Open Game Thread: Kansas State vs. Louisiana - Lafayette

LOL. j/k

I don’t normally get psyched up about these sorts of things, but last night the Buffs had one of the most well-managed, humorous, epic meltdowns I have seen in the sports blogging world. Members of eight different SB sites, including me and Panjandrum, dropped in not so much to gloat, but to offer our condolences on the demise of competitive Colorado football.

You can read them here, if you’re looking to get back into a football frame of mind this fine morning:

1st Half

2nd Half Suicide Hotline Thread (the best one)

The Day After

I found these comments particularly amusing:

If I wanted to quit drinking…

I’d take a shot for every CU touchdown

Our team got all confused when the coach mentioned the “Glass Bowl”

too bad they’re high on the slow-y leaves and not the crack

I wish we could pick up LaGarette to make this interesting

I think we could of played (Colorado School of) Mines and still lost

Think of Colorado’s season as the mid-major stimulus plan!

Buffs for clunkers!

The Japanese have a way to take care of disgrace

In all seriousness, I’m not going to poke fun at the Buffs too much, for two reasons:

1. It’s eerily uncomfortable because it’s a literal repeat of what we went through last season: Sub-100 defense, abandoning the running game, lack of coaching, recruiting drop-off, no adjustments, players giving up, coach giving excuses, no money for a buyout, realizing your season is over in September, feeling like you have to root against your team, etc. Any of that sound familiar?

2. We very well could lose tonight and be the second-biggest laughingstock in the conference, so why sling stones?

So, to summarize… Colorado football =

Got a buddy with Comcast. I was able to do the Remote Access, but Comcast has an additional level of security that required him to set up his Comcast.com e-mail and password. Sheesh.

For all that effort and roundabout legwork, we damn well better win tonight.

OSU now only trails 24-21. The Poke comeback is on!

Houston missed at least 5 tackles on the scoring run. Yeesh.

Score updates please.

TIA.

TCU beat Virginia, 30-14. I’m pissed that they gave up the shutout.

We will not win next week, methinks, no matter what happens tonight.

Hit the tightend there and it’s 6

got some “socializing” to do.

So far so good. I have a buddy at the Mission Theatre watching the game, he said it’s pretty packed.

Shit, missed field goal, I spoke too soon.

Hartman forces a fumble on UL’s very first play.

We get to 4th and 1 on the 1. Weibert false start costs us what looked like a good option play. Cherry misses the point-blank FG right. He sucks. Doerr should kick.

Wasted opportunity to take the crowd out of it. Fuck my life.

Soon, please. No touch on his passing.

Please, Bill, we need Grant Gregory.

We need to jump on these guys. We shouldn’t have to depend our D to win this game.

UCLA wins in Neyland. Next week will be ugly if we don’t get Grant prepped fast.

I had a great time reading all the Ralphie Report misery last night. Good to see Bracket Cat there. I especially liked having Ralphie run over Hawkins in pregame. I’ll have to leave in a bit for a Buckeye party, but will check in later. Cmon Bill, make these guys toughen up.

UL’s OL is working our DL pretty bad.

Hooouuuu-lick!

Pomele blew it on that one.

Nice hit from Butler earlier, though.

I was wondering if Butler was back today

Take the job!

And unfortunately I have front row tickets to it

I"m jealous. Always wanted to see the Rose Bowl.

Punting is awesome. So much better than going on 4th. Cmon D.

No completions yet.

QB took an intentional safety. We’re gonna win, 2-0! LOL

Cmon Gregory. Great, confusion. Our biggest problem is lining up and snapping the ball together.

A timeout.

God, it’s good to have Bill back.

touchback though, meh.

Unbelievable – how could the passing game have evaporated so quickly? At least the defense has showed up.

He sucks, but GG can’t even get the ball near a receiver.

Yikes. This will be 2001 all over again, only worse.

At least the defense looks improved. MUCH better tackling fundamentals, from the DL to the LBs to the secondary.

Major weak link on the D. Where is Hrebec?

Why, you ask?

Because they can actually complete a pass.

Not just one, but several.

Way too many chances for LaLa’s offense. Two to’s with no points. The offense needs to find something on this possession.

More Houlik, more defense.

Oh, right – his shitty players.

Coffman back in, passing game arrives with completions to Banks and Brown.

And then that happened.

Wow, we suck.

Wake up, guys!

LaLa first down, KSU 30. Need a stop here.

Ouch.

heavily right now.

According to folks watching the game, the plays are there to be had. Man-to-man on receivers, 8 in the box. The receivers are open, but we can’t make the easy throw. Coffman is locking on his receiver before the snap.

The plays are there to be made. Just be average.

he’s got on a purple nylon jumpsuit and his jacket is tucked into his elastic-waist pants.

LaLa made it to midfield, but punts.

did i read it right the other day, that after he’s done coaching, ksu will pay him 150k a year for the rest of his life?

Picked up 4th and one at LaLa 41.

Cherry misses another FG, this time from 47 (I think).

Better offensive effort that time. There was a nice pass to Snipes on the drive. Mostly runs.

if we’re going to do so many QB runs, why isn’t gregory in?

Thomas throws a TD!

So, Cherry should just sit down. 8-14.

it’d be 17-14

missed XP, 2 missed FGs, and a bad snap on a FG which wasn’t Cherry’s fault

This is 2001 all over again, except with slightly better WRs.

I totally agree. We just haven’t had an arm to get the ball on target at all. Three easy touchdown possibilities if the ball would have been even close. Add a horrid kicking/special teams and you get our 09 wildcats

That was thrown into coverage and behind mastrud. Tip and great concentration bail him out. Against a big12 backer that’s a pick

That was thrown into coverage and behind mastrud. Tip and great concentration bail him out. Against a big12 backer that’s a pick

Thomas gets in on third down.

Reminds me of Buhl

So far, as advertised. He has both TD’s.

It’s way behind, and it just flashed “XP GOOD!” to indicate the score. It almost mocks Cherry.

now let’s run out the clock … 6:34 long drive

4th and 10 from the KSU 31. If their kicker can hit this, we need to kidnap him.

How could our kicking game suck to badly?

- Saw some toughness out of the OL in the 2nd half. They wore UL down a little.

- Defense much improved. We can actually tackle again.

- Daniel Thomas is the TRUTH.

- Bill Snyder owned that 2nd half with clock management, play selection and coaching moxie. A Ron Prince team would have packed it in after going into halftime down 2-14, and would have been blown out in the 2nd half. Snyder gave us a realistic shot to win a game we had NO business winning.

That’s all I got.

Snyder was looking for the guys to care that they lost. That’s the first battle. I actually don’t feel too badly about next week. I’m so thankful that we can tackle and show effort again. I think the offense will come around. Banks has to get loose.

Really difficult road game for a 1st year coach (or whatever Snyder is considered to be).

Bad week for the B12, sorry to see you guys on the loss column. Best of luck next week.

our special teams crapped the bed….for the second week in a row.

And, our QB’s can’t find an open receiver to save their life….

At least our defense is somewhat coherent, and Daniel Thomas is, you know, good.

We better find the second dimension to our offense in order to have a chance against the Bruins next week. 14-30 passing??? Not if you want to survive in the Big 12, my friend…

Seen the game on 360. For those of you who didn’t, if it sounded like our QB situation is bad, it looked much worse. If something doesn’t change quickly in that facet of the game, i’m thinking 3 +/- 1 wins this season. I’ve almost completely given up hope on CC and don’t have much left for GG either. At this point my* leash on either of these guys is about as long as HCBS’s on Alan Webb.

Things I’d* like to see happen at the QB position:
1) Let D-Train take every snap. Honestly, can he throw much worse?
2) What about Hartman? He was a QB…? (losing him in the secondary would hurt though)
3) Klein…? how bad does he throw? He’s covering punts on special teams now, but can he throw the football?

disclaimer: I really don’t think we were that bad in every other aspect. yes, our D-Line got slightly owned. but given the circumstances, that’s not epic (LALAs veteran line, our injury devastated one) and it’s good to see our D and rushing keep us in games.

*my opinions don’t matter, this is my coaching from my couch. obviously HCBS knows a heck of a lot more about football than i ever will and a heck of a lot less about the visual aesthetics of wearing a tucked in purple jumpsuit.