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Exhibition games

CU loses scrimmage: "Meh it's just a scrimmage. Plus this could be a good thing."
CU wins scrimmage: "See how awesome we are?"
 
sliderNcider said:
CU loses scrimmage: "Meh it's just a scrimmage. Plus this could be a good thing."
CU wins scrimmage: "See how awesome we are?"
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Nope a scrimmage is a scrimmage. It is all situational work. Doesn't matter. Unless of course we were scrimmaging against a top 25 team, but even then I doubt Tad would be really trying to win as much as trying to get the young guys some situational work
 
At this point I am expecting a slow start. I just hope we start coming together sooner than later.


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You can always spin the result either way. Not sure how much I'm taking away from this result. Bottomline however, winning beats losing.
 
I think that a loss in exhibition games is a big win for us. Our team needed to be beaten down a bit. From all accounts, their heads were starting to become too big. Also, who even knows who Boyle started. For all we know, he could've been using all the 2nd stringers at once to see who was panning out best so far into the preseason. Plus SMU is no push over. Larry Brown is a legitimate coach. He has assembled a team in Dallas that definitely has the capability of reaching March Madness. I am glad that Tad can use these losses to SMU and Boise as learning experiences.
 
Last year the Europe trip helped us out considerably early in the season imo. I think we'll start off slow this year with losses to Baylor and a couple other teams we "should" beat.
 
I don't think people see how good SMU is going to be this year. Their Top 5 players all returning, and all upper classman. Getting Keith Frazier was a big coup for them. Not to mention Larry Brown is going to bring out the best in them.
 
Shldr2Shldr said:
Nope a scrimmage is a scrimmage. It is all situational work. Doesn't matter. Unless of course we were scrimmaging against a top 25 team, but even then I doubt Tad would be really trying to win as much as trying to get the young guys some situational work
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And there it is
 
sliderNcider said:
Last year the Europe trip helped us out considerably early in the season imo. I think we'll start off slow this year with losses to Baylor and a couple other teams we "should" beat.
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welcome to the pessimistic bandwagon
 
SECOBuffsFan said:
Scrimmages are glorified practices....nothing more nothing less
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This isn't actually true - scrimmages can be glorified practices, yes. But they can be structured anyway the coaches agree on. It can be a normal 40 minute game with refs, it can be situational/match-up work, ie practicing against a zone, practicing a press. From the way we've heard that CU "lost" against both Boise St and SMU it appears that Tad favors organized games more than situational work.
 
Not playing well in these scrimmages is not a good thing.

It may mean something and it may not. But I've got to admit that I'd feel better if the reports had been that we rolled Boise State and SMU. I'm somewhat concerned. Baylor's a tough way to open the season.
 
While this news is a little concerning, we don't know anything about who played or what the setup of the scrimmage was like. It's a bit like the Broncos fans who were saying the sky was falling when they lost two games in the NFL preseason.

Tad knows what he has in his starters, I'm willing to bet Hopkins, Fletch, Thomas and King all got a lot of minutes.
 
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