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Who Replaces Ben Mills?

wyobuff

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I know that ben didnt get much playing time, but He certainly was a fan favorite. Who steps up to fill his shoes?
When I was at school, it was billy boidock (who apparently works for the golden state warriors now).
It seems like names starting with B are pretty popular to be fan favorites (along with skinny white dudes).

Is brett brady next?
 
wyobuff said:
I know that ben didnt get much playing time, but He certainly was a fan favorite. Who steps up to fill his shoes?
When I was at school, it was billy boidock (who apparently works for the golden state warriors now).
It seems like names starting with B are pretty popular to be fan favorites (along with skinny white dudes).

Is brett brady next?
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I remember Billy Boidock, the original human cigar. (Ben Mills played real minutes this year)

Better question who replaces Beau Gamble?
 
I just heard that due to a new NCAA rule that Preston Slaughter has regained a year of eligibility.
 
Billy Boidock nails a 3 at the buzzer.

[video=youtube;seuXna5f_Cc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seuXna5f_Cc[/video]
 
Maybe Eli Stalzer. Seems to be a likable person, but probably doesn't see a lot of playing time over the next few years.
 
Hell, I was probably at that game, believe it or not.

Anyone who is whining about the attendance now needs to look at the keg in that video.....you could detonate a bomb in there and not have any casualties.
 
wyobuff said:
Hell, I was probably at that game, believe it or not.

Anyone who is whining about the attendance now needs to look at the keg in that video.....you could detonate a bomb in there and not have any casualties.
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I was definitely at the game and I've been trying to say that all season with some of the crowd criticisms. By no means, am I saying we should be happy with what we have, but it's not as bad as some are portraying it to be.
 
Tempe_Buff said:
Billy Boidock nails a 3 at the buzzer.

[video=youtube;seuXna5f_Cc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seuXna5f_Cc[/video]
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After watching that video, first I was able to spot myself within the dozen or so students (which was kinda cool), it also made me realize how much better we have it with the style of play. I know that they were already blowing out Utah, but i just was thinking back to how annoying it was to watch Patton's teams.

Boidock also annoyed me a bit, but in a good way. He was a mechanical engineer (same class as me), and even with playing basketball, he always had better grades, and projects, etc. I guess it was because he wasnt playing beer pong every night
 
Would it be against the rules to just roll a wooden Indian onto the court as our 'victory cigar' player?
 
I hope we get past having these fan favorites who ride and deserve to be on the bench. It should be exciting to see the next up and comer get time in garbage time. Not some kid who should never have been on the roster in the first place.
 
Buffalo Brad said:
I hope we get past having these fan favorites who ride and deserve to be on the bench. It should be exciting to see the next up and comer get time in garbage time. Not some kid who should never have been on the roster in the first place.
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I get what you're saying, but it's hard to recruit those type of players to Colorado or really any school, but moreso CU when they aren't getting playing time. Now things are different than 5 years ago in that you can't promise playing time like you once you could where other schools couldn't but still. I think it's fun to have players to root for. That's not to say I don't want the best possible team.
 
Buffalo Brad said:
I hope we get past having these fan favorites who ride and deserve to be on the bench. It should be exciting to see the next up and comer get time in garbage time. Not some kid who should never have been on the roster in the first place.
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Every successful program has kids who deserve to ride the bench and do. What we want is for all of those guys to be the walk-ons who bust their butts in practice with the hope of getting a few minutes of garbage time multiple times over the season.

At the time Ben was recruited he was a reasonable target to recruit. His biggest issue is that he was never able, despite plenty of work, to build the strength and mass to compete at this level. This is not something that Tad could have known was not going to happen when he recruited him.

Ben has a great attitude and he has some skills. Had he been able to put on another 25-30lbs of quality muscle we would be hailing Tad as a genius for signing him.

The difference now is that the program is not longer at a point where we have to take guys who are the kind of risk or compromise that Ben was.

The next fan favorite is likely to be the practice player who manages to sneak into those odd minutes and carries that hustle and effort into those minutes even when the game is long over.
 
Buffalo Brad said:
I hope we get past having these fan favorites who ride and deserve to be on the bench. It should be exciting to see the next up and comer get time in garbage time. Not some kid who should never have been on the roster in the first place.
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Yep. That's a role for a walk-on or a guy who has battled injury and toughed it through. Mills plays hard, has an engaging personality, and has played some useful minutes... but I want more from that from anyone who is on scholarship at CU for 4 years.
 
Buffnik said:
Yep. That's a role for a walk-on or a guy who has battled injury and toughed it through. Mills plays hard, has an engaging personality, and has played some useful minutes... but I want more from that from anyone who is on scholarship at CU for 4 years.
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Absolutely. There needs to be more in a top tier program from this type of kid. 4 year ship player needs to contribute more than Mills did. He played a decent role for where we were, but that is a walk on in the future.
 
Buffalo Brad said:
I hope we get past having these fan favorites who ride and deserve to be on the bench. It should be exciting to see the next up and comer get time in garbage time. Not some kid who should never have been on the roster in the first place.
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You gotta remember that Ben came on very strong very late in his HS career and had a lot of offers from some pretty good programs (OSU, Northwestern, Xavier.) He may have been a more heralded recruit than Andre Roberson at the time.
 
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