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Grading the Hires – Offense

//posted 3.6.2020

Karl Dorrell retained two well known and popular assistant coaches on offense (Chiaverini and Hagan), a strong QB coach in Danny Langsdorf, an energetic TE coach in Taylor Embree, and a real question mark in OL coach Mitch Rodrigue … How well will they mesh? …

“This is Your Team”

//posted 3.1.2020

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Hickory head coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) once told disgruntled home fans: “I would hope you would support who we are, not who we are not” … Good advice as Buff fans adjust to the beginning of the Karl Dorell era …

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Colorado Basketball – February, 2020

//posted 2.28.2020

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February proved to be an up-and-down month for the Buffs … CU opened with three straight wins, including a road win at USC, but closed out February losing three of five … Buffs matched school record for regular season wins (21), and spent the entire month ranked in the AP poll, part of a school-record eight week run …

Karl Dorrell – First Impressions

//posted 2.23.2020

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Karl Dorrell may not have been anyone’s first choice, but … he produced the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd 1,000-yard receivers in CU history … and the last CU offense to rank in the top ten nationally … and UCLA Recruiting Classes ranked higher than anything seen at CU in years …

Pac-12 Notes

//posted 2.21.2020

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CSU faculty ask university leaders to cut athletic spending in historic vote … USC canceling game against FCS UC-Davis (and Dan Hawkins) … NCAA to study idea of one transfer with no penalty …

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CU Coaching Search

//posted 2.18.2020

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A strange time, as CU scrambled to find a replacement head coach … Remember some of the candidates? … Steve Sarkisian (now at Texas)? Bret Bielema (now at Illinois) Bryan Harsin (now at Auburn)? … Eric Bieniemy? Troy Calhoun? Jim Mora? … Here are the day-by-day rumors leading up to the hiring of Karl Dorrell …

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Time to Call it Quits?

//posted 2.15.2020

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It’s hard to call Tucker’s move anything but a betrayal, one which will haunt the CU program for years to come … If this is as good as it gets – CU gets a good coach, only to see them leave for more money – how hard will it be to remain a Buff fan? …

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End of the (Short) Mel Tucker Era

//posted 2.14.2020

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One Year Ago … Inside Mel Tucker’s Final CU Event: “We were hoodwinked” … Drew Litton sums it up for all of us … Dennis Dodd: No winners from Tucker move (except Tucker and his agent) … Transcript: Rick George press conference quotes …

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Eighteen Hours of Stress

//posted 2.12.2020

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There were 18 hours of stress between first hearing about the Michigan State offer and Tucker’s denial … Unfortunately, the underlying fear surrounding CU losing coaches ($$$$$$$) came to a head only four days later …

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Class of 2020 – Signed LOI

//posted 2.7.2020

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*Video – Coach Tucker’s Signing Day interviews (Rivals and Pac-12 Networks)* … RB Ashaad Clayton makes it three-for-three for CU on Signing Day – Clayton is a Buff! … DB William Anglen makes it official: “I picked Colorado; I feel like it was home” …

Recruiting Rankings: CU’s True “Star” Power

//posted 2.7.2020

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Using the star-ratings from Rivals and 247 Sports only serve to irritate and infuriate CU fans … Here are two different matrices to use in judging the CU Recruiting Class of 2020 (spoiler alert … you’ll like them!) …

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Who’s Next? – Part II

//posted 2.4.2020

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CU picks up a preferred walk-on … Wednesday is the traditional February Signing Day … CU is looking for Letters of Intent from two prospects: Running back Ashaad Clayton and defensive back William Anglen …