BZ: WBB - No. 6 CU Buffs find groove, dominate Washington to complete road sweep

BZ: MBB - Men’s basketball: CU Buffs limp home still with opportunities at hand

CUATG Blog: WBB - Colorado Basketball - No. 6 Buffs toy with Washington, complete road sweep with an 80-57 win over the Huskies

CUATG Blog: FB - Preseason Magazines - ESPN Playoff projections: No consensus for Big 12 champion

Notre Dame Wire: FB - Add Coach Prime and Colorado to Those Trying to Poach Notre Dame Quarterback

ESPN: FB - Questions surround future of College Football Playoff

Buffs Beat: FB - Colorado's Arden Walker teases brand new Nike uniforms for 2024 season (If you are over 40, you probably won't like this story)

Buffs Beat: FB - Coach Prime puts an emphasis on "new focus" to start the 2024 offseason

Buffs Wire: WBB - No. 6 Colorado Completes Washington Road Sweep

Cheers!

Recap of Colorado's dominant win over Washington on Sunday ⬇️

Buffs looking for a quality road sweep up in Washington this weekend, with the less daunting half this afternoon in Seattle. Chance for CU to take sole possession of first place in the Pac-12 today with a win and a Stanford loss (vs UCLA at 2 p.m.).

Starters for CU:
Jaylyn Sherrod
Maddie Nolan
Frida Formann
Quay Mller
Aaronette Vonleh

For Washington:
Hannah Stines
Chloe Briggs
Elle Ladine (Leading scorer: 12.7 PPG)
Lauren Schwartz
Dalayah Daniels

“you can’t really build programs and a culture because everyone leaves”

First year at St. John’s. Brought in 12 new players, including 10 transfers. Sound familiar?

High caliber game for sure. Eady POY but I like the Badgers at home.

BZ: FB - Video: Analysis of CU Buffs’ 2024 football schedule

BZ: MBB - Late flurry not nearly enough as CU Buffs road woes continue at Utah

BZ: MBB - Men’s basketball notes: Rotation thin again as CU Buffs fall at Utah

BZ: WBB - Women’s basketball: Unselfish play guiding CU Buffs as they prep for visit to Washington

CU AD: MBB - Buffs Rally Comes Up Short At Utah

CU AD: SKI - Abrahamsson Wins, Buffs Take Own Invitational

CU AD: SKI - Sarchett Wins GS Junior World Championship

CU AD: T&F - Buffs Close Weekend With Top-10 Performances

CU AD: TEN - Buffs Take Down the Spartans

CUATG Blog: FB - Opportunities: CU’s Big 12 Schedule Revealed (No back-to-back Big 12 road games ... No games against an FBS team with a winning record in 2023 until mid-October ... Only three true road Big 12 contests ... A game-by-game look at CU's Big 12 schedule)

CUATG Blog: FB - Pac-12/Big 12 Notes – Beginning of the end, Part II: SEC and Big Ten form advisory group to “address the significant challenges facing college athletics”

Buffs Beat: FB - Kole Mathis commits to Colorado's 2024 recruiting class

Buffs Beat: FB - Colorado players say racial stereotypes were commonly used in recruiting against Deion Sanders

Buffs Beat: FB - Devin Rispress excited after joining a "damn good" recruiting staff at Colorado

Indy Star: FB - Big 12 football recruiting rankings: How teams stack up before National Signing Day 2024:
High School Recruits - 16 (Smallest Class)
Transfer Portal - 1
Overall - 1

Athlon Sports: FB - Deion Sanders Reveals How He'd Fix The Senior Bowl

Athlon Sports: FB - Former Five-Star Recruit to Switch Positions For Deion Sanders and Colorado

Cheers!

Recap of Colorado’s loss to Utah on Saturday👇

Recap of Colorado's win over Washington State on Friday night ⬇️

2 weeks ago seems like forever. THis whole season has been like springtime in the rockies with up and down performance and a start and stop schedule that makes it hard to put a finger on the pulse of our talented but slumbering MBB team. A win today in SLC will turn our 2 week long road trip into a success, a loss and we are talking about a serious miss of a huge opportunity for a talented team. HCTB needs to have his team fired up from the start and our stars dominating. Tristin, KJ and COdy have to set the tone and Lambkin needs to punish Corver from the start without getting fouls. Attacking the rim will be hard to do but probably essential to beat these guys at home if for no other reason than to show them the dogs have come to hunt. The book is out on CU, play physical for 40 minutes, complain to the refs often and wait for the team to falter.Same recipie for ASU, WSU and Cal. UDUB tried it too but we overcame.

THis is HCTB time to show he can break the glass ceiling on his career. He's done great things for CU but this is a legacy season for him and he can go down as the little engine that could if he can make run thru February and MArch. He has a healthy talented team and today they need to show it for 40 minutes. ROll 7 guys, 8 if fouls stackup, and go for the jugular from tipoff.

but they lost 64-56 to Lafayette. The past three Saturdays flipping around to close games in the last 5 minutes or under and saw this on ESPN+ and Xfinity. Trying to get in a MBB mode.

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Uncle Neely today on a podcast said that Sanders is close to picking his DC , but it won’t be announced until Monday at the earliest. So much for any day now, really soon, a few days away. Probably will be after the Super Bowl. Whatever it will be whenever. I don’t believe anything until it happens anymore. Evidently Sanders doesn’t know that two days isn’t two weeks.

BZ: WBB - Women’s basketball: No. 6 CU Buffs step up in crunch time to knock off Washington State

BZ: MBB - Battered but formidable Utah another big road challenge for CU Buffs men’s basketball

BZ: Colorado athletics recorded nearly $9.9 million deficit for 2023 fiscal year

CU AD: WBB - Buffs Take Care of Business in Pullman

CU AD: MBB - Colorado Travels To Utah Saturday

CU AD: SKI - Dietze, Luczak Win, Buffs Lead Own Invitational At Midpoint

CU AD: TEN - Buffs Travel to Wyoming For Two Matches

CUATG Blog: FB - CU At The Game Podcast – CU Big 12 Schedule Reveal: The Good; the Bad; and the “I Can’t Wait”

USA Today Sports (Video): Deion Sanders becomes 'Professor Prime': What he said in first class teaching at Colorado

Buffs Beat: FB - Devin Rispress excited after joining a "damn good" recruiting staff at Colorado

Buffs Wire: FB - Jaylen Ellis forecasts Colorado teammate Omarion Miller to become college football's best WR

Buffs Wire: MBB - Masked-up J'Vonne Hadley playing through facial fracture

Buffs Wire: FB - Colorado offers four-star Notre Dame QB commit Deuce Knight

Buffs Wire: FB - Colorado DE Sav'ell Smalls moving to new position

Cheers!

Now we are talking!

Buffs back out on the road tonight, looking for a little revenge from last season's Pac-12 semifinals against Washington State. Colorado trying to keep pace in the league, currently just one game back of Stanford (who gets USC and UCLA this weekend). Big note for Wazzu: star guard Charlisse Leger-Walker is out after she suffered a season-ending knee injury last weekend against UCLA.

Starters for the Buffs:
Jaylyn Sherrod
Maddie Nolan
Frida Formann
Quay Miller
Aaronette Vonleh

For WSU:
Astera Tuhina
Tara Wallack
Eleonora Villa
Beyonce Bea
Bella Murekatete (Leading scorer: 13.7 PPG)

Before tonight's game, here's my latest on the Buffs rebounding from last Friday's loss, staying steady through the season and tonight's matchup with Washington State:

@Troy Finnegan and I have started the CU Sports Report Podcast! We film at the Sophomore on Pearl Street. If you're looking for a place to watch the game, it's a great spot. Here's episodes one, two and some backstory on how his partnership began 😄

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This new endeavor with the Sophomore on Pearl is really special for me in multiple ways.

Corey Portugal (who I’ve known for years) is the owner and has allowed us to use the Alumni Club as a studio space. Portugal has been working very hard to pioneer his own restaurant venture. Throughout his extensive process in getting into the bar business, he’s brought me along the way, showing me every detail and every step in achieving his goal.

With Corey owning a sports bar in Boulder and with me wanting to establish a podcast, for both of us, recording the podcast at the Sophomore was years of hard work that came to fruition.

I hope you all enjoy these first episodes of many at the Sophomore, so pumped for this partnership!

Just ask Arizona as the 10-9 Beavers take down the mighty Wildcats in Corvalis, 80-83 after trailing by 8 at halftime. Jordan Pope lead the way for the Beavs with 31 points and Tyler Bilodeau chipped-in with 22. Arizona now is a pedestrian looking (for them) 14-5 on the season and 5-3 in League play, 3rd place behind the Buffs at 6-3 (15-5) and Oregon at 6-2 (14-5).
I said at the beginning of the year this was the year for the Buffs to make a move in the Pac because frankly, it just wasn't very good.
Well, it's there for the taking. The Buffs Big 3 are as good as anybody's in League and it's time to put it all together and make that Tourney run.
We will also need another player or two to step-up each night in order for this team to reach the heights we all hope they can achieve. It's there for the taking. The question is: can the Buffs make it happen?

I want to go back and visit this end of the year and I’m also curious what everyone else thinks this early. Probably ask again right at the start of the season.

There are 11 spots for P4 next year. The break out I see today based on last year and the various off season moves so far looks like this.

ACC - 2
BIG - 3/4
BIG XII - 1
SEC - 4/5

A lot can and will change but it feels like it will look like this until the system changes

Deion says the new DC will be announced "within the next 2 days, maybe today"

That + more from his appearance on Undisputed ⬇️

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BZ: MBB - J’Vonne Hadley, Cody Williams look to bounce back for CU Buffs at Utah

BZ: WBB - Women’s basketball: No. 6 CU Buffs hit road to take on Washington State

BZ: FB - CU Buffs, Coach Prime set spring game for April 27

BZ: FB - Video: Analysis of CU Buffs football offseason work

CU AD: FB - Black & Gold Day Spring Football Game Set For April 27

CU AD: WBB -
No. 6 Colorado Heads Back to the PNW: Five Things to Know

Cu AD: SKI - Luczak Podium Highlights GS Qualifier At Steamboat

CU AD: T&F - Buffs Wrap Up First Day of Competition in Spokane

CUATG Blog: FB - Pac-12/Big 12 Notes – Postseason - Getting away with it: NCAA investigation of Arizona State nearing conclusion + CU to open Big 12 play v. coach on the ESPN “Hot Seat”

Ralphie Report: WBB - Sara-Rose Smith brings hunger to the Colorado Buffaloes (The Buffs’ newest bench contributor is right at home within JR Payne’s program.)

Buffs Beat: FB - Colorado's standouts some of the top Senior Bowl snubs

SportsKeeda: FB - "The timing is impeccable, the conference is impeccable": Deion Sanders shares optimism for Colorado’s new chapter in Big 12 after dismal Pac-12 run

Clutch Points: FB - Colorado football inches closer to dream of adding potential Shedeur Sanders protector

Buffs Wire: MBB - Five keys to Colorado securing a huge road win over Utah

Buffs Wire: FB - A closer look at Colorado football's 2024 schedule

Buffs Wire: FB - Kahlil Benson stepping up as leader for CU Buffs

Buffs Wire: FB - Colorado football: Way-too-early offensive breakout candidates for 2024

Cheers!

Just checking to see if anyone in the know has any idea who the new DC is going to be? I know it’s supposed to be down to three now, and supposedly they are all home run hires. Just wondering as supposedly and this was out of Sanders mouth we should know in a few days. Already been over a week since that conversation.

Iowa hires a new OC

The states of Tennessee and Virginia are suing NCAA over the restriction on NIL being used to induce players. Expect more states to join.

I hate where we are at but it is what it is. Now that we are here it needs to just be a free market at all times out in the open. It’s silly to pretend it isn’t happening anyways.

These lawsuits and public discourse to me are a huge positive. It will hasten along the split that needs to happen.

Yes - the current system favors a handful of schools (20 or 30 maybe). I don’t argue against the NCAA on this. So what? It’s a free market. Nothing ever works when you try to tell companies they are too big or their CEO makes too much. Don’t like it don’t give patronage to that company. Don’t like this level of ball then stop bankrupting yourself to compete in it and work with others to form a different version with different rules and caps.

The more of this stuff the faster it happens and that is good for all. Especially those not in the top group who can truly afford to participate in pay for play (hint - there isn’t anyone in the BIG XII who really can save maybe OSU and it’s a big maybe)