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Was looking through the Southland schedule for this weekend and noticed that Sam Houston State plays Colorado State Pueblo. Wasn't familiar with that D2 so I looked it up. Turns out that Colorado State Pueblo is coming off three consecutive years in the D2 playoffs after going 11-1 in 2011, 12-1 in 2012, and 11-1 in 2013. The losses were in the playoffs so three straight years without a regular season loss. Two of the three playoff losses were narrow: 21-24 to Minnesota Duluth in 2011 and 30-34 to Grand Valley State in 2013. In 2012 it was 13-34 to West Texas A&M in the playoffs but they beat West Texas A&M 44-34 during the regular season. They opened the 2014 season by beating a ranked West Texas A&M squad by 35-6.

Chances are good that Sam Houston State, coming off getting really skull-drug by LSU, will be playing a very good D2 team this weekend that will undoubtably go into the game completely unintimidated and probably expecting to win the game. It'll be an interesting score to watch and might tell us something about where Sam Houston State really is. At least i think so.

Should be a good test for them. I think this is the same DII who beat UNC last season...not that that's saying much. Ultimately I think SHSU will beat them.

For the lack of a better phrase, CSU-Pueblo doesn't **** around. They've easily been the 3rd best football program in Colorado the last few seasons, if not the second. It'd be fun to see how they might have matched up with the U of Colorado the past couple years.

I'm sure Sam Houston will win this one, but it very well could be a shootout.

MTfan4life wrote:For the lack of a better phrase, CSU-Pueblo doesn't **** around. They've easily been the 3rd best football program in Colorado the last few seasons, if not the second. It'd be fun to see how they might have matched up with the U of Colorado the past couple years.

I'm sure Sam Houston will win this one, but it very well could be a shootout.

How many football programs does Colorado have?

Two, at most...right?

Cluck U wrote:

MTfan4life wrote:For the lack of a better phrase, CSU-Pueblo doesn't **** around. They've easily been the 3rd best football program in Colorado the last few seasons, if not the second. It'd be fun to see how they might have matched up with the U of Colorado the past couple years.

I'm sure Sam Houston will win this one, but it very well could be a shootout.

How many football programs does Colorado have?

Two, at most...right?

The next BSC member is the School of Mines. So that will make 5 DI.

kalm wrote:

Cluck U wrote:
How many football programs does Colorado have?

Two, at most...right?

The next BSC member is the School of Mines. So that will make 5 DI.

Mimes? What kind of football programs are they running out there?

Cluck U wrote:

kalm wrote:
The next BSC member is the School of Mines. So that will make 5 DI.

Mimes? What kind of football programs are they running out there?

The kind Superhornet really likes.

I was going to say, maybe they're a good candidate for that 14th spot in the Big Sky. But then I saw they have under 5,000 students...so yeah, nevermind.

Cluck U wrote:

MTfan4life wrote:For the lack of a better phrase, CSU-Pueblo doesn't **** around. They've easily been the 3rd best football program in Colorado the last few seasons, if not the second. It'd be fun to see how they might have matched up with the U of Colorado the past couple years.

I'm sure Sam Houston will win this one, but it very well could be a shootout.

How many football programs does Colorado have?

Two, at most...right?

4 D1 programs (Air Force, Colorado, Colorado State and Northern Colorado)

5 D2 programs (Adams State, the aforementioned Colorado School of Mines and CSU-Pueblo and Western State)

bjtheflamesfan wrote:

Cluck U wrote:
How many football programs does Colorado have?

Two, at most...right?

4 D1 programs (Air Force, Colorado, Colorado State and Northern Colorado)

5 D2 programs (Adams State, the aforementioned Colorado School of Mines and CSU-Pueblo and Western State)

Maybe this is why none of them are any good...that's a lot of football programs for a state of that size. Utah, similar situation.

bjtheflamesfan wrote:

Cluck U wrote:
How many football programs does Colorado have?

Two, at most...right?

4 D1 programs (Air Force, Colorado, Colorado State and Northern Colorado)

5 D2 programs (Adams State, the aforementioned Colorado School of Mines and CSU-Pueblo and Western State)

So I was right...two.

Cluck U wrote:

bjtheflamesfan wrote:
4 D1 programs (Air Force, Colorado, Colorado State and Northern Colorado)

5 D2 programs (Adams State, the aforementioned Colorado School of Mines and CSU-Pueblo and Western State)

So I was right...two.

Air Force and CSU Pueblo?

bjtheflamesfan wrote:

Cluck U wrote:
How many football programs does Colorado have?

Two, at most...right?

4 D1 programs (Air Force, Colorado, Colorado State and Northern Colorado)

5 D2 programs (Adams State, the aforementioned Colorado School of Mines and CSU-Pueblo and Western State)

Another DII program is Colorado Mesa. Mesa State is what they were many moons ago when I was in college. Located in Grand Junction.

I also forgot to mention Fort Lewis (I think I listed 4 in my post above despite Cluck U's attempt at smack)

bjtheflamesfan wrote:I also forgot to mention Fort Lewis (I think I listed 4 in my post above despite Cluck U's attempt at smack)

You also forgot the Colorado Rocky Mountain School.

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They started a football team a while back, but it went downhill quickly from there.

Kudo's to JSO for spotting this one. Wow.

kalm wrote:Kudo's to JSO for spotting this one. Wow.

Even a broke clock is right twice a day.

(that was for GATW).

Pueblo

KC Keeler already on thin ice in Huntsville.

Ivytalk wrote:KC Keeler already on thin ice in Huntsville.

That's kind of a shame for him, I think, because I think if you read between the lines you can see that Fritz got out when the gettin' was good and left the player personnel cupboard kind of bare. I say that because the implication is that Keeler came in, saw he didn't have sufficient quality of players, and had to go out and get a bunch of transfers.

Kind of leaves the impression that Fritz kind of lucked out getting a good nucleus of players but wasn't able to sustain it then had the opportunity to get out before the effects of that were realized.

JohnStOnge wrote:

Ivytalk wrote:KC Keeler already on thin ice in Huntsville.

That's kind of a shame for him, I think, because I think if you read between the lines you can see that Fritz got out when the gettin' was good and left the player personnel cupboard kind of bare. I say that because the implication is that Keeler came in, saw he didn't have sufficient quality of players, and had to go out and get a bunch of transfers.

Kind of leaves the impression that Fritz kind of lucked out getting a good nucleus of players but wasn't able to sustain it then had the opportunity to get out before the effects of that were realized.

keeler has always built his teams on the backs of transfers, nothing new or unexpected in that

cats2506 wrote:

JohnStOnge wrote:

That's kind of a shame for him, I think, because I think if you read between the lines you can see that Fritz got out when the gettin' was good and left the player personnel cupboard kind of bare. I say that because the implication is that Keeler came in, saw he didn't have sufficient quality of players, and had to go out and get a bunch of transfers.

Kind of leaves the impression that Fritz kind of lucked out getting a good nucleus of players but wasn't able to sustain it then had the opportunity to get out before the effects of that were realized.

keeler has always built his teams on the backs of transfers, nothing new or unexpected in that

It lives!!

That was a long ten months, wasn't it?

uofmman1122 wrote:

cats2506 wrote: keeler has always built his teams on the backs of transfers, nothing new or unexpected in that

It lives!!

That was a long ten months, wasn't it?

It was probably longer for you

Got to give JSO props for this one.

cats2506 wrote:

uofmman1122 wrote: It lives!!

That was a long ten months, wasn't it?

It was probably longer for you

The silence is what hurt the most.