Football
Neill Woelk, Contributing Editor
BOULDER — In the aftermath of Colorado’s 54-7 loss to Washington, there are no doubt plenty of takeaways to be dissected in a season that has produced a 1-10 record, a long list of historically bad numbers and yet another new head coach for the Buffaloes’ program.
But today, we leave you with just one takeaway:
A heartfelt thanks to the Colorado seniors who have stuck it out in Boulder to the end. They will make one last appearance in a Buffs uniform next Saturday at Folsom Field in the season finale against Utah, and they deserve their moment of recognition and appreciation.
There might not be another senior class in the nation that has endured more than CU’s current group.
Those who have been in Boulder for five years have played for four head coaches — five if you count an interim coach for one game at the end of the 2018 season — and even more coordinators and position coaches. They have lived through almost unimaginable change but have given their all through a string of difficult seasons. They have experienced just one winning year — the abbreviated 2020 campaign that saw CU finish 4-2 and earn an Alamo Bowl berth — yet they never checked it in and never sought the easy way out.
A handful of Buffs have been with the program since signing as freshman recruits in 2017, a group that came to Colorado on the heels of CU’s 10-4 finish and Alamo Bowl berth in 2016. That group includes Maurice Bell, Alex Fontenot, Terrance Lang, Jaylon Jackson and Isaiah Lewis.
That 2017 class also included “grayshirts” Casey Roddick and
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