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2021 Official Fall Camp Thread

I will say that the 2021 defense could be the best this program has had since 2016 (which isn't saying much considering they've been awful on that side since 2016).

The 2021 secondary is not on that 2016 level (which might be the best secondary I've ever seen at CU). However, I do think the front 7 is at least at the same level or even better than that 2016 team with overall talent and depth (that 2016 team had no depth in the front 7 and stayed healthy all year except for McCartney). Probably missing that pure pass rusher (Gilbert) that the 2016 team had, but you've got to really like the talent and potential this year, especially if MJ is back.
 
manhattanbuff said:
You’ve now listed the depth chart. Depth means that the drop between the starters to the backups isn’t a nosedive. Especially at ILB and Interior DL, the you have major dropoff.

As always, I am willing to wager. You can have over 7.5 regular season wins at +400 for any amount (forfeits do not count). You must post.
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patebuff said:
I will say that the 2021 defense could be the best this program has had since 2016 (which isn't saying much considering they've been awful on that side since 2016).

The 2021 secondary is not on that 2016 level (which might be the best secondary I've ever seen at CU). However, I do think the front 7 is at least at the same level or even better than that 2016 team with overall talent and depth (that 2016 team had no depth in the front 7 and stayed healthy all year except for McCartney). Probably missing that pure pass rusher (Gilbert) that the 2016 team had, but you've got to really like the talent and potential this year, especially if MJ is back.
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Are you like 25?!!!
 
vinniew_11 said:
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InTheBuff said:
www.denverpost.com

CU football notes: Buffs add walk-on quarterback

CU was in need of another quarterback after sophomore JT Shrout suffered what was called by head coach Karl Dorrell a “significant injury” to his knee during a scrimmage on Aug. 14.
www.denverpost.com www.denverpost.com
Listed at 6-feet, 195 pounds, Mott was a two-star recruit in 2019 coming out of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. A multi-sport athlete, Mott threw for 1,923 yards and 25 touchdowns as a senior while earning league MVP honors.


In Mott’s final high school game, he threw two touchdown passes and helped the South team — coached by former CU tight end Sean Embree — to a win in the Orange County All-Star Classic.

Let's hope we never see him under center. No offense to the kid.
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SIAP but there were a couple other interesting tidbits in that article. Greg Brown is back at CU as a volunteer assistant with the DBs. Not sure what he has left at this point after being let go by Purdue, but some good experienced coaching for us.

Also, if you want to feel really f**king old, we added Lawrence Vickers’ son, Isaiah Harper, as a walk-on RB.
 
manhattanbuff said:
The players and coaches stated explicitly that the program’s lack of bowl experience meant that they practiced hard and took the game seriously. The coaches collectively are paid many millions to motivate the team. They got whipped by a coach who was fired soon thereafter.

The Texas game was a reflection of Colorado’s reality: without better talent, we have no shot against even slightly above average quality opponents.

Making excuses for looking like a JV team does not prove the argument that the coaches are great motivators who coach up the players.
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No amount of coaching was going to beat Texas. They were much better than us at every position. You can’t put that at this staff’s feet
 
SBP said:
No amount of coaching was going to beat Texas. They were much better than us at every position. You can’t put that at this staff’s feet
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Sure I can. @buffaholic said that the team was not motivated and thus the bowl result isn’t irrelevant.

I can also put it on the staff for having a terrible recruiting effort on the heels of that game.
 
onealcd said:
I see we are still using a game where we had under 50 scholarship players available as the basis to judge this years record on. Fun times.
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Let’s not pretend that was even close to a full strength Texas team either. It may not predict how this team will perform, but that game illustrated the gigantic gap in talent and depth Dorrell and staff have to overcome.
 
SINKRATZ said:
Let’s not pretend that was even close to a full strength Texas team either. It may not predict how this team will perform, but that game illustrated the gigantic gap in talent and depth Dorrell and staff have to overcome.
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They still had over 60 scholarship players available. We had backups out with covid on defense and played guys who hadn’t seen the field at all that season.
 
onealcd said:
They still had over 60 scholarship players available. We had backups out with covid on defense and played guys who hadn’t seen the field at all that season.
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Sigh. Texas had 6 of 7 team captains either injured or opt out to prepare for the draft. They had a whole bunch of COVId issues in the week leading up to the game and their starting QB was injured in the first half. Point is, the players further down the depth chart at Texas were light years better than the ones from CU.
 
SINKRATZ said:
Sigh. Texas had 6 of 7 team captains either injured or opt out to prepare for the draft. They had a whole bunch of COVId issues in the week leading up to the game and their starting QB was injured in the first half. Point is, the players further down the depth chart at Texas were light years better than the ones from CU.
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Sigh. You really don’t understand numbers do you? They has 60 something players available and we had under 50, mostly missing from the defensive side of the ball. Of course texas has better depth on their team, they recruit in the top 10 every year but that was a no win situation for the buffs in that game and to judge this years team off of that one bowl game is dumb as hell.
 
manhattanbuff said:
I already have more than my annual salary on under 5.5 wins (forfeits don’t count) at -120.
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Not a surprise. Good to see that you hate the Buffs so much :LOL: I placed a very small bet on the Buffs to cover 4.5....not super confident there.
 
onealcd said:
Sigh. You really don’t understand numbers do you? They has 60 something players available and we had under 50, mostly missing from the defensive side of the ball. Of course texas has better depth on their team, they recruit in the top 10 every year but that was a no win situation for the buffs in that game and to judge this years team off of that one bowl game is dumb as hell.
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Texas was missing 18 players in their 2-deep including 6 captains and 3 starters on the Oline. Colorado was missing Lang, Miller, Landman, Sami, Brady Russell, Shenault and a couple other lesser contributors.

We got mudholed - who else were we missing that would have prevented that beat down? Both teams were missing players, but one team dominated. The excuses for these performances unrelated to talent is lame at this point. We got whipped because of talent, plain and simple, not injuries.
 
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