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How many wins for the Buffs this year?
- Thread starter Buffnik
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FLounder
Think Positive and life will be Positive.
I all due respect, We had a coach who didn't know how to coach the game, so there for he recruited players who didn't know how to play the game.
Hey, jackass! Speak better.
Spot on. We do have a clear lack of talent and depth at a number of positions, who in the confernce other than USC and Oregon has talent and depth at every position. If we went to other teams boards I can guarantee that the realistic posters are saying "We are to small (slow, unskilled, etc.) at this position and "If (name of player) gets hurt we are screwed because we have nothing behind him." and "We absolutely need (again name player or players) to step up at X position or we will be in big trouble."
It is all relative and some schools are worse off than others. Hawkins left us in a big hole but our oppenents aren't perfect either. We won two conference games last year. This year we will have another year in the system, another year of Embree recruits replacing Hawkins recruits and Embree coaching replacing Hawkins coaching. We also will not have the killer OOC schedule and no bye week. We still aren't a very good team but a minor bowl is a very reasonable and reachable target.
FLounder
Think Positive and life will be Positive.
Probably a lot of freshmen. I'm OK with that, though. Freshmen can contribute at WR and RB and even TE.
somebody
Well-Known Member
Somebody's going to throw the ball and somebody else is going to catch it. Then there are all of those TD runs. We just don't know by whom, yet.
Considering Stewart, and Richardson were basically instant contributors as freshman and huge contributors as sophomores, I don't see any reason why we can't get a lot of production from other new faces.
I would not be shocked to see Tony Jones have a huge season. He isn't as shifty as Speedy was but he has better top end speed and doesn't go down as easy on arm tackles. I can see a lot of what were 8-12 yard runs for Stewart ending up as long gainers for ToJo.
As others have stated WR is a position were young guys can contribute. Somebody will step up.
We should also have more opportunities since I think the D is going to be improved. Even though they are young actually having CBs playing CB will make a huge difference in terms of getting the other team off the field and not starting our possetions with a KO return.
As others have stated WR is a position were young guys can contribute. Somebody will step up.
We should also have more opportunities since I think the D is going to be improved. Even though they are young actually having CBs playing CB will make a huge difference in terms of getting the other team off the field and not starting our possetions with a KO return.
Stewart was an instant contributor... on the dead last scoring team in the conference. Richardson took the better part of a season before he started to show flashes.
I agree with this, but until I see us start to change our play on the field (FINALLY winning on the road last year was a start), I just won't believe that we will win the majority of the games where we've got close to equal talent.
To be fair, we haven't done anything to earn respect. I hope everyone is looking past us, because we won't be great but I think we'll be good enough to surprise some teams (except USC, Stanford, Oregon).
lawdogg
Club Member
I think you are forgetting that we have a guy on our team who can kick with both feet; think about that...
Unleash Hell
Well-Known Member
Well which one, CSU or Sac st?
gone native
Club Member
Nice bell curve. tossing out the outliers the weighted avg is 5.4 wins and 2/3 of the guesses say 5 or 6 wins. I picked six.. I know we need to rely on some heavy freshman contributions, but I believe we have that potential along the defensive line, at RB and WR, and at corner. Our coaches have a year under their belts as a staff, and I look forward to progress from the offense that will reflect the greater experience set from Embree and Bieniemy.