MB is being a little unfair here, I think 'tini was still in grade school the last time CU went bowling....
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How many wins for 2015 CU Football?
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MB is being a little unfair here, I think 'tini was still in grade school the last time CU went bowling....
Who would remember? It's been 10 years. :sad2:
FlatironsBuff
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Ok 'Tini.
I have a family member on a bowl committee, the first, and practically only, consideration is how many tickets will be sold. Of course, the big boys (Fiesta, Rose, Orange, Sugar) have other constituencies but rest assured, everybody else is looking for butts in the seats. After that, the second order of business is deciding how many tickets the committee members will need for friends/family and then they get down to things like the particulars of the team. FWIW.
That's fine, I'm confident they'd recognize CU traveling well to any bowl game not on the East coast
He keeps missing the part where I clarified 'bowl game outside the pac12 footprint'.
This.
Boy, you sure have been agreeing with 'Tini a lot lately. I suppose Mijammi trying to go against him helps but, damn. That must hurt. :lol:
? Just cause tini always sees the world in black and gold doesnt mean he's always wrong.
True.
Dialectic logic, man. There's only love and hate. You can't go to Venus on a ****ing fraction.
I feel like I'd understand this, but only if I found that 4 foot bong one of my buddies had in college.
I've pondered this greatly and now feel 4-0 OOC is a must and should be easily attainable. 6 wins with a chance for greatness in the Motor Oil Town FedEx Tapatio Pepsi Bowl.
Haven't had a chance to respond to this, but you have a point. Although, you will have to admit that even outside the P12 footprint, there are some bowl locations where CU would draw ok. The pinstripe bowl would probably draw surprisingly well (the NYC, Boston and DC alumni groups are among the largest in the country and NYC is easy for all of them to get to), the military bowl would probably be ok, and maybe the Belk as well.
But you're right, the Birmingham bowl and other lower tier bowls in less than stellar localities, not so much.
White_Rabbit not so good at math and reading comprehension.
Certainly not a ****ing fraction, but I would lay odds on a **** storm fractal.
Defining success is not about replacing graduating players with incoming players. It's about another year in Mac's strength and conditioning program, another year in Lingren's offense and Baer's defense, another off season where the current freshman and sophomores get better and contribute more, and most importantly, another year that our single most important player (Sefo) has to grow and mature as a QB.
Besides, Crabb, Munyer, DD, Tony Jones, and Greg Henderson are the only "impact" seniors we're losing. McCulloch was a nice player but is easily replaceable.
This team should be expected to start 4-0 next year, and they will if they can hold Dee Hart and CSU's OL in check. No Grayson, no McElwain, no problem. The usual suspects in P12 should/could be wins: WSU, OSU and Utah. The rest are probable losses but, as we saw this year, just need a play or two to get the upset. A Hundley-less UCLA, Mariota-less Oregon, ASU and Stanford are upset candidates, but not likely. AZ could be the favorite to win the P12 next year and that one could be ugly.
Final, way-to-early prediction: 6-7 (unfortunately, this won't make them bowl-eligible, though)
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Impact players list is a lot shorter. Crabb, Munyer and Henderson. Solid starters. After that, you have a bunch of guys or spot players. DD goodson started, but did very little and was a below average WR. Only Munyer and Hendo would have had a chance at starting at most other schools in the P12. It is very hard to lose less production from a decent sized senior class.
Agreed, and if we're talking replacement value, Lynott has a chance to be a starter from day 1 and could be just as good or better than Munyer/Crabb and Witherspoon, Awuzi and Yuri Wright (if he ever lives up to 4* bill) replace Henderson just fine.
Stop with the starry eyed predictions with Lynott and Wright. Lynott is an OL, who rarely start as true frosh, and has a tough depth chart to climb up. Yuri, well, he hasn't seen the field at all under this staff.
I'm not really worried about replacing corner or OL though. We might have a small dropoff at RG and CB, but I don't think the dropoff will be that large in either case, and should quickly decrease as experience grows.
We aren't talking about the biggest loss and the true impact players from the departed seniors: the kickers. Oliver and O'Neil were good kickers, and we have total unknowns behind them. Could take a very big step back next year. Not good.
I think we score a lot more TD's next year.
All I'm saying is that if Lynott is truly a 4* recruit, it shouldn't take him long to compete for playing time on this OL that just isn't special. Same goes for Yuri. He was a top 10 recruit coming out of HS and has the potential to be a solid contributor in the secondary.
I agree that Oliver and O'Neil are our biggest losses from that class. O'Neil was a "special" punter that changed field position for us in a big way at times, and will be missed. Oliver was probably the best kicker we've had since Crosby but he was, by no means, even close to a "special" kicker. He'll be missed but if you're relying on your K and P to be game-changers for you in the P12, you never really had a shot at winning anyways.
We could have a better offense and score fewer points. The success of the defense and the run game will dictate a lot.
I was going to go with a optimistic 7 wins until I realized there was no bye week. So 6 wins it is.
After this year, I think the only safe thing to do is to take Tini's prediction and cut it by 75% or so.
That said, EVENTUALLY he will be right. Just like Woelk was right in picking the CU upset of Oklahoma in 2007. :lol:
That said, EVENTUALLY he will be right. Just like Woelk was right in picking the CU upset of Oklahoma in 2007. :lol: