2011 College Football Thread

[AXOmom]

Originally Posted by WCsweet<3

This.

Also potentially because I complained that the Stanford game was boring.

So it was YOUR fault too! Well, good to know it wasn't all me then.

Greeklove21 (who is, admittedly, a little hyper-competitive) has chosen to blame it ALL on Chip Kelly. Yeah, the guy's lost 4 games in his entire 3 years as head coach and she thinks he need to be run out on a rail.

I'm a little more level headed- but then again, I can clearly remember when winning 4 games in an entire season would have been a good year for the Ducks.

[pearlbubbles]

Originally Posted by AXOmom

I can clearly remember when winning 4 games in an entire season would have been a good year

This sounds like a pretty good thing to me right now.

[WCsweet<3]

Originally Posted by AXOmom

So it was YOUR fault too! Well, good to know it wasn't all me then.

Greeklove21 (who is, admittedly, a little hyper-competitive) has chosen to blame it ALL on Chip Kelly. Yeah, the guy's lost 4 games in his entire 3 years as head coach and she thinks he need to be run out on a rail.

I'm a little more level headed- but then again, I can clearly remember when winning 4 games in an entire season would have been a good year for the Ducks.

It is ridiculous how much I have talked about this.
Part of it was Chip's fault. I understand he was trying to manage the time and end with a score. However, we shouldn't have gone from having a minute to score to having to rely on a field goal with 3 seconds left.

If we had showed up at all before the end of the third quarter and gotten our act together for a minute during the first half, it wouldn't have been an issue. I think we got cocky with Stanford last week.

We haven't recruited a kicker in two years. Maldonado is 6 for 11 this season. We don't need a kicker very often because we usually get touchdowns and don't need fieldgoals for points. However, HE SHOULD BE BETTER!

USC played really well. We barely showed up.

I feel bad for the Beavers next week. We are going to masacre them to make up for it.

[AXOmom]

Originally Posted by WCsweet<3

It is ridiculous how much I have talked about this.
Part of it was Chip's fault. I understand he was trying to manage the time and end with a score. However, we shouldn't have gone from having a minute to score to having to rely on a field goal with 3 seconds left.

If we had showed up at all before the end of the third quarter and gotten our act together for a minute during the first half, it wouldn't have been an issue. I think we got cocky with Stanford last week.

We haven't recruited a kicker in two years. Maldonado is 6 for 11 this season. We don't need a kicker very often because we usually get touchdowns and don't need fieldgoals for points. However, HE SHOULD BE BETTER!

USC played really well. We barely showed up.

I feel bad for the Beavers next week. We are going to masacre them to make up for it.

I'm sure he made some bad decisions (I can't bring myself to actually watch the game or even read anything about it, so I'll trust you). No coach is going to be right all of the time - coaches who take gambles will win big or fail big.

At any rate - not ready to go along with daughter and throw him under the bus. They're pretty young, so if at the start of the year, you had told me we were going to go 10-2 (assuming we beat the Beavs), lose to 2 top 25 teams (one, the top team), and head back to a Rose Bowl, I'd have been pretty happy.

I think we just haven't ever had anything close to this kind of success before, so when we have a bad game - we don't quite know what to do with that. And you younguns' don't remember how truly BAD it was back in the day. I could tell stories....it was SO bad. Even 4 or 5 years ago a 8-4, 9-3, or 10-2 season was good for us.

As for Maldanado - he really hasn't had a lot of practice - particularly in high pressure situations. He hasn't even been in a college game where it came down to a field goal. This is his first year starting - he'll get there. I always feel bad for the kicker
in those situations - unless they're from Boise State of course.

I agree that they are used to being able to keep it close or even be behind and get caught up quickly in the 2nd half. They did catch up - but with some teams you can't get caught up fast enough to recover. They do need to learn that and stop depending on the 2nd half.

Pearlbubbles - You're also too young to remember (I think) that CU was a great team in the early 90's. They will be again - have faith!!!

[pearlbubbles]

Originally Posted by AXOmom

Pearlbubbles - You're also too young to remember (I think) that CU was a great team in the early 90's. They will be again - have faith!!!

I was not involved in the University during our 1990 national championship, no, but don't you think they'll let us forget it, lol. (we celebrated it's twentieth anniversary last year at one game...)

We were fairly decent as recent as 2005 when Barnett was coaching. And then Hawkins came my freshman year, and thus is CU's current football history.

But don't you worry, win or lose, the wins or losses are always ours to me. I've never been one to refer to the Buffs with secondary pronouns (one of my big sporting pet peeves).