Let’s be honest.  This is a huge week for football in Colorado!  The NFL preseason has left us needing a little real football in the state.

Typically this is a week filled with CSU fans making outrageous claims and stupid bets.  These fans come out of the woodwork.  Coworkers who hide in the corners.  Estranged friends from the past.  Less than articulate radio call ins.  All these people who don’t even know that CSU even has a fight song let alone know the words. They talk a big story and after Labor day we don’t have to hear from them again.

Truth is they have plenty to talk about.  They just came off a big bowl win and a winnig season with a new head coach.  But where are they this year?  I haven’t heard a peep from the Rams this year.  Are they so disgruntled about the game being in Boulder?  With Sperry and Bell gone from the program have they really lost all hope?  Do they believe Fairchild and his quarterback laments?  Or perhaps they are all secretly believing exactly what Fairchild is saying privately.  The next two seasons for the Rams are going to be rough?

No matter it is good for me.  I never enjoy having to explain the difference between JV and Varsity to those kids up north.

Sorry for the lack of roundtables lately, but there hasn’t been a new one for 2 weeks now and I have decided to turn my attention to another important issue, tomorrows game. I completely agree with what Marc was saying, and think he has the best plan going into tomorrow night. We’re going to have lots of trouble defending the explosiveness of their offense, but I believe that Hawkins and Co will have some sort of plan that resembles Marc’s. There is however one area we better improve on from last week that will give the team a significant boost….
Student turnout. The student body last week was a COMPLETE EMBARRASMENT. Students, I’m calling you out to have a better turnout this week. The team feeds off the crowd’s energy, which is why it is typically an advantage to play at home. But when there is no energy from the crowd, there isn’t any energy from the team. That was the case last weekend against ISU.
On campus I hear people complaining about a lack of productivity from our team, yet they fail to fill 75% of the student section at best. If you are going to complain about the team and not show up a game because it’s too early or you had other plans, then forget about calling yourself a fan. I’m sick of the students showing up late to the games and being poor supporters of the team. It’s time that changes. So for this one last home game, I’m calling on the students to be true fans and show up on time, be loud, and fire up the team. We are going to need it. It may be cold, but that is part of the fun and excitement of football. So show up and support your Buffaloes and I’ll see you all at the game… GO BUFFS!!

So says the Daily.
There will even be a scrimmage this Saturday. No word on if it is open to the public. Scrimmages this year should be a lot different from last years, as the team now has enough offensive linemen to hold full 11 on 11 plays. Last year, there were only 5. Now, 11!
However, news of any import is still rather dry. Go here and educate yourself on football for a while. Hopefully, by the time you come back, we will have better news than this to give you!
Until then, memories…

Yesterday, I mentioned that the students were starting up a grassroots movement for a “blackout” for Saturday night’s game. It looks like they finally have some school backing as Bohn is asking all fans to wear black instead of the usual gold tomorrow. If you saw any of the West Virginia – Maryland game last night, the entire student section was wearing black and it looked pretty cool on TV. If you’re going to the game, please support the effort and wear black. If you’re not going to the game, shame on you.
More info here:
CUBuffs.com

Well the Noles certaily don’t think the Buffs are much competition. Go check out ScalpEm.com to see what the Seminoles have to say

During the first two home games at Folsom Field, Campus police have placed 11 people in the Addiction Recovery Center and 128 have been ejected from the game. These numbers are drastically up from previous years according to the Associated Press.
Interestingly, there seems to be an inverse correlation between the Football team success and the number of people taken to the Addiction Recovery Center. In 2004, eight people were sent to the drunk tank and the team was 4-2 at home. In 2005, only six made the trip and the team was 5-1 at home. This year with 2 losses eleven have already had to sleep off their game hangover with the police.
The university has begun broadcasting good-behavior reminders on BuffVision during games. They are also expected to open a telephone line so fans can report inappropriate behavior.
The next home game is October 7th against Baylor. I wonder how many people will get the opportunity to sleep off the game with the police?

Compared to last year we are dealing with an entirely different team from coaching to athletic director, and it is nice to finally see a good athletic director. Since being hired Mike Bohn has been on a mission to help and support our marching band, thus bringing the team and the band that it serves closer together. Visitthe Daily Camera for the article. As an alumni of the band, it felt like there could have been more support from the athletic department, and I am happy to see it finally happen. Ultimately, it will create a stronger program both for the band and for football…Go BUFFS!

Cody will be featured on a new ESPNU reality show “Summer House”. Yep, it’s come to that. Colorado’s new potential star quaterback is being thrown in to a house with five other incoming college freshman. Jarred Fayson, a high school quarterback who will play receiver at Florida; London Crawford, a receiver who will join prized recruit Mitch Mustain at Arkansas; Taylor Potts, a quarterback and Texas native who will attend Texas Tech; Terrence Austin, a receiver from Long Beach Polytechnic High School who will play for former Buffalo Karl Dorrell at UCLA and Cart Kelly, a receiver who scored 1300 on the SAT, who will play at Princeton. You can watch 7:30 on Tuesdays on ESPNU. Most likely you don’t get ESPNU, so we will scour YouTube for hilites.
When Jeremy Bloom did his MTV gig it was one thing. He wasn’t even playing for the Buffs at the time. But there already is a lot of hype around Cody. He is the son of the head coach. I’m not sure reallity TV will do anything to mitigate that hype. And after the last five years at CU, I’m not sure all publicity is good publicity

The Buffvision crew has posted a new open video to their site. It’s a good thing J.J. got his eligibility back as he has a couple of closeups in the video. Enjoy.

Well, Friday’s game is officially sold out. The last tickets were sold yesterday afternoon sometime according to the CU Ticket Office. Of the approximately 53,000 available, the standard 3,850 went to the University of Nebraska. Account for the fact that Husker fans probably scooped up some of the 1,400 tickets made a available to the general public and ad a dash of scalped tickets… and estimates out of the University put about 5,000 red-coats in the stands. So, Buff faithful, do you think 48,000 can make some noise?

Eric Neel from Page 2 on ESPN.com ran with Ralphie during the Washington State game. A great article that taps into the feelings that all CU fans have about our glorious mascot.

Mike McFadden, CU’s long time “Barrel Man” has decided to hang up his, um, barrel. After 5 years of being a veritable institution at Buff games McFadden has decided that it is time to pass the tradition on to a student. McFadden says that the next Barrel Man (or Barrel Woman) must show extreme dedication and loyalty to the Buffs. They will be expected to go to all the home games and most of the road games. If you are interested in taking on the challenge please contact Mike at mmcfadden@srg.com or call him at (720) 988-6453.

At the last game against Iowa State, CU was almost penalized for having a 12th man on the field. He didn’t look quite like the other players but did receive a standing recognition for his hard work and devotion to the team. Check out this important BUFF!

CU alum Chris Fowler thinks that the Colorado-Oklahoma game on November 2nd could be the site of College Gameday. It’s between the CU-OU matchup and the Georgia-Florida matchup. The Buffaloes have to win this week if they want to remain in the running.
College Gameday is nothing but spectacular programming.

While technically a regional affair according to FoxSports, they are nonetheless broadcasting the game in 11 regions around the country. So for those of you a little too far from Boulder to make the drive you may be in luck. The game will be on FoxSports West, Bay Area, Chicago, Midwest, New England, North, Wisconsin, Ohio, Rocky Mountain, South and Southwest. Looks like most of the country to me. Hopefully a few voters will be watching Heisman Candidate Chris Brown.

When asked what might help the Buffs perform well and get an edge up, Barnett responded: “We are going to need a crowd, a loud crowd. We need a 12th man out there. This is going to be one of those games that is going to be a nail-biter… an angst-producing game.”

I love the all black uniforms that we wore against KSU. They feel tough especially after seeing the team in the all white uniforms at UCLA, which I prefer that we never wear again.
Who’s bright idea was it to give everybody in the stadium a newspaper at the game? Not only did we come out looking horrible on national TV as newspapers swirled all over the field. Nobody in the stadium read anything but the Buffs section of the paper anyway. We live in a supposedly environmentally friendly town. That has to be one of the dumber things that the Denver Rock Mountain Post Camera conglomerate has ever done.
Finally kudos to the band for stepping it up with the “Hey” song. The song was not overplayed but was used at appropriate times to rally the team and the fans. We welcome the band back to the CU faithful.

Ahhh, the words to an age-old Buffs cheer. If only fans had been accompanied by the band when yelling this at Saturday’s home opener under the lights at Folsom Field. I was privileged enough to attend Fan Training Camp in the pre-season and Gary Barnett himself encouraged us to make Folsom Field as hostile as possible. It seems to me that 50,000 people yelling Fuck ‘em up! Fuck ‘em up! Go CU! is just the type of cheer that can put the fear of the stampede in the other team. However, the Golden Buffalo Marching Band refused to play this song.
Based on gesturing from members of the band during the game, I was led to believe that a director or higher up had put the kibosh on our fun not fellow students.
As far as I can tell being a member of the band is thankless enough without having the entire student section turn on you because you won’t play the number one fan motivational song at Folsom Field. (Things really did turn pretty ugly.)
So why did they decide to stop playing this tried and true expression of Buffalo emotion? That has yet to be answered. Some say that Fox Sports Net didn’t want to hear the song during their broadcast. Some say that Matthew Roeder, the Director of the Golden Buffalo Marching Band is a straight-laced kind of guy. Still others say that the University is trying to change it’s image and this may be coming all the way down from Ms Hoffman. Me, I just think this is just another attempt to limit student fun on campus.
In any case, Matthew Roeder will know exactly why this is going on. I think he would appreciate an email from every fan who felt slighted in the least by the band at our last home game.
The Hey song will never leave the fan repertoire at Folsom Field. Let’s hope it doesn’t leaves the band’s.

CU has only 10 tickets left for the Mile High Matchup. (Please remember anybody who refers to it as Invesco field has to buy the next round of drinks) CSU has some 1500 tix left.
Do you have your tickets?

Well we (Kerry, Ryno, Pzo, and me) just attended the very first CU Buffalo “Fan Training Camp” Pretty fun overall.. As with most events there are a few things that I would change to make it better but overall it was tight…
We hear a little from Gary barnett on the state of the team. He is pretty happy about where we are one week into the all team practices.. He is main concern is pretty much been the same concern since last year.. THe offensive line still has a few holes.. Especially with 2 offensive lineman currently on the injured list. When we wathced the scrimmage it was eveident that the offensive line was struggling at times. We witnessed a couple sacks and some scrambles. As usual Robert Hodge has some quick feet under him. Ochs left the scrimmage in the beginning. Apparently he nailed his hand on somebodies helmet and had to take it in for some Xrays. Everything was fine and he was back out in 10 mins.
Best play of the day. Bloom, Jeremy Bloom Punt return for a touchdown. HE looked great out there and man if you want to talk about speed it was unbelievable. Other highlights Strickland interception on Hodge…. TD Littlehales…
Who do you root for in a “srimmage” of your teams offense versus your teams defense. Overall the running game was average. Is that because our defense was so damn good or was it because our rushing game sucks? I guess the best
you can hope for is no huge mistakes on either side of the ball.
I think Kerry, Ryno, Pzo and I are totally psyched for the season to come around. 2 weeks away!!! Go Buffs!
Here is a link to the article about the scrimmage(sp?) on cubuffs.com