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Spring ball 2012
- Thread starter bigbang2
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Kind of crazy to think this but of all these guys the one that we may miss the most is Hartigan. He never should have been out there in the first place. He's to small, to slow, not tremendously skilled but he has a ridiculous motor and always seemed to find a way to make plays. We have some young guys who are more talented than he is but it will be hard to find someone who gets his results.
TClem became a force for us in the second half of the season. A healthy PRich coming back should make up for that. Gray was meh and Cefalo was an overachieving walk-on type. I would put McColloch ahead of Cefalo in the order so you are losing 3 out of 5, maybe 6 since Canty played almost as much as Cefalo.
WR is a position where guys can contribute pretty quickly. We have some guys we haven't seen yet like Spruce and I think the Texas 3 are going to be impact players for us. WR should be fine
SJBuff
Club Member
This is what I was thinking. As a disrupter on defense he was the best we had (Rippy probably in second). We really need someone to take on that role and no one distinguished them self as a player with the motor to do that. We desperately need a lights out D linemen who can bring pressure and wreak havoc in the backfield.
bigskybuff
Well-Known Member
I really hope they take off the pink jerseys for the QB's and let them get hit. I've felt that one of the biggest issues for CU, other than lack of talent and the Hack, has been QB's who shine in practice but suck in live games. I'm sure you've all seen the practice warriors. Hansen was one of them and I do understand they were protecting him due to lack of depth but I think it hurt him in live action. Sometimes it seemed things were going too quicky for him and knowing you're going to get nailed helps you out immensely in actual games.
SJBuff
Club Member
I'd actually like to finally have a back up QB who can do a descent job running the O. I feel like most other teams have back up QBs who are reasonably talented and competent with the O but we always have a back up QB with almost no experience and only knows 10% of the playbook. I feel like this has been our situation since Barnett.
Timbuff10
Member
This is due to the attitude that the starter plays the whole game for some reason. I can see this if the game is close but as soon as the game is no longer in doubt you need to get your backup in there to get them some reps. Ideally if you are up by 20 going into the 4th you sit the starter and give the #2 a drive or two and then try and get the #3 the last drive to run out the clock.
Of course this only works well if you are winning... When you are losing it just seems to start a possible controversy but it still needs to be done, especially in college ball where you always need to be prepping the next guy.