BZ: FB -Football notes: CU Buffs goes into bye aiming to regroup

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CU AD: VB - Buffs Fall In Three To No. 4 WSU

CUATG Blog: FB - CU in the Rankings - Washington into Top Five … USC drops to No. 18 … UCLA down to No. 25 … Washington State out of national rankings

Ralphie Report: MBB - Colorado Buffaloes land top-100 recruit Andrew Crawford (Tad Boyle brings in a four-star from Thunder Ridge in Littleton.)

YouTube: FB - Coach Prime spoofed on Saturday Night Live (pretty funny, actually)

SI: FB - WATCH: Shedeur Sanders in the locker room without phone at halftime vs. Stanford (The Buffs "Grown" quarterback reportedly had his camp promoting merch during the game)

Buffs Wire: FB - What Deion Sanders had to say following Colorado's historic collapse

Buffs Wire: MBB - Colorado men's basketball: Black and Gold scrimmage takeaways

Cheers!

How non conference scheduling factors in, if it does to TV revenue? OU and UGA were supposed to play this year and they cancelled it because one school wasn’t going to have a return game once OU joined the SEC. That said you would think OU vs UGA would earn significantly more TV revenue for the schools than whatever garbage team they each replaced them with. It seems to be if these major inter conference games have no impact on revenue distribution why would teams schedule them?

Some of my initial reactions from the Black and Gold scrimmage:

-Julian Hammond looks much improved, playing very under control. Knocked down some outside shots and showed great touch in the lane
-Cody Williams is a really intelligent player for his age. Jump shot needs some work and he's going to have to put on some weight to adjust to the physicality at this level, but he should be very good attacking closeouts and working as a secondary playmaker. Defensively, he's constantly in passing lanes and uses his length really well
-I was impressed with Bangot Dak and Assane Diop. Both very unselfish passers who made good decisions on the move. Dad especially was very aggressive and decisive off the catch taking the ball to the rim. Assane flashed the defensive versatility, pressuring the ball outside and banging in the post some, despite the thin frame.
-Saw a lot of KJ, TDS, Luke O'Brien, and J'Vonne Hadley with Cody and Julian alternating at the 2. Could be an interesting small-ball lineup, and even a starting lineup until Eddie Lampkin comes back
-KJ and TDS are going to be awesome this year

Now this is a thread about what Whatsupsnapper evidently wants to talk about

he "doesnt miss"....until he does

Change my mind.

He was bad with Jimbo and road Saban's coattails. With all that talent

There are some great games today. Lots of good football to enjoy on a beautiful fall day in Colorado if you aren’t out and about. I went down to the river to watch the sun come up and get some hiking in before turning on game day.

I had stopped even watching game day the last several years as I lost interest in football thanks to our ineptness. Saliman and Sanders has reinvigorated my long term hope for CU and gotten me interested more in college football Saturdays again.

Looking forward to catching some football later this afternoon and evening. CU will rally and we have changed some things in the admin that should help us get back to respectable. Sanders will still recruit and I do think coaching changes are coming.

Regardless, he did enough to get me excited about watching more ball and what a glorious time to be back. CFB on the field has never been better. Excited for UO and UW along with a bunch of others. Going to be some great football

18 eligible (86 slots):
ACC
Florida State Seminoles - 6-0
North Carolina Tar Heels - 6-0

Big 12
Oklahoma Sooners - 6-0

Big Ten
Michigan Wolverines - 7-0
Ohio State Buckeyes - 6-0
Penn State Nittany Lions - 6-0
Iowa Hawkeyes - 6-1

C-USA
Liberty Flames - 6-0

Indy
Notre Dame Fighting Irish - 6-2

MAC
Miami (OH) RedHawks - 6-1

MWC
Air Force Falcons - 6-0
Fresno State Bulldogs - 6-1

PAC 12
USC Trojans - 6-1
Washington Huskies - 6-0
Oregon State Beavers - 6-1

SEC
Georgia Bulldogs - 7-0
Missouri Tigers - 6-1
Alabama Crimson Tide - 6-1

Ineligible by record:
UMass Minutemen – 1-7

Ineligible for other reasons:
Arizona State Sun Devils - 1-5 (self-imposed bowl ban)
James Madison Dukes - 6-0 (Second year at D1A, must be D1A for three years)

Quick game recap of the nightmare that was CU-Stanford on Friday ⬇️

Looking awfully strong tonight again. QB is a gamer and just keeps getting better

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CU AD: FB - Takeaways From Buffs Vs. Stanford

CUATG Blog: FB - Essay - Driving a Stick

Cheers!

Has anyone heard how the quarterback that visited with his folks enjoyed his experience? Just wondering if he liked Colorado?

UO vs UW is just another in an amazing slate of games the big programs have played this year. I can think of a million things wrong with the professionalization of college ball and a formation of a super league.
Play on the field isn’t one of them. Big time football has never been better

Confused, shocked, I've never witnessed a such dismantling in a football game and the Buffs have some soul searching to do this bye week.

Here are my top takeaways from yesterday's loss to Stanford:


Looks like the Buffs are already back on the turf today ⬇️

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I’ve thought about this a lot this year as I watch the Buffs. They are fun to watch but are coached very sloppily and play very sloppily.
I was thinking about SS and his lack of awareness of situational football, clock management and pocket presence. About Lewis and Sanders and their gunslinger mentality and lack of situational awareness as well. Hunter and his brash style that seems to be much more me focused than gsme focused.

This whole crew comes from places where they had better athletes and could play sandlot ball. In FCS and High School (very similar levels really ) you can out athlete other teams and just go for broke over and over. Usually you will be successful by virtue of the athletic difference. The Mac and G5 are only a step up slightly from that and you see it there to.

They don’t know how to play at this level yet or what type of coaching it takes.

I worried about that on this board before the season and with the hires. Don’t mistake ther I think we made the exact right hire for where CU was or that I don’t think SS, Hunter and a few others aren’t very talented and the real deal.

However, the rules haven’t changed at this level. We aren’t going to out system guys. We don’t have a lot of talent and are best in a break even with all but three teams on our schedule this year and have less than probably 7 of them. That means we have to coach correctly and play correctly to win.

You can’t just go for it over and over. You can’t run around in the pocket all day. You can’t try to jump every pass but miss tackles. You have to coach and play smart and focused.

These guys have never had to do that.

IMO, coach Sanders needs to look hard at his staff. I know he thinks he can change the rules etc. He can’t and he won’t. He needs to bring in some veteran coaches. Are they coordinators. Are they given a position and consult. Who can have find to be his AHC and be an influence he is willing to listen to and learn from behind closed doors but let Sanders go chase the attention he needs in public?


There is a lot of learning to do by this staff and the players. The stars haven’t had to play with discipline. They need to learn it and I don’t think asking coaches who also don’t have experience to teach it is a recipe for success the first few years. I know we all would like things to happen faster than that

CU played two games last night. The first one was a Sports Center highlight reel for the Buffs. Defense pitched a shutout, Hunter doing spin moves and scoring, QB with 3 touchdowns and almost 100 yrds rushing.
The second game was a nightmare. Defensive backs out of position, couldn’t tackle. Offense with no rhythm, poor throws to receivers, squib kicks out of bounds.
I have trouble reconciling both. What happened at halftime? Why were Stanfords players ready to play and we weren’t?
It is fair to blame the coaches.
3 things I noticed in the second half.
1. For as much love as the SC coach has gotten, we were gassed in the 4th and could not keep up with their receivers.
2. Prime lost his cool and let frustration allow him to make bad decisions. Going for it on 4th and 4 was irrational. I’m not sure what his overall role is in schemes, but he did not coach. We ended the 4th quarter with all 3 timeouts… During all of those poor defensive series, we didn’t call timeout once to realign, reset and coach up the players.
3. This is the most important. Shedeur is getting hit too many times and it is affecting his abilities. The fact that he can stand up in the 4th quarter is a testament to his toughness. But his decision and making and abilities ate suffering with that much physical punishment.

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Cheers!

Howdyy everyone! We got a spooky Pac-12 matchup after dark on Friday the 13th 👀

Travis Hunter is suited up. Trevor Woods is also back in uniform after missing the ASU game. JUCO transfer Kareem Harden getting his first start for CU at RT. The rest of the line is the same with Christian-Lichtenhan, Bailey, Wells and Bebee. I have Colorado 35, Stanford 21 and Troy has Colorado 31, Stanford 19.

Kid must have a lot going on his life. New generation I suppose.

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Full disclosure we left with 9 minutes to go in the 3rd to not be home at 2am. Listened on the radio and by the time we got to the car it was a game. Home to watch the 4th quarter and it was tough seeing things more up close. There just was no fire, no team chemistry and you could just tell we were in trouble regardless of score. It was in the attitude.
This team was never more than a 6 game winner on its best day and that was going to take cohesion, great coaching and great leadership.
My biggest fear was that a team that had no history, players that focused on themselves, an inexperienced and unproven coaching staff, and a lack of interest in CU tradition would struggle when it got hard as the season went on. What I saw in the eyes of some of those guys and the behavior of those guys tells me it wasn’t wrong to be worried.
On top of having an OC and DC who are not getting the job done consistently, I don’t see a head coach that knows how to bring this all together just yet.

I am hopeful Sanders grows and maybe Lewis can too which helps bring these kids back into order. This only happens if everyone from Sanders to the backup punter look in the mirror and accept that what they are focused on needs to change. Embrace humility and discipline instead of talking about it and each person involved needs to focus on TEAM and accept their part in what we are seeing.

We have the talent to win 5-6 in this league and we are on track to bring in talent to win 7-8 next year and keep going. We won’t though until we take the spotlight off the individual and focus it on the whole. We won’t until we talk about how to handle business less and just go handle business.

The shine is off for everyone and it’s time to show what you can do when you aren’t adored. This is where HC earn their money. Let’s see how we adapt

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…knows way more than us