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Colorado v UCLA - October 28, 2023 - 5.30pm MT, ABC
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You can tell the bloom is off the season when we area busy talking about blue uniforms instead of anything else.
Polumbus was the on the radio saying he sees two more wins on the schedule, but kinda weaseled out of saying which two, though he kinda mentioned that the only one he thought we had no chance on was OSU.
I don't know that we can't beat UCLA. The question is why you think we collapsed against Stanford, and what was the real Buffs team that night. I'm going to be a sunshine pumper and think that the first half team was closer to the real Buffs, and I'm going to say why. It is hard to come out of the half where you're up big, have a couple things go against you, and somehow find the energy and the resilience to try to take back that momentum. You go from having fun and feeling like you can't do anything wrong to just having lead in your legs, you just want the game to be over, you keep looking at the clock just hoping that it will run out with you still ahead. That's the kind of adversity that I would imagine not a lot of these kids had ever experienced before. As I said last weekend, I think the time and the fact that the stadium went from completely full to half empty at the half didn't help.
What Prime and the coaching staff are doing over the bye, hopefully, is scouting themselves - not just the players, but the coaches too - and coming up with ways to put themselves in better positions. I think UCLA is beatable. Moore is, to put it mildly, not good. Their run game is great, but this is a game we should be able to run man on and push the safeties up. Of course, I would have said that against Stanford too, so wtf do I know. Offensively, we know where we're good and where we suck, but Shedeur is still Shedeur, and I really don't think there's a game we are out of as long as he's the QB.
Anyway, flame on. I'll have what Liver's having.
I don't know that we can't beat UCLA. The question is why you think we collapsed against Stanford, and what was the real Buffs team that night. I'm going to be a sunshine pumper and think that the first half team was closer to the real Buffs, and I'm going to say why. It is hard to come out of the half where you're up big, have a couple things go against you, and somehow find the energy and the resilience to try to take back that momentum. You go from having fun and feeling like you can't do anything wrong to just having lead in your legs, you just want the game to be over, you keep looking at the clock just hoping that it will run out with you still ahead. That's the kind of adversity that I would imagine not a lot of these kids had ever experienced before. As I said last weekend, I think the time and the fact that the stadium went from completely full to half empty at the half didn't help.
What Prime and the coaching staff are doing over the bye, hopefully, is scouting themselves - not just the players, but the coaches too - and coming up with ways to put themselves in better positions. I think UCLA is beatable. Moore is, to put it mildly, not good. Their run game is great, but this is a game we should be able to run man on and push the safeties up. Of course, I would have said that against Stanford too, so wtf do I know. Offensively, we know where we're good and where we suck, but Shedeur is still Shedeur, and I really don't think there's a game we are out of as long as he's the QB.
Anyway, flame on. I'll have what Liver's having.
Need to start getting turnovers in bunches again if we want to go bowling.
CSC drives me nuts because he seems to get burned at least twice a game, but he is one of those dudes who somehow can get picks. He's been quiet for the last two games, so maybe he's due again. Travis is definitely due for a big game at CB.
Fogo
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My first CU season 1980.... worse yet was my best friend from high school was a scholarship QB for Drake. He still reminds me of it to this day.
My first issue from my first subscription to sports illustrated was the one with Douglas Looney’s article on the dysfunction of the football team and the AD in 1980. Quite the eye opener for a little kid to read about spending $40,000 on an office and $1500 on helmet decals we would never use, and getting destroyed 82-42 by OU.
Birch1
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Have you reminded him about how he totally turned that program around?
Nothing will ever top Drake's win over Arizona in the 1948 Salad Bowl, so why even try?
I will never go back to Pasadena unless it is for a playoff game.
cu3x
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I was a student at the time, and we were told it was fairbank's daughter's favorite color. Of course, the AD would never admit they agreed on that basis.“The color was technically “sky blue,” and it was supposed to represent “Colorado’s sky at 9,000 feet,” according to a history of football uniforms compiled by the CU Athletic Department. The change from black to blue was proposed by then-Regent Jack Anderson and approved by the Board of Regents in May 1981.”
Fed-up CU Buffs fans plan powder-blue protest at Folsom
For Buffs fans, powder blue is the color of defeat. It’s the color of losing streaks, of (arguably) poor coaching, of lackluster fans. It’s the color that the University of Colorado Buf…www.coloradodaily.com
Show the rest of it, where it was called back for the blind side block (probably)
So I gotta admit, I don't really understand how they're applying the "blind side block" rule.
I totally get not ear holing someone. I also get not laying a hit on a guy that's just standing there watching.
But if you put your shoulder square into another player's chest when they're running forward, how is that "blind siding them?" It seems to me that there should be a little bit of a duty to look where you're going.
Not only do I have hit them in the right place, I have to make sure they're looking where they're running?
Yeah, I don’t really like it. Plus it makes for some of the coolest looking hits.
“gotta keep your head on swivel when you find yourself in a cockfight!”
Mick Ronson
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The lockers in the men's locker-room and some of the decor in/around the comp pool in the Rec Center were still Fairbanks blue until the big remodel (that moved the ice rink, hoops courts and inaugurated the Ralphie outdoor pool)....only maybe 10 years ago.
Kind of icky, the blue.
Kind of icky, the blue.
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You mean Anaheim, right?
Fogo
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Rancho Cucamonga
Meet me in Temecula.
I would, but I made a wrong turn in Albuquerque.
Modesto ftw!
They moved back to Garbers. Moore while a playmaker just couldn't handle the defensive scheme yet. Most true freshman QBs can't.
We’ll, if we’ve learned nothing else this season, one way or another, it won’t be anywhere close to that.
42-7 ucla over Stanford is what it should have been for us. Completely depends on which Buffs team shows up.
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