Buff Nation –
CU (0-1) vs Air Force (1-0)
Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Perhaps Newton should have written a fourth law of motion stating that the refusal to act will often result in an exponential and opposite reaction. We are told that when we are on our deathbed, it’s not the things we have done in life which we will regret, but the things we didn’t do. Our kids are taught to be “upstanders” not “bystanders” when they see wrong. In baseball you can’t steal second by keeping your foot on first.
Last Friday night, on a stage which was filled with electricity of both the literal (45-minute lightning delay) and figurative kind (amped up Buff Nation crowd – first photo), it was not the action taken by the Buffs which has drawn the ire of a frustrated and impatient Buff Nation, but the failure to take action which caused those watching to scratch their heads and leave in frustration (second photo).
On a night when Buff Nation was willing to allow bygones to be bygones (it’s been a long drought), Coach Karl Dorrell and the Colorado Buffaloes failed to act. After a relatively strong first half, the “upgraded” Buff coaching staff got out coached in every phase of the game by a TCU team, which many would argue is a bottom half Big Twelve program and certainly a tertiary Texas football team.
Refusing to start QB JT Shrout in the second half, failing to go for a fourth and five on the TCU 45 with the game slipping away, and failing to make any meaningful adjustments over the course of two quarter of play feels to me like someone is asleep at the wheel or perhaps quite comfortable being a middling team.
The good news is we are early in the season. The Buff faithful need to hold strong for their team (no one else is going to do it). Tomorrow the Buffs travel down I-25 to Colorado Springs to take on a particularly good Air Force team. No way Coach KD doesn’t start JT Shrout. The Buffs need to play with reckless abandon and JT is the type of gunslinger QB capable of leading the Buffs to victory. If that is not enough, well at least we struck out swinging and didn’t fail because we violated Newton’s fourth law of motion.
Go Buffs!
Doug