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Kansas celebrated its 1998 homecoming with a 33-17 win against Colorado. The Buffaloos begin this season with new coach Gary Barnett. Kansan file photo
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Colorado coach has new regime
Buffaloes hope to return to past years' dominance
By Michael T. Rigg
sportreporter@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
On the surface, the Colorado Buffaloes have it all. They have a new, highly regarded coach in former Northwestern coach Gary Barnett, they will play on natural grass at Folsom Field for the first time since 1970, and they return 16 starters from last year's 8-4 Aloha Bowl championship team.
"I think that in 1991, we were a real physical football team and we took our identity from that," Barnett said. "Now, as I return, I think we've got some real skill players, especially in the secondary, but we're more of a finesse team on both sides of the ball. But it's my belief to have a chance in this conference that we've got to get back to the style of play that we were playing in the early '90s."
Barnett even has made up a slogan for the new regime: return to dominance. It is an attempt to bring the program back to the Bill McCartney days when Colorado dominated the Big Eight Conference.
Much of the style that made the Buffaloes so successful was abandoned by former coach Rick Neuheilus's "pass first, run later" philosophy. So, the Colorado administration hired Barnett, McCartney's assistant from 1984-91. During McCartney's reign, the Buffaloes enjoyed a previous return to dominance, routinely finishing near the top of the Big Eight and winning the national championship in 1990. In order to regain this form, Colorado must find life in its now-dormant running game, which finished 11th in the Big 12 last year.
"Really, we're not going to run the ball any more. We've just got to run it better." Barnett said. "We're not going to force it, but at the same time, we're going to believe in it and we're going to believe in it and we're going to make it work."
The good news is that the Buffaloos return their
Buffalooes return the leading rusher from 1998 in D w a y n e Cherrington. The bad news is that he only rushed for 350 yards and two touchdowns.
Last year, we didn't finish high in the league in rushing the ball, and we take that personally on the offensive line," Preseason AllBig 12 guard Ryan Johanningmeier said. "It was
kind of a slap in the face."
Along with Cherrington, the Buffalooes return Cortlen Johnson and Dimion Barton, which is either good news bad news depending on how you look at it.
On the bright side,
however,
Colorado returns
the 1998 Big 12
Newcomer of the
Year in quarter-
nine.
and Barnett said will be platooned.
and six defensive starters from a unit that finished 13th in NCAA.
in NCAA Division I last season.
Among the defensive standouts are defensive backs Ben Kelly, a Preseason All-Big 12 selection, and Rashidi Barnes. Both Kelly and Barnes will be expected to
BUFFALOES QUICK FACTS
1998 record: 8-4, beat Oregon in Aloha Bowl
Gary Barnett (1st season)
Neuheisel
Key Losses: RB Marlon Barnes, WR Darrin Chiaverini, coach Rick Nahueli
**Key Returnes:** QB Mike Moschetti, WR Marcus Stiggers, WR Javon Grosso, RB Fowler, RB Fowler
Key landmarks. Gill M. Rossell, WK Marcos Siggers, WK Juvon Green, BF Fred Jones, DB Ben Kelly, PK Jeremy Aldrich
**Outlook:** Although Rick Neuselstier hit the titrators of Boulder for the rain of Washington, the cupboard is hardly hard for new coach Gary Barnett
take some pressure off a relatively inexperienced linebacker corps.
"We have a chance to be one of the best secondaries in the nation this season." Kelly said.
The Buffaloos travel to Washington on Sept. 25 to play Neuheisel, who now heads up the Husky program. Some Colorado players and even Barnett have ripped Neuheisel since his departure, but Barnett is quick to downplay a rivalry between himself and his predecessor.
"I don't know if there's a rivalry between Rick and I, but there's maybe a rivalry between our philosophies," Barnett said. "There's one or two guys who were close to a couple of staff members that left, but they're coming around. Time heals all those sort of things."
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