Colorado not in the best situation... -
fullmetal - 10-05-2011
Quote:Coach Jon Embree decided he needed to whittle down the number of players who were getting playing time two weeks ago because there were too many mistakes being made. He said from that point on he would only play players he is sure he can trust, even if it means only 40 players get on the field in a game.
I mean, when you have to talk about trust in players and cut your active roster...shoot. I almost feel sorry for the Buffaloes. But I will not because I want Andrew Luck to rack up a bunch of video game stats for his Voldemort campaign this week...
Link
here.
Re: Colorado not in the best situation... -
washingtonismoney - 10-05-2011
I thought for sure when I opened this thread I'd read a reference to this:
Quote:The cornerback crew is made up of true freshmen and converted receivers, bailing wire and tricks. The defense has no ballhawks, the offense has one game-breaking receiver and the roster has all the depth of Kim Kardashian.
http://www.denverpost.com/cu/ci_19022170
One of those converted corners is a senior walk-on WR (
http://www.denverpost.com/cu/ci_18983584).
Colorado does have a hell of a wideout in Paul Richardson (
http://espn.go.com/college-football/player/_/id/505345/paul-richardson and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEzu2YCjx68)
Re: Colorado not in the best situation... -
fullmetal - 10-05-2011
Haha, I remember seeing that earlier this season. It's one thing to have outsiders evaluate a team's players and performance, but when a team's own coach does so in a pretty condemning manner...that's bad.
Re: Colorado not in the best situation... -
washingtonismoney - 10-05-2011
Also Colorado's coaches are pretty complimentary of us, in most of the ways you'd expect (have you heard of this Andrew Luck fella? apparently he plays for us, and is quite the player!), and some of the ways you wouldn't:
Quote:But, added Marshall, the degree of difficulty escalates for his entire bunch this week. Stanford, he said, "will rival Ohio State as far as defensive personnel. They play together and have a lot of good football players, so our work's cut out for us . . .
Stanford's nosetackle last season was Sione Fua, an eventual third-round draftee of the Carolina Panthers. Marshall was impressed with Fua, but believes Fua's replacement, sophomore Ben Gardner, "is even better. He's really good; their whole (defensive) line is."
http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205308058&DB_OEM_ID=600
Surely it's a positive that their coach can't even identify players in the correct position--Gardner, obviously, is a DE not an NT. (Probably it's the writer's fault).
Re: Colorado not in the best situation... -
fullmetal - 10-05-2011
I don't know if being compared to Ohio State this season is any compliment :p
I'm okay with opposing coaches not knowing our personnel, heh.
Re: Colorado not in the best situation... -
76lsjumb - 10-06-2011
Is anyone else concerned that the anti-woofing filter on the new Board software maybe isn't quite as strong as it needs to be...? ???
Re: Colorado not in the best situation... -
washingtonismoney - 10-06-2011
(10-05-2011, 11:16 PM)fullmetal link Wrote:I don't know if being compared to Ohio State this season is any compliment :p
Defensively, more than fine--they give up only 4.8 yards/play and rate well on various fancy statistical measurements. (Of course, we also rate well on various fancy statistical measurements also--the best in the Pac-12, according to most.)
It's the offense that's the Buckeyes' problem.
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yvonne - 10-06-2011
(10-06-2011, 07:22 AM)76lsjumb link Wrote:Is anyone else concerned that the anti-woofing filter on the new Board software maybe isn't quite as strong as it needs to be...? ???
You do realize that anti-woofing doesn't work, don't you? The woof gods know!
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Spiny_Norman - 10-06-2011
I thought this thread would be a reference to Colorado's player suspensions.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/ncaa/10/06/colorado-suspensions.ap/index.html
Re: Colorado not in the best situation... -
fullmetal - 10-06-2011
Yup, those too. Still, best not to underestimate them. Play hard, give Andrew Luck a Voldemort-worthy game.