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Spring Practice Primer

//posted 3.7.2012

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March 7th

Nick Hirschman out for spring practices

The Colorado quarterback competition, in the span of less than a week, has gone from five quarterbacks to three.

First, it was announced that Brent Burnette would not be staying with the team, now Nick Hirschman will miss all of spring practices.

The University of Colorado’s potential spring quarterback duel between sophomores Nick Hirschman and Connor Wood has taken another late twist – another unwanted one for Hirschman.

Hoping to be cleared to participate in most or all of spring drills after undergoing off-season foot surgery, Hirschman suffered the same injury – a broken metatarsal bone – in his other foot over the weekend. He left Colorado Wednesday for his home in Los Gatos, Calif., and is scheduled to undergo surgery later this week.

According to cubuffs.com, Hirschman will miss all of CU’s spring practices, but CU coach Jon Embree said late Wednesday that, “There still will be a competition, it just has to take place in (August) camp. The position still remains our top priority, the only real difference now is that with Connor being on the scout team last year, this gives him a chance to learn the offense …

Scrimmage Reports

//posted 4.3.2011

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Second Scrimmage – Saturday, April 2nd

Second Scrimmage – Behind the numbers

“There are three kinds of lies: lies; damned lies; and statistics”, a phrase widely attributed to Benjamin Desraeli and popularized by Mark Twain.

The phrase certainly holds true when reviewing the numbers from an intra-squad scrimmage, and a spring one at that. For every celebration over a long touchdown pass, there is consternation over a blown coverage by the secondary; for every sack, there is a missed assignment by an offensive lineman.

Still, as the 2011 Buffs have been under wraps for the past few weeks, a look under the hood of Jon Embree’s team is certainly called for after the team completed practice No. 11 of 15 allotted practices.

Quarterbacks

While head coach Jon Embree wouldn’t agree that Tyler Hansen was “clearly” the choice for starting quarterback in September, Hansen’s numbers – and those of his competitors – suggest otherwise.

True, Hansen’s 18-for-19 performance was against a depleted defensive line and a secondary missing both of its likely starters at safety, but Nick Hirschman and Brent Burnette went up against much of the same personnel, with significantly different numbers. Hirschman went 4-of-11 for 27 yards, while Burnette …

Spring Practice Preview

//posted 3.11.2011

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Special Teams

Roster: Toney Clemons (Sr.); Arthur Jaffee (Sr.); Brian Lockridge (Sr.); Will Jefferson (Jr.); Justin Castor (So.); Zach Grossnickle (So.); Ryan Iverson (So.); Justin Gorman (R-Fr.)

Players Lost: Aric Goodman; Joe Silipo; Scotty McKnight; Cody Hawkins; Travon Patterson

“Numbers Don’t Lie“

Yuck.

There was very little which was special about the special teams play by the University of Colorado in 2010.

Colorado was ranked 88th in net punting last year, with Zach Grossnickle struggling to a 35.7 yards net average (Colorado’s opponents’ net average was 40.2). Senior kicker Aric Goodman connected on two-thirds of his attempts (10-for-15), but was only accurate half the time from beyond 30 yards (5-for-10).

In the return game, Colorado was adequate at best. There were several long kickoff returns, with a long of 89 yards by Arthur Jaffee against Iowa State, but the Buffs were unable to come up with a kick returner which they felt comfortable with, as four players posted between eight and 14 kickoff returns during the season. All four – Arthur Jaffee (14); Toney Clemons (10); Brian Lockridge (10); and Will Jefferson (8) – return in 2011, but there are no guarantees that …

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