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What are the expectations at CU going forward?

Will be a slip..
Pac 12 Down this year...had best DC in the country...senior laden D...

Next year....much better pac 12...new DC....new front 3....

See 7 wins max..Leavitt was biggest reason for turnaround and is gone...Buffs better take care of Chiv NOW.....he's next on hot property list!
 
For 2017 I expect 7-8 wins and a top 30 class in 2018. 2018 is shaping up to look an awful lot like 2016. Going forward, my expectations are pretty much in line with most around here: beat CSU, go to a bowl, be in the discussion for division and conference championships more often than not. Pull classes ranked anywhere between 10 and 30.
 
Finishing the year in the Top 25 most years - that means 8-9 wins per season. Keep in mind with the 12 game schedule (plus a bowl, plus sometimes in the CCG) that's still 3-4, possibly 5 losses. In 2015, there were only three 9 win teams in the final Top 25.

2017 is setting up to be a rebuilding year potentially. I can go with a bowl game as the expectation in this case.
 
Breaking OU's 47 game winning streak, 5 consecutive National Titles, 3 Heismans, more national accolades/awards that I can mention in a single post.
 
There are so many unknowns heading into next year that it is really hard to say. Will Montez be able to handle the attention to detail and studying to play well on a week in and week out basis? Who will fill the DC position and how does he do in developing what will be a very young defense? Will CU keep its recruiting class together? How many defensive position coaches are still here next year? Will the obviously strained relationship that developed between MM and JMFL hamper hiring?

What is obvious to me is that CU won't lose a non conference game. They will roll Northern Colorado, Texas State and CSewe. How they do in the conference is an entirely different thing though. Most of the conference (Except Washington) will be significantly better. Somewhere between 5-7 and 8-4 is my predicted finish.
 
TSchekler said:
The schedule doesn't mean anything. Even the most optimistic posters here only saw 6-8 wins this season, when looking at the schedule.
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I had CU at eight wins and there might be 11 wins this season.

If the schedule didn't matter, why do I think Oregon State will beat CSU in Ft. Collins? The Beavers have a bye week coming into town while CSU plays at Alabama.
 
Jalapeno said:
I had CU at eight wins and there might be 11 wins this season.

If the schedule didn't matter, why do I think Oregon State will beat CSU in Ft. Collins? The Beavers have a bye week coming into town while CSU plays at Alabama.
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The point is, nobody really saw the success of this season coming until it did. Nobody thought we'd beat Oregon or Stanford on the road and almost everybody had their doubts about ASU, UCLA and Utah at home. It's a year to year proposition in the Pac.

But to your point, our schedule is the following: CSU, Texas State and Northern Colorado in our OOC slate, and then we get AZ, Cal, USC and UW at home in the Pac 12 and ASU, OSU, UCLA, Utah and Wash State on the road.
 
I see the O being better next year, the D will be good but not as good...but won't need to be w a better O. With a cake OOC schedule we only need to go 3-6 in conference to go bowling. 7-9 wins.
 
I think the offense could be the most explosive in the country period! So much talent at every skill position as long as the Co-Offensive Coordinators can continue to get along, which I still do not like!!! If Chev was running this offense alone, it would score 45+ points per game easily. The offense will have to carry the Defense until it gets established.
 
I expect to have enjoyable experiences at CU getting ****ed up and watching football. I expect many others to join in this revelery.

No clue how the team will perform -- I didn't see this year coming one bit.
 
Win. We have all the faculties, backdrop, educational benefits, quality of life to have a top 25 program. UA, ASU, Utah are not historically great programs. We should be ahead of them most years if not every year. UCLA is USC lite, not the same but we should be battling them and USC year in and year out for 1/2/3 in South Division. 3-5 times a decade we should win the South, a couple times a decade, the Pac 12 and a Rose Bowl.
 
Same as they ever were: consistently ranked, in bowl games, and in the conversation for division/conference championship. Win conference 1-3 times a decade. Occasional down years. Occasional special years.
 
Buffs will get their legs under them with a weak non-conference schedule and 3 wins to start next season. Barring key injuries, the offense might even be better than this year. Defense is a work in progress, especially with the coaching loss of he-who-shan't-be-named. Lots of new talent coming in who will be coached up. Will be a destination for talent, because the facilities and recent success will attract it. At the end of the day, you are trying to impress 17 year olds. Bottom line: CU is such a great place to play and attend school. All they needed was some success in order to set it up for the future. They have that going on. Future=Shades.
 
Wisconsin. CU should be able to do what Wisconsin has done over time in the Big 10, if not slightly better.
 
Y'all are weak sauce. I also follow Michigan and fans always expect to go undefeated every year going into OSU game, which they expect to win half of the time. I'm guessing that's the way all the big boy program fans think. Usually, when they fail to be a 10win team, you can point to 1 specific problem (e.g. QB play, rash of injuries, etc) that would be addressed the following off season.

I've said this before, but I am no longer satisfied with our BBall team squeezing into the dance every year and getting knocked out in the first two rounds.

In the next few years, if we are only winning 7-9 wins every year in football, as this board seems to be expecting, I expect I will not be satisfied either.

From the ****hole we came out of, I can see why 7-9 wins would seem fantastic. But I also see absolutely no reason we cannot be a premier program year in and year out winning 9-11 games in season on a regular basis.

You'll only go as high as you aim. If coach Mac had said 2016 target was bowl game at the beginning of the year, I'm sure we would not have been in the title game.

So, if 2017 is a 7-8 win team, I am fine with that as I don't believe it is a fair expectation to be higher. After that, no excuses to not win at least 9 every year except in or resulting in a major coaching change
 
Next year I expect at least six wins. After that, there really is no reason we should not be competing as a close second to USC in the South. By "close second," I mean that over a 10 year period, SC should win the south 4 or 5 times, we should win 3 or 4 times, and one of the other schools sneaks in 1 or 2.
 
ko_leos said:
Y'all are weak sauce. I also follow Michigan and fans always expect to go undefeated every year going into OSU game, which they expect to win half of the time. I'm guessing that's the way all the big boy program fans think. Usually, when they fail to be a 10win team, you can point to 1 specific problem (e.g. QB play, rash of injuries, etc) that would be addressed the following off season.

I've said this before, but I am no longer satisfied with our BBall team squeezing into the dance every year and getting knocked out in the first two rounds.

In the next few years, if we are only winning 7-9 wins every year in football, as this board seems to be expecting, I expect I will not be satisfied either.

From the ****hole we came out of, I can see why 7-9 wins would seem fantastic. But I also see absolutely no reason we cannot be a premier program year in and year out winning 9-11 games in season on a regular basis.

You'll only go as high as you aim. If coach Mac had said 2016 target was bowl game at the beginning of the year, I'm sure we would not have been in the title game.

So, if 2017 is a 7-8 win team, I am fine with that as I don't believe it is a fair expectation to be higher. After that, no excuses to not win at least 9 every year except in or resulting in a major coaching change
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Again, "goals" vs "expectations". The OP question was about "expectations".
 
Be a bowl team every year. Be a contender for conference championship game every third year.
Keep graduating boys and avoiding drug and sex headlines. (I guess a better way to say this would be to keep a focus on being ambassadors of the program.)
 
4BienemyTDs said:
CSU at Mile High
Texas State
Northern Colorado
At ASU, OSU, UCLA, Utah, WSU
Home AZ, CAL, USC, Washington

8-9 wins, especially if Falk goes to the NFL
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Still waiting on the full schedule to be released. What I'm looking for is who gets bye weeks and whether we play the likes of USC and UW back to back or not. I like the OOC schedule to break in the new defensive starters and I'm also curious who we open with for conference play as well. That is how I came up with a max of eight wins for this season before the season started. Given that both Arizona schools will open with both coaches on the hot seat, I'm interested in when we face those teams.
 
And to answer my expectations, CU should be going to bowl games and contending for the conference crown year in and year out. It could be just CU and USC given where the four other South schools are at right now. UA, ASU, and UCLA will have their coaches on the hot seat and Utah's hot seat might warm up this season after many missed opportunities for the Pac-12 South and watching CU get into the CCG before they did. That's definitely not going over well in Utah for sure.
 
I don't think it's too much to expect to compete for the division and P12 every year, with an emphasis on compete. Playing a meaningful game the day or two after Thanksgiving with Pac 12 South implications.
 
Buffnik said:
Again, "goals" vs "expectations". The OP question was about "expectations".
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Yep, I'm talking expectation. 7 wins minimum next year, 9 wins minimum after that, with only 1-2 years we dip below that in the next decade.

Goal is p12 south champion contender every year. Why would my goals be 9 wins when we've shown it's possible this year to get 10?

Maybe I'll be disappointed a lot, maybe not.
 
I expect us to find ways to win for the next 10 years instead of finding ways to lose. Mental toughness that results in a minimum of 8 wins every season for the next decade. Win major battles in our most talent-rich recruiting grounds, and during the next 10 years for Mac to make this a destination program freaking laced with excellence that attracts the best players (character and talent -wise).
 
The goal should be conference champions every year.

The expectation should be for that to be a realistic goal most of the time and a realized goal 1-3 times a decade.
 
I don't know why it is safe to assume that CU has permanently jumped Utah in the pecking order of the P12 south? They have been good for a long time now.
 
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