Full press conference on University of Colorado Big 12 move

[@dfausti66]

BYU fan here. We are so grateful to have Colorado join us as a member of the Big XII. Now, I am a Buffs fan. Please win the PAC 12 before you return home to the Big XII. Go Buffs and Go Big XII !!!

[@deerobinson557]

Great we are going to be stuck smelling Texans and Mormons. BYU fans hated the PAC because they tried over and over again to join the PAC and they were never accepted. Now that the Big 12 has lost all their good teams and replaced them with North West South Central Florida. Hey, why don't we change the name of the Big 12, to something more appropriate, like the MHMC conference. 1 Mormon, 1 Hippie, and the Maga Christians league.

[@Isoquant]

@@deerobinson557 So how toxic would you say your fanbase is, scale of 1-10?

[@sirbobloblaws]

@@deerobinson557 Get off the weed!

[@deerobinson557]

@@Isoquant We can get very toxic when we end up around fascist maga rednecks.

[@machomuchacho5376]

@@deerobinson557 gross

[@equalizer1946]

From a Houston alumni welcome Colorado to the Big 12

[@deerobinson557]

Good grief, Houston is in the same conference as C.U., damn that is embarrassing.

[@equalizer1946]

@@deerobinson557 I can always tell a fool when he opens his mouth. We welcome the competition I guess you don't.

[@deerobinson557]

@@equalizer1946 And I can tell a fool who thinks he heard me talk, when I typed this Einstein. Well congratulations making it into one of the big leagues, I can remember for years Houston had been trying to join the Big 12, but they kept getting turned down, but finally after six teams left you were finally excepted, but not because your team is a quality program, only because the Houston TV market is big.

[@equalizer1946]

@@deerobinson557 You must be awfully young or awfully naive Maybe both.

[@sirbobloblaws]

@@deerobinson557 Accepted, Einstein, not excepted.

[@Yakitak]

So glad Colorado is coming back to the Big XII. Very smart move… bight future ahead for the Buffs!

[@deerobinson557]

Just in time to save your dying league.

[@Yakitak]

@@deerobinson557 Who is dying? The Big XII is thriving... not sure what you're thinking?

[@deerobinson557]

@@Yakitak Maybe dying is an exaggeration, but certainly replacing OU, NU, Missouri, Texas, and Texas A&M, with BYU a team the PAC 12 said no to for years, Cincinnati, Houston and now North East Southern Central Florida. What are they the 5th or 6th best team in Florida? The only good part of this for CU is that it will be much easier to win the Big 12, then it would be to win the PAC 12.

[@Yakitak]

@@deerobinson557 let’s just sit back and see what happens with the two leagues. Time will tell. However, I wish Oklahoma would stay and that Nebraska and Missouri would come back, but not happening.

[@sirbobloblaws]

@@deerobinson557 Dying is a massive exaggeration. Central Florida (one of the biggest undergraduate populations among American universities) will make more money from the new Big 12 media deal than Miami and Florida State are making in the ACC, and both are really pissed about that.

[@drbuckley1]

OU fan here. Good luck, Buffs. The Oklahoma-Colorado rivalry was a highlight of the Big 8.

[@deerobinson557]

I'm from Colorado and no we weren't, we loved beating Nebraska the most. For the most part OU killed Colorado, but we did beat OU five times in a row in Norman Oklahoma. Nobody will probably ever beat that. Nebraska was the second closest beating OU three time in a row in Norman.

[@drbuckley1]

@@deerobinson557 All of those Big 8 wins and losses matter less to OU than Texas. Beating the Horns is more important to Sooner fans than conference championships, of which Norman has a large collection of trophies.

[@deerobinson557]

@@drbuckley1 I've been to Texas several times, and believe me they think Oklahoma is full of barefooted rednecks, which is funny because Texas has even more. But you should know Texas was never in the Big 8.

[@mgoboski]

​@@deerobinson557Colorado was a better program in the last 80s and 90s than OU

[@simon2077]

From a K-State Alum, Welcome Back to the Big 12!

[@yetti304-LFG]

As a mountaineer fan welcome back to the big 12 and look forward to playing the buffs! Boulder is a great place

[@leocardwell6338]

Low volume concerns (University of Colorado sound engineers).

[@mikeoxmaul9675]

Texas Tech fan here. Welcome Home Colorado!!!

[@AirTeethREAL]

👑 RICK GEORGE

[@MrJara1018]

Coach Prime is a Super Bowl winning Dallas Cowboy he will be super successful recruiting in Texas.

[@hakeemtarpley2998]

Ain’t nobody want players from TX

[@hakeemtarpley2998]

@@user-bs6nu1iu7x name one dope cfb player from tx

[@gregorypollard5908]

@@hakeemtarpley2998 definitely can name one dope......

[@trile8]

From a Baylor fan Welcome home Buffs

[@mgoboski]

Welcome home? The Buffs were in the Big 8 originally while Baylor was in the Southwest. The middle of the country has no home and your best brands bolted for the SEC. The Big 12 is a half G5 half P5 zombie. Nobody affiliated with Colorado is actually happy leaving behind like minded schools such as Washington, Cal and Stanford. This is desperation to survive a college football landscape that will still leave all non Big Ten and SEC schools behind regardless.

[@professorfinesser4322]

Welcome back Go Knights ⚔

[@deerobinson557]

Good grief, who the hell are the Knights, this is a nightmare.

[@professorfinesser4322]

@@deerobinson557 what if I told you everything is going to be okay?

[@deerobinson557]

@@professorfinesser4322 I would say usually when a stranger says everything is going to be okay, that's when you realize how bad the situation has become.

[@ricardotrevino2775]

UTEP fan here. Conference realignment drama is fun.

[@sunnyrobinson2128]

CU AD deserves a award 🏆 for what he’s done in so little time ‼️

[@the5-starreview871]

I like the changes Colorado is making. I"m excited for them and their football program

[@swallman]

So the Buffalo can tuck tail and run. 🤣 What a disaster for CU. The B12 is not the conference they left, it is a shell of what it once was.

[@Jamesthevampire7172]

As a Baylor bears and a TCU fan but I’m mostly of a Texas longhorns fan welcome on home Colorado welcome on back too the conference that y’all always belonged too.

[@JRFrancisco20088]

CU never really fit in the Pac-12 just like Nebraska has never fit into the Big-10. Good for the Buffs. The Pac-12 is on life support.

[@nickinportland]

I think it’s smart 4 of my cousins in Texas, much to my chagrin chose the buffs over my beloved TTU. It’s primed for serious growth with how popular the outdoors are.

[@mgoboski]

Great financial move(which we all know is the only thing that matters) but this is a big downgrade in terms of academics and culture. Manhattan Kansas and Waco Texas are not Eugene and Berkeley, which is what Boulder is more aligned with.

[@swallman]

Who would want to live in Berkeley or Eugene? Both places are far left Marxist hell holes.

[@CW_made]

All the reporters and “sports analyst” that claimed Big 10 and Colorado couldn’t fit in Big 12… 😂 just idiotic and disrespectful but these people will never admit to being dead wrong…

[@dezznutz3743]

The Big 10 never wanted Colorado.

[@dfausti66]

@@dezznutz3743 It is alright! The vision and direction of the Big XII are far better than the B1G or SEC or even the ACC, let alone the PAC 12.

[@deerobinson557]

@@dezznutz3743 What makes you think Colorado wanted to play in the rust belt with all your crappy weather?

[@doninkansas-jr5yw]

Welcome HOME, Colorado!

[@hakeemtarpley2998]

Colorado said we gone

[@deerobinson557]

No, the greedy board of directors said who cares if we have to go to a dying league, we got a bag of money and that's all that's important right?

[@sirbobloblaws]

@@deerobinson557 The conference Colorado just left is dying.

[@KCUSA27]

Welcome back. Old Big 8’s back together again. Colorado - sky is the limit now. Pac very limited ceiling. Texas and Florida recruiting now and Prime wanted it badly.

[@deerobinson557]

We always recruited in Texas and moving to the Big 12 doesn't change anything. The existing PAC 12 right now would destroy the Big 12 from top to bottom. This year hands down the PAC will be the strongest conference in the country period. Colorado is almost in the middle of the country and has always recruited Florida and Texas. If players are easier to get in the future, it certainly isn't because we stupidly moved to the Big 12, it's because we now have coach Prime.

[@mgoboski]

The Big 8 is not back together. The Big 8's best two brands in Oklahoma and Nebraska are now in the SEC and Big Ten, respectively, the only two conferences that matter. Everyone else is trying to survive and the Big 12 is a zombie P5/G5 conference with a lot of programs nobody cares about.

[@KCUSA27]

@@mgoboski Nebraska died a decade or two ago bc it moved to the big 10. The best two brands were OU and Texas. Yes they’re gone but we will reload the league. Also Tcu rocked your booties Michigan boy.

[@KCUSA27]

@@deerobinson557 the pac 12 is dead. The big 12 right now with OU and Texas is right there with big 10. Our best team beat the big 10’s best team and would have handled usc or Oregon last year and usc lost to Tulane (lol). So disagree with everything you just said. Doesn’t matter anyways bc now the pac 12 will soon be the MWC. Oregon, wash and zona are joining the big 12

[@mgoboski]

@@KCUSA27 Nebraska was already in decline when it jumped to the Big Ten. They stopped being elite when Osborne retired and definitely when they did Frank Solich dirty. They were still competitive in the Big 12 and then Big Ten with Pelini but got greedy because his consistent 9 and 10 win seasons weren't enough apparently. Since then they have been a mismanaged mess but Matt Rhule is promising. They have a loyal fan base and are now benefiting from Big Ten money, which is more than double the Big 12. Oh, and congrats to TCU. One of my best friends is a die hard Frogs fan. They needed Michigan to turn the ball over twice inside the TCU 5 and to also throw two pick 6s for TCU to barely win by a touchdown. But a win is a win.

[@Isoquant]

Welcome Colorado, excited to have you here!

[@KNIGHT-T1ME]

From UCF... welcome back home.

[@Iamxavierjohnson]

Cant hear it

[@August420West]

I like when Rick George wears his skinny jeans. 😂

[@bigbsupermoon1267]

lmao don't kid yourself

[@aar1843]

Absolutely fascinating!!! 💯👏👍

[@marcocano7262]

Go buff's

[@TT41401]

Isnt this because they cant compete in the Pace 12?

[@deerobinson557]

No it's because the fking PAC 12 commissioner couldn't pull his head out and get a new TV contract. I hate this move, who wants to play in the redneck states. I truly hope the PAC 12 survives.

[@campbellcampbell9059]

Phil DeStaphano is a muppet. Destroyed CU football for 20 years: phone gate, selling out Gary Barnett for noting the kicker is a girl, bypassed an offer from Nike to add a research corporate campus on CU property (see cash infusion for CU athletics). We went for being in an academic conference of Stanford, Cal, Washington… to this.. gross, Neve been more turned off by CU

[@deerobinson557]

Well said, they sold out the fans, the state, and all the C.U. alumni across the West. California alone had more Colorado alumni than all of the states that make up the big 12 combined. So say goodbye to any support at away games from now on. I expected this from Phil, but Rick I didn't realize what a sellout you were.

[@dfausti66]

@@deerobinson557 As a research scientist who has run a research lab, there are many issues that can come up in contract negotiations. Yes, research is valuable and needed. However, when the impact of the brand of student-athlete experience is challenged by a lack of leadership within a conference, change is required. Besides, if you look at the data, California is experiencing a major population exodus of people moving to more conservative locations like Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and locations within the Big XII footprint. So, check your sources before making a determination as to what to be frustrated about.

[@dfausti66]

If you care to look at academic literature, you are likely to find that academia requires a balance with athletics in order to truly be beneficial in the student experience. Clearly, there has been very little balance which suggests severe biases within the academic research of some institutions within the PAC 12 in terms of investigative studies looking at the business of athletics and academia, social responsibility of the student experience with or without athletics, and a host of other studies. My point is...the lack of athletic balance to academic research is unsustainable for the academic growth of the student experience.

[@deerobinson557]

@@dfausti66 We were not in negotiations the league was. You said there was a lack of leadership and a change needed to be made. So I guess we as Americans should have moved away to another country when Trump was in office and showed how completely incompetent he was as a president. I lived in Arizona and it's not a conservative state at all. More non insane people from Arizona voted last time and the republicans lost the state. Utah? You can have that insanity, mormons are crazier than the Christians who have started banning books Florida and Texas . Idaho, lol, you can have all of the 200 plus insane militia groups in that bat shit crazy state.

[@campbellcampbell9059]

@@dfausti66 dude. If you’re a research scientist I’m scared as you’re an idiot. Utah and Arizona Universities are in the PAC12. The lack of leadership is at CU . CU’s largest alumni base in California. The 4 largest companies by Market Cap: Apple, Amazon. Microsoft, Alphabet are all based in PAC states. This is how you generate real long term value if you’re a University. Couple that with this being the greatest Media Marker ever for Live Sports to get a deal done - writers/actors strike - death of cable, rise of the streamer. Big Iger is out there saying he wants to sell part of ESPN to a streamer - new revenue stream of on-line gambling is now a $100 billion business and growing 40% a year according to Goldman Sachs. This new ad revenue stream wasn’t priced into previous conferences media right’s contracts that’s how fast this business model has grown. George K had the perfect storm to get a media deal done. In my opinion still does.

[@westernciviccapital3075]

Bawawawahaa Colorado just got relegated to being a laughingstock west of the Rockies FOR EVER. lol -worst record in PAC history -hires flashiest coach in football history -tucks tail between legs and returns to a diminished Big Lubbock conference. BAWAWAWHAHA😆😂😂😂

[@KG10toTH5]

Meh. Those west of the Rockies who are laughing had better bolt for greener pastures also

[@devilfrawg4953]

Cope harder.

[@dezznutz3743]

The PAC is literally falling apart rn. Who can blame them?

[@slycanyon]

You may call it the Lubbock conference but at least we are a conference that knows whitch bathroom to use. Are you that ignorant comparing 32 MM in the Big XII to 17 MM in the Pac 10? You need to be pointing out that incompetent dumbass commissioner of the pac-12. Do you wash your fruit before you eat it?

[@dfausti66]

You wonder why Big XII fans, who dominate social networks in the United States are bringing the house of the PAC 12 to its knees. Due to disruption and innovation, there won't likely be a PAC 12 in the very near future. Disruption is well known for taking down multi-billion dollar corporations. In the Big XII...it is "all for one and one for all!"

[@deerobinson557]

Phil stand up and admit you were the main reason Colorado football started heading in the wrong direction twenty years ago. And Rick how could you sell us out like that. Forcing us back to the midwest, for a quick buck, you both disgust me.

[@dezznutz3743]

So you want Colorado to stay out west where hardily anyone cares about college football? The PAC has no support from Left Coast politicians.

[@dfausti66]

Nobody sold you out! There must always be a balance between academic research and athletics in order to maximize the student experience. A benchmark for you is how UTexas works for such a balance for sustainability. To bad the PAC 12 is anything but sustainable!

[@deerobinson557]

@@dfausti66 Texas, LMAO. Texas is the most dysfunctional state in the union behind Florida. You want me to use Texas as an example? I must say it will be enjoyable watching Texas get their butt kicked around in the SEC. Never compare Colorado to Texas, our state isn't a dysfunctional nightmare like Texas.

[@machomuchacho5376]

LMAO really? HEY YOU, have you looked at your own face lately? Why is it that the reprobates never look in the mirror, figuratively and literally?

[@losthighway4840]

Mentioning academic research while going to the farmlands of the B12. LOL

[@staleydu1]

The smugness and arrogance of this post is unbelievable.

[@kensterling5217]

The Big 12 Fills their Football Stadiums while the Pac 12 Researches Woke agendas. You should have another Bud Light....🤣🤣

[@phxmaster9684]

@@kensterling5217hey not all the Pac 12 is like that (please take my school get us out of this dumpster fire)

[@kensterling5217]

@@phxmaster9684 I know....I like the Northwest Schools, the California Schools are strange 🤔

[@phxmaster9684]

@@kensterling5217 or you know… Arizona (my school)