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re: Why can’t Colorado be consistently competitive?
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:32 pm to turnpiketiger
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:32 pm to turnpiketiger
Well that’s part of it. It’s Broncos country, and the Broncos are what you here on the radio all the time. Believe it or not second to them is probably Air Force football. There really just isn’t a good a college football culture here, and I used to live in Boulder.. nobody gives a frick about the football team there like anywhere down south, Midwest, east coast and even parts of the west coast.
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Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:35 pm to turnpiketiger
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What do you mean? Like those LA kids didn’t like it there?
A bunch of their recruits from California in the 80’s and early 90’s were mostly gang members from inner-city LA.
Sometimes they worked out. Sometimes they and their posse committed crimes throughout campus.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:36 pm to boston vol
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Was it Hawkins or Gary Barnett?
You’re right. It was Gary Barnett.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:38 pm to Colonel Angus
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Their athletic facilities overall are very outdated
This is false, they updated a bit 2 years ago and then had a water main break and had to start over.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:40 pm to turnpiketiger
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out of the talent they can pull from Denver
Ignoring that they have the facilities of a rec league team
Are you really asking how someone with zero people around that care and are outspent by Northwestern ten fold on football are not good?
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:42 pm to turnpiketiger
Money and commitment to the program. Not there. Ralfie is cool as F though.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:43 pm to BucEes
Not much talent in Denver , the best from Denver go elsewhere. The #2 prospect in the state is an OL that signed with A&M
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:45 pm to Don K Punch
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Not much talent in Denver , the best from Denver go elsewhere. The #2 prospect in the state is an OL that signed with A&M
The only thing walking around Denver these days are skinny jean and flannel shirt wearing people ironically wearing thick glasses from the 70s
Contact sport talent? No...
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:46 pm to turnpiketiger
They've been A LOT more competitive since they joined the Pac12 because it really opened up California apart from snagging gangbangers from L.A. in the early 90's.
Colorado was SO bad before they joined the PAC and they've definitely taken advantage of the relationship to California being in the Conference.
They've had good teams compared to where they were at previously. I mean they went 10-4 a few years ago. This idea that they're going to ever be early 90's Colorado is NCAA death penalty sanctions away from being a reality.
Colorado was SO bad before they joined the PAC and they've definitely taken advantage of the relationship to California being in the Conference.
They've had good teams compared to where they were at previously. I mean they went 10-4 a few years ago. This idea that they're going to ever be early 90's Colorado is NCAA death penalty sanctions away from being a reality.
This post was edited on 12/29/20 at 9:48 pm
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:48 pm to Ghost of Colby
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bunch of their recruits from California in the 80’s and early 90’s were mostly gang members from inner-city LA
I remember this being an issue from the McCartney era. I forgot who those guys were, though. I remember Darius Hagan and Deon Figures were from that area.
Lots of Louisiana talent too. Kordell Stewart and Eric Bienemy are just a couple.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:49 pm to BucEes
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The only thing walking around Denver these days are skinny jean and flannel shirt wearing people ironically wearing thick glasses from the 70s
Contact sport talent? No...
Youth football is bigger than high school, I’ve got some good 10 yr olds
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:50 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
They also were hurt by the elimination of partial qualifiers.
As stated, the University Admin pretty much killed their program as did the last few shitty hires. Folsom Field is a shite hole and the whole town smells like weed.
As stated, the University Admin pretty much killed their program as did the last few shitty hires. Folsom Field is a shite hole and the whole town smells like weed.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:53 pm to BucEes
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Ignoring that they have the facilities of a rec league team
This isn’t true at all. There are multiple videos on YouTube of people touring their facilities. They’re actually pretty damn nice.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:53 pm to Mr Sausage
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Folsom Field is a shite hole and the whole town smells like weed.
Folsom was never the best facility. It’s always received rave reviews based on location. That said, what really matters is player facilities. What more does a CFB stadium need to have?
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:54 pm to boston vol
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This isn’t true at all. There are multiple videos on YouTube of people touring their facilities. They’re actually pretty damn nice.
Agreed, I was in there last yr.....
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:54 pm to turnpiketiger
Boulder is <1% black and whiter then Provo Utah but they love bitching about how racist the South is.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:55 pm to boston vol
I thought I remember them recommitting to football a bit? They’ll never throw in the cash of a team from the South, but they don’t need to in order to win games. Last time I visited Folsom, I thought it was pretty nice. It’s much nicer than Knoxville.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:57 pm to Switzerland
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Boulder is <1% black and whiter then Provo Utah but they love bitching about how racist the South is.
When I was there during the McCartney era there were maybe 3 black folks on campus that weren't football players.
Denver doesn't have much of a black population either for it's size.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:59 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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They've been A LOT more competitive since they joined the Pac12 because it really opened up California apart from snagging gangbangers from L.A. in the early 90's.
They are 43-74 (24-62) in 10 years since joining the PAC with now two Bowl appearances and the one division win you mentioned
Even eliminating the Barnett years, under Hawkins before leaving the Big 12 they were 19-39 (10-27) with a bowl appearance in 5 years. It’s really been more of the same since the scandal under Barnett
In both conferences they were recruiting far from their own backyard in an area that gets picked over. Having zero local base to recruit from and an admin/donor base that doesn’t care is a double whammy
This post was edited on 12/29/20 at 10:03 pm
Posted on 12/29/20 at 10:06 pm to turnpiketiger
I would imagine it is the lack of local recruiting talent and football culture. I grew around Baton Rouge where football becomes life in the fall to living here where sometimes you don't even realize a home game is happening on game day. It is a beautiful area and amazing place to live but I don't think the picturesque scenery and all the granola white people appeal to a lot of the players garnering P5 school offers if you kna mean
This post was edited on 12/29/20 at 10:09 pm
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