(04-25-2023 07:31 AM)IWantToTalkToRalphSampson Wrote:  

(04-23-2023 07:13 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(04-23-2023 06:55 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(04-23-2023 12:42 PM)World Wide Swag Wrote:  The thing I like about the way the SEC has expanded is that all of the additions (with the possible exception of Mizzou) have made sense. Texas A&M immediately had a rivalry with Arkansas; Texas and OU will come in and immediately have several regional rivals. They're all cultural fits. Unlike the Big Ten, who had Maryland and Rutgers showing up and playing Iowa and Minnesota...no one wants to see that.

Colorado would not be a fit in the SEC for a variety of reasons. I can't see it ever happening; if it does, the SEC will cease to be what's always made it great.

That will come if the SEC tries to get too big. The idea of a 20 or 24 team conference will kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

Not if there are only two gaggles and waddle of ducks.

There are also a ton of young people from the Southeast who move to Colorado every year. When you consider that OU, Mizzou, A&M and UT will be in the league too it isn’t that far-fetched. Not advocating for it either, but it wouldn’t hurt the SEC in any appreciable way. CU just needs a league with a California presence more than it needs a Georgia/Florida/Alabama presence.

IMO, Colorado would be a big step back for the SEC. I see no reason for the SEC to be interested in CU at all. They do not fit athletically, geographically, or culturally, IMO.

(04-25-2023 07:31 AM)IWantToTalkToRalphSampson Wrote:  

(04-23-2023 07:13 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(04-23-2023 06:55 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(04-23-2023 12:42 PM)World Wide Swag Wrote:  The thing I like about the way the SEC has expanded is that all of the additions (with the possible exception of Mizzou) have made sense. Texas A&M immediately had a rivalry with Arkansas; Texas and OU will come in and immediately have several regional rivals. They're all cultural fits. Unlike the Big Ten, who had Maryland and Rutgers showing up and playing Iowa and Minnesota...no one wants to see that.

Colorado would not be a fit in the SEC for a variety of reasons. I can't see it ever happening; if it does, the SEC will cease to be what's always made it great.

That will come if the SEC tries to get too big. The idea of a 20 or 24 team conference will kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

Not if there are only two gaggles and waddle of ducks.

There are also a ton of young people from the Southeast who move to Colorado every year. When you consider that OU, Mizzou, A&M and UT will be in the league too it isn’t that far-fetched. Not advocating for it either, but it wouldn’t hurt the SEC in any appreciable way. CU just needs a league with a California presence more than it needs a Georgia/Florida/Alabama presence.

With these ton of SE young people, how do SEC games draw in CO compared to other out-of-region markets?

Chasing the type of young people moving to CO is likely a fool’s errand. The same demographic that’s inflicting decay in the PAC imo

Better to double down on boomers moving into south and rust belt/flyover populations. Another FL school, NC schools, Clemson, KU…several others