While
I was out of town a decent amount of Buff news transpired…
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2013 Recruiting
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The Buffs received 4 more verbals over the past
week or so bringing the total number of commitments up to eleven recruits and
counting; this is the most they have had this early in a very long time. Although none of the new guys are “big name”
4 or 5-star prospects, the class is shaping up nicely and filling out the
roster with some depth.
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George Frazier (Monrovia, CA) became the first
linebacker to commit, a solid 3-star LB.
He was preceded by Columbine’s John Lisella, a smaller OL who is not
ranked very highly anywhere yet, as well as CA WRs Bryce Bobo (Covina) and
Elijah Dunston (West Hills), both 2-star guys who run track.
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That gives them a QB, RB, TE, 2 WR, 4 OL, 1 s, 1
LB. Even with the huge class they are
bringing in, they could still use a couple of DL and CBs and will likely want
to sign a couple more OL and LBs.
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Chapparal TE Mitchell Parsons is not pleased,
and therefore very motivated to prove them wrong, that he was not invited to
Atlanta to participate in an Elite prospect camp.
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After reading a post from a Cal blog, it looks
like CU is targeting many of the same offensive linemen as Cal and many other
Pac-12 schools. However, even Bears fans
are lamenting that many of the biggest California names are focused only on
USC, Stanford and even UCLA.
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OL Blake Nowland did commit to CSU?! which is a
little disappointing but he obviously is either really interested in animals or
is just not that smart. CU has 2 of the
top 5 in the state and 4 of top 16, but CSU has grabbed 4 of the top 12.
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That leaves OT Dan Skipper as the only “big”
name from the state of Colorado that remains uncommitted.
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Roster
talk
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It is still possible that recruit WR Peyton
Williams, who is recovering from knee surgery, could be a greyshirt candidate, depending
on how his knee responds right before camp and how the following story
develops…
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No official word yet about if DE Kisima Jagne,
who according to family did NOT qualify through the NCAA, was able to figure
out his situation, i.e. what Junior College to officially enroll at. Unfortunately, we will probably never see
this talented player in a Buff uniform.
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Embree does need to have 3 members of the 28-recruit
class to greyshirt, delay enrollment until January and count against next year’s
already small class-McCartney and Kough already slated-to be at the 25 member
class limit. Hence, the Peyton Williams
deal. However, if Jagne indeed does not make
it to Boulder, 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 until he finishes whatever summer work he needs to complete
to officially graduate, but Kyle Ringo of the Camera expects him to be in Boulder
by late July.
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Other
Program Notes
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The football program 2nd year of
posting highest score ever) and the rest of the Athletic Department were
pleased to announce that their APR scores were excellent. Let’s hope that players like Cordary Allen
were academically on track before he left.
Any players who finish their degree early certainly don’t hurt and we
will still have to see how many are able to do that as Embree hopes some
current juniors can.
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The CSU game has been moved back to Saturday,
Sept. 2 at 2:00 and will be televised by FOX.
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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 new video boards appear to be coming along
nicely (see AllBuffs.com for photo updates) with the South end basically
complete.
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The news on the “major” renovation plans that
have been drawn up but not approved or funded may be farther off than Mike Bohn
might have led us to believe previously.
Chancellor Phil DiStefano was not very optimistic when he talked about
the project. Although Embree and Co. are
showing the drawings to recruiting prospects, I doubt that there is any chance
that those recruits would ever see any of the plans come to fruition without a
huge private donation.
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ESPN’s Ted Miller did rank the Buffs as 7th
best facilities in the conference which is probably about right.
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The Buff bashing continues on the national front…
…asPhil
Steele’s analysis points out that CU will have the least experienced team in
the entire country and he does have a point.
They lost a ton of seniors, have a very small senior class and will be counting
on double digit true freshmen playing regular minutes.
…however,
Dan Vasta of BleacherReport.com actually put Colorado #70 in his preseason
power rankings, ahead of both Arizona and Oregon State, and the highest slot I
have seen yet, although he still says that 5 wins is the high end of their
range.
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