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Spring's the time to ease into things with college football. Work hard on your conditioning, get into the playbook a bit, try to keep players out of the bars and under the radar ... a peaceful time to work, focus, and size up what your team's going to be, and to set reasonable goals for your team going into the fall. If you're Colorado coach Dan Hawkins, you do all that, and then promise your team is going to win 10 games without reservation or an escape route.
No matter. The ebullient Hawkins is expecting his fourth Buffs team to make what amounts to a quantum leap in the win column. And he wants his players to know his belief in them is unwavering -- thus, the "10 wins and no excuses."He's a bulletproof tiger, folks, a rocket made of glory and buffalo hide soaring toward orbit around the planet Awesome. He also has a schedule with seven home games and one very winnable game on the road against Miami of Ohio, so he can promise these kinds of things with some degree of confidence."It was a challenge to the team ... I don’t ever want to back off excellence as the bar," he told InDenverTimes.com. "I want to keep that bar high, that standard high."
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This needs changed.
Dan Hawkins IS Insane, Possibly Confident.
by npcPronk29 on Mar 26, 2009 12:56 PM EDT reply actions
Split at OSU and at West Viginia. Then win every game on the schedule except Texas. That gets them 10 wins. Tall order for a team that went 2-6 in the weaker division of the conference last year.
by cnapse on Mar 26, 2009 1:51 PM EDT reply actions
It all depends on the QB play. Colorado has alot of the other positions filled out.
My buddy is a Kicker for Colorado and he doesnt have the same confidence.
Dan Hawkins is a great motivator, but he still hasnt won a "BIG" game. Chris Peterson got the BIG win against Oklahoma for Boise State.
I will always follow Dan Hawkins career but mostly because when I was recruited to play for Boise State he Promised that he wouldnt leave!! Then he takes off for Colorado.
GO BRONCOS!
by uscfan75 on Mar 26, 2009 5:06 PM EDT reply actions
I love Hawkins, he has done a great job recruiting and his team shows real potential. But damn Dan, thats a tall order. Start with eight or nine for god’s sake.
by njm1314 on Mar 26, 2009 5:18 PM EDT reply actions
This begs for comparison with Lane Kiffin. You set Kiffin on a very high bar, Spencer, so you have the responsibility of rating Hawkins by Kiffin standards. Just as side bar entertainment for us. Of course no one cares how many games Hawkins wins.
by LadyVolsLover on Mar 26, 2009 6:49 PM EDT reply actions
Hawkins always sets the bar high for himself and his team. He decided to shoot for ten wins to take some of the spotlight off of Kiffin. Can’t let Kiffin have all the fun. lol. Even if he doesn’t win ten, noone is going to care, just as long as they do better than last year.
by Lost In Space on Mar 26, 2009 8:31 PM EDT reply actions
Confidence is a 70 year old man who takes a 20 year old wife and buys a 5 bedroom house near the high school.
by L'etat, c'est moi on Mar 27, 2009 12:02 AM EDT reply actions
Big balls in cowtown! Time will tell?
by will1066 on Mar 27, 2009 11:05 AM EDT reply actions
All this guy needs is a bronze plaque of Tim Tebow’s speech to inspire the troops. After the boys read those inspirational words, ten, or even eleven, wins will be rather easy.
by Sexy Pete on Mar 27, 2009 11:14 PM EDT reply actions
Hawkins is a good coach,,,, against equal talent. Should have never left Boise. He will soon be 0-3 against UGA.
by sthrn_srvy on Mar 28, 2009 6:20 PM EDT reply actions
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