re: Travis Hunter Hit

That is hilarious

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You eat paint chips as kid?

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You totally forget you posted this and what I was referencing?

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I was excited to watch Hunter play this year. It's really cool to see a 2way star

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Ah the good ole days. When "just football" led to brain damage and suicide. Such nostalgia.

You got me Pete, in the gut. Go Buffs! This is what college football should always be about. CU superfan Peggy is grateful to have Deion Sanders leading her beloved Buffaloes

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If the Hunter hit is bad enough to get a kid suspended, then somebody betta put Junior Rosegreen in jail
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Yes that's targeting today, no doubt, but back then it was just "football."

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In those days you couldn't really run the slant or skinny post into a safety like that unless you got the ball off QUICK or it was known as "throwing your receiver into a blender" and your receiver is going to short arm the ball because he knows a hit is coming.

If CFB wants to start ejecting players for late hits that result in an injury I'm good with that but neither the player who was hit nor the player who did the hitting should be allowed to return to the game. There's no rule on the books right now so no way should the kid get suspended.

As for the hunter hit it was odd... not a super hard hit - seemed to just catch him in a weird way. Hunter was tied up with the CB so ended up taking it really vertically and wasn't expecting to be hit. I don't think the safety was "trying" to hurt Hunter but he had probably been told all week "we're going to out tough and out physical" these guys. You see equivalent hits every other game, esp rivalry games.

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You got me Pete, in the gut. Go Buffs! This is what college football should always be about. CU superfan Peggy is grateful to have Deion Sanders leading her beloved Buffaloes

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Oof... that's an awesome story.

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"I don't think the safety was "trying" to hurt Hunter "

In watching the play several times from the time the safety began his approach - he never even looked for the ball. He was tracking straight toward Hunter from the get - go. It was not a bang bang play - it was a deliberate planned take out.

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Tracking man rather than ball and going for the hit =/= teeing off to deliberately "take out" a player. I think they'd been coached up all week to try to out physical Colorado and the plan was Hunter gets hit anytime the ball goes his way to wear him down. 99/100 that hit ends up with a flag, maybe wind knocked out, and he's back in the game a few plays later. The CSU player's arm caught Hunter weirdly.

I can assure you nobody goes after a guy to take him out with an elbow to the liver - at full game speed that's so weird and tough to actually do and a freak accident... It was a late hit and definitely a penalty. Probably a little extra effort from the rivalry game but not some Bruce Lee liver karate chop.

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I am almost willing to bet you are right. It seems like all the teams are tired of the colorado noise, but there were swac skirmishes like this as well. SWAC coaches were sayin deion was just using them, mostly jealous.

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Even beyond that. The team (Colorado) isn't good. They have a good QB and a handful of offensive weapons but a bad line and a bad defense.

Their best player is 170 lbs and plays 100+ snaps a game. On offense I'd have his WR going deep every play (forcing him to run). I'd be playing bump and run every play on defense. I'd tell the whole team I want him touched every play and try to wear him out to make someone else beat you. I'm being a little hyperbolic but you get it. Of course teams are going to key on their 5* two way weapon that ways 170.