Iirc, the court has been re-done twice. Also the fly-away baskets.
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Tad M. F'ing Boyle
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No wonder we're getting 5 and 4 star recruits.
CULifer
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Yeah, I realize that they're lanky relatively, just seems like when it comes to bodying people up in the paint on the offensive end we get pushed around all the time instead of vice versa, and we get very little paint penetration by our bigs offensively. Our bigs seem to get pushed around in the paint when they're posted up on by the opposition. Not complaining about results, just observations over the years.
Your data is incredible, btw.
Ah, that's right. 2011. Okay, so basically Tad has been given NOTHING. Got it.
#FIRERICKGEORGE
The football team has Rick's full attention. Please be careful what you ask for....
A-****ing-men
You can build a basketball booster network that's separate from your football & general networks.
You can do a lot more to promote to students and CU community.
You can do a lot more to create atmosphere with spirit squad investment.
These are not expensive things.
I agree that on facilities that Folsom comes before CEC. Our needs in field sports (or a VB locker room upgrade) may even come before MBB/WBB facility upgrades.
Did you not watch the last 4 years of CU basketball? Evan Battey got pushed around by no one, except some terrible officials.
I agree with all of that. RG has really regressed from the level of support that Bohn provided the hoops program. (Insert snarky comment here about why did we fire Bohn again?)
CULifer
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Yes, I watched. [Damn, some of you are immediately hostile it's ridiculous]. He seemed soft on the offensive end when it came to using his frame and physicality. I didn't see a whole of David Harrison-ish physicality with Evan like I expected to see. Sorry, I guess I see it differently than you. And that's not a knock on Evan's production. I just found it maddening when Battey would settle for outside shots instead of going strong to the rim more often. For me, there was a lack of frequency there that would've drawn more fouls and established a more permanent presence in the paint. Battey didn't make a living in the paint like I thought he should/could. I do agree with you, he was handed some seriously ****ty calls too often.
Do you think Josh Scott played physical and strong like an actual big?
Whether it's the recruiting or the coaching, it just seems like we've lacked physicality from our front court for quite a few years recently.
Ask me whether I actually watched the last, eh, 8 years of CU basketball.
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Yes, I watched. [Damn, some of you are immediately hostile it's ridiculous]. He seemed soft on the offensive end when it came to using his frame and physicality. I didn't see a whole of David Harrison-ish physicality with Evan like I expected to see. Sorry, I guess I see it differently than you. And that's not a knock on Evan's production. I just found it maddening when Battey would settle for outside shots instead of going strong to the rim more often. For me, there was a lack of frequency there that would've drawn more fouls and established a more permanent presence in the paint. Battey didn't make a living in the paint like I thought he should/could. I do agree with you, he was handed some seriously ****ty calls too often.
Do you think Josh Scott played physical and strong like an actual big?
Whether it's the recruiting or the coaching, it just seems like we've lacked physicality from our front court for quite a few years recently.
Ask me whether I actually watched the last, eh, 8 years of CU basketball.
If you say something stupid, I’m gonna call you out on it. You said something stupid, and then you just doubled down by saying that Josh Scott was also an example of us getting bullied down low. To be fair, Josh did get pushed around his freshman year, but, that’s what you’re going to stand on? Cmon man.
CULifer
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That's fine dude, you're free to call it as you see it. I just see the whole scenario differently, even your fundamental facts are different than mine regarding Scott, Battey, et. al. Josh didn't just get pushed around only his freshman year.
If you say something stupid, I’m gonna call you out on it. You said something stupid, and then you just doubled down by saying that Josh Scott was also an example of us getting bullied down low. To be fair, Josh did get pushed around his freshman year, but, that’s what you’re going to stand on? Cmon man.
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It is an impossible comparison to make because the situations are so different.
When Tad took over basketball was bad but while Bzdelik wasn't very good he left some decent players and Ricado Patton had a better than .500 record and some tourney appearances (recruiting Chauncey didn't hurt,) and Harrington was close to .500. In a bigger picture though the Colorado program had been bad to terrible longer than most of us have been alive going back to Sox.
Coach Mac took over a program that was as deep in a hole as it had ever been (although we are now probably back to that level) but it was also a program that was known nationally as one that could be top level having won the conference once under Mallory and finishing as high as 3rd in the nation under Eddie Crowder while sending bunches of players to the NFL.
Also two very different sports in terms of building a winner. Basketball 2-4 top quality recruits can change a whole program. Football individuals don't have as much impact but it's hard to cover weaknesses so a coach has to recruit a lot of quality players to fill a two-deep.
Yes, I watched. [Damn, some of you are immediately hostile it's ridiculous]. He seemed soft on the offensive end when it came to using his frame and physicality. I didn't see a whole of David Harrison-ish physicality with Evan like I expected to see. Sorry, I guess I see it differently than you. And that's not a knock on Evan's production. I just found it maddening when Battey would settle for outside shots instead of going strong to the rim more often. For me, there was a lack of frequency there that would've drawn more fouls and established a more permanent presence in the paint. Battey didn't make a living in the paint like I thought he should/could. I do agree with you, he was handed some seriously ****ty calls too often.
Do you think Josh Scott played physical and strong like an actual big?
Whether it's the recruiting or the coaching, it just seems like we've lacked physicality from our front court for quite a few years recently.
Ask me whether I actually watched the last, eh, 8 years of CU basketball.
This isn't 1990's basketball anymore
Did @Scotch pay you to compliment David Harrison’s physicality?Yes, I watched. [Damn, some of you are immediately hostile it's ridiculous]. He seemed soft on the offensive end when it came to using his frame and physicality. I didn't see a whole of David Harrison-ish physicality with Evan like I expected to see. Sorry, I guess I see it differently than you. And that's not a knock on Evan's production. I just found it maddening when Battey would settle for outside shots instead of going strong to the rim more often. For me, there was a lack of frequency there that would've drawn more fouls and established a more permanent presence in the paint. Battey didn't make a living in the paint like I thought he should/could. I do agree with you, he was handed some seriously ****ty calls too often.
Do you think Josh Scott played physical and strong like an actual big?
Whether it's the recruiting or the coaching, it just seems like we've lacked physicality from our front court for quite a few years recently.
Ask me whether I actually watched the last, eh, 8 years of CU basketball.
And yes, Josh Scott was physical and strong.
VB got some kind of locker room upgrade a few years ago now. I know because it was mostly donor funded and I donated to it.
I went to the very first game in the Keg. Except for the sound and video boards, the game court and arena look like they did in the first game. I think that was in 1979. Yes, we have the practice facility but it got scaled back from the original plans. VB was supposed to end up with a court where the crowd will feel like they were right on top of the court. Teams with courts like that seem to win more.
At least the offices got moved from Folsom.
I was going to jump in here on the Harrison point as well. DH was soft as hell for his size, but in all honesty smoking pounds of weed weekly will do that to you.
My suggestion is that, for a few games, you follow some other random but competitive college basketball team. Heck, even choose UA if you want. Study the roster, watch the games. Then get back to us about how those college players never get pushed around.
Your take is silly, but not unusual for a fan who follows only one team and gets disappointed easily.