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a great piece on medium about our Buffs and this latest horrible loss.

Great paragraph here with the key point bolded, Tucker was the only coach I've been excited about since Barnett got canned:

Ever since the night that Tucker fled Boulder there’s been a sense of dread among the CU faithful. College football is changing rapidly, and Tucker seemed like the last chance for the Buffs to play among the “haves” and not the “have nots”. Here was a guy who came from big-time football and knew how to play ball with recruiting. Whatever his methods were, he was attracting talent to Boulder, and the fans were happy to go along for the ride. When he left, the momentum left with him.
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Meh. Way too bloated. Way too self-referential. Way too self reverential too. Way too trying hard to be cleaver. That article needed an (obviously absent) editor badly. Very badly.

And isn’t the whole article just the latest in a string of similar restatements of the obvious that we have seen here and elsewhere over the years?

So, the Minnesota game was an embarrassment to everyone associated with CU football, from the team, to the fans, to the coaches, and admin? No ****, Sherlock.

So HCKD wasn’t the first choice? I had never heard that before. What a revelation!

So CU has been relegated often to the PAC-12 Network? That’s some serious journalism to come up with that conclusion.

At this point it is pretty obvious to even a passing casual observer that CU football is on the wrong trajectory. But catastrophic? Maybe, but teams have come back from worse many times. Anyone with half a brain can see that Lewis has been completely, utterly, and amazingly poorly coached. That is something that can be theoretically fixed (I personally put the chances of that happening somewhere north of “none” but way south of “slim.”)

CU’s situation is far from a nothingburger. That article is a turkey nothingburger.
 
tsarbomba said:
Meh. Way too bloated. Way too self-referential. Way too self reverential too. Way too trying hard to be cleaver. That article needed an (obviously absent) editor badly. Very badly.

And isn’t the whole article just the latest in a string of similar restatements of the obvious that we have seen here and elsewhere over the years?

So, the Minnesota game was an embarrassment to everyone associated with CU football, from the team, to the fans, to the coaches, and admin? No ****, Sherlock.

So HCKD wasn’t the first choice? I had never heard that before. What a revelation!

So CU has been relegated often to the PAC-12 Network? That’s some serious journalism to come up with that conclusion.

At this point it is pretty obvious to even a passing casual observer that CU football is on the wrong trajectory. But catastrophic? Maybe, but teams have come back from worse many times. Anyone with half a brain can see that Lewis has been completely, utterly, and amazingly poorly coached. That is something that can be theoretically fixed (I personally put the chances of that happening somewhere north of “none” but way south of “slim.”)

CU’s situation is far from a nothingburger. That article is a turkey nothingburger.
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I think you are saying….


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tsarbomba said:
Meh. Way too bloated. Way too self-referential. Way too self reverential too. Way too trying hard to be cleaver. That article needed an (obviously absent) editor badly. Very badly.

And isn’t the whole article just the latest in a string of similar restatements of the obvious that we have seen here and elsewhere over the years?

So, the Minnesota game was an embarrassment to everyone associated with CU football, from the team, to the fans, to the coaches, and admin? No ****, Sherlock.

So HCKD wasn’t the first choice? I had never heard that before. What a revelation!

So CU has been relegated often to the PAC-12 Network? That’s some serious journalism to come up with that conclusion.

At this point it is pretty obvious to even a passing casual observer that CU football is on the wrong trajectory. But catastrophic? Maybe, but teams have come back from worse many times. Anyone with half a brain can see that Lewis has been completely, utterly, and amazingly poorly coached. That is something that can be theoretically fixed (I personally put the chances of that happening somewhere north of “none” but way south of “slim.”)

CU’s situation is far from a nothingburger. That article is a turkey nothingburger.
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I hate it when journalists try to be cleaver.

I also found it a bit of a melodramatic over-reaction.
 
tsarbomba said:
Meh. Way too bloated. Way too self-referential. Way too self reverential too. Way too trying hard to be cleaver. That article needed an (obviously absent) editor badly. Very badly.

And isn’t the whole article just the latest in a string of similar restatements of the obvious that we have seen here and elsewhere over the years?

So, the Minnesota game was an embarrassment to everyone associated with CU football, from the team, to the fans, to the coaches, and admin? No ****, Sherlock.

So HCKD wasn’t the first choice? I had never heard that before. What a revelation!

So CU has been relegated often to the PAC-12 Network? That’s some serious journalism to come up with that conclusion.

At this point it is pretty obvious to even a passing casual observer that CU football is on the wrong trajectory. But catastrophic? Maybe, but teams have come back from worse many times. Anyone with half a brain can see that Lewis has been completely, utterly, and amazingly poorly coached. That is something that can be theoretically fixed (I personally put the chances of that happening somewhere north of “none” but way south of “slim.”)

CU’s situation is far from a nothingburger. That article is a turkey nothingburger.
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This comment needed an editor.
 
The critique offered by Mr. Bomba is accurate. My writing is always too grandiose and self absorbed, and I spend too much time laying out the facts of the case, because I want people to understand context - even when many in the audience already know it.

There's a reason this was published on medium. It was too over the top for the publisher I sent it to. Still, I'm glad people seem to have enjoyed it for the most part.
 
StormTrooper said:
The critique offered by Mr. Bomba is accurate. My writing is always too grandiose and self absorbed, and I spend too much time laying out the facts of the case, because I want people to understand context - even when many in the audience already know it.

There's a reason this was published on medium. It was too over the top for the publisher I sent it to. Still, I'm glad people seem to have enjoyed it for the most part.
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I thought it was perfect. Thank you
 
One correction. The article misstates that Landman tore his meniscus. Wrong joint. Way easier injury to recover from.
 
tsarbomba said:
Meh. Way too bloated. Way too self-referential. Way too self reverential too. Way too trying hard to be cleaver. That article needed an (obviously absent) editor badly. Very badly.

And isn’t the whole article just the latest in a string of similar restatements of the obvious that we have seen here and elsewhere over the years?

So, the Minnesota game was an embarrassment to everyone associated with CU football, from the team, to the fans, to the coaches, and admin? No ****, Sherlock.

So HCKD wasn’t the first choice? I had never heard that before. What a revelation!

So CU has been relegated often to the PAC-12 Network? That’s some serious journalism to come up with that conclusion.

At this point it is pretty obvious to even a passing casual observer that CU football is on the wrong trajectory. But catastrophic? Maybe, but teams have come back from worse many times. Anyone with half a brain can see that Lewis has been completely, utterly, and amazingly poorly coached. That is something that can be theoretically fixed (I personally put the chances of that happening somewhere north of “none” but way south of “slim.”)

CU’s situation is far from a nothingburger. That article is a turkey nothingburger.
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Your posts both here and 247 generally suck, so you should relax on the criticism
 
StormTrooper said:
The critique offered by Mr. Bomba is accurate. My writing is always too grandiose and self absorbed, and I spend too much time laying out the facts of the case, because I want people to understand context - even when many in the audience already know it.

There's a reason this was published on medium. It was too over the top for the publisher I sent it to. Still, I'm glad people seem to have enjoyed it for the most part.
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I liked it. I won't pretend to be a journalistic critic, but i enjoyed it.

Serious question, not a critique.

I know what the word "existential" means, but don't understand the significance of it's use in the title. Can you help me out?
 
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