2017 Colorado Buffaloes

I was walking around the CU sports complex the other day. WOW! What a complex. Now I haven't sampled complexes around the NCAA, but I have been to a few high end resorts in my day. That place has to help when it comes to recruiting. Have any of you been to other NCAA sports complexes? What about professional sports complexes? Is anyone that much better than CU?

What kind of saddens me though, is the emphasis on football. Football in my mind is kind of like our president. Big, brash, bad, and brain damaged Such is our reality.

 

Most exceedingly partial schedule:

August 20, Colorado College at home.

September 8, at Texas. I hope it's a home-and-home. I saw us play Texas a few times and they were all great games, skillfully and cleanly played.

 

Looking at the schedule posted thus far, the PAC-12 looks to be the new Thursday-Sunday scenario, which is better for the players' health, and crucial for a small-roster team like CU's. The pre-season schedule posted so far is the old Friday-Sunday scenario. We play Cal-State Northridge on Saturday 9/2 and BYU two days later on Monday 9/4. Sure hope the Cougars also have a game that Saturday or it could be tough...although they usually don't play their best in Boulder. We play UCLA at home again which is nice... a great chance to see half the future USWNT's roster. We beat them last year and no reason that we can't do it again. The schedule overall seems to present the best RPI potential we've ever had. And with a terrific home schedule with top competition. Also Cal and Stanford in Boulder. I think we open the season at CSU...that's snake-pit when they have a big crowd...we were lucky to get away with a tie up there last time. Need to have all guns a-blazing from the first whistle this time. It's not on this early schedule, but I assume we'll play DU in 2017...and probably down there this time. Sko Buffs!

 

CU travels to USC on Oct 13 for a Friday kickoff on one of the single game conference weekends

 

I wonder if it's typical for players, if they possibly can do it, to select their Fall courses so that they don't have Friday classes. That would make a ton of sense.

 

Where was the schedule posted? I may be missing something obvious, but I can't find it.

 

Teams travel the day before games, so for the approx. four PAC-12 away-game Th-Sun series that each team plays, they are gone from campus from Wednesday morning/early afternoon through Sunday night. Plus probably an average of two 4 day weekends away per season for non-conference games. Not that bad really, and I'm sure the academic support programs that all these schools have make it as easy as possible for student-athletes to be absent. And for soccer, post-season play doesn't typically conflict with final exam schedules...it does conflict in sports like football, lacrosse, baseball, etc. The killer for me would be dealing with the common/standard daily early morning practice schedules designed to clear the full day for classes. But I guess youth prevails and it works for most kids...certainly seems to for soccer and lacrosse at CU with each team posting high GPAs every year.

 

derbarkasmann...it may be elsewhere too, but the only schedule I've seen is on the season ticket renewal website...can't remember if it shows at the outset or if it comes-up only with the purchase confirmation e-mail. It's not a complete schedule...at least it's not complete for away games.

 

The concerns for missing class time is valid but the good thing is that it looks like the Buff are getting it done in the classroom with a team gpa of 3.35 and a nice APR. Athletes tend to have much higher gpa's than general students and women's soccer players tend to do very weel academically so the missed class time seems to not hurt them too much. Looking forward to a good home schedule this year!!!

 

More exceedingly partial schedule ...

We open the season at Colorado State on Friday August 18. The Rams play well against us. Two years ago in Fort Collins, we scored late off a deflection to tie them 1-1, and last year at home we defeated them 2-1. They will have already played a game at Washington State on the 9th.

Buffs at Denver, Saturday September 16 at 7PM. Denver's schedule is out at http://www.denverpioneers.com/sports/w-soccer/sched/denv-w-soccer-sched.html

An abundance of soccer at Prentup Field on Sunday August 20, beginning with Colorado State and Denver late in the morning, followed by Northern Colorado and Air Force at 1:15PM. Then the Buffs play Colorado College at 3:30.

UNC's schedule is out at http://www.uncbears.com/schedule.aspx?path=wsoc. Colorado State's schedule is out at http://www.csurams.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/053017aaa.html.
Our schedule is known to some people which does not include me.

 

September 4 is a holiday

 

Provo is at 4400' altitude, to Boulder's 5500'. So, the altitude won't be a big advantage for the Buffs.