The Buffs
ha their first official practice (of 29 total, not counting walk-throughs) on
Monday afternoon. They will continue all
week with the same schedule of early walk-throughs (6:30 AM) which will prepare
them to be efficient in the PM, before most players will go to the last week of
summer class, with a (of course closed to the public) practice at 4:45. The first day of pads will be Friday. Embree thought the first day went well, ran
smoothly, players were much sharper than the first day last year, and they were
able to focus on the football. Here are
a few tidbits from camp:
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The 3-way QB battle is under way. QB Nick
Hirschman feels “fantastic”, finally healthy after 3 foot surgeries, and said
that he, Webb and Wood basically received equal reps the first day. Wood said, “Competition brings out the best
in everybody.” Webb is glad they will “give
me a chance. That’s all I can ask for.” Shane Dillon took it easy and is surely
slated to redshirt.
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S Ray Polk is also healthy and excited to help
lead the defense and head up the secondary.
He has taken Anthony Perkins’ number 7 and has taken the younger players
under his wing, especially new frosh Marques Moseley, who Embree thinks has a
good chance to play immediately.
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TE Nick Kasa feels much more comfortable playing
tight end now and thought he had a good first day.
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Jr. DaVaughn Thorton had moved back to TE from
WR to compete with the freshmen there but I don’t anticipate him contributing
much this year or next.
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Bowl game or bust will be the mantra for this
team this season as they ended the practice (as they likely will each day) with
a “1-2-3…Bowl game!”
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Frosh WR Jeffrey Thomas got “dinged” but no
other injuries reported.
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P-Rich did some light running.
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LB Doug Rippy did not participate in “team stuff”
but no one seems worried about that.
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Bulletin Board material? CSU head
coach Jim McElwain said of the Buffs and preparing for the first game: “It’s
just eleven guys over there.”
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Buffs in
the NFL: S Anthony Perkins, who supposedly gave up a graduate assistant
slot at Stanford for his shot at the pros, is working out in Dove Valley,
trying to make an impression on Peyton Manning and the other Broncos
coaches.
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DE Conrad Obi signed and is in camp with the Atlanta
Falcons.
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“Behind the Steel Curtain” doesn’t think Tony
Clemons, who has some drops in camp, will make the Steelers 53-man roster; he
also needs to show some usefulness in special teams to make that roster.
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Roster
Moves: Juniors and Colorado natives RB Josh Ford (Mullen), TE Scott
Fernandez (Broomfield) and FB Alex Wood Steamboat Springs were all awarded
scholarships by Embree in front of the team.
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It was confirmed that WR Peyton Williams and DE
Kisima Jagne will join DE Derek McCartney and OL Gerald Kough in greyshirting
and delaying their enrollment until January.
Two will count toward 2012’s full 25 man class (Clay Norgard came early
and will count back to 2011) and two will count toward next year’s smaller
class, which also already has 13 commits, even though there are only 8 seniors
and 1 or 2 scholarships under the 85 limit available. This also means that Jagne “stays in the fold”
(whereas he might never make it back here if he went the JC route), as long as
he takes care of whatever classwork or test scores he needs to before January.
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AllBuffs
and Buffnik’s Uncensored Buffs Offense Preview (warning: chock full of
cheesy nicknames): http://www.allbuffs.com/content.php/1458-A-really-******-preview-of-the-2012-CU-Buffs-football-season-Part-I-Offense
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If you haven’t seen it, here is the Season
Opening inspirational video: http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=205566012
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