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Friday Fast Facts

//posted 10.21.2011

Friday Fast Facts

Injury Update

Out for an extended time:

Jared Bell – (Soph.) – defensive back – Out for the season with a torn ACL

Jack Harris – (Soph.) – offensive tackle – Likely out for the season with a broken ankle, surgery on 9/22, still 3-5 weeks from a possible return

Sherrard Harrington – (Fr.) – defensive back – suffered a hip contusion during the summer, will likley red-shirt

Will Harlos – (Fr.) – defensive back – hamstring – “has endured some tightness” – out 3-4 weeks

Tony Poremba – (Sr.) – defensive lineman – suffered a concussion in practice on October 4th – out indefinitely

Paul Richardson – (So.) – wide receiver – suffered a severe strained knee in practice on October 5th – out 2-3 more weeks

Doug Rippy – (Jr.) – linebacker – suffered torn ligaments in his knee against Washington – out for the season

Blake Behrens – (Sr.) – offensive lineman – chronic shoulder and bicep tendinitis – likely out for the season

Rodney Stewart – (Sr.) – running back – suffered a knee sprain against Washington – out 2-4 weeks

Others:

Travis Sandersfeld – (Sr.) – defensive back – suffered a fractured…

Deja vu – “Couging it” v. WSU

//posted 10.1.2011

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Deja vu – “Couging it” against Washington State

Wake me up! This bad dream has got to come to an end!

Oh, it’s not a dream.

And it’s not the first time it has happened.

On Saturday, in the first conference game as a member of the Pac-12, the Colorado Buffs honored the 1961 Colorado football team. Those Buffs earned Colorado’s first title after joining the old Big 7 in 1948. All members of the team (players, coaches, staff) were invited back for the game. The Buffs finished 1961 with a 10-3 record with a 7-1 mark in conference games. Colorado finished the regular season ranked 6th in the nation, falling to No. 4 LSU in the Orange Bowl, 25-7.

While it was right and appropriate to honor the 1961 team, it may have been more appropriate to host the 1981 Colorado Buff team. It was 30 seasons ago that Colorado played its first-ever game against Washington State.

The final minutes of the 1981 game bear an eerie resemblance to what happened to the 2011 Buffs.

It was a home game for Colorado, and, surprisingly enough, the Buff Nation was confident. Colorado had been 1-10 in 1980, and had not posted a winning season since 1978, but 1981…

Colorado Daily – Ohio State

//posted 9.23.2011

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September 23rd

The Bricks are back

While the return of the Brick Wall in the Dal Ward Center did not take place as soon as head coach Jon Embree had hoped, it did make an appearance before the Buffs left for Columbus.

Here is the video and story about the return of the Wall.

Highlights:

Embree fondly remembered the “big-game bricks” from his 10-year stint as an assistant on the CU staff. “Every time we went out to practice, to play a game, we had to walk by those bricks…you guys are going to get a sense of what that feels like,” he said.

At his first team meeting when the Buffs reported in August, Embree called every player and assistant coach to the front of the Dal Ward Auditorium and gave each a brick, symbolizing the restoration that was beginning. The bricks, nearly 120 total, had been donated by Embree’s former CU teammate, Conley Smith, the owner of a local landscaping company.

“When Conley gave me all those bricks, he did something,” Embree recalled. “He put this on a brick he gave especially to me. It says “1986, 20-10; Coach Embree, Bring Back The Bricks.” It was…

Stoppin’ by for a Visit – 1/29

//posted 1.26.2011

Stoppin’ by for a Visit – January 28th-29th

Less than a week remains before National Letter of Intent Day, Wednesday, February 2nd.

[Program Note: On Wednesday at 8:00 a.m. MT, "The Ticker" will be returning to CU at the Game. Updates on commitments will be posted throughout the morning, along with a time stamp when there is new information. That way, you can check in at any time, and, at a glance, see if there has been a new addition to the CU Class of 2011].

Colorado has much of its class in place, but there is still room for four or five players. While several higher profile recruits have already taken their visits, and have the Buff Nation anxiously awaiting their final word, there are several players visiting this weekend who could fill the last slots of the Class of 2011 …

Cornerbacks / Athletes

Kyle Washington

The Stats … Kyle Washington is a 6’1″, 190-pound cornerback from Florence, Arizona. Washington is considered a two-star prospect by both Rivals and Scout. While Colorado is recruiting Washington as a defensive back, he was a star on offense for his high school team. This past season, Florence went 11-2 and advanced to the state…

Stoppin’ by for a Visit – Jan. 14th-15th

//posted 1.16.2011

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Stoppin’ by for a Visit – January 14th- 15th

This weekend marks the first time new Colorado head coach Jon Embree will host prospective new Buffs for official visits.

While it is highly unlikely that the Buffs’ 2011 Class will be filled this weekend, there is the opportunity to add a few names to the five known verbal commitments. The weekend starts Friday afternoon and evening with a reception for recruits and their families at the club level of Folsom Field. Coaches, academic advisors, professors, and other members of the Boulder community will be on hand to answer any questions recruits or their parents may have about the university. Saturday will likely include attendance at the CU/Oklahoma State basketball game, which should have a great crowd. The weather should also cooperate, with highs in the 50′s.

Nothing left to do but convince these young men to join the Buff Nation for the next five years …

Here is a look at the known list of players who are taking offiical visits to Boulder this weekend:

Linebackers

Leilon Willingham

The Stats … Willingham is a 6’2″, 240-pound linebacker from Mullen High in Denver. He runs a 4.6 in the 40, and…

The Colorado Daily – December

//posted 12.21.2010

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December 31st

Nebraska closes Big 12 book with two consecutive losses

In reviewing the slate of bowl games involving 2011 Colorado opponents, it appeared that Washington was the surest bet to head into the fall campaign with a loss. After all, Washington was only 6-6 on the season, including a 56-21 loss, at home, to 10-3 Nebraska. The Huskies were solid two-touchdown underdogs to the Cornhuskers as the Holiday Bowl kicked off.

So naturally, Washington won, 19-7. Husky tailback Chris Polk out-rushed the vaunted Nebraska rushing crew all by himself, out-gaining the Cornhuskers, 177 yards to 91. “We just ran right at ‘em,” said Polk. “We knew we could win if we ran the way we know how to run. They couldn’t stop it. We whupped a team which didn’t respect us.”

After surrendering 533 total yards in the September game in Seattle, the Huskies held Nebraska to 189 total yards.

The loss left the Big 12 with a 1-4 bowl record, with Oklahoma State’s win over Arizona the only victory (Texas Tech, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma still have bowl games to play). As for Nebraska, the Cornhuskers finished the season with only one win in their final four…

This Time, It’s Different …

//posted 12.18.2010

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This Time, It’s Different

For better or worse, I am a veteran of five coaching hires at the University or Colorado. At the time these new coaches were introduced, all five seemed like good moves …

My first new head coaching hire was Bill McCartney, in 1982. McCartney was the defensive coordinator at Michigan before coming to Boulder, and no one knew much about him. Remember, this was long before the “instant information” internet age, where names of coordinators like Chow, Muschamp, Malzahn, and McElwain are familiar to football fans. In 1982, few knew much about their own team’s coordinators, much less about anyone else’s. Not that there was anyone around in Boulder to care – McCartney came to the University of Colorado in June, 1982, when school was out for the summer (Chuck Fairbanks bolted for the USFL after spring practice). Still, the reaction was favorable from those who were paying attention to the team. The legendary columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera, Dan Creedon, wrote at the time of McCartney’s hire: “Not since another Michigan native, Sonny Grandelius, swept CU committees off their feet 24 years ago, has a coaching candidate made as favorable impression here as McCartney did”. (Grandelius coached the Buffs from 1959-61).

Next…

Coaching Carousel

//posted 12.4.2010

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Coaching carousel

NOTE: Last season, 23 of the 120 Division 1-A schools changed head coaches, including BCS conference schools such as USC, Cincinnati, Florida State, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt and Virginia. What will the 2010-11 coaching merry-go-round bring?

Thus far, nineteen schools have seen a change in coaches, including eleven BCS conference schools: Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Miami (Fla.), Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Vanderbilt, Michigan, Stanford, Connecticut, and Maryland.

December 28th

Mangino to Nebraska?

Mark Mangino, last seen patrolling the sidelines for the Kansas Jayhawks, may be landing … in Lincoln?

KUSports.com is speculating that if former Colorado offensive coordinator (and present Nebraska offensive coordinator) is named as the new head coach at Miami (Ohio) after Nebraska plays in the Holiday Bowl, that Mark Mangino may be hired as the next offensive coordinator at Nebraska.

Mangino has never worked with Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini, but they have both worked for Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops. With Pelini noted for his ability to coach defense, bringing in an offensive minded coach makes sense.

And it would make for great theater when Nebraska falls behind a Big Ten opponent next fall … Which coach would suffer a meltdown first – Pelini or Mangino?

December 27th…

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