You’re on your own now, CU. Conferences? Conferences don’t matter. Contracts don’t matter. Tradition doesn’t matter.
Geography? More than 1,500 gorgeous miles sit between Memorial Stadium in Lincoln and Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. Geography is so 2010.
The only thing that matters is television. And whether a network armed with billions wants your football team featured on theirs.
“I do know this, though — that just sitting around thinking what could have been or looking longingly into the past is not going to help (the Buffs) in their current state,” former CU quarterback and current FOX Sports analyst Joel Klatt said by phone.
“They’re going to have to work really hard to map out and carve out a future that will allow them to return to a prominent place within the spot which we all know that they can get to.”
The Pac-12 was a Ponzi scheme, with former commissioner Larry Scott its Bernie Madoff. CU chancellor Phil DiStefano got his university duped, for too long propping up a television channel and a figurehead in Scott while Limousine Larry laughed all the way to the penthouse.
USC and UCLA last week jumped from Scott’s burning plane to the Big Ten, to Mel Tucker Country, on parachutes made of cashier’s checks. Everything promised to CU 12 years ago is slipping downstream the way a flaming dumpster fire does in a flood.
You’re on your own now, CU.
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