re: Colorado Football - What's the Problem

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I don't really remember them being relevant since Kordell Stewart was there.

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They were ranked #2 in the country and trounced Nebraska and won the BigXII in 2001. Got shafted out of a National Championship berth. Miami probably would have crushed them anyway. Won the BigXII North in 2002, it was all downhill from there. Though they did win the BigXII North again in '04 and '05.

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know facilities and university support were bad, but I also seem to recall those two having trouble retaining assistants because they were way underpaid for a major program.

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I do know that Jon Embree was only making $750k as a head coach of a major college program. Not unreasonable to assume that his assistants were not well paid.

Weed.

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Weed should be a good recruiting tool though

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Except the NCAA mandates drug testing.

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Got shafted out of a National Championship berth

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Nah, they had 2 losses; Fresno State and a blowout to Texas.

Oregon had a better case and crushed CU in the Fiesta Bowl. The Pac-10 was perceived as down though.

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Yeah Texas mauldragged them like 70-7 or something like that.

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70-3

It was 2005, they went in on a 2-game losing skid (30-16 @ Iowa St; 30-3 @ home vs Nebraska). They were 5-3 and winners of the Big XII North that year.

Hawkins also insisted starting his son at QB (who was terrible).

An ex of mine played volleyball for the Buffs, pretty much stated that the last couple of administrations have wanted to squash mens athletics completely after the 90's. Said their athletic department is completely tied by the admins and not a priority at all on campus anymore.

Rashaan Salaam

went to a game last year. renovations were being done. the stadium was half empty, and the fans were quiet. no joke - been to middle schools with better atmospheres. they sell sushi and tofu in the stands. only in boulder. good thing is you can sit pretty much anywhere in the stadium with the cheapest ticket.

cu's problem is that it turned its back from local talent and focused on recruiting cali thugs. 'cu' stands for 'california university,' and csu is known as the local state school. the best colorado talent either go out-of-state or to csu. cu recruits the cali rejects that the other pac 12 teams don't want.

also, colorado is all about the broncos. cu/csu are an afterthought. outside of boulder and fort collins, i have probably seen more texas, a&m, nebraska, and auburn(!) shirts than cu/csu combined.