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Texas State Game Week (Official Thread)

To our Texas State friends and visitors: there is tubing on Boulder Creek.

Not every fan base is let in on this little secret. You know what to do and you know how to do it.

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I also highly recommend a pregame visit to Liquor Mart.

It's neighborly to offer some of Boulder's Helping Hands to visiting Texans living under oppressive laws.

Funnels, tubes, and duct tape can be acquired at McGuckin Hardware.

A few other Texas State specific resources that didn't make the link Nik provided
CU Fraternities
Boulder Rifle & Pistol Club
YP Bail Bonds listing
Boulder Community Hospital / Emergency Room
Rocky Mountain Rescue Group

Know your limits and party in it.
The altitude makes the things you put in you a little more potent.
Love the Nevada link for firearms.
 
we gonna put more than half a hundred on them. offense should go for about 600 yards.

yeah, i am dissing texas state. yeah, i am. so there. all the best players from the state of texas have clearly left the state. the shorthorns, the aggies, f-bailer... they all suck.

i want 9 touchdowns.
 
The more I think about it, I'm guessing we don't cover. MM uses this game to practice things we don't do well instead of picking and choosing through the plays that we're best at.
 
The more I think about it, I'm guessing we don't cover. MM uses this game to practice things we don't do well instead of picking and choosing through the plays that we're best at.
Probably going to be pretty vanilla on both sides, for sure, and that should still be plenty to drop 45-50 on them.
 
Biggest thing I want to see from the team this week is for the OL to be much more physical. They played soft on Friday except for Lynott.
 
Biggest thing I want to see from the team this week is for the OL to be much more physical. They played soft on Friday except for Lynott.
This. No excuses, crush everyone. Kaiser may not be a road grader, but he was competent as a run blocker last week. We should be able to go straight ahead and move these guys while also having the athleticism to keep Montez clean. Go get them.

I'd also like to see more development by Javier and Mulumba. Both held their own pretty well against CSU (only saw Javier get really moved once, and that was side to side when CSU's center got underneath him or once on a double team). Mulumba was a weaker spot. I'd really like to see these guys start to show some disruptiveness. I don't think Javier spent much time in the defensive backfield.
 
we gonna put more than half a hundred on them. offense should go for about 600 yards.

yeah, i am dissing texas state. yeah, i am. so there. all the best players from the state of texas have clearly left the state. the shorthorns, the aggies, f-bailer... they all suck.

i want 9 touchdowns.

I'm okay with a humble win against Texas State if that means keeping our UDub playbook under wraps. I'd love to discover how potent CU's offense really is by shocking the pundits with a multi-TD victory over the reigning P12 champs.
 
I have never really bought into the idea that you can hold back quite a bit against lesser opponents and then just magically flip a switch once you face a good team. The offensive consistency needed to win in the Pac-12 needs to start now, not later.
 
I have never really bought into the idea that you can hold back quite a bit against lesser opponents and then just magically flip a switch once you face a good team. The offensive consistency needed to win in the Pac-12 needs to start now, not later.
This. go out and crush them with all you got early, then let the backups try and do the same.
 
I have never really bought into the idea that you can hold back quite a bit against lesser opponents and then just magically flip a switch once you face a good team. The offensive consistency needed to win in the Pac-12 needs to start now, not later.
I don't want to hold back. I also don't think there's a need to bust out ST fakes, trick plays on offense and creative blitzes. Just run the base stuff that everyone has film on anyway. There's a lot of value in refining your bread & butter stuff with that approach too.
 
I have never really bought into the idea that you can hold back quite a bit against lesser opponents and then just magically flip a switch once you face a good team. The offensive consistency needed to win in the Pac-12 needs to start now, not later.

Holding back is easy. Vanilla playbook. Run the same few plays over and over again.

The harder part is flipping the switch. We fans don't get the benefit of seeing what is taking place in camp or at practice. All we got was some vanilla scrimmages and CSU.

I'd like to believe CU is capable being crisp with a bigger playbook than what is shown during Non-Con with a mix that includes unique blocking or blitzing schemes, efficient running of the PRO with progressions to second, third or forth receiver targets, a slew of unique formations, and an uptempo offense that bares little resemblance to the CSU of TSU outing.
 
I have never really bought into the idea that you can hold back quite a bit against lesser opponents and then just magically flip a switch once you face a good team. The offensive consistency needed to win in the Pac-12 needs to start now, not later.
I don't think it's about holding anything back, but rather not showing any new wrinkles to the offense/defense that aren't already on tape. As nik said, work on refining your base stuff and save some of the more "exotic" concepts for UW.
 
I don't want to hold back. I also don't think there's a need to bust out ST fakes, trick plays on offense and creative blitzes. Just run the base stuff that everyone has film on anyway. There's a lot of value in refining your bread & butter stuff with that approach too.

I also believe people tend to overstate how complicated offenses can be in CFB. Running the base offense is most of the battle.
 
The Buffs offense is full of upperclassmen with lots of snaps.

Running a base offense by year 5 of Mac's tenure is tablestakes. But more is required to obtain the goal of winning the conference.
 
Biggest thing I want to see from the team this week is for the OL to be much more physical. They played soft on Friday except for Lynott.
+1. I was very disappointed in our supposed "best O line since Barnett". Also, I don't see much need to run Montez. Get him comfortable in the pocket and let him throw it around some.
 
I also believe people tend to overstate how complicated offenses can be in CFB. Running the base offense is most of the battle.
While true, I strongly suspect the offense we saw against CSU this year was dramatically scaled back from the offense we saw against CSU last year. We threw downfield twice, and one of those was a broken play where Montez scrambled and waived his receivers deep. There was very little in terms of keeping the DBs honest. Not a lot of throws down the seam (if any). The middle of the field was abandoned on passing plays. I honestly don't think that's the offense we will see later in the year.

At least I hope not.
 
While true, I strongly suspect the offense we saw against CSU this year was dramatically scaled back from the offense we saw against CSU last year. We threw downfield twice, and one of those was a broken play where Montez scrambled and waived his receivers deep. There was very little in terms of keeping the DBs honest. Not a lot of throws down the seam (if any). The middle of the field was abandoned on passing plays. I honestly don't think that's the offense we will see later in the year.

At least I hope not.

Hoping to see the offense Montez brought to Eugene. He's got a 300 yards passing & 100 yards rushing game under his belt.

Either CSU had and good defensive scheme or Montez regressed. Either way, the film is out on CU's offense.
 
Hoping to see the offense Montez brought to Eugene. He's got a 300 yards passing & 100 yards rushing game under his belt.

Either CSU had and good defensive scheme or Montez regressed. Either way, the film is out on CU's offense.
I think it's reasonable to say the offense was playing fairly vanilla and conservative against CSU and taking what the defense gave them. I believe it was done in an attempt to limit the what UW is able to see prior to the 22nd. We saw very little vertical passing, very little RPO, very little Montez and Lindsay on the Read Option, and zero trick plays.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if they are already watching film on UDub here and there already. I don't know with Mac. It does happen though.
 
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