Too soon.
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Thoughts on next year
- Thread starter Corn Manelton
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After the watching the ****ty performance the first three games this year, I pretty much checked out (yes, I'm aware they were wins, but... holy hell was the team playing ****ty). Only watched games if I had nothing else going on (or couldn't sleep, damn late starts).
Here's how I expect this offseason to go:
MM stays.
He waits until late December to fire a couple coaches.
Several current commitments defect and commit somewhere else; the class ranking ends up in the 50-60 range.
He waits till mid to late February to hire replacements and the 10th assistant.
The new assistants are random guys no one has heard of, from well outside CU's footprint, and they have mediocre (at best) recruiting skills.
Assuming the offseason unfolds that way, I probably won't even bother getting the p12 network next fall - because I'll be completely checked out.
Here's how I expect this offseason to go:
MM stays.
He waits until late December to fire a couple coaches.
Several current commitments defect and commit somewhere else; the class ranking ends up in the 50-60 range.
He waits till mid to late February to hire replacements and the 10th assistant.
The new assistants are random guys no one has heard of, from well outside CU's footprint, and they have mediocre (at best) recruiting skills.
Assuming the offseason unfolds that way, I probably won't even bother getting the p12 network next fall - because I'll be completely checked out.
DrunkPanda
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It’s not “we should have known”. Many of us DID know. I mentioned it multiple times in the early season and was shouted down. It was fairly obvious if you were paying attention to the games and not just looking at the final score
DrunkPanda
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This is exactly how I see it playing out if Mac has his way. That’s why RG needs to take initiative and fire Mac’s coordinators for him and hire his replacements for him, in a timely manner. Mac lost the privilege of making head coaching decisions when he hired JD Elliott (yes, I know I got his name wrong, the same way he got some of his defensive players’ names wrong when talking to reporters, after half a year of coaching them)
That's ridiculous. You think MM is disinterested now? The AD dictating who will be on staff would make the relationship 10 time more toxic and completely untenable. No head coach would stand for that.
RG taking the initiative would mean negotiating a parting of ways with a significantly reduced buyout. If MM wants out as badly as many seem to think he does and his agent can find him a decent landing spot then he should be willing to listen. The problem is that I can't see why any school would want to take him off our hands after this season's regression and he doesn't have the charisma for a TV gig. Then again, Helfrich is on TV so anything is possible.
We'd also be on the hook for Eliott's contract so RG would likely have to pull a magic booster out of his hat.
I'd say there's probably only a 10% chance that RG finds a way to make a change.
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8Jah
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I think Wilson has done an outstanding job in the short time he has been here. I love his philosophy. Totally agree he could use more help.
Our guys don't look little to me anymore. I am with the commentators of the UW CU game when they said; athletic-wise CU has closed the gap over the past few years. I just wish we could tackle.
Always BUFF
I post stupid ****
1) I expect an overhaul of the O line, only Lynott and Bounds holdover. 2) I believe the receiving corp will be the best group. 3) I don't expect the D to improve to a point that the offense won't be required to put up huge numbers to win games. 4) I can see Montez's numbers going up but that's a wait and see based on the O line performance and play calling. All in all I won't believe a whole lot of what is wrote or said anymore prior to the start of the season. One practice that I wish the coaches would change is letting the players pick the captains.
Where do you see us getting the 8 wins? Not being sarcastic, but I only see 6 on there. We go 2-1 in non-con dropping the away game to the Corn (damnit).
USC and UW are still auto losses to me until we get a real D-Line and O-Line; can’t fake it against superior all around talent.
Oregon State and Washington State are the two wins I see in conference.
We split 2-3 Utah/Arizona/ASU/UCLA and Cal. All 5 programs are headed in the right direction with decent players waiting for a coach.
8-4 is basically what I would consider a dream season.
I’m a visionary.
Okay. You say it isn’t going to happen. But would you admit it is plausible?
NU will be playing it’s second game (I believe) under a new staff and coming off a crap year. UCLA is not very good, will also be under a new staff, and traveling to Boulder. Same for ASU. it’s very plausible that we win those first 5.
c502cid
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^^This^^. There will be some transfers in this mess.
If the new coach is Frost, Nebraska wins handily, IMO. Also, UCLA has elite level talent across the board that had been underperforming/coached down. If Chip can find a QB to run his system, that game could be ugly. At best, I think we're 4-4 through the first 8 games, with an opportunity to win 3 of the last 4
We ain’t losing to Nebraska. As bad as we are, they’re much worse.
After seeing how we played some of our games this year I don't count any games as sure wins. kNU is bad but we aren't exactly a dominant force.
We should beat the corn but we should have beaten 2-4 more of the teams on our schedule this year that we didn't.
Tell that to Northern Illinois.
We could schedule Kansas. As long as we don't hire another Hawkins that is.
GoBuffs08
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Based off this years performance I see CU getting 5 wins and maybe a 6th between WSU & UU only because they are home games.
Which will have little to do with a game between CU and NU in 2018.
Do you have no sense of humor at all?
I do. I know you are talking low-level smack.
There’s that. There’s also the issue of NEVER, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, do we ever acknowledge the even remote possibility that a loss to the Fuskers could possibly happen. We are the Buffs, dammit. And while we may suck, Nebraska always sucks more. Always.
