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CU Football 2026 Offseason

Buffnik

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Let's use this thread to park all of the bits of news and media stuff that maybe doesn't need its own thread.
 
Buffnik said:
I'm not sure we're setting the bar that high, but hopefully. 😂
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It's the Dan Hawkins principle: go from talking about winning champions and junk/trunk to after a **** season or three to "doing things the right way" somehow proven by losing games.

I saw CU beat OU in 1976 with my dad at Folsom to get share of the Big 8 championship. Tony Reed running up the south EZ COLORADO game clinching TD.....blew my mind.

CU football 2026: show me.

Edit: and those clouds suck, too
 
Buffnik said:
We're completely rebuilding the secondary for 2026, so I don't know how relevant this is. But, damn, this stat goes against the impression I had of the 2025 pass defense.
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Seems like an odd stat that I’d want more context around. If your corners are doing a great job, then potentially opponents would be dumping the ball off to, say, a running back on a check down. This may result in a high catch percentage allowed, but a low yards per pass attempt. Conversely, if your corners aren’t doing a great job, they may get challenged a lot downfield. Catch percentage may be a bit lower, but the yards per attempt and explosive plays much higher. In short, I have no idea if that is really a good stat or a bad stat.
 
manhattanbuff said:
One reason is that accepted penalties killed this defense.
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Plus three and outs on the offense leading to missed and broken tackles on the completions.

I'm starting to think that three and outs are such defense killers that if you're on defense on the opponent's side of the field, it's worth a higher risk defensive play call if you do get to third down on the first set of downs.

E.g. opponent gets the ball on their own 15, and first two plays result in 3rd and 5 from their 20. A defensive play call that has a 80% chance of stopping them at 2 or fewer yards but a 20% chance of giving up 10-20 is better than one that would give up 8 yards at most but requires someone to "make a play" (or for them to make a mistake) in order to stop them short of 5 yards.

Just like going for it on 4th is nearly always a good idea in the right part of the field, taking a larger chance to hold them to a three and out in the right part of the field is also the right call.
 
Creebuzz said:
Seems like an odd stat that I’d want more context around. If your corners are doing a great job, then potentially opponents would be dumping the ball off to, say, a running back on a check down. This may result in a high catch percentage allowed, but a low yards per pass attempt. Conversely, if your corners aren’t doing a great job, they may get challenged a lot downfield. Catch percentage may be a bit lower, but the yards per attempt and explosive plays much higher. In short, I have no idea if that is really a good stat or a bad stat.
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Pass interference = (sometimes) no catch
 
manhattanbuff said:
One reason is that accepted penalties killed this defense.
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It was that and YAC that was the killer. So many of the 2nd/3rd &18, where they got 20-25 really hurt. We stunk on the underneath/short crossing stuff. I sort of like rebuilding the secondary/LB's somewhat, if we can just give up the catch and make the immediate tackle far short of the sticks that would be great!
 
GRM said:
It was that and YAC that was the killer. So many of the 2nd/3rd &18, where they got 20-25 really hurt. We stunk on the underneath/short crossing stuff. I sort of like rebuilding the secondary/LB's somewhat, if we can just give up the catch and make the immediate tackle far short of the sticks that would be great!
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Bringing more pressure will help so much. I feel like this year's front 7 is much more built to be disruptive in the opponent's backfield than last year's group. 🤞
 
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BuffBronco said:
There is talk that the CU & NU ADs are in discussions about flipping the series
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Would make a lot of sense for maximum profitability of the 2 games. Northwestern paying the CU appearance fee this year when their gate receipts are less than half of what they'll be next year doesn't make as much sense as flipping the H/A order for the 2 games we'll play each other.
 
SpacemanSpiff said:
I can’t imagine that it could even be done this late, but if Lovo was able to accomplish that, he should win the Buffalo Heart Award.
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it's possible -- we learned from the Covid season that schools actually don't need much lead time to schedule games.
 
Creebuzz said:
Seems like an odd stat that I’d want more context around. If your corners are doing a great job, then potentially opponents would be dumping the ball off to, say, a running back on a check down. This may result in a high catch percentage allowed, but a low yards per pass attempt. Conversely, if your corners aren’t doing a great job, they may get challenged a lot downfield. Catch percentage may be a bit lower, but the yards per attempt and explosive plays much higher. In short, I have no idea if that is really a good stat or a bad stat.
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CU was 12th in comp % D and 90th in YPA allowed.
 
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