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Griffin: Colorado's All-Decade Team

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Colorado started the decade as one of the North Division's dominant teams, earning bowl berths in five of the first six seasons of the decade.

The Buffaloes have fallen on hard times recently, but they still have provided many outstanding players during the decade.

Here are my choices for Colorado's all-decade team.

OFFENSE

QB: Joel Klatt
RB: Chris Brown
RB: Bobby Purify
WR: Scotty McKnight
WR: Derek McCoy
TE: Daniel Graham
OL: Brian Daniels
OL: Andre Gurode
OL: Victor Rogers
OL: Justin Bates
C: Wayne Lucier

DEFENSE

DL: Abraham Wright
DL: Tyler Brayton
DL: George Hypolite
DL: Justin Bannan
LB: Jordon Dizon
LB: Sean Tufts
LB: Jeff Smart
DB: Michael Lewis
DB: Terrence Wheatley
DB: Jimmy Smith
DB: Donald Strickland

P: Mark Mariscal
K: Mason Crosby
KR: Jeremy Bloom

Offensive player of the decade: Chris Brown. He was the key player on Colorado’s Big 12 championship team in 2001 and was even better the following season before injuries derailed his Heisman hopes.

Defensive player of the decade: Jordon Dizon. Colorado’s only consensus All-American defensive player of the decade also was the Big 12’s defensive player of the year in 2007 after a four-year career as a starter for the Buffaloes.

Coach of the decade: Gary Barnett. Even with his unseemly departure, Barnett still coached Colorado to its only Big 12 championship and took the Buffaloes to four Big 12 title games in a five-season period. They haven't been back since.

Moment of the decade: Colorado stuns Texas for 2001 Big 12 title. The Buffaloes’ 39-37 victory was sparked by 182 yards rushing and three touchdowns by Brown, pushing them to their only Big 12 football championship and lone BCS bowl appearance of this decade.

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Agree? Disagree?
 
Where's Iwuh? I'll take Thad Washington over Smart too.

Some high praise for Jimmy Smith too. Lorenzo Sims was a pretty good CB
 
Washington or iwuh. Then again where is sykes or is he not considered since he shined in his late freshman and sophmore years?
 
I would take Strickland over Dizon for DPOD.

[video=youtube;PNHXRHN-75U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNHXRHN-75U[/video]
 
yeah. am i the only one who would take Hackett over Scotty McKnight? not a shot at SM. he is a solid player and i am glad CU has him but i really thought Hackett was a very good player.

DJ was good, on a team that stressed run-first-and-foremost. I wouldn't have any issues putting him on the list above Scotty (and by no means a knock on SM).
 
while i really like the guy as a player, i think Smart was a bit of a token, mercy inclusion to the Hawkins era. I, too, immediately thought: "where's Bad Thad?"

McKnight may be a part of that same logic re: Hackett.
 
Things must be getting real slow at es pee in for Tim "the hack" Griffin, he is usually all things Texass.
 
Things must be getting real slow at es pee in for Tim "the hack" Griffin, he is usually all things Texass.

He did say that our win against Texas in the B12C game was our biggest moment of the decade. For money, I'll take the 62-36 over #1 Nebraska and I'm sure that most CU fans agree with me.
 
He did say that our win against Texas in the B12C game was our biggest moment of the decade. For money, I'll take the 62-36 over #1 Nebraska and I'm sure that most CU fans agree with me.

I have to disagree. I was at that Nebraska and it was for me the greatest moment at Folsom Field, but its all about winning championships.
 
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