Expletive, Expletive, GO CU!

Big win for the Buffaloes on Saturday, as they are now 50% to last season's win total with a 31-28 overtime victory over Colorado's Shitty University.

BIG MONEY:

• Chase McBride: Normally, I don't like guys named Chase. But in this case, I'll make an exception. Simply put, we don't win this game without Chase McBride. Without his punt returns at the end of each half, the game his over. I'd say he has ripped the PR job from Stephone Robinson for the foreseeable future. I'm disappointed that I couldn't find an action shot for the top.
  
• Littlehawk: He doesn't have a strong arm. He has a long wind up and doesn't get the ball out particularly quickly. He isn't fast. Normally, these things would be exactly why you wouldn't play a redshirt freshman, but Littlehawk knows the offense better than everyone not named Bighawk. The guy's got "football savvy," whatever that is, and seems to know his limitations. Littlehawk will put us into position to win football games, so it's on the receivers and backs to make plays. That's really all you can ask from a freshman.
• Terrance Wheatley: Big kick returns, huge interception, blanket coverage. He's probably the best player on the team, and he showed it. He needs to continue showing it, because our coverage is spotty at best. Hanie completed 80% of his passes against us for his career. That's unacceptable. Wheatley needs to be a college version of Champ Bailey if we're going to be a successful team this year. He has an inordinate amount of responsibility.
  
• George Hypolite: I was really impressed with the hippo. He was collapsing the pocket, and getting after the ball carriers. Kyle Bell got a bunch of yards, but it took him 40 carries to get there. Overall, the defensive line play was inconsistent, but Hippo is the key to that unit this season.
• Kevin Eberhart: He made the kicks he needed to make. At the end of the game, Gary Reasons was complaining when the Buffs didn't go for a 47 yard field goal on 4th and 4. Well, it's because Kevin Eberhart can't make a 47 yard field goal, at least not regularly enough to put the game on his leg. He's not Mason Crosby. But compared to most college kickers, he's extremely solid. CU has always been spoiled when it comes to specialists anyway. We didn't even need stupid Scott Bentley. Fuck that guy. Put it this way- if Florida can win a national championship with Chris Hetland, we can win 6 games with Kevin Eberhart.

WHAMMIES OF THE WEEK:

• Ben Burney: with Wheatley on one side, Burney's going to get a lot of attention. the Buffs need to swing coverage his way if he can't get it done. I still have faith, because he's a Mullen kid.
• Whoever Tried To Cover Kory Sperry: Good God, what is it about Colorado and tight ends? Off the top of my head: Christian Fauria, Daniel Graham, Joe Klopfenstein, Quinn Sypniewski, Joel Dreesen, Alex Smith, Bo Scaife, and now Sperry, Riar Geer, Tyson Devree, and Joe Sanders. Those are all tight ends who have come from a Colorado university, high school, or both. That seems unusual. Sperry is really friggin' good, and he showed it against CU. I won't be sad to see him go away.
• The linebackers: Dizon was simply average (bad first half, good first half= average game), and Brad Jones got pushed around a lot.
• The cheerleaders: no wonder we needed to import strippers and hookers to attract recruits. Between our pom squad and the crowd shots, I had to pull up video of the USC Song Girls just to keep from going into a deep depression. Ralphie has his own endowment that funds her program. I propose we start a Hot Girl Import Program as well. We'll import poor naive farm girls from the south and maybe overseas, and they'll be responsible for slutting it up on national TV.
  

STOP!
Ryan Walters scares the hell out of me. I couldn't figure out where to put him. In the game show parlance, he was the guy who got just enough out of his spins, and then passed his last three spins on to his opponent. Except replace that with something that makes sense. He made his plays, and dude can lay wood, but he makes his hits with he back of his shoulder. Yes- the back. He goes in with the shoulder and then at the last second turns all the way around, so that he's hitting with the "ers" on his jersey. It's like the way Rob Blake checks with his ass.

I don't know what to make of the new uniforms. I don't like the gold patches on the pants, but the gold piping on the jerseys is pretty sharp. I haven't decided if I like the outline around the numbers. It's a little busy for my taste. I definitely like the all black look- we should do the Haka.

Further, it sure seemed like we were running the same few plays we did last year. What's the point of splitting Cody Hawkins wide? He's not B-Jax back there: no one's scared of him making a play. CSU didn't even bother to cover him. Hopefully we open it up more against ASU.

I saw a tee shirt that I really need: It was gold and said Colorado Football: This ain't intramurals, brother! I can't find one on ebay. Help me out- where can I get one? It must be mine.

NEXT UP:
The Stupid Arizona State Sun Devils. Their uniforms make them look like tacos, and their mascot looks like he should be hosting a Saturday morning cartoon show, but they've got a lot of play makers in Rudy Carpenter, Rudy Burgess, and Ryan Torain, and a new coach in Dennis Erickson. Ralphie won't be making the trip due to "logistical difficulties," but myself, Jewger, and my buddy El Jefe will be making the trip, as we do our best to cheer on the Buffs, and hopefully not contract melanoma. I'm sure the team will consider us just as inspirational.

This is an important game. Not only are we playing a BCS team on National TV, but we're playing a PAC 10 team. The west coast is vital to CU's recruiting. If we're going to steal PAC 10 kids, we have to compete at a high level against PAC 10 teams. The last time I checked, there were three or four kids from the state of Arizona alone from the Rivals 250 list who were considering CU. Think they might be watching? Correy Surency is a 5 star Juco recruit from Torrance, CA who has an oral commitment to the Buffs, but is apparently still visiting LSU for the Florida game. Think he won't be watching? More importantly than a lot of wins this season is instilling confidence in recruits that we are on the way back to being an elite team. Our commit list is dreadful right now, and with good reason- our team sucked last year. Frankly, we probably don't want too many out of state kids who would commit to a 2 win, scandal ridden program on probation. 1-0 against an in-state rival is good. 2-0 against a PAC 10 Bowl team would be absolutely huge.

The key to victory for both the team, and for us at the bars after the game will be to confuse our opposition, which shouldn't be too hard, since everyone who goes to Arizona State is borderline retarded (Flanders: "I guess heaven is easier to get into than Arizona State). Since I live in Los Angeles, I think I'm going to pretend that I'm a professional stunt man, or a body double for people who need sexy asses for prudish actors.

Finally, since this is a Colorado post, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Rick Neuheisel can go screw.
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