A
bunch has actually happened in recent days…
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2013 Recruiting
***Just in!
CU received verbal commitments from 3-star (from at least one site
anyway) offensive line teammates at The Woodlands (Texas) guard Jonathon
Huckins and tackle Sam Kronshrage, for
their 6th and 7th commits for the 2013 class.
-CUattheGame.com
had just posted a nice little piece on the Buffs’ offensive line status and
recruiting needs. They are actually in
generally good shape as this is their most experienced group on offense. This just strengthens the future a little.
-They are still targeting quite a few lineman as
they only signed 2 for this cycle (with another going to greyshirt), but it
appears the biggest names, while still entertaining CU at times, are only
really interested in the biggest names in college football. However, they are still in the running for some
3-star prospects, including Arvada’s Dan Skipper, who many believe is a “must
get” for the Buffs as he is the biggest name left in Colorado.
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Roster
talk
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It is possible that WR Peyton Williams, who is
recovering from knee surgery, could be a greyshirt candidate, depending on how
his knee responds right before camp opens.
Coach Embree said he wouldn’t want him to lose practice time, even as a
redshirt, because of the injury. See
more below.
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It appears that (according to a “family member”)
that DE Kisima Jagne did NOT qualify through the NCAA clearinghouse by (again,
according to an unnamed relative) by the smallest
of margins. However, they believe there
are still options where he can become a Buffalo without going to a JC (I am
going to guess that he enrolls in an Arizona Junior College and I also bet they
all have it picked out already). So, still it is an unclear situation.
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Embree needs to have 3 members of the 28-recruit
class to greyshirt-McCartney and Kough already slated-to be at the 25 member
class limit. Hence, the Peyton Williams deal.
However, if Jagne indeed does not qualify,
then that problem will unfortunately be solved and may make it easier for
Williams to not greyshirt, even if he is not quite 100%, which would leave one
more slot for next year’s crop of prospects.
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There is still nothing official on former Kansas
QB transfer Jordan Webb, although it now seems that he needs summer classes to
complete his degree at Kansas, which would enable him to be able to play
immediately for another team with two years of eligibility left. So, if he indeed does come to CU, it will not
be until late July, and without the benefit of passing with the receivers and
learning the playbook with everyone else during “voluntary” (i.e. no coaches)
summer workouts. It appears more and
more, even though he supposed has chosen CU based on the prospect of playing
time, that he is more the Brent Burnette insurance type.
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Veteran players have reported from those early
summer workouts that incoming frosh TE Vincent Hobbs appears bulked up and very
strong in addition to being really fast!
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Pre Snap Read claims that “(Connor) Wood is starting against Colorado State on Sept. 2.
Whether he remains the starter depends on his own play and Hirschman’s right
foot.”
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There was one official “roster move” as an extra
scholarship for next year opened up when Cordary Allen left the program. The late, low-rated 2010 recruit was just not
D-1 material-not fast enough to play RB, no hands to play TE and not strong
enough to play DE-and could never make any headway on the depth chart. I do not know if he was “encouraged” to leave
or just finally gave up. He is the 8th
of 24 (fully one-third Hawkins’ lame-duck 2010 class) that has left the program.
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There was a brief report that Paul Richardson
was way ahead of schedule in his ACL rehab and might possibly be available this
year-but nothing has been substantiated so this is at the bottom of this
section.
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Other
Program Notes
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Sr. LB Doug Rippy and Jr. 2nd-team
All-Pac-12 LT David Bahktiari will accompany Jon Embree and be interviewed
first at the Pac-12 Media Day on July 24.
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The Golden Nugget has put out some preseason
odds, and although the game has not yet been picked up for television, CU is listed
as a 6.5 favorite over CSU to open the season.
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The Buff bashing continues on the national front
as…
1) Athlon
predicted that the Buffs will begin 3-0, but that they will not be able to find
a way to win even a single Pac-12 game! I
understand that there are some holes on paper, but really, seriously?! Is it really realistic to believe that they
will actually go 0-9 in the pac-12, not winning a single conference game, something
the program has not done in forever And
this prediction with Utah, whom the Buffs, everyone seems to forget, beat in
Salt Lake City last year, coming to Boulder, as well as four schools with new
coaches on the schedule. Is there truly
no win to be had anywhere?! That is a
little overblown and I would love to put an over/under bet on wins with any of
their writers with either a line of .5 for conference or 3.5 for the season.
2) Pre
Snap Read ranked the Buffs #89, actually one of the higher ratings. They said a dream season would be 7 wins and
bowl game, while the nightmare would be the aforementioned winless Pac-12 slate. Read it all at: http://www.presnapread.com/no-89-colorado/
3) Bill
Connelly from SBNation.com wrote a pretty fair, objective piece on the Buffs and
ended with: “I'll say the success-or-not
line, then, is around five games. A bowl game would be optimal, but baby
steps.” & “The road back to prominence gets longer and longer in Boulder,
but a bowl bid is still a possibility with a hot start. And even some minor
bowl, with a 6-7 final record, would represent a significant, positive
forward.” http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/6/7/3070052/2012-colorado-football-preview
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Interesting (and depressing) stat from Connelly
about last year: The Buffs had only 8 defenders total and only ONE defensive
back who played in all 13 games last year (Greg Henderson I believe) as everyone else missed time due to injury
or indiscretion.
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Work is continuing on the new video boards at
Folsom Field but nothing specific to report yet-the photos out there do not
really show anything exciting.
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