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Wyoming Game Week Thread - Saturday at some ungodly time

I can’t tell who the best five are to start on the back end. I’m not a Finnseth fan, but he may actually be one of the best five at this moment. Yikes.
They have one safety who can play. They also continue to start Hodge at CB and he can’t play. As BuffsBlog pointed out on his site, the best 5 is probably DJ and RJ at CB, Vickers at NB, Hodge and Byard at S
 
BTW - is this where the old man complains about the start time?

Seriously though, this sucks. My kid comes with me to the games, and we have to be at the ballfields at 8:15 the next morning for a game. I don't see how in good conscience I could take him.
Soldy ticket. I can't ruin 2 days over the weekend for what should be a body bag game
 
Exactly this.

This is what I want, and it’s stunning to me we can’t get there.

Makes me think Shurmer over-processes the offensive concepts to the point of being essentially useless in the college game.

Sure, the college game has evolved, but we won our Natty (and destroyed NUBs program) with a playbook that was effectively less than 10-15 plays.
Shurmur stopped calling the offense that was installed over the summer. It is this malpractice that should be immediately fireable.
 
I get wanting to build a culture of accountability, hard work and earned not given mentality, but this team isn’t talented or deep enough to be stashing the most talented players and playing former walk ons. In the limited time he’s played Oatis is clearly one of the best IDL with major disruption abilities. I really hope he’s also truly injured and not just continually in the dog house.
No, he has nagging stuff. He has not been fully healthy since coming to Colorado.
 
Taylor needs touches. He is the best offensive skill player and it’s not particularly close. O Miller could/would be but he’s hurt/inconsistent and they can’t force feed him like they can Taylor
Bingo. Honestly, we should be in a 20/21 personnel more than anything else with Taylor being one of them back there. He's that dynamic, he should rarely be off the field.
 
No, he has nagging stuff. He has not been fully healthy since coming to Colorado.
If the Buffs take care of business like they should this should be a week for guys like Oatis and other with nagging little stuff to get little or no playing time and heal up some. At the same time get some of the depth guys playing time and see if they can step up their games and earn more playing time when it matters.

Buffs are going to need a healthy Oatis against some teams that have much more physical IOL players than Wyoming . If they can't dominate the Cowboys without Oatis then we have some real problems.
 
Promo image suggests that this game is Salter's.

Oooooh my, this brings back some serious memories. My fav concert of all time is Cube at the Fox back in 1994 (yeah I’m old)…roof was abt to blow off that night. First time I had to go through one of those gun detectors before entering the concert. Still is my top three concert arenas along w Red Rocks for that matter. I loved how there were bars ard the walls inside the small concert room and a bar just before entering the concert hall like the old style popcorn circle. Amazing place. Does it still exist?
 
Oooooh my, this brings back some serious memories. My fav concert of all time is Cube at the Fox back in 1994 (yeah I’m old)…roof was abt to blow off that night. First time I had to go through one of those gun detectors before entering the concert. Still is my top three concert arenas along w Red Rocks for that matter. I loved how there were bars ard the walls inside the small concert room and a bar just before entering the concert hall like the old style popcorn circle. Amazing place. Does it still exist?
Maybe it was 1995…according to google now looking it up hahaha. Anyhow, it was a good day
 
I saw a show at McNichols arena that was Public Enemy/Cube/Big Daddy Kane.....maybe 1989? Was righteous.

There was a CU- Wyoming game in one Rick N's last 2 seasons that was an ugly CU win. Not gonna look it up but 16-13, 13-10, something. My inexact memory has the Buffs recovering a fumble on Wyo's last drive to seal the W. Game my inexact memory points to when I realized Rick was a bigger step back from Mac than I wanted to believe.

Among those not liking late start. Less or none of these a positive I thought leaving the Pac. Recall a UCLA game maybe last MacIntyre year....8 :15 start....in October. Started raining around 3:30 and then sun went behind the mountains and hour later turned to freezing rain for the next 3 hours until kickoff. Pretty unpleasant....I was at the West End with buddies...where it was warm, had beer and tvs. Tough to head up to Folsom. Lol

Buffs 30-13, not sure what we learn but I will take W. As the late Jim Valvano said: survive and advance
 
That would be the job of the OC (to call the offense they installed in the spring).
My concern is that the plays installed in the spring are mostly awful, don't fit into or enhance a workable, integrated scheme against teams that have scouted us--at all, and lack any creativity, effective motion, or misdirection.

Also, when was the last time we ran a successful trick play? When was the last time we hit a simple, easy third down conversion that looked like we knew what the D was going to do and beat that?
 
My concern is that the plays installed in the spring are mostly awful, don't fit into or enhance a workable, integrated scheme against teams that have scouted us--at all, and lack any creativity, effective motion, or misdirection.

Also, when was the last time we ran a successful trick play? When was the last time we hit a simple, easy third down conversion that looked like we knew what the D was going to do and beat that?
I would bet that the individual plays are pretty well constructed with good detail on if/then on how it should be blocked and the decision trees on reads based on what the defense does.

I would also bet that the playbook would show a scheme where if the defense is doing something that would stonewall a certain play, that there's a complementary play to be called which gives the same look but then exploits that defensive adjustment.

That's just coaching 101.

I think that we may have complexity in design, terminology that is too much for the college level or have too many plays in the game plan, which leads to all 11 guys not reading & reacting the same way and/or not playing fast, loose & confidently (too NFL). I think that we may have a QB coaching issue of being too conservative while looking over your shoulder if you play the position at CU, with turnovers and completion percentage being valued & emphasized over points per possession. Last, I think that play calling is as much or more an art than it is a science and that we don't have someone calling plays who has that gene which gives him feel and intuition for it.
 
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My concern is that the plays installed in the spring are mostly awful, don't fit into or enhance a workable, integrated scheme against teams that have scouted us--at all, and lack any creativity, effective motion, or misdirection.

Also, when was the last time we ran a successful trick play? When was the last time we hit a simple, easy third down conversion that looked like we knew what the D was going to do and beat that?
The plays that were repped in August practices weren't bad TBH. The problem is I have only seen 1/4 of them in actual games.
 
I knew it was a lot but didn't know it was all of them. Hell, even in CU's heyday, that wasn't even close to the case.
In our heyday, no one was.

But, during some meaningful span of years (I want to say the 90s), the only team with more national broadcasts than CU was ND.

Yes, more than tOSU, mich, Bama, Texas, OU, usc, etc.

(A lot of that was due to our scheduling - we were both good, and were willing to play good teams, whereas those others failed on one or both of those measures during that time span.)
 
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