We are a team of tragedy

[GoldStampede]

I think people are negating the severity of the ASU loss because they had like 17 or 21 points or something on total fluke plays.

Either way, to me the sample size is too small to really say much either way. This team is far more competitive than it was under Hawk or Embree. If this trend of losing close keeps up one more year, then I'll be ready to give up.

 

[AlferdJasper]

Watching the game Friday night and what summed up CU over the last many years of suck is the fact that even playing in Boulder we can't find a kicker that can reach the end zone. The easiest job in all of college football should be to recruit a kicker to Boulder to play in the altitude. If we can't recruit a decent kicker how are we ever going to get any of the skill players needed to improve the team.

It's a bit dramatic to place it all on the kickoff, but it is incredibly frustrating. I can't think of a single kicker from an away team that struggles as much as our kickoff "specialists" do. The problem is also magnified by us having 3 scholarship kickers - what a joke.

Or perhaps we need a better special teams coach, one that actually understands special teams. Three kickers on scholarship is not the problem.

 

[8Jah]

The only games we weren't competitive in where ASU and Stanford. Not that we would have won all the others without some luck. But with a Cinderella season we could have...it was within our ability. We shouldn't have lost all of them...that was tragic.

 

[Uncle Ken]

wrong. wrong. wrong.

domination in just the 90s, just a few facts:

a national championship
9 bowl games (going 7-2)
a heisman trophy winner, with 6 guys in the top 20 vote getters
2 butkus trophys, 2 thorpe trophies, among others.
19 consensus all-americans
7 conference championships or runner up
143 consecutive weeks ranked (from 89-97)
54 nfl draft picks (10 of 11 offensive starters in 1994 played in the nfl)

that's just a quick review. talent. wins.

You spelled "dong" wrong.

 

[fatbuff]

The only games we weren't competitive in where ASU and Stanford. Not that we would have won all the others without some luck. But with a Cinderella season we could have...it was within our ability. We shouldn't have lost all of them...that was tragic.

Know what other games were close? Csu and UMass, and OSU. We could easily be a one win team.

 

[Dark Bohner]

Know what other games were close? Csu and UMass, and OSU. We could easily be a one win team.

UMass wasn't close.

 

[aghcsm]

UMass wasn't close.

Not this year, that was 2014. And with all the griping about losing close games, we might as well give credit for winning a couple of close games instead of calling them "almost losses."

 

[Duff Man]

Not this year, that was 2014. And with all the griping about losing close games, we might as well give credit for winning a couple of close games instead of calling them "almost losses."

I think the reasoning that we could easily be 1-10 is as silly as the reasoning we could be a 7-8 win team. Watching this team over the last couple seasons, I have a hard time thinking any of the outcomes of a particular games were flukes.

 

[FLounder]

We had some well deserved losses. Hope this team grows even more in the offseason. Really think we get 8/9 wins next season.