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Colorado Daily – Doldrums

//posted 12.29.2011

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Colorado Daily – Doldrums

December 31st

CU Moose in Alaska

The Buff Nation knows no boundaries!

Below are pictures submitted by CU at the Gamers Antonio and Willow Monterrosa, getting up close and personal with a moose in Alaska.

Disclaimer: Do not try this at home. Willow and Antonio are both professionals, with three CU degrees between them!

December 29th

Embree talks recruiting

B.G. Brooks of cubuffs.com did an interview with Colorado head coach Jon Embree, which is important enough to reproduce in its entirety here …

1. CUBuffs.com: The current dead period ends Jan. 4, and I’m assuming you’ll hit the road immediately. What direction will you head?

Jon Embree: “That’s right . . . and I’m heading West, to Hawaii and California. It’ll be my first trip to Hawaii and second to California.”

•2. CUBuffs.com: What’s the biggest difference in this recruiting season and last – taking into account the full season you’ve had as opposed to last year?

JE: “The biggest difference is…

Colorado 17, Utah 14

//posted 11.27.2011

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November 25th – at Utah Colorado 17, Utah 14

Colorado used an almost perfect first half to take the lead, and then played just well enough in the second half to hold the lead, taking the first “Rumble in the Rockies” against Utah, 17-14.

Utah junior kicker Coleman Petersen, the Pac-12 Player-of-the-Week for his three-for-three performance in a 30-27 overtime victory over Washington State, had a chance to tie the game with a 48-yard kick, but the effort went wide and short, giving Colorado the hard-earned victory.

The road win, as every Buff fan could recite in his sleep, was the first for Colorado since 2007. The school-record streak of 23 road losses (24 counting the 2007 Independence Bowl) finally came to an end before a crowd of 45,026 in Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City.

Utah came into the game hot, with four straight Pac-12 victories, and a chance at a berth in the Pac-12 championship game. Colorado came in cold, with a 2-10 record and a 23-game road losing streak. Utah had everything to gain; Colorado had nothing to lose.

So what happened? For one of the few times all season, Colorado played like the Colorado team Buff…

Preview – Arizona

//posted 11.9.2011

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Preview – Arizona

Colorado has never gone winless for a season in Folsom Field.

Opened in 1924, Colorado has played football at Folsom Field (first known as Colorado Stadium - the name was changed in 1944 after the death of the Buffs’ legendary head coach) for 87 seasons, and the Buffs have never – never – gone winless at home for an entire year.

The Buffs are 0-4 at home in 2011.

In a season in which the school’s longest road losing streak in history has been extended throughout the season, the Buffs this Saturday, on Senior Day, will attempt to avoid having yet another negative record associated with their legacy.

Fortunately for the home team, the schedule presents the best opportunity for victory in over a month.

Arizona comes to Boulder with a 2-7 record, 1-6 in the Pac-12. Discounting a season-opening victory over 1-AA Northern Arizona, the Wildcats have just one victory in their last 13 games against 1-A competition, dating back to a five game slide to end the 2010 season. The Wildcats are coached by Tim Kish, named as interim coach after eight-year head coach Mike Stoops was fired a month ago. Arizona ranks 100th or worse in no…

Preview – Arizona State

//posted 10.26.2011

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Preview – Arizona State

“No rest for the weary,” said Colorado head coach Jon Embree of the Buffs’ final game in the October from Hell. “We get to start with the South and we get to start with the team that is leading the South, the Arizona State Sun Devils.”

You can understand Embree’s weariness.

Is there anything worse than having a team with over 20 members on its injured list and having no break in the schedule?

Well, you could have that team, which hasn’t won on the road since Barack Obama was a little known junior senator from Illinois, pack its gear and head out of state.

Oh, and could you make that road game against a ranked team?

And, for good measure, let’s give the ranked team a bye week to get healthy and prepare.

Sound like a recipe for disaster?

Welcome to Colorado Buffaloes’ football, 2011 edition.

Embree would be forgiven if he were to ask for a re-count as to how the Buffs’ schedule worked out this season, but there is no use crying about it now. “We knew coming in what the situation was and why we were going 13 straight. We talked about it…

No. 7 Stanford 48, Colorado 7

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October 8th – @ Stanford No. 7 Stanford 48, Colorado 7

Leading Heisman trophy candidate Andrew Luck passed for a season-high 370 yards and three touchdowns as the No. 7 Stanford Cardinal ran around, through, over and past the out-manned Colorado Buffaloes, 48-7.

On the day, Stanford rolled to 553 yards of total offense, while Stanford’s top ten defense held the Buffs to 264 yards. Playing without five suspended players on defense and without the Buffs’ only play-maker on offense, the outcome of the game wasn’t much in doubt after only a few minutes of play, as the Cardinal methodically pulled away from the inept Buffs.

As fate would have it, the game turned in Stanford’s favor before Andrew Luck ever had the chance to take the field.

Colorado freshman kicker Will Oliver began the game with a “sky kick”, which traveled only as far as the Stanford 33-yard line. There, the ball was fumbled, and was recovered by Colorado linebacker Jon Major. The Buffs were in business at the Stanford 36-yard line as the sell-out crowd of 50,360 shifted restlessly in their seats.

Two passes from senior quarterback Tyler Hansen to red-shirt freshmen Keenan Canty, sandwiched between two runs by…

Colorado 28, CSU 14

//posted 9.17.2011

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September 17th – at Denver Colorado 28, Colorado State 14

Senior quarterback Tyler Hansen was in on all four Colorado touchdowns, as the Buffs doubled up the Colorado State Rams in Denver, 28-14. In leading the Buffs to the first win of the Jon Embree era, Hansen threw for two touchdowns and ran for two others, including a two-yard run to cap an epic 16-play, 85-yard drive in the fourth quarter to put the game out of reach.

On the day, Hansen threw for 215 yards and two touchdowns, also scoring on a pair of two-yard runs on the afternoon. Hansen’s second run, with 1:15 to play in the game, finished off a drive which took 10:03 off the fourth quarter clock. Backing up Hansen was senior running back Rodney Stewart, who had 98 yards on 19 carries, to go with 93 yards on seven catches.

First Half

Colorado State came into the Cinch Jeans Rocky Mountain Showdown at Sports Authority Field with a 2-0 record, but the Rams were a seven-point underdog to the 0-2 Buffs. In the first quarter, though, the Rams seemed determined to remind fans and pundits that they were, in fact, the undefeated team.

The Colorado defense…

E Pluribus Unum

//posted 9.17.2011

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E Pluribus Unum

Out of many, one.

One drive. One score. One victory.

Will the Colorado State game, more precisely, the fourth quarter of the Colorado State game, be a turning point for the Colorado football program and its long-suffering Buff Nation?

Since December 6, 2010, when Jon Embree was named the 24th permanent head coach in Colorado football history, Embree has been preaching that it was time for the Colorado program to return to its successful roots. In order to do that, the Buffs had to re-establish a power running game. “When this program has been at its best,” Embree said at his introductory press conference, “it’s had its [players] come out on this field or go somewhere else and just line up and run you over.”

The Buffs appeared primed to do just that. Colorado returned the majority of its offensive line, a senior returning starter at quarterback, and one Rodney Stewart. The senior running back posted 1,318 rushing yards in 2010, and opened the 2011 season within shouting distance (1,196 yards) of becoming the all-time leading rusher in Colorado history.

The pieces in place, Colorado traveled to Hawai’i to take on a Warrior team which had surrendered 106 yards…

Depth Chart-ing

//posted 8.27.2011

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Depth Chart-ing – A look at the players making a name for themselves in Fall Camp

8/27 Players of Note – Junior safety Ray Polk and junior wide receiver Makiri Pugh

Both players came to Boulder to make a name for themselves.

Both players came to Boulder with fanfare.

Both can still make an impact – but not at the position for which they were recruited.

Junior safety Ray Polk came to Boulder as one of the top running back prospects in the nation, and now is the starting free safety for the Buffs. Makiri Pugh, meanwhile, transferred to Colorado from Georgia as a much heralded defensive back, and is now trying to get onto the playing field as a wide receiver.

Ray Polk – Coming to Boulder out of Phoenix, Arizona, as part of the Class of 2008, Polk was the No. 11 running back in the nation (Darrell Scott was ranked No. 1). Instead of sticking at running back, though, Polk moved over to defense, and has played safety for the Buffs for the past two seasons.

While Polk is entrenched as the starter at free safety (Polk started every game last season, and has 15 starts to his…

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