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Good thought on paper. Often turns out that way. But talent was lost. Some gained for sure, but net loss IMO
Most of the teams in the pac got better. CU does not get worse every year but they did this year overall. They will not be better than last year by a long stretch.And the Buffs only get worse. Every year.
This **** is getting old
You and me both, brother. Hopefully he sees the field sooner than later.
PAY THAT MAN
I agree wholeheartedly.
Love all current and former Buffs….but Rice having 0 catches this year might not be the worst thing for to get guys to think about staying put.
See! Knew Mel Tucker was a fraud.Phil Steele has a metric with a pretty great track record of looking at conference YPG +/- versus win record the next year. Anyway, it projects that our win record will drop NY. Only one team in the country projects worse than us.
Conference YPG vs Conference Record – Which teams are going up/down this year? - Phil Steele
I have been tracking the Conference YPG vs conference record from 2001 all the way thru this past year so I have 20 years of research invested in this Metric. It seems like right now a lot of people use Metrics. Way back in 1995, I put the first Metric article (Metrics was not a [...]Read...philsteele.com
I admit to a weakness of character in the schadenfreude I felt when Rice chose to leave being the No. 1 receiver for us for the mere possibility of being the No. 3 or 4 receiver at USC and then USC brings in the Pitt receiver as their clear No. 1, sliding Rice down yet another notch and—likely—out of the starting line up.
Rice had bought in to the Dorrell BS. Last season, he was a leader and voiced patience and belief. I respect him for that. He has immense talent and while folks were transferring, he was preaching team and system. He took a stand to believe in Dorrell while most folks identified the guy for the fraud he is - he is simply over his head. Rice would be better off as the WR1 here, but environmatters too. Dorrell has brought a losing culture to Boulder, that is a tough place to be if you are a talented player. I have zero interest in blaming or criticizing Rice for leaving (despite the fact I really wish he were in camp right now). The issue is and will continue to be Dorrell until his lack luster azz is shown the door. Rice may not be WR3 at USC but he's an excellent team mate and player.
Rice (And Stanley, Broussard, and others) transferred because he had 21 receptions for 299 yards and 2 TDs last season as CU’s WR1, and he saw an opportunity with Lincoln freaking Riley at USC to increase his brand and NFL prospects. I don’t think it had anything to do with some kind of losing culture. They all came into a losing culture at CU. They knew the offense was starting over and they weren’t interested in that
Iowa State, I think.
That's BS. You're not an excellent teammate when you quit on the team. Particularly if you were a leader and "excellent player". Great teammates are those that apply their talent and leadership to forcefully make everyone on the team better.
Did you pay attention at all last year? Rice was a leader in keeping the tram and coaches vision intact- despite Dorrell being an incompetent f....
You speak in generalizations! Define your "net loss".
AB is definitely negative about the team and program. Not anywhere close to the usual sunshine that comes during camp.
But I've been on 247 to read Adam's camp updates and it's weird. He's tempered and even apologized in advance for what he knew would be a lot of super positive spin he'd be reporting. I'm more than cool with that. However, the reaction posts to those camp reports may have given me a sunburn
I think where I'm at is that I don't believe we have a good team but we have a potentially competitive team which, if there's good chemistry among players and with the staff on the same page, could make this season's results similar to 2019.
My hope is that stability matters. 2020 was a 3rd HC in 3 years. 2021 was so much broken on the offensive side. 2022 is year 3 for KD and it's fully his organization with people he chose & players who are committed to his program (or at least finishing strong in their Buff careers). We should see a big improvement unless KD is simply the wrong guy to rebuild CU back to respectability.
The players that departed are talented. They would have ranked high on this Board’s Top 30 list. More talent departed than arrived. It’s a net loss.
