Monday CU Buff Bites - Colorado Cross Country Wins Dual Pac-12 Championships
by Ash Jackson on Oct 31, 2011 9:13 AM MDT
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Brooks: Buffs Join 'Conference Of Champions' - Twice - CUBuffs.com
Winning a Pac-12 championship hasn't been so important at Colorado this fall as merely winning a Pac-12 competition. The way it's gone in football, volleyball and soccer, placing a champ among the "Conference of Champions" any time soon seemed unlikely for CU. That changed Saturday . . . twice. How do you win a Pac-12 championship? The more pressing question is how to win a pair, back-to-back within about 60 minutes of each other, on the same morning in the Arizona desert.It happened because both Buffs squads ran hard, ran smart and got stellar performances from their marquee runners and enough performance upgrades from their teammates to pull off CU's 13th double cross country conference championship - 12 of them under Wetmore.
Richard Medina (22:54), Wacker (23:24) and Joseph Bosshard (23:30) finished third, sixth and ninth, respectively, in the men's race. Shalaya Kipp (19:54), Emma Coburn (19:55) and Lara Darco (20:18) finished second, third and ninth, respectively, in the women's race. For Bosshard and Coburn, it was their first cross country races of the season, both needing rest after going through grueling competition for most of the past year.
2011 BCS Standings, Week 10: Alabama Vs. LSU, History And A New Orleans Rematch - SBNation.com
This Saturday's LSU-Alabama game is a biggie. How huge? Try this: It's only the 11th time since 1950 that the top two ranked teams met each other in a November or December regular-season game. Let's quickly see how the others went down...
BCS Guru: Do Computers Really Even Matter?
For the context of this year, it means that all the speculation about Boise State's computer ratings is mere sound and fury. At the end of the season, it's entirely up to the 173 voters in the Coaches poll and Harris poll to decide whether they're willing to put the Broncos in the top 2 of their ballots.
Why do I mention Arkansas after the jump? Think of it as a public-service-announcement...
USC Trojans' Lane Kiffin maintains he was deceived by Pac-12 officials - ESPN
It was originally ruled that Woods was tackled out of bounds with no time left on the clock. While the play was being reviewed, Kiffin reminded side judge Brad Glenn to tell the head referee that he had requested the timeout, and he said he received an assurance that the timeout would be called if it was ruled after the review that there was one second left. "I was basically lied to," Kiffin said Sunday.
This isn't fit to put on the front page, but in case anyone was wondering, the Arkansas Razorbacks are complete $&#holes: Arkansas Razorbacks' Marquel Wade ejected after leveling returner - ESPN - Arkansas receiver Marquel Wade was ejected Saturday after crushing Jonathan Krause on a kickoff in Arkansas' 31-28 win.
This actually isn't fit to put on the front page either, but whaddya do?: Brooks: Sun Devils Slap Buffs Early, Cruise Late - CUBuffs.com
In a football season short on answers and long on disappointment for the Colorado Buffaloes, maybe the most puzzling question concerns their anemic starts.ASU quarterback Brock Osweiler completed 18-of-28 passes for 307 yards and two touchdowns, with tailback Cameron Marshall adding 114 yards rushing and three TDs on his 15 carries. CU quarterback Tyler Hansen finished 23-of-36 for 321 yards and one TD (two interceptions). Tailback Josh Ford was the Buffs' leading rusher, gaining 73 yards on 10 carries.
CU got defensive backs Travis Sandersfeld (leg), Ray Polk (concussion) and Vince Ewing (knee) back from injuries on Saturday, and offensive lineman Shawn Daniels (calf) returned to field goal and PAT teams for his first duty this season.
But on the players-lost side of the ledger, add freshman running back Malcolm Creer, whose redshirt was pulled last week against Oregon. He went to the sidelines with a knee injury midway through the second quarter and did not return. Coach Jon Embree said Creer suffered a torn MCL, possibly a torn ACL, and is lost for the season.
Nick Hirschman opened at quarterback, but Hansen (concussion vs. Oregon) replaced him on CU's third possession. Neither could help generate any early offense; the Buffs managed 54 total first-quarter yards to the Sun Devils' 222.
Let's hope the success of the Men's and Women's Cross-Country teams can spread some enthusiasm around for the Buffs.
Way to Go Buffs!
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Man that sucks. However i don’t blame anyone for it. Creer had shown the ability to play as a true freshman through hard work on the scout team, and Embree has discussed the option to pull his redshirt and play in the Oregon game. I have no reason to believe this was not a mutual decision as most players work hard to get playing time and he stated he was excited about playing. Unfortunate things happen like injury, and i’m pretty sure nobody was expecting him to be hurt and out for the year based in his second game.
I doubt Embree was thinking, “Hey, lets put him in so he can can use his eligibility and then get hurt and ruin his Freshman year!”
Creer showed he has some ability and a bright future as a RB and i look forward to hearing his name for the next 3 years.
Agreed. I was excited to see him on the field, too.
I’m unclear on the rules/best-use of a medical redshirt. Would Creer’s injury be eligible/a good application of it?
From all the other answers i've seen on this, unfortunatley no.
Something about the injury had to happen in the first half of the season.
Yeah it has to happen in the first half of the season
no matter how much of that the athlete participated in. Hypothetically, if a player is hurt going into the season starts playing in the seventh game, tears his ACL on the first play, he would not be eligible to receive a medical redshirt.
In terms of burning a redshirt in general. If your head coach comes to you and says we need you, will you pull your redshirt to play? The player almost has to say yes. Most players want to be out there and want to play, practice is only so much fun, and other players know in some cases if you decline to pull your redshirt, and that can come across selfish in the view of all the people that are out there every saturday.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
Someone explain this to me because I don't understand it
Why did Hirschman start the game? Of course it makes perfect sense if Hansen was injured but then Tyler comes in after two possessions. If Hansen was injured and his health/future was potentially in danger (brain/concussion) he never should of played in a game we had absolutely no chance of winning regardless. But… if he was healthy there is no reason he shouldn’t of started. Either way it didn’t make sense to me.
I believe the thinking was about practice snaps.
Hirschman got all the PT and Hansen hadn’t been taking snaps. Still it seemed really odd to pull him so early.
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