CU Regent election can change the future of CU athletics

[Lucky Vidmar]

This is somewhat off the “All Buffs” topic, but nonetheless I hope you’ll agree that it’s important. I am running for CU Regent against someone who thinks that bashing CU sports will earn him votes (see below). I won the most votes at this weekend’s Assembly, but my opponent got enough votes to force a primary.

I was in the band at the 1990 Orange Bowl, and there in the stands for the Miracle in Michigan. I’m a Buff through and through. But that’s not the point. I am not running for Regent as pro-athletics or anti-athletics. I believe that CU has to be world class at EVERYTHING it does. The problems of affordability and accessibility of college, which I am running to fix, have very little to do with CU athletics. Football is not the reason that tuition at CU has tripled and levels of financial aid have nothing to do with Folsom Field renovation.

So, if you get a Democratic Party primary ballot in CD-1 in June, I’d love to earn your vote. If you know people who have a vote, spread the word. If you are able to contribute a few bucks our way, whatever it is ($50, $100 or max $400), we need the resources to put up a good fight in the primary. I very much appreciate the help. Go BUFFS!

 

[Lucky Vidmar]

My campaign website is www.VidmarForColorado.com and my Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/LuckyForCU/.

 

[FLounder]

**** that Kroll guy! **** Kroll! **** Kroll!

 

[sackman]

This should be in "CU news and Olympic Sports" forum.

Not that I don't fully support the OP, just that this particular forum should be kept to news and discussion of CU football. Well, at least until Orr comes along and ruins it.

 

[Uncle Ken]

This should be in "CU news and Olympic Sports" forum.

Not that I don't fully support the OP, just that this particular forum should be kept to news and discussion of CU football. Well, at least until Orr comes along and ruins it.

Is that some sort of esoteric "Earth Girls are Easy" reference? UBL?

 

[96 Buff]

This is very much about football, since the OP's opponent is using the long-overdue football facilities overhaul & expansion in his campaign for regent. And having candidates for the Board of Regents who don't understand how the football program funds itself is scary.

 

[DBT]

Unluckily for Lucky I'm not a Democrat nor do I reside in District 1. But good luck. I'm happy he supports CU athletics.

 

[Burrito]

This should be in "CU news and Olympic Sports" forum.

Not that I don't fully support the OP, just that this particular forum should be kept to news and discussion of CU football. Well, at least until Orr comes along and ruins it.

Leave home, kid.

 

[Idot Buff]

Unluckily for Lucky I'm not a Democrat nor do I reside in District 1. But good luck. I'm happy he supports CU athletics.

Were you a Democrat when you were a student? Funny how some of us shift from campus democrats to staunch Republicans over time.

 

[Uncle Ken]

This is very much about football, since the OP's opponent is using the long-overdue football facilities overhaul & expansion in his campaign for regent. And having candidates for the Board of Regents who don't understand how the football program funds itself is scary.

Kroll is either alarmingly misinformed or easily lies to voters to heighten a misguided sentiment. Either way, **** that piece of ****.

 

[BuffLuke80]

Well hope this Kroll ****er doesn't win then. That would be up to par with our luck.

 

[Deleted member 807]

Unluckily for Lucky I'm not a Democrat nor do I reside in District 1. But good luck. I'm happy he supports CU athletics.

Who is fhe republican candidate for regent in your district and are you 100% sure that the GOP candidates fully back CU athletics?

 

[Buffnik]

Who is fhe republican candidate for regent in your district and are you 100% sure that the GOP candidates fully back CU athletics?

Party affiliation doesn't mean much when it comes to local or state elections, imho. National party platform is a different animal. I don't care at all if a Regent has a (D) or (R) after his or her name. I care about that candidate's vision for CU and whether it aligns with my own.

 

[Deleted member 807]

Party affiliation doesn't mean much when it comes to local or state elections, imho. National party platform is a different animal. I don't care at all if a Regent has a (D) or (R) after his or her name. I care about that candidate's vision for CU and whether it aligns with my own.

@DBT - do YOU put party ahead of a pro CUAD litmus test? If so, why?

 

[96 Buff]

I believe DBT was referring to the OP running against the other guy in the dem primary. Reps can't vote in a dem primary.

 

[MtnBuff]

I believe DBT was referring to the OP running against the other guy in the dem primary. Reps can't vote in a dem primary.

1st district is so overwhelmingly Democrat that in races like this the primary is normally the deciding election.

Most voters don't bother to research the candidates for the "minor" offices and just vote along party lines.

 

[DBT]

@DBT - do YOU put party ahead of a pro CUAD litmus test? If so, why?

Not necessarily. But, like I said, he's in District 1, Denver. I'm not. So I don't really have an option. I doubt many of us on this board are in District 1. But to answer your question, I'd probably have to go with education over athletics if push came to shove. That said, if a guy had an education program I believe in but wanted to stick it to the AD, I'd have to think pretty hard about supporting him/her. In the case of Vidmar's opponent, I question how smart the guy is if he thinks there is any direct correlation between school funding and AD funding. I mean, generally speaking. Obviously, he must think there are a lot of voters out there who think spending money on athletics is a waste. That is probably a bigger concern.

 

[Darth Snow]

Were you a Democrat when you were a student? Funny how some of us shift from campus democrats to staunch Republicans over time.

Mostly not, actually.

 

[Wyo Buff]

Were you a Democrat when you were a student? Funny how some of us shift from campus democrats to staunch Republicans over time.

If you aren't a bit liberal in your youth you have no heart; if you aren't a bit conservative as an adult, you have no brain.

 

[DBT]

If you aren't a bit liberal in your youth you have no heart; if you aren't a bit conservative as an adult, you have no brain.

I'm a heartless idot.

 

[Idot Buff]

I'm a heartless idot.

Aspiring to greatness I see.

 

[Alfred91]

As a reformed Democrat, I can assure you that bashing the football program is like throwing red meat to the "jocks suck" liberal crowd.

I don't live in the district, else I would consider registering just to vote against this Kroll ****er.

 

[BehindEnemyLines]

Go away

 

[CUBUFF80]

As a reformed Democrat, I can assure you that bashing the football program is like throwing red meat to the "jocks suck" liberal crowd.

I don't live in the district, else I would consider registering just to vote against this Kroll ****er.

As a proud Democrat, I agree, this guy is a dipf***

 

[aik]

As a reformed Democrat, I can assure you that bashing the football program is like throwing granola to the "jocks suck" liberal crowd.

FIFY

 

[DBT]

As a proud Republican I....oh, never mind.

 

[Alfred91]

FIFY

I thought about the fact that the terms "red meat" and "liberals" don't always go together, but I was too lazy to go back and change it.

 

[DBT]

Conservatives go to football games and drink beer. Liberal's go to the theater and drink wine.

 

[wsp4820]

Conservatives go to football games and drink beer. Liberal's go to the theater and drink wine.

 

[sackman]

What he meant to say was "Liberals go to football games and drink IPAs"

Make more sense now?