Good article on the current state of the media rights agreement. I particularly like this tidbit:

Pro: No more 10:30 p.m. ET kickoffs?​

Fans on the West Coast hate night games. Coaches do, too, both because they get home in the middle of the night from away games and because they know most of the East Coast isn’t watching them. Former Stanford coach David Shaw believed 10:30 p.m. kicks cost Christian McCaffrey the 2015 Heisman.

There’s no conceivable reason Amazon would need to show games late at night, because there are no “windows” in streaming, and they could probably announce kickoff times further in advance. It’s long been believed ESPN would want to keep its Pac-12 After Dark package because those games do get good ratings (they averaged 1.62 million viewers this season), but not if ESPN isn’t willing to pay a premium for them.

DO we have one of these yet? We need one of those to be comin real bad. Here's a vote out of left field if we dont have one - Adrian Williams with Peloton. THat dude would turn the weight room upside down and train us some athletes. They cant be paying him too much and COach Prime can get him an NIL deal.

Sprinking in some women's coverage. They're off to a great start. CU WBB (13-3) looking for back-to-back upsets tonight after coming off a major upset against then No. 8 Utah Tonight they take on No. 14 Arizona (14-2).
Tonight's CU starters:
Jaylyn Sherrod
Tayanna Jones
Frida Formann
Aaronette Vonleh
Quay Miller

Arizona:
Shaina Pellington
Lauren Fields
Jade Loville
Esmery Martinez
Cate Reese

Arizona is the only Pac-12 team with 4 players averaging double figures: Pellington (12.9), Loville (11.9), Reese (11.8) and Martinez (11.4)

BZ[: WBB - Women’s basketball: Frida Formann leads CU Buffs to upset of No. 14 Arizona

BZ: MBB - Upset-minded CU Buffs men’s basketball faces tall challenge at No. 7 UCLA

BZ: WBB - CU women’s basketball notes: Buffs’ Aaronette Vonleh shines in upset of former team

CU AD: WBB - Colorado Takes Down No. 14 Arizona

CU AD: MBB - Colorado Faces No. 7/6 UCLA Saturday

CU AD: T&F - Buffs Opens Home Meet With Pair Of Wins

CU AD: SKI - Abrahamsson Podiums At MSU Invitational

CU AD: WBB - Sharts Signs Pro Deal in Finland

CUATG Blog: FB - Essay - CU in the Spotlight

CUATG Blog: FB - Preseason Magazines - Athlon Sports Pac-12 Predictions: CU out of the basement (but just barely) + Pac-12’s Toughest Non-conference schedule? CU again (of course) + ESPN’s First Preseason Top 25 includes five Pac-12 teams

CUATG Blog: FB - Pac-12 Notes: Bill in Washington legislature to bind UW and WSU to same conference

CUATG Blog: FB - Predicting the Pac-12 Recruiting Classes of 2024: “Here Comes Colorado”

Denver Gazette: FB - Ranking the Pac-12 quarterbacks: Where does the Colorado Buffaloes' Shedeur Sanders land?

Buffs Wire: FB - REPORT: Top-ranked 2023 CB Cormani McClain visiting with CU Buffs

Buffs Wire: Four Colorado basketball signees nominated to McDonald's All-American Games

Buffs Wire: MBB - Five takeaways from Colorado's Hyde night against USC

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Too bad.

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Justin Scott is a five-star prospect currently ranked No. 11 overall in the Rivals 2024 rankings, and over the weekend he narrowed his focus to eight schools. Colorado is joined by USC, Oregon, Notre Dame, Miami, Ohio State, Alabama and Michigan on the list. The Chicago-based junior spent some time talking with Rivals' Clint Cosgrove about his new list and you can watch that interview above.

About the Buffs, he says: "Definitely with them just rebuilding the whole program there's an opportunity to come in and make an impact. I really think that rebuild is not gonna happen immediately. I feel like it's really gonna start with my class. ... So, I just see a whole bunch of opportunity there."

On a recent podcast it was said that BYU will be TCU's main rival in the Big 12. Turns out there is a lot of bad blood between them from their days in the Mountain West Conference.

In the same podcast the speculation was on Pac 12 expansion although from a different prospective. Academics are very important and nearly all the schools vying for membership are Tier 2 research universities. Rice being the lone exception. The podcaster felt that it will be SDSU and UNLV. Regardless, he continued, none of the expansion candidates can be worse than the current lowest ranked school and that would be Washington State. LOL.

Buffs (11-6) on a bit of a hot streak after holding Oregon and OSU under a combined 83 points, but as we've seen on road trips, games can get precarious. USC is 11-5 overall and 3-2 in the Pac-12. The Trojans have lost their last two on the road, 81-71 against WSU and 60-58 UCLA. At home USC has been solid going 7-1 at the Galen Center.

Guys on USC that'll be the difference makers tonight are senior Boogie Ellis (15.7 points per game), fifth-year senior Drew Peterson (13.7 ppg), also leads the Trojans in rebounding (6.8 rpg) and assists (5.1 apg), and junior forward Joshua Morgan leads the Pac-12 in blocks at 2.7.

Buffs lead this series 16-8 and tonight will be a definitive game to get the CU back in conference play.

From John Wilner's Crystal Ball:

Business affairs: Big bet on gambling

As part of a sweeping media rights deal, the Pac-12 will agree to sell its statistical data to a sports gambling company.

Legalized wagering is a massive untapped revenue stream for college conferences, but not immediately. The jackpot is years away, when technology allows mass distributors of live sports to provide real-time wagering options on the big screen in your living room. (Every type of proposition bet will be a mere click away between plays.)

The Pac-12’s deal will be the first of its kind for a major conference and hint at the riches to come for everyone. But the short-term revenue will be in the low seven figures for each school.

An analysis of last night's loss to USC:

“When you get nine shots blocked and you turn it over 22 times, you’re not going to beat anybody in the Pac-12. I don’t care who you’re playing," Boyle said.

Was wondering who they were but now see there is a link above...

BZ: MBB - Road dud: CU Buffs men’s basketball throws away chances at USC

BZ: MBB - Colorado men’s basketball notes: Assistant Rick Ray wins settlement with Southeast Missouri State

BZ: FB - Football recruiting: Safety Cam’Ron Silmon-Craig adds physicality to CU Buffs’ secondary

BZ: WBB - Women’s basketball: CU Buffs’ Aaronette Vonleh bringing confidence into matchup with former team

CU AD: MBB - Buffaloes Fall At USC

CU AD: WBB - Colorado Looks to Keep Streak Alive on Friday

CU AD: SOC - Kuhlmann Drafted by the Washington Spirit

CU AD: SKI - Buffs Send 14 To World University Games

CUATG FB - Transfer Portal Tracker - Marshawn Kneeland – DL - Name withdrawn from Transfer Portal

CUATG Blog: FB - Rating Pac-12 First-Year Coaches: Grades from “A” to “B-”

CUATG Blog: FB - Andy Staples on CU ’23: “Making a bowl would be a tremendous achievement. Anything beyond that is gravy”

Buffs Wire: FB - With Coach Prime on board, Colorado is 'must-see TV' next season

Buffs Wire: FB - Best clips from Deion Sanders' appearance on The Pat McAfee Show

Buffs Wire: FB - Can Deion Sanders mimic what Sonny Dykes accomplished at TCU?

Buffs Wire: FB - Jon Wilner's Pac-12 predictions for 2023: Colorado football will enter season in AP top 25

Cheers!

According to several sources Cody Williams signed with CU. A highly ranked forward, Williams brings power and athleticism to the Men’s BB squad. Ranked 4 and 5 Star depending on the service, Williams could make an immediate impact for CU.

This is a partial list but notice UCLA's AD is in the mix. The dude was a Big 10 plant to blow up the conference from the inside. Also, the president of Fox Sports? This whole deal is so incestuous. A lot of people got very rich blowing up the Pac 12.

Jim Phillips, ACC commissioner: Phillips will be the name de jour to take the reins leading the Big Ten. He’s coming from a Power 5 commissioner seat, so experience in the college athletics realm is no question, nor are his Big Ten creds. Phillips is from Chicago, went to Illinois and eventually served as the AD at Northwestern for more than a decade. He’s been ACC commissioner since 2021.

Jennifer Heppel, Patriot League commissioner: A Big Ten league office alum, Heppel has been atop the Patriot League since 2015. Along with being a finalist for the role the last time around, Heppel worked two stints with the Big Ten, most recently from 2010 to 2015.

Gene Smith, Ohio State AD: Probably the voice with the most sway in the Big Ten in any role, moving from Ohio State AD to running the Big Ten would be a natural evolution for Smith in his career, if he wants to do it. While he’d be a familiar voice with plenty of institutional knowledge, it worth questioning if the league wants someone of Smith’s age — he’s 67 — and he signed a contract extension through 2026 just last year.

Bernard Muir, Stanford AD: A recent track record of athletic success, particularly among Olympic sports, make Muir an attractive candidate. Plus, the previous Stanford AD was Bob Bowlsby, who went on to a mostly successful tenure leading the Big 12 as commissioner.

Martin Jarmond, UCLA AD: Jarmond is one of the hottest rising names in the sport and the 43-year-old has plenty of Big Ten experience after time working as an administrator in the Michigan State and Ohio State athletic departments. He’d be a big change for a conference known to be rather buttoned up, and coming from a school just entering the conference isn’t the most straightforward sell.

Mark Silverman, Fox Sports president: As the Big Ten added USC and UCLA then negotiated a media rights deal worth $8 billion with Fox as a primary carrier, it became a bit of a joke that Fox and ESPN were driving the decision making in college sports. While that’s not the case, there is some truth to the notion and as president and chief operating officer for Fox Sports, he’s overseen their burgeoning college programming. He’d fit the trend of conferences hiring people with media or business backgrounds for the job.

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Well this would be out of left field.

DeVan to Charlotte.

Dorrell aint left his house probably.

Anyone else land anywhere yet.

“Schools like Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee are up there,” he added. “These schools are doing a great job with me and making me feel like a priority. LSU is another one, and Oregon has picked it up, too. They are on me hard. Notre Dame, Michigan State and Texas A&M are three more showing me a lot of interest. … When I committed to USC early on, I didn’t have the knowledge about everything that I have now. I am looking at this decision differently.”

Butler is looking to visit Oregon and Colorado later this month, and he plans to take more unofficial visits this spring before working to get his list down prior to official visits, which he plans to take in the spring and summer.

BZ: MBB - Rivalry renewed as Colorado men’s basketball looks to extend streak at USC’s Galen Center

BZ: WBB - Women’s basketball notes: CU Buffs’ game vs. ASU cancelled (Coach Prime’s daughter, Shelomi, to join Buffaloes)

CU AD: WBB - Sunday's Game Against Arizona State Canceled

BZ: FB - Football notes: CU Buffs add former Kentucky RB Kavosiey Smoke

CU AD: T&F - Colorado Opens 2023 At Home

CUATG Blog: FB - Pac-12 Notes - NCAA trying to limit transfers by restricting second time transfers

CUATG Blog: FB - Transfer Portal Tracker - Kavosiey Smoke – RB

CUATG Blog: FB - Report: ASU Week Zero game off (Denied by Football Oversight Committee) + Death of former CU great Charles Johnson ruled a suicide

Ralphie Report: PODCAST: Deion brings in more starters, Tad blows out Oregon at home

Pounding The Rock: MBB - According to the Last Two Minute Report, Derrick White is still a Spur

Buffs Wire: FB - Kentucky transfer RB Kavosiey Smoke announces Colorado pledge

Buffs Wire: FB - Takeaways from Episode 4 of 'Coach Prime'

Buffs Wire: WBB - Shelomi Sanders to join the Colorado women's basketball team

Buffs Wire: WBB - Colorado women's basketball given No. 8 seed in ESPN's latest bracketology

Arizona Sports: FB - Report: ASU-Colorado Week 0 game a no-go after consideration (The Best Explanation of What Really Happened)

The Pilot.com: FB - Alston Heads to Colorado for Final College Season

Cheers!

They (or in many cases their SID) are only required to release their ballots in the preseason and the last poll

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