Welcome to Pac-12 Football Colorado
by Andrew McDonnell
The Buffaloes shouldn’t be waiting for any fresh baked muffins. There aren’t any coming.
The University of Colorado has a legacy in football that stacks up with the top schools of their newest colleagues. They are ‘officially’ in the PAC-12, they have the patches to prove it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they belong.
PAC-12 media day, hosted in Los Angeles, was as star studded as the Boulder night sky.
The new league, it could be readily debated, was the best conference in America a year ago. “You have to have tons of flexibility and you have to be very creative,” said new head coach Jon Embree, “And that's what's so great about this conference.”
The gauntlet that is Colorado's schedule will test the young team, with the new staff, in the new conference. “So for them, they should be excited about it [the schedule]," said Embree yesterday to the media, "I just told him I was glad he didn’t put the Packers on the schedule.” From the beginning of September, for 13 straight weeks, to the end of November CU has no room for error. The new staff will have to address the stacks of issues left behind by Dan Hawkins. It’ll be like trying to remove a middle block out of a wobbley Jenga tower.
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