BlackNGold
Club Member
Let us get right to it.
The Good:
This Section will be short, I will go with Adkins performance. He is faster to the hole than Powell and slips through small seams. After that nothing was good.
The Bad:
It was mostly bad, CU faced a team that was one dimensional on offense, bad on defense and battling an inordinate amount of injuries to starters. Add the bonus that the weather was such that it helped negate the Beavers only dimension on offense. This game set up as an opportunity for the Buffs but the opportunity was squandered. The problems that were there early in season continued - no pressure on the QB, offense cannot run the ball effectively when it counts, and most importantly the QB play was, well lets just say it was bad. Add the continued poor special teams play and you have the result that you saw. I will also say the coaching did not impress me at all, Oregon State came out in the second half and had made adjustments - their first drive they went right down the field and scored. The sloppiness they had the first half was gone.
I could add about 5 more paragraphs in this section but you get the gist.
The Ugly:
For the third game in a row it was the special teams. When will it end.
The Reality:
CU still has a talent deficit relative to the rest of the PAC 12. That deficit was masked playing CSU and Central Arkansas, but there should of been a hint when we were losing to Central Arkansas in the 4th quarter. MacIntyre and his staff are not such miracle workers they can overcome that issue. Oregon State is probably in the bottom half of the conference talent wise and it looked like we could not match up with them. This is certainly a rebuilding process and will not be quick.
The Good:
This Section will be short, I will go with Adkins performance. He is faster to the hole than Powell and slips through small seams. After that nothing was good.
The Bad:
It was mostly bad, CU faced a team that was one dimensional on offense, bad on defense and battling an inordinate amount of injuries to starters. Add the bonus that the weather was such that it helped negate the Beavers only dimension on offense. This game set up as an opportunity for the Buffs but the opportunity was squandered. The problems that were there early in season continued - no pressure on the QB, offense cannot run the ball effectively when it counts, and most importantly the QB play was, well lets just say it was bad. Add the continued poor special teams play and you have the result that you saw. I will also say the coaching did not impress me at all, Oregon State came out in the second half and had made adjustments - their first drive they went right down the field and scored. The sloppiness they had the first half was gone.
I could add about 5 more paragraphs in this section but you get the gist.
The Ugly:
For the third game in a row it was the special teams. When will it end.
The Reality:
CU still has a talent deficit relative to the rest of the PAC 12. That deficit was masked playing CSU and Central Arkansas, but there should of been a hint when we were losing to Central Arkansas in the 4th quarter. MacIntyre and his staff are not such miracle workers they can overcome that issue. Oregon State is probably in the bottom half of the conference talent wise and it looked like we could not match up with them. This is certainly a rebuilding process and will not be quick.
