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CUATG Podcast: The Firing of Karl Dorrell – What’s Next?

//posted 10.4.2022

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The Karl Dorrell era ends with Dorrell posting an 8-15 (6-9) record at CU … What did Rick George and Phil DiStefano say at the press conference which has Buff fans so discouraged? … What characteristics for the next CU head coach are the most important? … Let’s find out …

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Colorado Daily – End of Dorrell Era

//posted 10.3.2022

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Without changing transfer rules, it may not matter who CU hires: “I wouldn’t wish that job on anybody” … Video: Press conference with Rick George, Phil DiStefano and Mike Sanford … George: “This place can and will be a football powerhouse” …

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Arizona 43, Colorado 20

//posted 10.2.2022

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Arizona quarterback Jayden de Laura threw for 484 yards and six touchdowns, tying a school record, leading the Wildcats to a 43-30 romp over Colorado. The Wildcats ran over, around, and through the Buff defense for 673 yards, with ten of Arizona’s 11 drives finishing in CU territory. Arizona was good on 9-of-14 third down attempts, controlling the game and the tempo throughout.

CU’s freshman quarterback Owen McCown went 14-for-30 for 186 yards and a touchdown, also contributing a score on a one-yard run in the Buffs’ first touchdown in the first quarter all season. Fellow freshman Anthony Hankerson led the rushing attack, with 68 yards on 12 carries, including a seven-yard touchdown run for his first score as a Buff. CU’s third touchdown – the first time the Buffs had three touchdowns in a game in 2022 – came on a 14-yard pass from McCown to Daniel Arias.

“That was a very challenging offense and that quarterback, we didn’t slow him down,” CU head coach Karl Dorrell said of Arizona’s offense and quarterback Jayden de Laura. “We didn’t slow him down at all … We just have a tremendous amount of work to do. We’re working hard and we’re trying to improve the fundamentals and things that we do. It’s just not showing up fast enough when we play. That’s the unfortunate thing.”

The victory left Arizona, a 1-11 team in 2021, halfway to bowl eligibility with a 3-2 record, Colorado, meanwhile, dropped to 0-5 for just the fourth time in school history (1980; 1984; and 2006).

“What Did They Expect Would Happen?”

//posted 10.2.2022

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Bruce Feldman (Fox Sports) and Stewart Mandel (The Athletic) have a podcast called “The Audible with Stew & Bruce: A show about college football”. Aside from the not-so-clever name for the show, it is a quality podcast with excellent content.

An episode posted this week was entitled, “Georgia Tech fires Geoff Collins. Who is on the shortlist to takeover? Week 5 mailbag!”. Before diving into a discussion as to the candidates for the open job at Georgia Tech, Feldman and Mandel speculated as to which schools might be next to fire their coach … with Colorado and Auburn the most likely candidates.

Here’s what they said about the CU program:

Mandel: There’s been a Power Five coach fired each week since Week Two. So the question is: Will there be another one this week?

Feldman: There might be. Let’s keep an eye on Colorado. Karl Dorrell’s Buffs have been blown out by 25-plus in each of their first four games. It wouldn’t shock me if that one opened up soon.

Mandel: The weird thing about Karl Dorrell is … It was an odd hire to begin with. They gave him a pretty big contract. It’s not like SEC money, but I believe (the buyout) is in the $10 million neighborhood. And you could see this coming a mile away in the off-season. They had so many guys transfer out, and some of them are already playing key roles for other teams, and then he purposely – from what I’ve been told – purposely chose to go light on bringing in incoming transfers. So … What did they expect was going to happen?

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Colorado Basketball – Spring/Summer, 2022

//posted 10.1.2022

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CU Basketball opens practices: “We lost some size, but we gained some speed” … CU picks up three-star 6’5″ shooting guard Courtney Anderson, Jr. … Jabari Walker selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the second round of the NBA Draft … Ceal Barry retires: Barry’s legacy: “(I’m proud of) the fact that we were relevant” … Buffs add junior college transfer J’Vonne Hadley: “He fit exactly what we need” … Senior 6’5″ wing Jalen Gabbidon (from Yale) transfers to CU … Tad Boyle named head coach of the 2022 USA Basketball Men’s U18 National Team … Buffs pick up transfer Ethan Wright (Princeton) … CU’s Mya Hollingshed picked No. 8 overall in WNBA Draft …

Colorado Daily – Arizona Week

//posted 10.1.2022

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Five Arizona Players to Watch … CU President Saliman: “I expect excellence and I expect us to turn this around … We have work to do” … An important read (with video examples): Why CU can’t stop the run …

Pac-12 Notes – Arizona Week

//posted 10.1.2022

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Game Day … UCLA makes a statement with a 40-32 win over No. 15 Washington … In order to survive, should the Pac-12 go “all in” with Amazon? … Brave New World: Air Force Penalized for Recruiting Violations … If Big Ten lands an Amazon deal, it may signal the end of the Pac-12 …

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Friday Fast Facts – Arizona Week

//posted 9.30.2022

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CU has been outscored 41-3 in the first quarter (but even WORSE in the third) … Buffs have won last two v. UA (and is 9-3 v. Wildcats in Tucson) … In what major defensive category does CU rank in the Top Ten nationally? … CU has already had 15 players make their first career starts this fall …

“T.I.P.S.” for CU at Arizona

//posted 9.28.2022

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Arizona’s QB, Jayden de Laura, has 4,500 career passing yards; Owen McCown has 258 … Have the CU players given up on the coaching staff? … Arizona is 2-2, but perhaps the Wildcats aren’t as good as their record indicates … Two depressing (even more than usual) stats …

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CUATG Podcast: “T.I.P.S.” for CU at Arizona

//posted 9.27.2022

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What to take from CU’s fourth straight defeat by 25 or more points … Is Owen McCown going to be one of pieces to the puzzle for the CU offense, or was this just a desperate act by the CU coaching staff? … Arizona has the 108th-ranked scoring defense – can the Buffs find the end zone during their trip to the desert? … Let’s find out …

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UCLA 45, Colorado 17

//posted 9.25.2022

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Dorian Thompson-Robinson, making his fifth career start against Colorado, finally won in Boulder, leading UCLA to a 45-17 domination of Colorado. DTR, who had lost to the Buffs in starts at Folsom Field in 2018 and 2020, went 19-for-23 for 234 yards and two touchdowns (plus seven carries for 56 yards) in less than three quarters of work as the Bruins scored on their first three possessions of the game, never looking back.

Colorado freshman quarterback Owen McCown earned his first career start, and led the Buffs to their highest point total in CU’s 0-4 start. McCown went 26-for-42 for 258 yards and a touchdown (he also had a touchdown rushing), but also suffered an interception and a fumble. Eleven different Buffs had receptions on the afternoon, as the Buff coaching staff had an open casting call to try and insert some energy into CU’s lethargic offense. Daniel Arias led the Buffs with 82 yards on four receptions, with CU’s second touchdown coming on an eight-yard touchdown pass from McCown to Jordyn Tyson late in the fourth quarter.

The Buffs dropped to 0-4 overall and 0-1 in Pac-12 play while the Bruins improved to 4-0, 1-0.

“Frustrating day,” CU head coach Karl Dorrell said. “But I felt like there were some positive things, even though we weren’t a factor in getting a chance to win this one, It just got away from us. I was encouraged by the young freshmen that we decided to use … But we just didn’t do the things we needed to do in the second half. There’s a lot of areas that need a lot of work. We’re a young team that needs to continue to grow and mature as we go. But we just have a tremendous amount of work to do with this team.”

“It’s Difficult Waiting, But It’ll Happen”

//posted 9.25.2022

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Buff fans don’t know what conference they will be playing in when the second half of the 2020s arrive. A ten-team Pac-12? An expanded Pac-12? An expanded Big 12?

Or, based on CU’s play in September … The Mountain West?

“I’m very confident in CU’s position,” Colorado chancellor Phil DiStefano said in an interview with BuffZone.com this week. “When UCLA and USC left, people were talking about, ‘There’s not going to be a Pac-12 anymore; other schools will leave and go to the Big 12, go to the Big Ten, go to the ACC.’

DiStefano continued: “Obviously, people want to know now and we want to get the best deal we can get. If that takes us another month or two or longer to do, that’s fine with me. We need to get the best deal that we can get. We’re looking at a contract that might be five or seven years, so to get the best deal, let’s take our time and do that.

“It’s difficult waiting, but it’ll happen.”

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