(03-16-2020 06:36 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(03-16-2020 06:30 PM)SMUstang Wrote:  

(03-16-2020 05:52 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(03-16-2020 12:48 PM)SMUstang Wrote:  Colorado fits better in the Big 8 than the PAC 8 in my opinion.

Too bad there's neither a Big 8 nor Pac-8 anymore.

You think I don't know that? The point is..............

Colorado prefers the Pac to the Big 12. That's why they left. They're not going back.

Yeah, there's no buyer's remorse with them. The unhappy PAC teams are USC and the Arizonas. And while USC could pull off independence, the Arizonas don't strike me as programs who would move to the Big XII unless there were other mountain and CA schools coming over. And if the best thing the Big XII could get from California was SDSU? I don't think you're getting either UA or ASU. They're blowing smoke.

Even if the SWC acquisitions all split from the current Big XII, I doubt you could get the entire Big 8 back together to "redo" a Big XII in its wake. Colorado and Nebraska were nearly courted away even back then. And, really, the Big 8 blew it twice: passing on Arkansas and not giving Colorado another western school when setting up the Big XII.