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  1. 3 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    The players do pick the uniform for each week but, maybe turn on your humor meter, just a bit, and loosen up some.

    Likewise big guy. Didn't realize the players picked though. At my undergrad they released a uni schedule at the beginning of the year, and we also suck, so there's literally nothing to get us excited each week. 

  2. 46 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    I am so happy that we have everything sorted out from our fabulously shitastic 1-3 start that we can focus on a uniform reveal/fashion show each week.

     

    Over It Ugh GIF

    Yes I'm sure this is what the entire team is totally focused on and this isn't at all a tiny thing that dozens of ADs around the country do to try and pull a little excitement out of the fanbase. 

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  3. 2 hours ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    Not strictly realignment, but thought it was interesting that Nebraska is apparently lowering capacity by about 10k seats.

     

     

    If you've spent any time in Nebraska you know those seats needs to be wider, so a few seats gotta go.

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  4. On 9/27/2023 at 7:59 AM, Frank Drebin said:

    If I was a CU fan, I would be in denial also.

    With expanded playoffs, you want to be in one of the big 2 conferences.  And for recruiting, you definitely do.

    If you're CU? Maybe not. There's a tradeoff somewhere. Be in the P2 and become Nebraska/ Minnesota/ Indiana/ Mississippi State, or be in the Big 12 and win 10+ games and conference titles with regularity. I'm not saying either is better necessarily but it's not as straight forward as some like to pretend. 

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  5. On 9/25/2023 at 4:57 PM, B00M said:

    Ima go out on a limb here, you’ve had it. 

     

    Oh sure, it's very possible. But every single time I've had a good chance of exposure, I've tested twice a day for an extended period of time. So, no positive tests at least. And never any symptoms. 

  6. Not yet, or at least not that I know of. Vaxxed and double-boosted college professor. Had dozens of students and colleagues that have had it, including one I was unknowingly sitting next to for three hours while he coughed and chatted away (a couple hours before his first positive test). Whole family has had it. Still in the clear. 

  7. On 9/14/2023 at 10:50 PM, Blotto said:

    I think I kind of dig these. The helmets are sharp. Its a lot of yellow, but not bad.

     

    I always like dark-light-dark home uni combos. 

  8. 4 minutes ago, NoName said:

    this is long because it's me. but that's the #1 (USC) and #11 (Oregon) OFEI teams in the country.

    Colorado gave up 42 points to TCU (#21 offense)

    here is what TCU did drive by drive:

    • 8 plays, 61 yards, INT
    • 7 plays, TD
    • 5 plays, punt
    • 7 plays, missed FG
    • 4 plays, TD (then the half)
    • 3 plays, TD
    • 7 plays, TD
    • 14 plays, TD
    • 2 plays, TD
    • 12 plays, downs (they passed it 7 of 8 plays in a row, were driving, then ran it 2x on 1st and 10 and 2nd and 9, the had an incomplete pass, then pass to Jared Wiley short of the sticks)

    the INT was a fantastic play by Travis Hunter, and a bad pass by Morris. link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lckld85JEk4

    after that they stopped them once until the last drive of the game. that's not a winning combo.

    the CU defense is straight up not very good.

     

     

    their offense is interesting, looking at the underlying FEI ratings - looks like they are pretty clearly a top 20 offense in most of the measures, but the clear outlier is that they have no busted drives yet (which won't continue to be 0%) and are only #17 in TD rate. schedule is decent so far, like #40ish. i just want to see how they do vs a halfway decent defense, which TCU is not. Sanders is also not going to have 0 INT for the year, he doesn't throw a ton (~7 / year the last 2 years), or about 1 every 64 attempts. so far he is at 0 in 89 attempts.

    vs TCU - this loses you a game a ton of the time - the combo of a 0th percentile run stop rate and a 3rd percentile havoc rate, along with not being able to run the ball= tough. but TCU sucks on defense. Colorado had a 60% postgame win expectancy based on Bill C's numbers.

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    vs Nebraska - who has a god awful offense, but somehow had a 78th percentile explosive play rate? Nebraska was at a 9th percentile  rate vs Minn for comparison and is currently a very, very bad offensive team (113/133 in TD rate, 114/133 in busted drive rate, 120/133 in drive efficiency - basically positive drives, 114/131 in points per drive, 130/133 in % of drives that end in a turnover, 103/133 in available yards.) all this, and they still gave Nebraska a success rate when rushing of 36% which was slightly higher than what Texas had vs Bama (35%) - even though NEB ran it 63% of their plays. Colorado had a 91.5% postgame win expectancy for this game based on Bill C's numbers.

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    the USC game is going to be more like the TCU game, except they are facing Caleb Williams and Lincoln Riley, not Chandler Morris and Dumbface McGee. idk what happens with Oregon, but they will have the best defense CU will have faced so far this year. they will not be favored in either of those games. Oregon will be the first time all year they are going to face a good offense with a decent defense (#36 in DFEI, #11 offense)

    if they have a single bad game red zone success wise or 3rd down success wise against anyone decent, they are fucked.

    if their explosive play rate drops at all, they are fucked.

    if they give up 16% HAVOC rate against anyone whose offense has a pulse, they are fucked.  if they have another game with a 20th percentile HAVOC rate created, they are fucked.

    if they have another game with a defensive run stuff rate as low as they did vs TCU, they are fucked.

    for a quick comparison to Texas/Bama, Texas had an 18%/88th percentile HAVOC rate created, a 20%/9th percentile run stop rate, a 44%/57%tile red zone success rate, a 35%/31st percentile 3rd down success rate and a 36%/27%tile success rate. Texas had a 76.8% postgame win expectancy based on Bill C's numbers.

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    CSU isn't going to give us any insight into their team, they are going to win like 70-7 and play their starters all game because they can and pad the shit out of stats.

    i'm shocked they are going to be 3-0 considering i didn't think they would win 3 games. that said, the rest of their schedule is going to be interesting. looking at FEI, they face a handful of teams with bad defenses but good offenses (UCLA = #15 offense, #58 defense), Oregon State (#24 offense, #43 defense) - which we know CU can at least keep close and beat based on TCU game...but how are they going to do against teams that are more balanced like Washington State (#28 offense, #29 defense) or Utah (their offense is TBD once Rising is back - likely top 25 but they are currently the #3 DFEI team)

    they should smash Stanford, Arizona could be interesting, but their defense is terrrrrrrrrrible. Arizona State could be too, but their defense is bad also and their offense is #51 at the moment.

     

    That feels like a very long way of agreeing with me. We won't know much until UO/ USC. They'll likely lose those, likely lose to Utah (though Utah wasn't impressive against Baylor), then the rest is kind of a guess right now.

    A bowl is the goal. Anything else is icing on the cake.  

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  9. 1 hour ago, Tylerocks said:

    Interested to see how they do in back-to-back games @ Oregon and at home for USC.

    Should be good games.

    I'm really looking forward to those two games. Could be good games, or could rapidly deflate the Colorado hype train. Even as a CU fan I have zero issue saying CU is not as talented overall (or anywhere near as deep) as UO and USC. I think CU has a solid chance, since they have excellent playmakers in a few important spots and a great OC, but we won't really know what CU is until these two tests. 

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  10. 4 hours ago, 'stache said:

     

    The Rhule comment was nothing, and yeah, it's a part of Deion's approach that I find really bothersome. And yeah, coaches can manufacture bulletin board material in the locker room (I've always doubted its effectiveness), but rarely do so publicly. The tweet is perfect, he'll find some nonsense to make personal. 

    Meh. If it motivates players, I'm fine with it. 

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