Since I can't afford $1K, if I lose I'll buy a pitcher or two at the Dark Horse this fall before a game and vise-versa
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2013-2014 Non-Conference Schedule Predictions
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BuffTE41
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The last thing I want is you spending an unreasonable amount of money on a buff club membership for me. The beer will suffice just fine.
Seconded on 'Tini's pitcher idea.
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Hopefully you are already a member then, just like an unyielding pessimist.
BuffTE41
Member
Not yet, but soon. I want to earn my membership on my own.
See you in the CU crowd at the Elite-8. :nod:
SuperiorBuff
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Undefeated baby!
Reading this thread = headache.
10-3.
I predict a win over the chickenhawks at home, mainly because the thought of having to listen to their stupid God Damned chant at the end of the game just pisses me off too much to predict a loss.
Numbers don't matter much when CU plays @ Moby. They just don't. Hostile atmosphere, and CSU just about always brings it for this game. Won't be easy.
The Buffs should beat Harvard, Wyo, and Zoomies. Tough games but if this team is as good as we think it can be, these are 3 wins.
A top 25 ranking in November means jack ****. The only number that matters for a program like CU is the RPI. Even then that number doesn't matter much until mid-late January, unless you're just a hopeless basketball junkie that can't get enough, which I am. :smile2:
10-3.
I predict a win over the chickenhawks at home, mainly because the thought of having to listen to their stupid God Damned chant at the end of the game just pisses me off too much to predict a loss.
Numbers don't matter much when CU plays @ Moby. They just don't. Hostile atmosphere, and CSU just about always brings it for this game. Won't be easy.
The Buffs should beat Harvard, Wyo, and Zoomies. Tough games but if this team is as good as we think it can be, these are 3 wins.
A top 25 ranking in November means jack ****. The only number that matters for a program like CU is the RPI. Even then that number doesn't matter much until mid-late January, unless you're just a hopeless basketball junkie that can't get enough, which I am. :smile2:
Professor3
Member
Smart is good, true, and so is The Mayor. I have no doubt that the head to head match up in December will make it clear that The Mayor and Smart are on the same level. CU Wins.
Buffenuf
massive tool
13-0---injuries and circumstances will dictate actual record at the
time the game is played. What would the record be if Dinwiddie sprains an ankle---high sprain--- before the first game?
But CU certainly has the horses, not to speak of the coaching, to compete in and win every game. Your prediction about Harvard based up ASU and OSU losses last year, doesn't take into the circumstance during those games with a rather shallow and injured team. Same team humiliated a very good Oregon bunch, even without Roberson, so why not use that game as the standard at home, rather than a couple of sucky losses?
OKSU is just a coach away from being better than the Buffs, on paper. Travis Ford is showing a tendency to do less with more talent just as Ben Howland did! Wiggins No.1? Yeah, sure in HS! Ain't gonna be HS anymore and he's no Kevin Durant (best freshman ever to play in Boulder). Based on the great Shabazz disappointment, it's gonna be "Show me" for Wiggins.
If everybody has "future pros" why do you give an advantage to the other teams' future pros? In each game, CU's talent is right there with their opponent's and in most instances Boyle is a better coach. That being said, why take the "Eeyore" position against the Buffs? As noted, I think every game is 50/50 right now, with pre-game circumstances dictating the initial advantage! So I'll go with 13-0.
Post of the year.
I really want to say 13-0. I think it could happen, but I need to see the freshman first. Also need to see Ski snap out of that sophomore funk.
scoob
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Agree. Most of the logic was hard for me to follow, clearly over my head, but the thesis is concise, effective, and persuasive:
Claim - The Buffs will go 13-0.
Reason: "I think every game is 50/50 right now, with pre-game circumstances dictating the initial advantage!"
If we start 1-0 against a Top-25 team in Baylor, we have a lot to look forward too. Also is anyone going to the Baylor game? My cousin graduated from there and her and I will be in attendance. I wont be sitting next to her of course.
CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
The point you raise on Travis Ford rings true. I am highly skeptical of Ford as an x's and o's coach from what I've seen. Not a great gameday coach.
Yeah back in May
wyobuff
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Agreed, but marcus smart is crazy good.
I think the mayor will probably enjoy matching up with him - it'll be a hell of a battle.
ahoelsken
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OSU and Baylor maybe.....but look at who UCLA hired as coach. Alford has a history of taking great teams and getting as little as humanly possible out of them, especially in March. Just ask Harvard.
BuffTE41
Member
The Wear twins and Jordan Adams I believe.
the question was talent, who has more talent than us, not who's coaching that talent.
Zach Levine coming in, #44 player in the country per rivals.
Jordan Adams #62 in the country in his class per rivals
Tony Parker #27 in the country in his class
Kyle Anderson #3 in his class
Norman Powell #69 in his class
DAvid/Travis Wear ~60 in their class.
I just dont love their guards, they should almost do the reverse CU 4 front court players and a guard.
Things need to break right. The talent's there, but you have to wonder whether Anderson can come into his own as a PG and whether Adams doesn't lose his first step coming off the knee injury.
If they answer those questions positively, we could be looking at a Final Four team.
No comment on Alford? Think that Alford is hovering in the Howland-mode, doing less with more talent than almost any other "majors" coach. How could last year's UNM squad lose to Hahvahd in a familar venue with a home crowd, no less? And that's not his first blown rodeo.
Yes, but Marcus thinks this way, too. Thus, he tries to do too much, almost to the point of being out-of-control at times, paricularly if his team is behind late in a game. Also, if you keep him from driving to the hoop, his FG drops significantly. Was very shocked he didn't go in last year's draft. I thought he'd be #2-3, at worst.
The impact of Alford is hard to read. With the prima donnas they get at fUCLA, it seems that a change in coaches usually gives the program an initial bump until the players start tuning the coach out. Howland was awesome for his first several years.
:nod: His time at UCLA will almost write itself.