***2024 Week 1 Games Thread***

[RezClone]

“Good Iowa Team” is an oxymoron, did they even put up 20 points? When you have no offense you can lose to anyone

Man, you're making this hard. F*** iowa all day.

But in the interest of fairness, it was definitely either Beathard or Stanley in that NDSU loss.

Both are easily their two most capable/good quarterbacks by a mile in the "modern" KF offensive dictatorship. It was a legit win, no excuses.

They also absolutely punked us in every phase of the game from start to finish the year before. But admittedly, that's not saying much back then.

Edit: typo

 

[madguy30]

are we tamping down the Prime hype yet?

Doesn't seem to be much this year.

 

[QBEagles]

Fun fact: Western Carolina is coached by this guy

 

[RezClone]

Doesn't seem to be much this year.

Its more of a mixed bag for sure.

But there is still plenty to go around.

 

[Cardinal2001]

woops, pick in the end zone!

 

[JP4CY]

Yes! Pick!

 

[alarson]

Doesn't seem to be much this year.

Among fans? No.

Among national sports media? Doesn't seem to have gone away

 

[aeroclone]

Feeling the urge to go back and read all those old posts claiming that having Coach Prime at CU was such a big deal it would raise the value of the entire conference TV package.

 

[FriendlySpartan]

Dang, couldn’t capitalize, gotta live bet Colorado

 

[CRcyclone6]

Has Coach "Prime" canceled the post game yet? Wait, no, he will want it to explain how the game plan was perfect and everyone except his boys couldn't execute it.

 

[FriendlySpartan]

Feeling the urge to go back and read all those old posts claiming that having Coach Prime at CU was such a big deal it would raise the value of the entire conference TV package.

Bet this game get really good ratings though, your point stands however

 

[alarson]

Bet this game get really good ratings though, your point stands however

It always seemed temporary one way or the other. Either he was going to fail spectacularly and crash and burn, or he'd have success and be gone at the first opportunity. No real room for a middle ground

 

[SaraV]

 

[RezClone]

Feeling the urge to go back and read all those old posts claiming that having Coach Prime at CU was such a big deal it would raise the value of the entire conference TV package.

Idk if it was by design...

...But Hate watching is also a real thing.

This game will probably pull legit ratings.

 

[madguy30]

Oh, great.
PJ Fleck season is back.

 

[ClonerJams]

NDSU secondary, no bueno

 

[Cardinal2001]

Prime does grab the eyeballs, gotta give him that.

 

[RezClone]

Feeling the urge to go back and read all those old posts claiming that having Coach Prime at CU was such a big deal it would raise the value of the entire conference TV package.

Not disagreeing with your statement. It's definitely warranted at this point. They aren't that good.

But there's other factors unique to Colorado that make them a good add.

There's a big split between the school administration and the AD in terms of what's best for Colorado. They've moved away from the big 12 culturally to their detriment in every way that has nothing to do with FB.

Former players and older fans and alumni, as well as the blueprint for what made them successful in the first place has been 100% clamoring for rejoining the Big 12 for some time. We need more of that buy-in IMHO, not less. So I'm fine with them in the conference in any form for that reason alone.

 

[SolterraCyclone]

Dang, couldn’t capitalize, gotta live bet Colorado

Got CU -4.5 at -102 about 15 minutes ago. I think that will cash easy

 

[CycloneDaddy]

ESPN sucking the Buffs nuts is something.