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I'm not losing one bit of sleep over Saturday. It can be incredibly hard to play against an inferior opponent who's gameplan is cheap tricks, dirty plays, and to disrupt the flow of the game (see: Kamara's fake injuries). Good teams win those games. Bad teams lose them.
I'm just waiting for the CU/UO moneyline to hit +1000. Money in the bank. Let's go.
I'm just waiting for the CU/UO moneyline to hit +1000. Money in the bank. Let's go.
I'm not losing one bit of sleep over Saturday. It can be incredibly hard to play against an inferior opponent who's gameplan is cheap tricks, dirty plays, and to disrupt the flow of the game (see: Kamara's fake injuries). Good teams win those games. Bad teams lose them.
I'm just waiting for the CU/UO moneyline to hit +1000. Money in the bank. Let's go.
Seriously - did anyone else see what happened around the college football world on Saturday? We were far from the only ranked team that struggled against a team we were supposed to handle, and a lot of them weren't playing a team that approached their game like it was their ****ing Super Bowl.
Hunter's injury is super hard to overcome, and we would have been going in as underdogs no matter what, but the notion that Saturday night exposed us is silly.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Snow saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him.”
In 2016, when Oregon was defeated, I believe tears of joy were shed in our house. This would be another of those times, likely.
Last Saturday exposed some weaknesses in both our offense and defense but we have quality coordinators so panic would be an overreaction.
A big part of why playing CSU is such a pain in the backside is because of the imbalance in motivation.
For CSU the Buffs are their most important game. In years we don't play their fans obsess about how they would do against the Buffs. They spend the off-season getting ready for us, they scheduled a bye week before us.
They have a bunch of Colorado kids all of whom think that they should have been recruited to go to CU instead of little brother, they want to show the world (or at least those watching the game) that CU made a mistake overlooking them even if they were a little smaller or slower in high school.
They also have a bunch of California kids who played with guys on the CU roster who are also convinced that they were disrespected by CU.
Their fans obsess with CU. When their fans look back it isn't to teams that went to bowl games (granted the MWC bowl games aren't much to look back on) or even that won conference titles, it is to the teams that beat CU, even when CU was down.
For CU the game is entirely different. Few on the roster are from Colorado and those who are didn't worry a lot about what CSU thought of them. Most of our players new this year have barely even heard of CSU, it might as well be Middle Tennessee or a MAC school.
Unlike CSU this game wasn't a priority for Prime and his staff. The off-season was focused on being ready for a TCU squad that had been in the playoff last year. Their eyes were on Nebraska which everyone has seen in big games against Colorado over the years.
The fans and students were focused on Beat Nebraska, on the Nebraska fans coming in, on the history. None of our big games are CSU games, they are Notre Dame for the national championship, they are Michigan at Ann Arbor, and they are Nebraska including 62-36.
The players and the coaches can be excused for not realizing the level of intensity and focus that CSU puts on this game.
Oregon is a much better team than CSU is but this game carries none of the heavy emotion with it, it goes back to being a football game, not one teams quest for recognition and respect.
A big part of why playing CSU is such a pain in the backside is because of the imbalance in motivation.
For CSU the Buffs are their most important game. In years we don't play their fans obsess about how they would do against the Buffs. They spend the off-season getting ready for us, they scheduled a bye week before us.
They have a bunch of Colorado kids all of whom think that they should have been recruited to go to CU instead of little brother, they want to show the world (or at least those watching the game) that CU made a mistake overlooking them even if they were a little smaller or slower in high school.
They also have a bunch of California kids who played with guys on the CU roster who are also convinced that they were disrespected by CU.
Their fans obsess with CU. When their fans look back it isn't to teams that went to bowl games (granted the MWC bowl games aren't much to look back on) or even that won conference titles, it is to the teams that beat CU, even when CU was down.
For CU the game is entirely different. Few on the roster are from Colorado and those who are didn't worry a lot about what CSU thought of them. Most of our players new this year have barely even heard of CSU, it might as well be Middle Tennessee or a MAC school.
Unlike CSU this game wasn't a priority for Prime and his staff. The off-season was focused on being ready for a TCU squad that had been in the playoff last year. Their eyes were on Nebraska which everyone has seen in big games against Colorado over the years.
The fans and students were focused on Beat Nebraska, on the Nebraska fans coming in, on the history. None of our big games are CSU games, they are Notre Dame for the national championship, they are Michigan at Ann Arbor, and they are Nebraska including 62-36.
The players and the coaches can be excused for not realizing the level of intensity and focus that CSU puts on this game.
Oregon is a much better team than CSU is but this game carries none of the heavy emotion with it, it goes back to being a football game, not one teams quest for recognition and respect.
Prime is going to rectify that mismatch in intensity next year - watch.
Jesus, Mtn. Read the ****ing room!
I hope so. Im gonna be there!Our Buffs are going to go into Eugene and shock the world!
Flat_Iron_Rising
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ahoelsken
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Speaking of struggling with teams you're supposed to handle-let's talk about Oregon and that performance in Lubbock for a second. One can make the argument Oregon did exactly that against the Red Raiders. They obliterate poor Hawaii and suddenly everything is fine up there?
**** off.