ahoelsken
Well-Known Member
My program's online.
AllBuffs | Unofficial fan site for the University of Colorado at Boulder Athletics programs
This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
-
Prime Time. Prime Time. Its a new era for Colorado football. Consider signing up for a club membership! For $20/year, you can get access to all the special features at Allbuffs, including club member only forums, dark mode, avatars and best of all no ads ! But seriously, please sign up so that we can pay the bills. No one earns money here, and we can use your $20 to keep this hellhole running. You can sign up for a club membership by navigating to your account in the upper right and clicking on "Account Upgrades". Make it happen!
2024 NCAA tournament general games thread
- Thread starter torero
- Start date
ISU puts up a great fight in Palo Alto, but Stanford wins in overtime, 87-81. Fantastic game. Kiki had over 40 points. Brink fouled out in the 4th quarter.
There are a couple of calls that favors Stanford. Both team deserve to win but I think ISU deserves a little bit more.
I think this ISU team is pretty young too. Definitely a rough opponent for us next year.
GRM
Well-Known Member
1/2 of my extended family is all from AZ, and a bunch in Education. GCU is sort of like a Metro, UC-D, Front Range etc.. all combined in one. It is a commuter school with a ton of on-line options. Mostly geared toward JC or non-traditional students, but they have a bunch that do well and transfer into 4 year colleges to finish. They have a core credits system built towards advancing into a traditional 4 year. Not the highest academics, but not the worst for-profit actor either. They came in when the for-profit actors already were being taken down, so it is a different approach. I think a bunch their infrastructure is in Glendale way out by the Cardinals stadium (which is still way out, and people complain about the Cards games), so it made sense to build it out there. The City of Phoenix was behind it. I think the State backs it as well. With the huge enrollment, could become a UCF type school, if they can increase academics.
ASU added a bunch to their on-line options to compete with GCU.
I vaguely remember the same thing Nik is talking about before. The Feds hammered the for-profit. I think that they are eventually aiming to move to a conference..., they field 11 sports including baseball. There was talk of them possibly adding football in some form, but to my knowledge the school shut it down. Phoenix is a tough CFP television football market already, as ASU and UoA are so close.
Last edited:
My understanding is that GCU went back to non-profit and they're recognized as such except that the federal accreditation agency has held out on recognizing GCU. But for tax purposes they are non-profit. They're in process & motivated since this change has to happen if they want in the WCC.
ISU has 5 freshmen and one sophomore who play a ton of minutes. One of their best players is returning for her Covid year.
Audi Crooks is going to get better and better. She and Brink battled inside. They both fouled out without the points they usually score. But Kiki went off.
Brink also said fu to either the refs on the Iowa State bench when she fouled out. I thought it was to the refs but others think it was to the ISU bench.
Netty will have her work cut out for her against Iowa State. I hope we are going in the portal for a point guard.
Wetta is good but she isn't usually a scoring threat. Losing Sherrod, Quay, Tam, Maddie and Char is going to hurt. Jay is such a leader on the court. That is so hard to replace.
Brink said fu to the ref. I was shocked when I see that so I'm pretty sure about that.
I think next year for us is a completely rebuilding year. Unless we get 2-3 high level transfers. I didn't know Emily Ryan is coming back, oh well, now I think they will be the team to beat in Big12 next year.
Their basketball budget is absolutely insane compared to the schools they compete against. They spend more than twice as much on basketball than average WCC schools.
I was under the impression that they went non-profit in order to join the NCAA, as the NCAA doesn't let for-profit schools in.
Grand Canyon Upset Run Follows FTC Lawsuit, For-Profit Past
Grand Canyon's March Madness run comes amid a legal battle with the U.S. government over its marketing practices and non-profit claims.
www.sportico.com
Nettie and Wetta are coming back and I think that McLeod is teed up to start next year. Outside of that who knows about the the current freshmen. And the incoming recruits look pretty good on paper, but again, who knows?
I agree that we need 2-3 high level transfers to possibly avoid a slump/re-build. Probably 3. And JR has been really successful with transfers - Quay, Tam, Nettie, Smith, Nolan. (Sure wish we had Nolan back for another year - a fearless shooter and a great all-around player.) Three transfers will likely cause some attrition among the young players but it is what it is. The CU women's program is at the point where it has to chose what kind of program it is in terms of personnel acquisition. Given JR's success so far with transfers I'd say go for it....Let's have the Sweet 16 become a floor for the program and not a ceiling.
Last edited:
We need better recruiting if we want S16 to be the norm. I'm talking about top 50 prep player every year. Or transfers, if JR can find them.
I agree. I just think that lately her record with high value transfers has been great. Some top 50 preps would be nice but those recruiting battles are dog fights and the players don’t always pan out….
Clemson in the process of giving away a game they were controlling.
I'm kind of torn on this one because I want Clemson to win, but I have more confidence in Arizona to beat UNC in the next round.
I'm kind of torn on this one because I want Clemson to win, but I have more confidence in Arizona to beat UNC in the next round.
UNC is a coin flip to get past Bama, I think.
When Zona clicks it's special. But they just don't do it that often.
Bacot is a huge matchup problem for Alabama
He should be. When he started college, most of weren't 35 yet.
Clemson has also missed what seems like about 20 shots in a row and like 5 of their last 6 FT's
