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To not have purged last year’s roster would be Coaching Malpractice.
Bingo. My brother and I were having this conversation (again) last night. Mandel has replayed this trope at least a dozen times right now and its completely turning me off of his stuff.
It's not fear, it's laziness. CU was so bad that they aren't going beyond the mental crutch of the maxim that turnover is usually bad and looking into the team talent itself. Just the QB position alone is completely different but they don't go even that deep.
Shhh. Let’s not correct anyone’s terrible assessments! I would love to see the win total go down.
I'm not a conspiracy guy. I don't think the media "has it out" for CU. I think they're witnessing a transformation unprecedented in CFB history and they don't know what to make of it.
I was there. Section 6 row 66 seat 23. Still have the ticket stub in the frame with the following print
Part of it is that they don't know just how bad the team was last season. From roster to coaching to morale. They had no reason to care enough to know.
Cute how you left the rest of the quote out to prove your point.
'The most hate a 1-11 team has gotten': Colorado players on Deion Sanders' progress
Colorado players offered updates from preseason camp, but the on-field product will be presented soon enough.
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@Uncle Ken
are segregated team meals still a thing in CFB?!?!?!
Dunno. Maybe the only reference he has is from FSU. I would think itd be more OL, DL, skill, DB, etc.
Dude.
I mean...guys usually sit with the guys they're close with off the field. There's almost certainly some tables that skew heavily in one race.
good analogy
I was there with 5 other people. I had friends that were students at UM and they wouldn't let me sit with them in the student section (i started to.. but I had so many marshmallows thrown at me, they told me to leave). I was a face painter and I wore the grand poohbah hat so I was an annoying visiitor fan to begin with. I managed to find a few CU fans on the CU sideline at about the 30 yard line. I ended up watching the game there. I remember feeling hopeless when Salaam fumbled the ball in the endzone in the 4th quarter and thought the game was lost. Something told me to stay. I stayed and I got a GREAT view of Kordell throwing the ball. I remember leaning over the brick railing and seeing the refs hand signal touchdown and I just reacted. I jumped over the railing and headed toward the pile in the endzone. I got stopped by a University Policeman and they put on one of those plastic twist ties on my hands and then used another one to attach me to the CU bench. I was sitting there for a few minutes and several players tapped me on the shoulder/ head as they left the field. Christian Fauria proceeds to run past me and tell me "Don't worry, we will get you out soon man!" The police take me to the detention facility and I walked past MANY tailgates that people did not know that they lost. I remeber one guy specifically say..... "Hey... why are you so happy?" I yelled- "I guess you didn't stay until then end... GO WATCH THE HIGHLIGHTS!!!!! " I saw him turn to people in disbelief and start talking. I wish I could have stayed there and saw how that unfolded. Meanwhile, off to the detention facility with 9 other CU fans. They "uncuff" all of us and we were all standing in a room while the police looked around and started taking us one-by-one. They avoided me everytime. They took each person and they didn't know what to do with me because... I had face paint on. No one wanted to take my picture, no one wanted to interview me and take my information (I didnt have my wallet with me). Everyone else was processed and given a trespassing ticket and I had to wait until the Chief decided how to handle me. I ended up being truthful and giving them all of my information. They skipped the mugshot part because they wouldnt let me wash my face. About 1 hour later, I was released with just a trespassing ticket. I managed to walk back to my UM friends fraternity house and I was told that I needed to leave because Brian Griese was expected back and I couldn't be there with my facepaint.
This was exactly my point in the Depth Chart Thread. There is this narrative that this team has absolutely no depth, and I really don't understand why. It's an extremely veteran laden team with most positions having quite a bit of experience, albeit some at lower levels, and every position goes at least 3 deep with that.Pac-12 win totals picks for all 12 teams: Can USC make the CFP? Three in a row for Utah?
Stewart Mandel and Antonio Morales pick against the win total over/unders for all 12 Pac-12 teams.
For all the good stuff The Athletic puts out, these two are idiots
I had a buffalo plush just like the one you have in the picture and when you squeezed its hand it would play the zim call of the miracle. Not sure where it went
Yea. I took a look at that and went with the "are we ****ed" test. As in, if the top guy gets hurt in a position group, "are we ****ed?".
Or having a QB who is capable of performing at a high level. My gosh, if the exact same team had returned from last year and, besides recruiting, the only additions were Shedeur & Travis along with the upgrades to the coaching staff, I think the conventional wisdom would be that this had to be good for a 2-4 win improvement. I think they're going out of their way to be negative for various reasons (and that much of the lazy ignorance is willful).
I expect Shedeur to be really good this year, but Tim Brewer's comments yesterday somehow got my excitement for the season to ratchet up another notch.
Maybe they all bet the over and trying to force people into the under
