Kansas City, Mo. – Colorado has agreed to a home-and-home series with Miami (Ohio) that has allowed the Buffs to fill their 2007 and 2009 schedules.
CU will host the RedHawks on Sept. 22 next season and play at Miami on Sept. 12 during the 2009 season. The schools never have met in football.
CU’s schedules are filled until 2010, when the Buffs have one nonconference opening. In 2011, the Buffs have two more nonconference openings, and though they have tried to negotiate a renewal of the series with Air Force, it’s doubtful the Falcons, who have full schedules until 2013, would fill any of those three spots.
Updating personnel
Three 2006 signees – offensive lineman Bill Boyer, running back JasLee Rouson and tight end Ino Vitale – will not attend CU this fall because of academics. Defensive end Sam Zimmerer will not return to the team because of medical reasons, but will remain on scholarship and go to school. Running back Brandon Caesar, who has had chronic knee problems, also will not return to the team.
Former linebacker Jashon Sykes has been added to the CU football staff as an administrative assistant, helping primarily with recruiting.
Take that, Buffs
Nebraska cornerback Zackary Bowman was asked what it meant to go into Folsom Field and beat Colorado last season.
This is what Bowman said:
“Everybody had us losing by 30 to Colorado, so we had to go out there and prove people wrong. Coach (Bill) Callahan played the Colorado fight song (during the practice week), and I got tired of hearing it, personally. That was big motivation. Then, at the 50-yard line (before the game), when we got into the scuffle with them, that was big motivation going back into the locker room. We were like, ‘Let’s just let out the dogs.’ We went out there and shut them down.
“It was a lot of fun. Driving on the way up there you had fans doing stuff that you wouldn’t see on a regular day. So going out there, shutting the fans up, having half the stadium leave (before the game was over), it felt good.”
The Huskers won 30-3.
