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Friday Buff Bites - Colorado Basketball To Take On Oregon State Tonight

Colorado_mediumMBB Travels to Oregon State - CUBuffs.com

OSU UPDATE: The Beavers bring a 2-3 mark into Friday's game with wins over South Dakota (62-47) and on the road against George Washington, 64-57. OSU returns nine letterwinners and four starters from its CBI title team that went 18-18 in Craig Robinson's first year at the helm. OSU went 12-7 at home last year.

Colorado_mediumBuffs face familiar style: Colorado, Oregon State both feature Princeton offense - Buffzone

So far, the Beavers are not living up to the hype with head-scratching losses to Texas A&M Corpus Christi and Sacramento State on the non-conference resume. Oregon State is also 0-1 against the Big 12 this season with a loss at Texas Tech.

Colorado_mediumCU`s Geer named first-team All-Big 12 - Buffzone
The AP released their Big 12 All-Conference teams. Here is how the Buffs fared:
1st team - TE Riar Geer
2nd team - WR Scotty McKnight, CB Jimmy Smith
Honorable Mention - OT Nate Solder, LB Jeff Smart, DB Cha'pelle Brown, DB Jalil Brown

Obviously, they got the Scotty McKnight choice right compared to the Big 12 coaches who put McKnight on the Honorable Mention team. Nate Solder was a first teamer on the coach's ballot while he was honorable mention in the media's.

Colorado_mediumCU could fancy passing in 2010 - The Longmont Times-Call

It’ll be interesting to see what the Colorado Buffaloes try on offense in 2010. For the first time in Dan Hawkins’ tenure, there’s reason for encouragement. Make that the second time. Entering 2008, the Buffs had a returning starting quarterback and wide receivers, plus some touted talent arriving from a top-15 recruiting class. Then they changed the offense’s pace without realizing that pace did not suit the talent. It didn’t work. In 2009, the plan was first and foremost to run the ball. CU finished last in yards in the Big 12 for the third time in four seasons. It finished with an average rush of 2.8 yards a try. No other Big 12 team had an average below 3.4. Back to the drawing board? Not quite. We might have received a preview of 2010 on Nov. 19 at Oklahoma State, where CU opened the game by calling passes on its first 13 plays. In the season finale against Nebraska, the Buffs threw 44 passes. They had 28 runs.

Colorado_mediumBuff star Barringer signs with agent Flynn - Boulder Daily Camera

Jenny Barringer`s star-studded career at Colorado came to a disappointing end at the NCAA national championships earlier this month, but her future still looks bright.

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AP usually gets things right...

polls, all-whatever selections, etc., as they are more into all the games, it seems, than the coaches

What’s funny about these selections is that, if they are correct that these are our best players, it shows you what type of hole we are really in. Sure, we’re stacked at TE, and WRs have taken a nice leap. But when our OL and DBs make up >50% of the all-conference selections from CU, something is seriously amiss. Granted, our DBs played much better in conference play, so maybe i’m overreacting a bit.

Will there be a better WR combo in the conference than McKnight and Simas next year? However, I’m sure Hawk will likely screw it up by moving Scotty to OG, putting Simas on the 3rd string, then bring back BJax to start at QB.

by BuffulanceMan on Dec 4, 2009 9:32 AM MST reply actions   0 recs

Correction:

Will there be a better WR combo in the conference than Dustin Ebner and Cody Hawkins next year?

by coffmonster on Dec 4, 2009 11:05 AM MST up reply actions   0 recs

Add to your combo - Toney Clemons

and we will see about Andre Simmons but if Simmons can give us any production. This could be the best corp in the conference.

Look at the receivers who are leaving the big 12

  1. Danario Alexander
  2. Dezmon Briscoe – expected to declare, only a junior
  3. Jordan Shipley
  4. Kerry Meier
  5. Jared Perry
  6. Brandon Banks

Ryan Broyles returns but then the #2 returning receiver is McKnight.

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by irish1611 on Dec 4, 2009 11:41 AM MST up reply actions   0 recs

I don't agree with that article

Once again if you take the lost yardage due to sacks then the run average starts looking a whole lot different. Is he suggesting that we can start winning games like Texas Tech because if we start passing anymore than we already are then thats what its going to start looking like. A balanced offense is what we need and a huge improvement on the offensive line. New receivers (Clemmons) and things can turn for our offense.

by CUnakedbootleg on Dec 4, 2009 2:28 PM MST reply actions   0 recs

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