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Why Dimitri Stanley, a CU Buffs wideout and Cherry Creek alum, is catching on fast

BOULDER — Barring something loopy — and given how many holes the football gods have punched in the CU Buffs depth chart, loopy ain’t off the table — Dimitri Stanley is awfully close to nailing a trick few Big Eight defenders could manage, back in the day:

Catch his dad.

Walter Stanley, Dimitri’s father, amassed 889 total yards from scrimmage and 1,310 combined kick and punt return yards from 1980-81 for the Buffs. Lightning on two legs, the elder Stanley managed 105 touches from scrimmage at CU in 1980 and ’81, but only 28 of them were catches.