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The next two games that the Buffs play are the most critical in the Mike Macintyre Era
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Big Jim
WTF?
I wore no red from the late 80’s til CU upgraded to the Pac-12.
How'd it feet to finally be able to wear big boys pants?
I appreciate your spirit my friend but there's a difference between tradition and nostalgia. The CU/NE rivalry was great in its heyday but right now it's two very mediocre teams from completely different conferences. I listened to me first Buff game on a big plastic radio in 1967, so I've run the gamut. (BTW, what the hell is a gamut? Am I spelling it right?) Let's beat the Huskers' butts but let's not give a monumental importance to the game other than it's an OOC game against a rebuilding opponent. To do otherwise is just nostalgia.
SINKRATZ
PhD in Analogy
I see what you mean. I'd change things up if that's what you're wearing these days. LOL!
Nik, we agree on a fair number of things but not on this. I'd much rather be in the B1G than the PAC-12. We could do much better in recruiting if we were in the B1G West than in the PAC-12. Californians are notoriously provincial and it will always be an uphill battle to pull the good ones off the West Coast. The PAC 12 is the football version of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Everything is important for 15 minutes but everything is meaningless 24 hours later. I would actually go to a road game in Madison, Minneapolis, or Evanston, but not in L.A. or the Bay Area.
That's our next OL commit......
Big Ten is a different story. That would have been an interesting fit. I don't think that was ever on the table, though. Not sure if the money could have been raised for the IPF if we hadn't connected to the Cali alums, which is something to consider. Pac-12 is really where CU belongs.
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I evaluated at the transition point and decided there's so much red ****ery in the.P12 that it was ok to continue. Red truly sucks in every conference.
Always BUFF
I post stupid ****
Red is only acceptable on my wife's toenails and I'll go no further. Being a Buff transcends life that once past you don't get back. 95 Buff truck that got keyed in ne...don't talk to me about the past and why I hate red.
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Let me clarify my point on this thread so you can all be clear. I am not being nostalgic about playing Nebraska and dreaming of something like that coming back to us through USC or any other program because yes, what MAC did cannot be reproduced. My main point is that these particular games come at a perfect time to evaluate our coach and our program at an important finite point, since he is obviously our coach for the foreseeable future. Please focus on the timing of these games, the opponents, and the condition of these rival programs. As for the long term conversation, I do not care about that and it will take a lot to get back to what we had from 1989-1994. Time to make new history, and time to have the right guy there to do it. I still hope it is MM, that is why I am giving him the chance to prove to me.
WHY did we choose to make this series and a future series with Nebraska if it is no big deal? Don't you think the AD's felt that it would be a classic game with lots of fan enthusiasm and probably good TV coverage? I will bet that ESPN or FOX will choose the game because of the history and because it will be Frost's first big game.
I personally do not think lots of games against the Nubs is beneficial at all as we are not recruiting there. What I would consider is to alternate between Nebraska and CSU every year as our one rival game. Otherwise, I wish that we would play a game in Texas every year so that our recruiting pipeline and our players from Texas could have family and friends see them, and help promote recruiting.
Many of the old fart jokes are pretty funny and do not bother me. Stranger Things is based on the 80's though, so why are you thinking that proves your point? Us old folks enjoyed the Buffs when they were tough and good, not like the "SOFT" teams we have seen the last 13 years. If our fans cannot get excited about these two games, and do not demand and hope and encourage a 2-0 start because we can explain away the totality of the season, then we are such a sad program. The Huskers just got some hope back with Frost coming back, and I want to win those games so bad, end of story.
Colorado at Nebraska (Sept. 8)
WHY did we choose to make this series and a future series with Nebraska if it is no big deal? Don't you think the AD's felt that it would be a classic game with lots of fan enthusiasm and probably good TV coverage? I will bet that ESPN or FOX will choose the game because of the history and because it will be Frost's first big game.
I personally do not think lots of games against the Nubs is beneficial at all as we are not recruiting there. What I would consider is to alternate between Nebraska and CSU every year as our one rival game. Otherwise, I wish that we would play a game in Texas every year so that our recruiting pipeline and our players from Texas could have family and friends see them, and help promote recruiting.
Many of the old fart jokes are pretty funny and do not bother me. Stranger Things is based on the 80's though, so why are you thinking that proves your point? Us old folks enjoyed the Buffs when they were tough and good, not like the "SOFT" teams we have seen the last 13 years. If our fans cannot get excited about these two games, and do not demand and hope and encourage a 2-0 start because we can explain away the totality of the season, then we are such a sad program. The Huskers just got some hope back with Frost coming back, and I want to win those games so bad, end of story.
Colorado at Nebraska (Sept. 8)
Eric Francis/Getty Images
How do you like that throwback picture up there?
One of the best rivalries of the first decade of the Big 12 will be returning, though Colorado is now in the Pac-12 and Nebraska is in the Big Ten. Realignment may have obliterated the storied rivalry between the Buffaloes and the Cornhuskers, but a mini-version is coming back.
The programs will reunite for a four-game series from 2018-24. After a home-and-home, they'll take a three-year hiatus before renewing the home-and-home series again in 2023-24.
Then-Colorado athletic director Mike Bohn (now at Cincinnati) arranged for the series with Tom Osborne before he retired from the AD job at Nebraska. Though the Huskers have a decisive advantage, their first five meetings as Big 12 participants all went to Nebraska but by a grand total of 15 points.
The Buffaloes gained a measure of revenge, but then things dissipated when the programs went their separate ways. After years of frustration and futility following those great teams, both are winning again. Last year, CU coach Mike MacIntyre had the Buffs in the Pac-12 Championship Game.
Though Nebraska coach Mike Riley isn't winning enough to satisfy the Huskers, they're doing OK, too.
By the time these games roll around, they'll be back on the national radar. And it's a game you should know about because it could be exciting, just like it used to be.
If CU comes out flat footed in these games, even in victory, there will be glaring issues. We’ll see how well the team is mentally prepared for next year.
Key games on September 8th:
Colorado at Nebraska
UCLA at Oklahoma
Clemson at Texas A&M
USC at Stanford
Should be in line for a decent TV spot
Colorado at Nebraska
UCLA at Oklahoma
Clemson at Texas A&M
USC at Stanford
Should be in line for a decent TV spot
You really gonna be upset if CU wins both of those games but doesn't deliver style points?
8 pm on FS1!
All 3 of the Pac-12 games. They'll each occupy a PIP square down the right side of the screen while a truck race is shown.
jizzrag85
Well-Known Member
You think we’ll get the early PAC 12 slot eh?
Not upset. It’s not even about style; it is about whether we show that we’re going in the right direction. When Texas State gashed us for 156 yards in the run game, it showed a glaring weakness that proved to be one of our biggest defensive liabilities all season. While we won that game by 34, it was a bad sign for games to come.
I will be happy if we win, but skeptical about our team’s progress if we get pushed around on the LOS.
I will be happy if we win, but skeptical about our team’s progress if we get pushed around on the LOS.
cu62nu36
fascist tool
Wait, what? You mean you didn't get MM fired? He's still here? You failed. How disappointing for you.
Well at least you still have 9 months of incessant emo garble to work your magic. Keep up the good work.
MM is safe for 9 months and I will be leaving him alone to work his magic right up through the first two games, and then depending on the results, I will either be quiet or incessantly a pain in his ass. Go Mike, Go Buffs! Are you being sarcastic, I am confused.
