filed in Coaching on Nov.09, 2010
Feels good. Quite refreshing. After years of publicly and privately questioning many of the coaching decisions at CU we finally get some relief. Dan Hawkins tenure will end at CU today. Now the program can once again be surrounded by optimism and opportunity. Who will it be? What kind of offense? Who will the assistants be? How will they [...]
filed in Coaching on Sep.13, 2010
In Gary Barnett’s final year he took the team to the Big XII championship. In that game the Buffs were humiliated 70-3 by Texas. Barnett was fired as head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes in large part due to this disaster. Hawkins has at least five disasters under his belt. L 52-7 Cal L 54-38 [...]
filed in Pre-game on Aug.30, 2010
It’s been a long hard winter. The standard cocktail party question “When are the going to fire Hawk?” And this week I have the answer. You can’t fire an undefeated coach. And that is exactly where we stand today Coach Dan Hawkins and the Colorado Buffaloes are undefeated heading into a brand new campaign. We [...]
filed in NFL on Oct.06, 2009
Dan Graham will appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week. He is the freaking man. We used to run the touchdown play to him ACROSS THE MIDDLE all the time. I remember those days. Back in the day when we had Chris Brown and Bobby Purify and we RAN THEM BOTH! Best of [...]
filed in Game Day on Oct.01, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife After what seems like weeks of waiting, the Buffs will finally play their fourth game of the season. I keep complaining about the lack of momentum the offense has produced this season, but this scheduling doesn’t provide any weekly momentum either. Good news. We only have two more non-Saturday [...]
filed in Tackling & Toughness on Sep.17, 2009
Let’s just run through these stats really quickly. Buffs have given up 1,000 yards in its first two games. 16 plays of 20 yards or more. 8 plays of 40 or more. Those 16 plays have accounted for a whopping 676 of the 1,000 yards. Ummm to say we have a big play issue is [...]
filed in Coaching on Sep.14, 2009
Let’s start here. We cannot fire Dan Hawkins. The CU Athletic Department does not have the money to do this. So no matter how much you feel he is the root of the problem, he is not going anywhere. Unless you have an extra $3 million to address this situation, than you should not be [...]
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