suppose they'll always hang onto 62-36 in 2001 so if that makes their football fantasy fufilled, I'm all for them. It's water under the bridge such as the 49-18-2 series record in favor of those bastard Bugeaters.
My earliest recollection of a CU game was 1966 a 21-19 NU win in Boulder. NU trailed 19-7 going into the 4th quarter and scored their second TD of the quarter with 53 seconds left. We were in a bar in Schuyler (ironically my birth place, the town, not the bar) taking a pheasant huntin' break listening to the game on the radio. I was 12 and I recall all the old geezers going crazy when NU scored. NU was ranked 7th at the time and CU was unranked.
CU took their revenge the following year with a 21-16 win in Lincoln. CU was ranked 4th in the nation, NU was unranked in 1967. Some guy named Charlie McBride played for that CU team. After that NU won 18 in a row and 20 of the next 21 games. That's what I remember about the series as NU fan would scratch a "W" on the schedule every August. NU won another 9 in a row 1992 through 2000. Then of course the game that every CU fan holds onto tighter than a camel's spinkster in a sand storm.
Now I'm the old geezer watching the traditions of the old Big 8 fall by the wayside which is indeed, bittersweet. I will miss playing CU, KU, ISU, KSU, and those raiding, raping, murderous, holligans from Misery. That's 65-36-3 series record with NU winning EVER game from 1979-2002 Mizzou fan. (Just a friendly reminder)
NU can take solace in that it defeated every north team it's last year in conference and dare I say, could defeat each of the original Big 8, if OU wins tomorrow and NU could win the CCG.
Anyway MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan it's been fun as you say and now you can kiss our asses going out the door with yet another loss to your Big Red Brother, but at least you're team, even though I believe you'll be in for some big time beatdowns, will be participating in an even playing field conference, with no particular agenda that coddles certain members. At least I don't think the PAC 12 will be unbalanced...keep an eye on SC however IMO.
'Bode your Momma and sister...rack them for having BTPCF savy over you!
Bye Bye you pot smoking liberal piss bag throwing oxygen thieves

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:

SunCoastSooner wrote:

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Considering that CU and NU have repped the North in 9 of 14 Big 12 CCGs, your "dead weight" analogy doesn't hold much water. Enjoy your little circle jerk while it lasts. CU will be just fine in the premiere football conference in the country. Now don't you have a Bedlam thread to go tard up?

And yet the two of you combined still only have as many combined conference titles as Texass who is second in the south in the number of titles. Congrats on KYOA.

Which is still more than the other eight members of the conference combined. So your take is that the Texas 10 is somehow better off for losing two of the four best teams in the conference? And you're saying I'm the one KYOAing here? Epic take, dude. You really nailed it.

Did you just refer to colorado as one of the better teams in the conference? Are you on fucking drugs?

SunCoastSooner wrote:Did you just refer to colorado as one of the better teams in the conference? Are you on fucking drugs?

Over the 15-year history of the conference, only OU, NU and your burnt orange masters have had more success. Unless, of course, you're just referring to this year, in which case, no, CU isn't even close to being one of the best teams in the conference. Hell, they're almost as bad as Texas.

Jesus, man, we're leaving. Get over it. If you keep up this whole jilted lover routine you could vault into board bitch contention in a hurry. I figured being Texas' bitch was humiliating enough, but you seem to be a real glutton for punishment.

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:

SunCoastSooner wrote:Did you just refer to colorado as one of the better teams in the conference? Are you on fucking drugs?

Jesus, man, we're leaving. Get over it. If you keep up this whole jilted lover routine you could vault into board bitch contention in a hurry.

Second that..

I find it funny the remaining Texas League Clingons play it off as NU and CU are leaving because they can't take the "heat" of UT and OU. The Big Ten announced a few weeks ago the negotiations for the conference title game, one game mind you, is going to fetch in the neighborhood of 22 million bones. That's about 6 million bucks north of the ENTIRE Fox sports package this year for the Big 12 rights!!! Not to mention the Big 10 package deal is in the neighborhood of 30% greater revenue than anything Fox has rolled out there for the Big 12. Again, where is Beebe's deal for the coming years? It's been all verbal promises from my understanding up to this point. All the while, NU fan was shafted with no less than 4 PPV's while I could watch ISU or KSU for free playing equally crappy non-conference games. This was done so the Big 12 could cash in on a fan base they know is a cash cow! Now were gone, who's going to be the next PPV bitch and how much will that make the conference compared to NU? This also cost NU exposer through-out the country from a recruiting standpoint. I dare to say ANY school not named Texass or Oklahoma, would have sold their little sister to the Arabs for the right to play in the PAC 12 or Big 10. But they of course, can't say a word of that as it might upset López de Santa Anna...er...Dan Beebe and that could mean yellow rain next time your playing in Texas.

NU and CU leaving hurts the Big 12.. i.e.. no championship game in Jerryworld in the forseeable future means lost $, format of doormats getting worked week in and week out thus BCS ranking taking it in the shorts for the frontrunners, the above PPV concept, (basically a 2 team league if Misery and Okie Light don't keep pace) and losing one of the Big 3, sorry CU & ATM fan, hurts the conference more than they want to believe or pretend. There's more venom against NU from the league office and jilted fans from other schools because bottom line, they're pissed to lose Nebraska because they too carried this conference, if not by conference titles, by name recognition and fan support; even while being placed in the backseat and told to shut-up. . How come it was always a big deal to beat NU? Even while we had our down years in the heart of the Big 12's existance (thanks Callahan and Pederson)? Why did ATM sell extra tickets and storm the field? Would they have done that beating Kansas St. if the rankings were the same for both teams? (well maybe, KSU did punk them in a CCG..Ha) Would the extra Aggies have showed up to see that game?
Yet the leftovers say were leaving because were scared, well if that's true, we can hide from the Big 12 and spend our time while doing so, counting our extra cash and have recruits watching our games, if they so desire, from coast to coast.. and after that, playing in a bowl game not located in Washington DC or the Bronx, those are great winter venues me thinks. San Antonio, Houston or Dallas...why? I want Florida, Arizona or California..thank you very much. It's winter!

Don't get me wrong, I did find some positives from the Big XII:
1) They make sophisticated use of roman numerals.
2) They protect their front office officials from murderous fans.
3) It is comforting always knowing in advance how the member teams will vote on any issue.
4) They thoughtfully refuse to burden the other XII teams with large sums of T.V. money to manage.
5) Bowl tie-ins that would make the Big East proud.

We were a two team league with Nebraska and Colorado part of the conference... Nothing has changed. All of our television contracts are intact and being split up amongst fewer teams. We are better off without you and you people are too naive or ignorant to realize it.

SunCoastSooner wrote: All of our television contracts are intact and being split up amongst fewer teams. We are better off without you and you people are too naive or ignorant to realize it.

What are they worth and for how long?

Keep telling yourself that and maybe you'll eventually believe it. I'm sure that extra 1/60th of the TV revenue will more than make up for what you lose from not having a CCG, and I'm sure networks are just lining up to shell out boatloads of cash to a conference that just lost it's biggest TV market and the 4th-winningest team of all time.

You're like a guy on a sinking ship who's all stoked because the people who jumped into the life rafts left a few trinkets behind...

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:I'm sure networks are just lining up to shell out boatloads of cash to a conference that just lost it's biggest TV market...

:?
So UT and aTm went to the Pac too? I know you're suggesting Boulder is in the Denver market, but I can assure you there are more Longhorn and Aggie fans tuning in for games in Dallas (#5) and Houston (#10) than there are Buff Fans in all of the Greater Denver area (#16).

BTW, have you caught this yet?

The proposed Longhorn television network could be worth more than $10 million a year and perhaps as much as $15 million a year under a long-term contract that Texas officials are negotiating, sources with knowledge of the discussions said.

SunCoastSooner wrote:We were a two team league with Nebraska and Colorado part of the conference... Nothing has changed. All of our television contracts are intact and being split up amongst fewer teams. We are better off without you and you people are too naive or ignorant to realize it.

You think too short-term. Neb is the winningest program of the last 50 years, one of the top10 programs of all-time, and they're coming back to national prominence quickly. If we we didn't have to deal with being on the con's shit-list we'd probablyf be the highest-ranked team in the con. Neb football was ranked in the Forbes top5 most-valuable football programs. We are an asset to a con, that is why the 10 took us when they certainly had other solid options. Yes because conference-ralignment was feared they made it so you split the same pie between fewer eaters. You'll make more money with us gone, but it'll short-term. It doesn't change the fact that one of the con's assets was lost and long-term value was decreased.

And how, exactly, does a Tejas network benefit Mizzou, or OU, or anyone besides Tejas?

Truman wrote:

The proposed Longhorn television network could be worth more than $10 million a year and perhaps as much as $15 million a year under a long-term contract that Texas officials are negotiating, sources with knowledge of the discussions said.

Longhorn Network..That's great. Longhorn Revenue...So maybe Iowa State best get to negotating their own contract. They're not seeing much of that deal if anything. Maybe a few crumbs for their annual showdown. Probably not.

It doesn't. I just wondered if you had seen it. Killian might be interested as well, since he suggested it didn't have a prayer of happening when all this shit started last spring.

You didn't address your "you just lost your largest media market" take, however, I noticed....

Truman wrote:It doesn't. I just wondered if you had seen it. Killian might be interested as well, since he suggested it didn't have a prayer of happening when all this shit started last spring.

You didn't address your "you just lost your largest media market" take, however, I noticed....

Because it's semantics. Denver/Boulder is the biggest of the current Big 12 markets, but you're right that Tejas draws more viewers from outside markets. I doubt the folks in Dallas or Houston are tuning in for ISU/KSU though.

...and in a perverse way, the Shorthorn Network actually benefits your Buffs, Mike. You might remember that the rumblings of such a network was a huge sticking point with the Pac Powers-That-Be and threw a huge monkey-wrench into the whole Texas-to-the-Pac negotiation. Baylor, of all schools, was a part of this discussion, as the Power Brokers from the South schools were insisting that the South as a whole absorb the Pac - and make no mistake, Mike: Texas revisionism would've had history re-written in about 10 years to reflect that the South saved the Pac...

Oh, sure, CU made a preemptive strike by jumping to the Pac as quickly as they did, but if there had even been a hint that the formation of such a network would've been acceptable to the other Pac schools early in the negotiation process, Colorado might very well be looking at playing a MWC schedule next year along with KU and Kansas State.