To quote a poster on the MWC board:

Buffs are scurrrred.

(02-06-2015 09:57 AM)MWC Tex Wrote:  

(02-05-2015 11:34 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  I have a whole wing of the family out in Colorado who are all CU alums. They don't seem to really care about the rivalry and are more inclined to just ignore it.

With Nebraska in the Big 10. I don't think Colorado cares about anything anymore.
Its not that there wasn't decent attendance playing at the Broncos Stadium.....but then again CU is pretty snobby and doesn't view CSU as a rival....but they should because they don't have any rivals now since they don't play Nebraska anymore.

My ex-wife's family has Nebraska season tickets. They've had the same seats since 1962. They lived for the rivalry with Oklahoma. That rivalry was better than the Yankees and Red Sox. Then, for about 20 years, they really liked the rivalry with Colorado (although it wasn't like Oklahoma). Now they don't know who their rival is. They don't care about anyone in the Big 10. I'm guessing Colorado fans feel the same way in the PAC 12.

College football isn't as magical as it once was.

Maybe if they can get this game back on campus, it would energize the fan bases - especially with CSU building an on campus stadium. The drive from Boulder or Ft Collins to the Broncos stadium is plain dreadful...that was a terrible idea to play the game annually offsite anyway.

If not, chalk this game up to another Utah/BYU, PSU/Pitt and ND/Michigan.

(02-07-2015 05:45 AM)LSUtah Wrote:  Maybe if they can get this game back on campus, it would energize the fan bases - especially with CSU building an on campus stadium. The drive from Boulder or Ft Collins to the Broncos stadium is plain dreadful...that was a terrible idea to play the game annually offsite anyway.

If not, chalk this game up to another Utah/BYU, PSU/Pitt and ND/Michigan.

I doubt it... CU used to object to the series when it was on-campus on the grounds that Hughes Stadium was too small...

This simply is not a real rivalry. More akin to WVU-Marshall than Bedlam or some other State series.

(02-07-2015 05:45 AM)LSUtah Wrote:  Maybe if they can get this game back on campus, it would energize the fan bases - especially with CSU building an on campus stadium. The drive from Boulder or Ft Collins to the Broncos stadium is plain dreadful...that was a terrible idea to play the game annually offsite anyway.

If not, chalk this game up to another Utah/BYU, PSU/Pitt and ND/Michigan.

And....Pitt/WV, Nebraska/Oklahoma, Mizzou/Kansas Texas/A&M, BC/Rutgers, Syracuse/UCONN hoops, Georgetown/Cuse hoops, Duke/Maryland hoops, UNC/Maryland hoops...college sports is about tradition...and 100 years plus of tradition down the toilet

(02-07-2015 08:14 AM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  [quote='LSUtah' pid='11742258' dateline='1423305955']
Maybe if they can get this game back on campus, it would energize the fan bases - especially with CSU building an on campus stadium. The drive from Boulder or Ft Collins to the Broncos stadium is plain dreadful...that was a terrible idea to play the game annually offsite anyway.

If not, chalk this game up to another Utah/BYU, PSU/Pitt and ND/Michigan.

I doubt it... CU used to object to the series when it was on-campus on the grounds that Hughes Stadium was too small...

This simply is not a real rivalry. More akin to WVU-Marshall than Bedlam or some other State series.
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It's closer to bedlam (one of my favorites) than it is WVU-Marshall. That's ridiculous bearcat Jerry

(02-07-2015 02:43 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 05:45 AM)LSUtah Wrote:  Maybe if they can get this game back on campus, it would energize the fan bases - especially with CSU building an on campus stadium. The drive from Boulder or Ft Collins to the Broncos stadium is plain dreadful...that was a terrible idea to play the game annually offsite anyway.

If not, chalk this game up to another Utah/BYU, PSU/Pitt and ND/Michigan.

And....Pitt/WV, Nebraska/Oklahoma, Mizzou/Kansas Texas/A&M, BC/Rutgers, Syracuse/UCONN hoops, Georgetown/Cuse hoops, Duke/Maryland hoops, UNC/Maryland hoops...college sports is about tradition...and 100 years plus of tradition down the toilet

Yup. Everyone loses.

(02-06-2015 10:40 AM)ohio1317 Wrote:  I'll lament the loss of big rivalries, but is this a big rivalry? I am not saying it's not, but I really don't know.

On the one hand, it's in-state (usually helps a rivalry feel although I prefer interstate rivalries) and has been played a bunch.

On the other hand, the schools didn't play from 1958-1983, the stadium looks rather empty in some of those pictures (maybe anomalies?), the series is fairly lopsided, and Colorado may be able to bring in more fans with a home and home with a bigger name.

In Colorado, yes it's a big rivalry. They hate each other.

(02-07-2015 05:45 AM)LSUtah Wrote:  Maybe if they can get this game back on campus, it would energize the fan bases - especially with CSU building an on campus stadium. The drive from Boulder or Ft Collins to the Broncos stadium is plain dreadful...that was a terrible idea to play the game annually offsite anyway.

If not, chalk this game up to another Utah/BYU, PSU/Pitt and ND/Michigan.

This is the bigger issue here imho. The way they have it now screws it up for students, the one's that should matter.

(02-07-2015 05:12 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 05:45 AM)LSUtah Wrote:  Maybe if they can get this game back on campus, it would energize the fan bases - especially with CSU building an on campus stadium. The drive from Boulder or Ft Collins to the Broncos stadium is plain dreadful...that was a terrible idea to play the game annually offsite anyway.

If not, chalk this game up to another Utah/BYU, PSU/Pitt and ND/Michigan.

This is the bigger issue here imho. The way they have it now screws it up for students, the one's that should matter.

It's not just the fans of those schools that lose. I had absolutely no connection to Pitt & Penn State, but that's a game I looked forward to when it happened.

Colorado AD:

"Hey Colo St. Nice stadium you are going to build. Guess what? We'll never play in it. Go suck an egg."

(02-06-2015 10:32 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  My ex-wife's family has Nebraska season tickets. They've had the same seats since 1962. They lived for the rivalry with Oklahoma. That rivalry was better than the Yankees and Red Sox.

That game was one of the first conference-realignment casualties, and ending it as an annual game still seems like one of the worst mistakes. It was one of the biggest games every year for about 20 years.

(02-07-2015 02:45 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 08:14 AM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  [quote='LSUtah' pid='11742258' dateline='1423305955']
Maybe if they can get this game back on campus, it would energize the fan bases - especially with CSU building an on campus stadium. The drive from Boulder or Ft Collins to the Broncos stadium is plain dreadful...that was a terrible idea to play the game annually offsite anyway.

If not, chalk this game up to another Utah/BYU, PSU/Pitt and ND/Michigan.

I doubt it... CU used to object to the series when it was on-campus on the grounds that Hughes Stadium was too small...

This simply is not a real rivalry. More akin to WVU-Marshall than Bedlam or some other State series.
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It's closer to bedlam (one of my favorites) than it is WVU-Marshall. That's ridiculous bearcat Jerry

Yeah, Bedlam is something like 90-20-x (I don't know how many ties) and that's even with Oklahoma State winning a whole lot more lately.

(02-08-2015 02:27 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(02-06-2015 10:32 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  My ex-wife's family has Nebraska season tickets. They've had the same seats since 1962. They lived for the rivalry with Oklahoma. That rivalry was better than the Yankees and Red Sox.

That game was one of the first conference-realignment casualties, and ending it as an annual game still seems like one of the worst mistakes. It was one of the biggest games every year for about 20 years.

I could go on and on about that game. It wasn't just the schools that hated each other. The entire states hated each other. It was a clash of cultures. Nebraska was settled by church-going farmers from Central and Northern Europe. Very family oriented. Oklahoma was largely settled by individualists and renegades seeking to get rich quick. There were (of course) many church-going families to settle in Oklahoma, but that group wasn't as dominant in Oklahoma as it was in Nebraska.

I went to a Nebraska game at Oklahoma 20 years ago. We were walking to the stadium in a group with other Nebraska fans. There was a guy standing in his front yard and said out loud (in a derogatory manner), "I've never seen so many damn farmers in all my life". He hated anything to do with Nebraska.

About the same time, I was at a pizza restaurant in Dallas owned by a Nebraska fan. It had Nebraska banners up on every wall. I saw a father and son (about 10 years old) walk in with Oklahoma sweatshirts. The boy asked his father, "Dad, what if he poisons our pizza?"

Now that's a rivalry.

(02-07-2015 06:36 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  Colorado AD:

"Hey Colo St. Nice stadium you are going to build. Guess what? We'll never play in it. Go suck an egg."

Nailed it

(02-08-2015 11:40 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 06:36 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  Colorado AD:

"Hey Colo St. Nice stadium you are going to build. Guess what? We'll never play in it. Go suck an egg."

Nailed it

I LL bet you that CU plays in CSU's new stadium (if they build it) at least once. I'd also bet that most of those commenting in this thread have never been to Ft Collins or Boulder. Boulder is a dirty disgusting town, Ft Collins is a lot nicer. Those that have been to Northern Colorado are free to tell me why they disagree.

(02-08-2015 05:53 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 11:40 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 06:36 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  Colorado AD:

"Hey Colo St. Nice stadium you are going to build. Guess what? We'll never play in it. Go suck an egg."

Nailed it

I LL bet you that CU plays in CSU's new stadium (if they build it) at least once. I'd also bet that most of those commenting in this thread have never been to Ft Collins or Boulder. Boulder is a dirty disgusting town, Ft Collins is a lot nicer. Those that have been to Northern Colorado are free to tell me why they disagree.

Look... I grew up in Denver. I went to school in Denver (both Metro State and UC-D). I have family still in the Denver area. I have been to both towns and campuses. (Personally, I agree with you, I like Fort Collins better than Boulder...) The two cities are very different, though I wouldn't term Boulder "dirty and disgusting." (It is very granola..."crunchy" if you want... We used to call it the "PRB"--the Peoples' Republic of Boulder. Fort Collins used to be nicknamed "Fort Fun" because it was just a much more relaxed place.)

In all my time growing up, CU-CSU was never a huge rivalry. CSU's rivals were Wyoming (#1), Air Force (#2), and Utah (#3). New Mexico sometimes. CU's rivals were, in the old Big 8-Mizzou, Kansas, and later, Nebraska (though Nebraska NEVER considered CU a "rival."). I don't think CU ever really got a new rivalry going in the B12, though Baylor seemed to get their goat fairly regularly.

You can mourn the loss of this series, but I will say that it ranks well below these other lost in-state rivalries:
#1 Texas-Texas A&M
#2 Utah- BYU
#3 Pitt- Penn State
#4 Kansas- Missouri (I know...it's trans-state, but they overlap so much...)

Just being in proximity does not a rivalry make. There are a number of factors that go into bona fide rivalries. I just don't see it in CU-CSU.

I've been to Boulder. Dirty and disgusting? No. It's the only city I've ever seen where there are more bicycles than cars. Granola is a pretty good description. I thought it was cool.

I've heard great things about Fort Collins.

Dirty in the "******* dirty hippies, take a bath!" sense

Why lose to a G5 school when it the loss should to a P5 school. We are talking about Colorado, right. Wait, they could lose to a FCS school, though.