Dominance?
filed in Post-game on Sep.15, 2002
Saturday morning I eagerly awaited the beginning of another Colorado Football game to continue the return to dominance that began last season. The Buffs had stumbled a few times early this year but I was optimistic that the early season jitters were almost gone. After the game began it looked more like a return to sucking. I have never seen a game with worse coaching, execution, tackling, playmaking, and blocking. It is a sad, sad day when the punting game is the only highlight of the day for the Buffs. The offense and defense tied this week for the most invaluable players! The only logical explanation is that the team was trying to loose. I think the NCAA should investigate the BUFFS for fixing the game. – Dr. E
On Saturday I witnessed the most horrible display of football I have ever seen in my life. Period.
At least back in the day (1990) when we could roll up the score on a Kansas State 63-3, Kansas State still had something to cheer about. They Amassed 12 first downs and over 200 yards in total offense. No our football team did not even approach that output. We had 4 first downs in the entire game!!! One of the single loudest cheers I heard in the stadium was when we finally got our 3rd first down near the end of the 3rd quarter. (Really I’m not making this up)
No, after the game on Saturday I feel way more humiliated than K State ever felt. Every facet of our game was horrible, Mark Mariscal excepted.
I could talk all day about missed tackles and the offensive line’s inability to open a hole, but that shouldn’t be the focus of what needs to be looked at. We have talent up and down the entire roster. (Although QB looks pretty thin) What needs to be closely examined is the coaching. This doesn’t need to be left to anyone’s deducing as Gampp suggests. This is a major problem. On offense Shawn Watson has no imagination at all. Oh I take that back, he managed to run the same plays of the I formation and the new formation I will refer to as the “penalty formation” with Bobby Purify and Brian Calhoun in the backfield at the same time on third downs. It’s no wonder they were putting all 11 of their guys in the box against us. We only threw the ball 13 times all day. And I don’t believe a single one of those passes went to a wide receiver. Most coaches are able to adjust at half time but we called nothing new after half time we stuck to the same gameplan as if it would magically work in the second half.
On defense. Vince Okruch was not much better. What kind of defensive scheme never actually defends against the pass. As far as I can tell, the defensive scheme is to give every receiver at least 5 yards of room to catch any ball than we will use our ineffective tackling skills to try and stop them. Oh and to make it even easier we won’t pressure the quarterback at all. SO now you have a quarterback able to stand in the pocket for the entire game with nobody within 5 yards of any of his receivers. Of course they will pass for amazing numbers against us.
Gary Barnett is the Colorado Buffalo coach for years to come. I will stand by Gary though thick and thin. Watson, Okruch and Vance Joseph are not lifers. – Marc
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September 16th, 2002 on 7:40 am
Even though we looked worse than Northeast Carolina A&M on Saturday, we must not forget that the rest of the Big XII North looks almost as bad. With Iowa State and Kansas State both home games for CU, the right to go to the Big XII championship game may well come down to the last week at Nebraska. Maybe the USC game will be the same kick in the ass as the Texas game was early last season. The problem this year is that we have no one who can throw and Dan Graham plays for New England.
September 16th, 2002 on 8:37 am
I want to make sure that no one loses sight of the fact that although the offense was really bad, the defense was just as bad. We sucked everywhere except for punting. Even our field goal kicker sucks. I think it comes down to one of two things: 1. We just don’t have the talent. or 2. Our coaching staff is terrible and can’t coach the talent we have. According to most people accross the country, this team has a lot of talent. I’ll leave the rest of the deducing to you.
September 16th, 2002 on 10:17 am
This weekends game made me sick!!! That has to rank up there with the poorest performances ever by a CU team. I agree with Gampp, its the coaching. Lack of preparation cost us this game, and the CSU game(that and 3 turnovers). We have some of the best talent in the country, but that wont get you anywhere without the right coaching, adjustments, and game plan. Its not just the offenseive and defensive coordinators, but the responsibility falls ultimatley on Barnett. I will stand by the guy cause he can coach as he proved last year, but he needs to make some big changes.
As for this year, I’m almost ready to pack it in. Ochs probably wont be back, at least he shouldnt come back, Hodge cant throw, and neither can Colvin, no one can tackle, we will be lucky to beat Baylor this year! Give them their first Big 12 win ever?
September 27th, 2002 on 3:32 pm
Return to Dominance? It seems Barnett needs to work on returning his own DICK to dominance. His wife can probably out coach his sorry ass. Yeah, we won the big 12 last year, but we had a shit-load of talent, all people Neuheisel brought to our program. Not that I like that bitch-ass either. If Barnett wants CU to return to dominance, he needs to learn how to scout players with heart and passion to play football, rather than weak, broke ass, mother loving hold my hand and wipe my ass players that throughout their entire college career amount to nothing— AKA Marcus Houston. I’m going to church now, so please God, give our team some Ralphie balls so that they learn how to play again.