Roy Williams won’t have to break out his silly “wine and cheese” script when Colorado plays basketball here on Feb. 2. The Buffaloes are super-pumped about real or imagined wrongs done by Jayhawks and KU realizes it might have to turn out the lights and call the law to prevent a Buffalo stampede.
You probably recall several seasons ago when CU, not too scintillating or competitive at the time, played Kansas here. Roy was PO’d by the local crowd reaction. He claimed too many blase fans were sitting on their hands, taking his Jayhawks for granted; made it clear he was peeved.
Obviously he didn’t realize Colorado, even in its best years, never was much of a draw here for basketball or football. Some Buff grid clubs have been outstanding even before their recent bowl floppola yet seldom have people rushed to Memorial Stadium to admire their wares.
In years when KU was good enough to give the mountaineers a pigskin tussle, crowds might be OK. But there never has been a local land rush to view the Silver and Gold. (Man, their all-black home funeral suits should be worn by those gummy orcs in “Fellowship of the Rings”!)
At any rate, after it was pointed out to Williams that CU never had stirred fire in local bellies, and that crowds were entitled to substandard days same as his Jayhawks, he relented. Did sound a little like a spoiled brat; he recanted.
Well, not many derrieres will be positioned on digits while Colorado’s basketeers are here this season. The Buffs were jawing when Kansas went west and whipped them the past weekend. There’s no evidence they’ll be any less irascible after traveling east.
You can be sure Allen Fieldhouse denizens will be ready for the onslaught of both the CU team and explosive coach Ricardo Patton. Not to worry, Roy. Our guys will be honed to Missouri Antlers sharpness for this one.
Patton has been blatting something about Williams trying to detour a prized talent to North Carolina or Vanderbilt. Roy says that isn’t so. But you get the idea that Patton, desperate for any angle to fire up his aggressive club, is not likely to let facts spoil a good inspirational story.
The news columns, the air waves and the various electronic venues will be sizzling between now and Feb. 2. Mountain-high rumor-mongers will have devised all sorts of trashy bits about Kansas.
They’ll probably report that Roy has been seen on some schoolground selling reefers to kids. You can be sure somebody will claim that Drew Gooden beat up Frodo Baggins, stole his power ring of doom and is planning to destroy the Rocky Mountains.
Oh, yeah, they’ve been on Nick Collison for his hard foul out in Boulder last season; the talk by February will be that Nick’s resorted to beating up old ladies in nursing homes.
What about Kirk Hinrich? Don’t let that boyish face fool ya. By the time they get here, the Coloradoans will be convinced he’s been using the Internet to help Osama bin Laden elude America’s grasp. Ideally, of course, the Saudi Arabian throat oyster will have been dispatched to blow that tale off the screen.
Jeff Boschee is bound to be another trash-talk target for the Buffalinos. They’ll probably have him smuggling secret Coors beer recipes out of Colorado last week under his mop of hair. As for Aaron Miles, some Buff crazy from the Northwest will come up with the story that Aaron worked for an Oregon winery last summer and poisoned half the state by trampling on the grapes with dirty gym socks.
That’s only the starting five. Imagine what kind of fantasies the Freaks of the Flatirons will be able to concoct about the reserves.
The Buff folks, at least the basketball clan, are convinced they got jobbed in the recent loss to Kansas. They also resent the fact Kansas had so many fans at the game and it seemed more like fan support here than in Boulder.
Wait until they encounter a real Kansas crowd, wine, cheese, butt-stifled hands and all. Keep the Knute Rockne gimmicks in the safe for Missouri, Roy. The Jayhawk faithful will be ready for CU.
Back to Colorado’s established inability to draw here in the past, let’s shift to 1959. KU and CU were tied for the Big Eight lead (4-1). The local game was the first Saturday afternoon major-college game ever to be televised nationally (CBS). The net had figured Wilt Chamberlain would be a senior, but he left early.
KU officials desperately wanted a big fieldhouse crowd to impress the TV audience and put tickets on sale for $2 each (honest). Then if you bought one you got one free. Really crucial game, lots of incentive, no sale.
The audience was only about 7,000, and bland, and Colorado pulled out a 66-64 win. This season’s crowd won’t be so peripatetic, but the KU team better not be, either. The Buffaloes will arrive snorting fire.
Still one of the best stories about Colorado basketball was when Billy Tubbs took one of his Oklahoma teams to Boulder and his players noticed a fieldhouse sign that listed the altitude at something like 5,340 feet an obvious gimmick to intimidate.
Asked by some players if he thought the rarefied air might affect them during the game, the inimitable Tubbs snorted: “Hell, no! It doesn’t make any difference if you don’t go outside.”
Roy Williams won’t have to break out his silly “wine and cheese” script when Colorado plays basketball here on Feb. 2. The Buffaloes are super-pumped about real or imagined wrongs done by Jayhawks and KU realizes it might have to turn out the lights and call the law to prevent a Buffalo stampede.
You probably recall several seasons ago when CU, not too scintillating or competitive at the time, played Kansas here. Roy was PO’d by the local crowd reaction. He claimed too many blase fans were sitting on their hands, taking his Jayhawks for granted; made it clear he was peeved.
Obviously he didn’t realize Colorado, even in its best years, never was much of a draw here for basketball or football. Some Buff grid clubs have been outstanding even before their recent bowl floppola yet seldom have people rushed to Memorial Stadium to admire their wares.
In years when KU was good enough to give the mountaineers a pigskin tussle, crowds might be OK. But there never has been a local land rush to view the Silver and Gold. (Man, their all-black home funeral suits should be worn by those gummy orcs in “Fellowship of the Rings”!)
At any rate, after it was pointed out to Williams that CU never had stirred fire in local bellies, and that crowds were entitled to substandard days same as his Jayhawks, he relented. Did sound a little like a spoiled brat; he recanted.
Well, not many derrieres will be positioned on digits while Colorado’s basketeers are here this season. The Buffs were jawing when Kansas went west and whipped them the past weekend. There’s no evidence they’ll be any less irascible after traveling east.
You can be sure Allen Fieldhouse denizens will be ready for the onslaught of both the CU team and explosive coach Ricardo Patton. Not to worry, Roy. Our guys will be honed to Missouri Antlers sharpness for this one.
Patton has been blatting something about Williams trying to detour a prized talent to North Carolina or Vanderbilt. Roy says that isn’t so. But you get the idea that Patton, desperate for any angle to fire up his aggressive club, is not likely to let facts spoil a good inspirational story.
The news columns, the air waves and the various electronic venues will be sizzling between now and Feb. 2. Mountain-high rumor-mongers will have devised all sorts of trashy bits about Kansas.
They’ll probably report that Roy has been seen on some schoolground selling reefers to kids. You can be sure somebody will claim that Drew Gooden beat up Frodo Baggins, stole his power ring of doom and is planning to destroy the Rocky Mountains.
Oh, yeah, they’ve been on Nick Collison for his hard foul out in Boulder last season; the talk by February will be that Nick’s resorted to beating up old ladies in nursing homes.
What about Kirk Hinrich? Don’t let that boyish face fool ya. By the time they get here, the Coloradoans will be convinced he’s been using the Internet to help Osama bin Laden elude America’s grasp. Ideally, of course, the Saudi Arabian throat oyster will have been dispatched to blow that tale off the screen.
Jeff Boschee is bound to be another trash-talk target for the Buffalinos. They’ll probably have him smuggling secret Coors beer recipes out of Colorado last week under his mop of hair. As for Aaron Miles, some Buff crazy from the Northwest will come up with the story that Aaron worked for an Oregon winery last summer and poisoned half the state by trampling on the grapes with dirty gym socks.
That’s only the starting five. Imagine what kind of fantasies the Freaks of the Flatirons will be able to concoct about the reserves.
The Buff folks, at least the basketball clan, are convinced they got jobbed in the recent loss to Kansas. They also resent the fact Kansas had so many fans at the game and it seemed more like fan support here than in Boulder.
Wait until they encounter a real Kansas crowd, wine, cheese, butt-stifled hands and all. Keep the Knute Rockne gimmicks in the safe for Missouri, Roy. The Jayhawk faithful will be ready for CU.
Back to Colorado’s established inability to draw here in the past, let’s shift to 1959. KU and CU were tied for the Big Eight lead (4-1). The local game was the first Saturday afternoon major-college game ever to be televised nationally (CBS). The net had figured Wilt Chamberlain would be a senior, but he left early.
KU officials desperately wanted a big fieldhouse crowd to impress the TV audience and put tickets on sale for $2 each (honest). Then if you bought one you got one free. Really crucial game, lots of incentive, no sale.
The audience was only about 7,000, and bland, and Colorado pulled out a 66-64 win. This season’s crowd won’t be so peripatetic, but the KU team better not be, either. The Buffaloes will arrive snorting fire.
Still one of the best stories about Colorado basketball was when Billy Tubbs took one of his Oklahoma teams to Boulder and his players noticed a fieldhouse sign that listed the altitude at something like 5,340 feet an obvious gimmick to intimidate.
Asked by some players if he thought the rarefied air might affect them during the game, the inimitable Tubbs snorted: “Hell, no! It doesn’t make any difference if you don’t go outside.”
Roy Williams won’t have to break out his silly “wine and cheese” script when Colorado plays basketball here on Feb. 2. The Buffaloes are super-pumped about real or imagined wrongs done by Jayhawks and KU realizes it might have to turn out the lights and call the law to prevent a Buffalo stampede.
You probably recall several seasons ago when CU, not too scintillating or competitive at the time, played Kansas here. Roy was PO’d by the local crowd reaction. He claimed too many blase fans were sitting on their hands, taking his Jayhawks for granted; made it clear he was peeved.
Obviously he didn’t realize Colorado, even in its best years, never was much of a draw here for basketball or football. Some Buff grid clubs have been outstanding even before their recent bowl floppola yet seldom have people rushed to Memorial Stadium to admire their wares.
In years when KU was good enough to give the mountaineers a pigskin tussle, crowds might be OK. But there never has been a local land rush to view the Silver and Gold. (Man, their all-black home funeral suits should be worn by those gummy orcs in “Fellowship of the Rings”!)
At any rate, after it was pointed out to Williams that CU never had stirred fire in local bellies, and that crowds were entitled to substandard days same as his Jayhawks, he relented. Did sound a little like a spoiled brat; he recanted.
Well, not many derrieres will be positioned on digits while Colorado’s basketeers are here this season. The Buffs were jawing when Kansas went west and whipped them the past weekend. There’s no evidence they’ll be any less irascible after traveling east.
You can be sure Allen Fieldhouse denizens will be ready for the onslaught of both the CU team and explosive coach Ricardo Patton. Not to worry, Roy. Our guys will be honed to Missouri Antlers sharpness for this one.
Patton has been blatting something about Williams trying to detour a prized talent to North Carolina or Vanderbilt. Roy says that isn’t so. But you get the idea that Patton, desperate for any angle to fire up his aggressive club, is not likely to let facts spoil a good inspirational story.
The news columns, the air waves and the various electronic venues will be sizzling between now and Feb. 2. Mountain-high rumor-mongers will have devised all sorts of trashy bits about Kansas.
They’ll probably report that Roy has been seen on some schoolground selling reefers to kids. You can be sure somebody will claim that Drew Gooden beat up Frodo Baggins, stole his power ring of doom and is planning to destroy the Rocky Mountains.
Oh, yeah, they’ve been on Nick Collison for his hard foul out in Boulder last season; the talk by February will be that Nick’s resorted to beating up old ladies in nursing homes.
What about Kirk Hinrich? Don’t let that boyish face fool ya. By the time they get here, the Coloradoans will be convinced he’s been using the Internet to help Osama bin Laden elude America’s grasp. Ideally, of course, the Saudi Arabian throat oyster will have been dispatched to blow that tale off the screen.
Jeff Boschee is bound to be another trash-talk target for the Buffalinos. They’ll probably have him smuggling secret Coors beer recipes out of Colorado last week under his mop of hair. As for Aaron Miles, some Buff crazy from the Northwest will come up with the story that Aaron worked for an Oregon winery last summer and poisoned half the state by trampling on the grapes with dirty gym socks.
That’s only the starting five. Imagine what kind of fantasies the Freaks of the Flatirons will be able to concoct about the reserves.
The Buff folks, at least the basketball clan, are convinced they got jobbed in the recent loss to Kansas. They also resent the fact Kansas had so many fans at the game and it seemed more like fan support here than in Boulder.
Wait until they encounter a real Kansas crowd, wine, cheese, butt-stifled hands and all. Keep the Knute Rockne gimmicks in the safe for Missouri, Roy. The Jayhawk faithful will be ready for CU.
Back to Colorado’s established inability to draw here in the past, let’s shift to 1959. KU and CU were tied for the Big Eight lead (4-1). The local game was the first Saturday afternoon major-college game ever to be televised nationally (CBS). The net had figured Wilt Chamberlain would be a senior, but he left early.
KU officials desperately wanted a big fieldhouse crowd to impress the TV audience and put tickets on sale for $2 each (honest). Then if you bought one you got one free. Really crucial game, lots of incentive, no sale.
The audience was only about 7,000, and bland, and Colorado pulled out a 66-64 win. This season’s crowd won’t be so peripatetic, but the KU team better not be, either. The Buffaloes will arrive snorting fire.
Still one of the best stories about Colorado basketball was when Billy Tubbs took one of his Oklahoma teams to Boulder and his players noticed a fieldhouse sign that listed the altitude at something like 5,340 feet an obvious gimmick to intimidate.
Asked by some players if he thought the rarefied air might affect them during the game, the inimitable Tubbs snorted: “Hell, no! It doesn’t make any difference if you don’t go outside.”
Roy Williams won’t have to break out his silly “wine and cheese” script when Colorado plays basketball here on Feb. 2. The Buffaloes are super-pumped about real or imagined wrongs done by Jayhawks and KU realizes it might have to turn out the lights and call the law to prevent a Buffalo stampede.
You probably recall several seasons ago when CU, not too scintillating or competitive at the time, played Kansas here. Roy was PO’d by the local crowd reaction. He claimed too many blase fans were sitting on their hands, taking his Jayhawks for granted; made it clear he was peeved.
Obviously he didn’t realize Colorado, even in its best years, never was much of a draw here for basketball or football. Some Buff grid clubs have been outstanding even before their recent bowl floppola yet seldom have people rushed to Memorial Stadium to admire their wares.
In years when KU was good enough to give the mountaineers a pigskin tussle, crowds might be OK. But there never has been a local land rush to view the Silver and Gold. (Man, their all-black home funeral suits should be worn by those gummy orcs in “Fellowship of the Rings”!)
At any rate, after it was pointed out to Williams that CU never had stirred fire in local bellies, and that crowds were entitled to substandard days same as his Jayhawks, he relented. Did sound a little like a spoiled brat; he recanted.
Well, not many derrieres will be positioned on digits while Colorado’s basketeers are here this season. The Buffs were jawing when Kansas went west and whipped them the past weekend. There’s no evidence they’ll be any less irascible after traveling east.
You can be sure Allen Fieldhouse denizens will be ready for the onslaught of both the CU team and explosive coach Ricardo Patton. Not to worry, Roy. Our guys will be honed to Missouri Antlers sharpness for this one.
Patton has been blatting something about Williams trying to detour a prized talent to North Carolina or Vanderbilt. Roy says that isn’t so. But you get the idea that Patton, desperate for any angle to fire up his aggressive club, is not likely to let facts spoil a good inspirational story.
The news columns, the air waves and the various electronic venues will be sizzling between now and Feb. 2. Mountain-high rumor-mongers will have devised all sorts of trashy bits about Kansas.
They’ll probably report that Roy has been seen on some schoolground selling reefers to kids. You can be sure somebody will claim that Drew Gooden beat up Frodo Baggins, stole his power ring of doom and is planning to destroy the Rocky Mountains.
Oh, yeah, they’ve been on Nick Collison for his hard foul out in Boulder last season; the talk by February will be that Nick’s resorted to beating up old ladies in nursing homes.
What about Kirk Hinrich? Don’t let that boyish face fool ya. By the time they get here, the Coloradoans will be convinced he’s been using the Internet to help Osama bin Laden elude America’s grasp. Ideally, of course, the Saudi Arabian throat oyster will have been dispatched to blow that tale off the screen.
Jeff Boschee is bound to be another trash-talk target for the Buffalinos. They’ll probably have him smuggling secret Coors beer recipes out of Colorado last week under his mop of hair. As for Aaron Miles, some Buff crazy from the Northwest will come up with the story that Aaron worked for an Oregon winery last summer and poisoned half the state by trampling on the grapes with dirty gym socks.
That’s only the starting five. Imagine what kind of fantasies the Freaks of the Flatirons will be able to concoct about the reserves.
The Buff folks, at least the basketball clan, are convinced they got jobbed in the recent loss to Kansas. They also resent the fact Kansas had so many fans at the game and it seemed more like fan support here than in Boulder.
Wait until they encounter a real Kansas crowd, wine, cheese, butt-stifled hands and all. Keep the Knute Rockne gimmicks in the safe for Missouri, Roy. The Jayhawk faithful will be ready for CU.
Back to Colorado’s established inability to draw here in the past, let’s shift to 1959. KU and CU were tied for the Big Eight lead (4-1). The local game was the first Saturday afternoon major-college game ever to be televised nationally (CBS). The net had figured Wilt Chamberlain would be a senior, but he left early.
KU officials desperately wanted a big fieldhouse crowd to impress the TV audience and put tickets on sale for $2 each (honest). Then if you bought one you got one free. Really crucial game, lots of incentive, no sale.
The audience was only about 7,000, and bland, and Colorado pulled out a 66-64 win. This season’s crowd won’t be so peripatetic, but the KU team better not be, either. The Buffaloes will arrive snorting fire.
Still one of the best stories about Colorado basketball was when Billy Tubbs took one of his Oklahoma teams to Boulder and his players noticed a fieldhouse sign that listed the altitude at something like 5,340 feet an obvious gimmick to intimidate.
Asked by some players if he thought the rarefied air might affect them during the game, the inimitable Tubbs snorted: “Hell, no! It doesn’t make any difference if you don’t go outside.”
