How about those Buffaloes!!! An OT win on a windy night under the lights at Folsom with a score of 17-14! This was CU’s first win against a ranked team since the Oklahoma win last year. CU jumped out early with a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. Hawkins threw a dart to wide receiver Josh Smith for a 38 yard touchdown. Moments later, after a West Virginia fumble was recovered, Pat Devenny caught a 13 yard TD pass from Cody to give the Buffs a 14-0 first quarter lead.

Then it was West Virginia’s turn to go on a 14-0 scoring run in the 2nd and 3rd quarter to tie the game and put the Buffs in OT for the finale! CU defense held West Virginia to a field goal attempt which would have put the Mountaineers up by 3, but a close kick from the left hash mark sailed left and clanged against the upright and was NO GOOD!! After CU ran 4 plays, Aric Goodman came in for the game winning kick and gave the Buffs the 3 point victory and gave the fans a chance to storm the field and celebrate with their team!

CU’s balanced attack was highlighted by new-comer Rodney Stewart who had 28 carries for 166 yards on the ground.  Cody Hawkins threw for 179 yards with 2 TD’s and 1 INT.

The San Francisco Watch Party at Jones Sports Bar was also a huge success! We brought in hundreds of CU alumni and JONES brought in the Coors Light Girls and created satellite bar stations to keep the beer flowing throughout the game. CU fans drank nearly 100 cases of beer and 8 kegs!

Colorado is JONES’ number 1 crowd and they will continue to be our bar of choice for the entire football season! TV upgrades will be present for the upcoming CU – Florida State game!

THANK YOU to all of you who purchased a NorCalBuffs T-Shirt!!! We sold over 60 shirts at $20 each.  100% of the proceeds go back into our local Northern California Alumni Club. Funds will be used to discount future events and a portion will go towards a matching scholarship to a Northern California high school senior attending Colorado as a freshman.

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I, Chris Jones, your Northern California CU Club Leader, will be resigning my position as of 23 Sep 2008. Your NEW club President will be former Vice-President, Chris Hemphill.

On 16 Sep 2008, I was given notice to serve a 400 day tour of duty with the US Army in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and will be leaving San Francisco for 13 months as of 19 Oct 2008.

Army version of Chris Jones

This sudden change may temporarily disrupt emails and events held for all Northern California Buffs. We held our monthly Board Meeting on 16 Sep 2008 and Chris Hemphill and his team will be taking over all aspects of:

• Event Planning
• Watch Parties
• Emails
• Finances
• Website
• T-Shirt Sales
• Philanthropy
• Photos

I have had a great time serving the 3800+ alumni in Northern California for the past 15 months. Thank you for all of your support, ideas, and CU enthusiasm over the past year.

Please welcome Chris Hemphill and his team as they take over from where I am leaving off. If any of you need to reach me directly, please email me at my personal email address of:  december20th@yahoo.com.

Going forward, all emails to chris [at] norcalbuffs [dot] com will be forwarded to your new President Chris Hemphill.

GO BUFFS!!!

Chris Hemphill

Fellow alum, Jon Hilbert (1960, Psychology), has volunteered to be the point of contact for CU alumni in the Chico/Oroville area in Northern California!

There are roughly 100 registered CU alumni living in the Chico/Oroville area.

Jon is interested in getting the local alums together for football Watch Parties and other events. Local alumni can contact Jon via email at: bonandjon@gmail.com

CU and West Virginia both had bye weekends as they prepare for play this Thursday at Folsom Field. Colorado (2-0) dropped in the USA Today’ Poll two spots to #42, while WV (1-1) moved up two spots to #22. Colorado is also a 3 point underdog in this Thursday’s game.

This past weekend, the BIG XII remained at the top of the leader’s board among BCS conferences with a 6-2 record (Kansas lost to South Florida as time expired and Iowa State lost to instate rival Iowa). Overall the BIG XII has a 28-4 record which is the nations best conference record! The BIG XII also has 4 teams in the Top 10, plus Kansas at #19, Nebraska at #28, Oklahoma State at #31, and Colorado at #42.

This Thursday’s game will be CU’s first game on Thursday night in 18 years! Thursday will also be a BLACKOUT game at Folsom Field where all Buff fans will be wearing black, much like last year against Florida State.

This game will be nationally televised on ESPN and will be the Buffs first game against a Top 25 team!

The San Francisco Watch Party will again be at JONES Sports Bar in the Marina District of San Francisco:

URL: http://www.jones-sf.com/index_flash.html

Address: 2400 Lombard St (at Scott St.), San Francisco, CA 94123 (415-440-2000)

Our last Watch Party held At JONES Sports Bar on 31 Aug 2008 was larger than expected. The JONES staff was under prepared for the estimated 400+ CU alumni and friends that watched the game. JONES said that they had 200+ on Saturday for the USC-Virginia game and the bar was pretty packed, but the CU crowd dwarfed the USC crowd to the point that the bar RAN OUT OF BEER. They had to make a beer run to Safeway just to have bottles to hand out to Buff fans!

Of course this upset both CU fans and the bar owners. Thus, the management team promises to be prepared for our large CU crowd for ALL Future games! They will have additional bartenders, servers, and kitchen staff and have LOWERED their prices to CU BUFFS only (not other schools):

$10 Coors Light and Bud Light Pitcher

$14 Blue Moon Pitchers

$13 Bud or Bud Light Buckets

$5 Margaritas

$5 Yeager Bombs

$10 Burger, fries and beer combo

Rest of the food menu will remain the same

In addition to the specials above, JONES will also have:

3 Satellite bars + Main bar
12 additional servers
15 kegs
50 cases of beer

Colorado earns another win to become 2-0 on the season, while the entire BIG XII went 12-0 for the first time in history, thus cementing the conference as the TOUGHEST college football conference in the country!!!

The Buffs overcame a 21-7 halftime deficit to win the home opener by a score of 31-24. Perhaps the Buffs were looking ahead to the West Virginia night came coming up on Sep 18th, or maybe Eastern Washington was just better than the Buffs expected. Either way, Colorado pulled their game together in the 2nd half to outscore EWU by 24-3.

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Thank you for the 400+ CU alumni who showed up with CU PRIDE at JONES Sports Bar for the DOMINATION over the CSU Rams!!!

CU has got a nephew-uncle tandem with Freshmen sensation Darrel Scott (#1 recruited high-school running back)  and his uncle, Josh Smith who ran back a 93 kick-off return for a touchdown!

Scott, who rushed 12 times for 50 yards and a TD set the tone for things to come but his uncle, Josh Smith, took over the game with a combined 189 yards and a TD of his own to seal the win for the Buffs! Smith scored CU’s first kick-off return for a TD in 5 years. The last time this happened was when CU sensation Jeremy Bloom ran one back for 88 yards against K-State in 2003.
Although this is the last game to be played at Investo Field with 69,619 fans in the near future (2009 at Folsom Field, 2010 at Fort Collins), we finished the series with thumping of CSU.

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The NorcalBuffs Alumni Club have struck a deal with JONES Bar & Restaurant (San Francisco) to host our CU Watch Parties this fall! (located at the former location of the Marina Sports Bar)

URL: http://www.jones-sf.com/index_flash.html

Address: 2400 Lombard St (at Scott St.), San Francisco, CA 94123 (415-440-2000)

As many of you know, our old standby, Bayside Sports Bar, closed its doors after the Super Bowl this past February. We solicited our alumni for new bar locations to watch games and received dozens of ideas. Many great alternatives made the list but most of these bars already had established relationships with other alumni clubs in the area. This greatly narrowed down our choices.

After talking with the owners of JONES, we realized that this bar/restaurant would be able to accommodate our needs.

JONES will be giving CU alums the open left room (the front left room as you walk in) with several large flat screen TVs, booth & table seating, and just a shout away from the bar. This area can seat dozens and has standing room for many more!

JONES will also be setting up special drink specials for CU fans. We will most likely have it set up if you wear any CU gear (t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, etc…) you get the drink specials. So wear your BLACK AND GOLD!!!

• $12.00 Bud Light Pitchers
• $15.00 Bud or Bud Light buckets

JONES also has an extensive food, cocktail, and wine menu compared to most bars in town. So along with your drink specials, you can order a great meal!

So get the word out! All CU Watch Parties will be held at JONES this fall!

Speaking of football, the Buffs again have one of the toughest schedules of the year, playing 7 teams that went bowling last year (all times are in local Pacific Standard Time):

• SUN 31 Aug 08: 4:30 PM: Colorado State at Denver’s Invesco Field (Rocky Mountain Showdown) (FSN)
• SAT 06 Sep 08: 12:30 PM: Eastern Washington at Boulder
• THU 18 Sep 08: 5:30 PM: West Virginia at Boulder (ESPN)
• SAT 27 Sep 08: TBA: Florida State at Jacksonville, FL
• SAT 04 Oct 08: TBA: Texas at Boulder (Homecoming)
• SAT 11 Oct 08: TBA: Kansas at Lawrence, KS
• SAT 18 Oct 08: TBA: Kansas State at Boulder (Family Weekend)
• SAT 25 Oct 08: TBA: Missouri at Columbia, MO
• SAT 01 Nov 08: TBA: Texas A&M at College Station, TX
• SAT 08 Nov 08: TBA: Iowa State at Boulder
• SAT 15 Nov 08: TBA: Oklahoma State at Boulder
• FRI 28 Nov 08: 12:30 PM: Nebraska at Lincoln, NE
• SAT 06 Dec 08:TBA: Big XII Championship Game at Kansas City, MO (Arrowhead Stadium)
• Bowl Game

URL: http://www.jones-sf.com/index_flash.html

Address: 2400 Lombard St (at Scott St.), San Francisco, CA 94123 (415-440-2000)

As college football season approaches, FSN – Rocky Mountain is airing five 1 hour cut downs of football games from last year.  FSN Rocky Mountain will be showing a one hour cut down of the Colorado – Oklahoma game from 9/29/07 over the next couple weeks. Although the show is airing nationally, it is more regionally based in terms of viewer demographics. 

Below you will find a list of airings on FSN – Rocky Mountain (Pacific Standard Time):

·       Sunday, August 17 at 12:00pm

·       Monday, August 18 at 5:00pm

·       Tuesday, August 26 at 10:00am and 5:00pm

·       Thursday, August 28 at 3:00pm

Times and channels will differ depending on your cable or satellite provider.

Great news for the 1000+ registered East Bay alumni!  Fellow Buff, Tyler Ecoffey (BUS ‘02) has volunteered to be the new East Bay CU point of contact for future events!

Tyler lives in Walnut Creek and is interested in getting events and fall Watch Parties set up in Oakland, Walnut Creek, and other locations.  He needs ideas and to gauge interest as well. Please contact Tyler with any ideas for events (wine tastings, sports, happy hours, networking, watch party’s, etc…) at:

eastbaybuffs@gmail.com

Thank you for your support!

By Kyle Ringo (Contact)
Friday, February 8, 2008

DENVER — Dan Hawkins and Bill McCartney joined forces Thursday hoping to turn a pipedream in to reality.

When addressing a record crowd of more than 1,600 fans at the annual CU football recruiting luncheon at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, McCartney challenged CU fans to learn a lesson from Alabama and turn out in force for the spring football game.

McCartney said when Alabama hired coach Nick Saban a year ago from the Miami Dolphins, one of the first things Saban did was to ask Crimson Tide fans to support the program by showing up to the spring game. More than 92,000 obliged.

McCartney said that level of support paid off in recruiting the 2008 class in Tuscaloosa. Alabama was the consensus No. 1 recruiting class this year by all the major recruiting services. McCartney then asked CU fans if they were capable of the same sort of support for their program.

He asked fans to stand in the hotel ballroom and pledge to bring 50 friends with them to the April 19 game and fill Folsom Field. Most CU spring games in recent years have featured crowds of just a few thousand fans.

McCartney came armed with a little research. He said CU had the smallest stadium and the smallest average attendance in 2007 of the top 30 schools in the recruiting class rankings this year.

“Where are you going to be on April 19?” McCartney asked in an interview afterward. “Why not come there and take this thing to another level?

“I think there is a missing component. If we’re going to go for the national championship, play the great teams, we’re in the same conference with Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska; if we’re going to compete with (Texas) A&M;, we’ve got the best city and the best academics, but the smallest stadium. So let’s fill it every time, starting with the spring game.”

Hawkins latched on to the idea when he addressed the crowd and he made it known he wasn’t joking.

“I’m calling you guys out,” he said. “I’m counting every head there April 19 and there better be 50 grand.”

Notable

CU used 44 of its 56 allowable recruiting visits in this recruiting cycle. It can ‘bank’ six of its remaining visits giving the program 62 available visits for the 2009 cycle. … CU will hold its pro timing day March 19. … During his remarks at the luncheon, Hawkins said he still has several scholarships available and it’s possible a defensive lineman or two could be added to the mix before training camp. … Athletic director Mike Bohn said the buzz created by the 2008 recruiting class led to 104 new season tickets being purchased on national signing day. … Renowned Boulder-based artist Don Coen provided 75 limited edition Buffalo paintings to be auctioned off at the luncheon. Most were sold, raising money designated to help sustain football recruiting efforts. “I love the Buffs and I just wanted to do something for them. So I did,” Coen said.