Yuge mistake...
I'll bet by 2024, Coach Prime's team only has a couple wins, while Iowa and FSU are both vying for conference championships and playoff spots...
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Have we discussed Coach Prime going to Colorado?
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Yuge mistake...
I'll bet by 2024, Coach Prime's team only has a couple wins, while Iowa and FSU are both vying for conference championships and playoff spots...
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Let’s revisit this conversation in about two months when we find out if Deion plans to stay at Colorado after his sons and Hunter are gone. My point all along has been that he has no intentions of staying to build a program at Colorado. His entire coaching career has consisted of moving from one school to the next as Shedeur progressed through high school and college. He came to Colorado specifically to help get Shedeur to the NFL.
I’ll be stunned if he decides to stick around and continue building on that. And when he leaves, all the transfers he brought in who wanted to play for Coach Prime are going to follow him out the door. Colorado will be back to square one with about 25 scholarship players left on the roster.
But at least they’ll always have the Instagram videos to remember the good times.
Todays game totally turned on a horrible call made by a big 12 dei hire.
Just sayin.
Some of you guys are insufferable with the Deion hate.
He’s done a fantastic job. Not perfect, but definitely a positive hire.
He’s done a fantastic job. Not perfect, but definitely a positive hire.
What does that have to do with the OP?
Sanders has completely turned the program around; the OP was implying he'd be a showboat and disaster.
Seems like anywhere he decides to go, he's probably going to bring some level of success...
Sanders should stay at Colorado. He has a chance to dominate a weak conference and perennially be a playoff team.
Go to a B1G/SEC school….tougher path.
Go to a B1G/SEC school….tougher path.
My point throughout this thread, which I have reiterated numerous times, is that I think Colorado made a mistake in hiring Sanders because he has no intentions of sticking around long enough to build a foundation for the program.
He came to Boulder for the singular purpose of giving his son a stepping stone to the NFL. Shedeur and Travis are gone after this season and I would be stunned if Deion hangs around.
If Sanders is still the coach this time next year and the Buffs are 7-2 again then I will admit I was wrong. But if Deion bolts in January and half the roster follows him out the door then I’ll just shrug and say “yeah, that’ll happen.”
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Even if he’s gone next year, the hire was not a mistake. It saved Colorado football and put the team back on the map.
Can it be sustained? Who knows. This is a different era.
The parameters have definitely changed. And imo not for the better. As recently as about 5 years ago, what Deion is doing wouldn’t have even been possible. He would have been able to bring in his son and Hunter since they came from a lower division. But he wouldn’t have been able to run off 50 guys from the previous team and replace them all through the portal. He would have had to grind it out with the existing roster and a few JUCO transfers for a couple years until he could rebuild the foundation.
As an Iowa fan for 45 years who has known only two head coaches, my frame of reference for building a program is developing a solid high school recruiting network, developing those players, and plugging the occasional depth chart hole with a transfer or a couple JUCO recruits. That system has mostly served Iowa pretty well as a developmental program.
But maybe that formula is antiquated. Sanders made it clear from day one that even after the initial purge he had no intentions of making high school recruiting a priority. He intends to just restock the roster through the portal every year.
We’ve reached the point with NIL and the portal where malcontents are literally quitting their team after the fourth game so they can take a redshirt and preserve their year of eligibility and transfer to a new school.
That doesn’t sit well with me. It’s like there aren’t any rules at all anymore.
To add to my last post regarding NIL and the portal, the NCAA recently scrapped the rule limiting recruits to one official visit per school. Recruits have always been allowed to make as many unofficial visits as they wanted to, but they had to pay their own travel expenses on unofficial visits.
Now, as an example, if Texas covets a certain 5* QB recruit, they can pay all of his travel expenses for him to fly to Austin every weekend to be a VIP guest at every one of Texas’ home games.
It’s complete madness.
Now, as an example, if Texas covets a certain 5* QB recruit, they can pay all of his travel expenses for him to fly to Austin every weekend to be a VIP guest at every one of Texas’ home games.
It’s complete madness.
There is 0% of the decision to hire him that was a mistake. Your initial assertion and continued defense is simply incorrect. It’s ok, it happens.
Go Buffs.
It is reality in NIL world.
These teams now have millions of moo goo to distribute to teenagers. FSU did well for several years, but have been destroyed in a poorly scouted (?) not so productive season. Live and die now yearly, rather than over a period of coaching careers.
Like the idea, but not sure we can afford Norvell's buyout. And I'm definitely not sure he's even the problem. He didn't become stupid over the off season.
How much do you think Neon would want to be the coach?
Correct, take every good year you can get, the long build only maybe works at a few spots (if anywhere) in the new world.
Unless Norvell is somehow fired for cause, or he has a moment of clarity and agrees to a negotiated buyout (at a fraction of the current value), we're stuck with him for at least three years, and possibly more.
Sanders threw a pick on his 1st pass, but then the Buffs responded.
This. Honestly I would take Deion at FSU because I think the hype would help move us along out of the ACC. He certainly couldn’t hurt recruiting at this point.
It is going to be very interesting to see what Deion does after this season. Watching them play today, they have a lot more than just sheduer and Travis. He has built a program and can continue to do so. As a Coloradan, I sure hope he chooses to stay. He’s really grown on me this year and there is a good chance my son is attending CU next year.
With that said. Should Deion decide to move on this year I am not sure how you could ever say this was a bad hire. If you say that, you just have no idea how irrelevant and far down the buffs program was before he arrived. Not only were they a complete afterthought nationally, they were a complete afterthought locally. Unfortunately, I can’t get into Folsom field for 15 bucks anymore.
One last thing. I love Travis hunter. I hope he wins the heisman trophy.
With that said. Should Deion decide to move on this year I am not sure how you could ever say this was a bad hire. If you say that, you just have no idea how irrelevant and far down the buffs program was before he arrived. Not only were they a complete afterthought nationally, they were a complete afterthought locally. Unfortunately, I can’t get into Folsom field for 15 bucks anymore.
One last thing. I love Travis hunter. I hope he wins the heisman trophy.
Agree with every word of this (as a CU alum and longtime season ticket holder).
My kids go there and the atmosphere is night and day from 2 years ago. Just look at the crowd every game!
My oldest is debating between cu and csu right now. I am pushing for CU simply because it is closer and slightly higher ranked. He is leaning towards csu though.
They've certainly looked better-coached this season than they did last.
Can’t go wrong with either school, both great towns too.
Indiana might do it in one.
Cignetti is a good coach. I still suspect Sanders kid more sizzle than steak.
Good for them. Still a great decision for CU to hire Deion, no matter what the future holds.
Deion did surround himself with a good staff in Colorado. . Lots of guys with NFL and P5 experience, as players and coaches. I suspect he does little game management. I say that full well knowing nobody really knows what Kirk is scribbling on his little pad, and how that translates into wins. You have to have good assistants and let them do their jobs.
This was pretty cool - she’s been going to CU games since the 1940s and turned 100 today.
Colorado is clearly improved from last season.
But, in true wet towel fashion, I have to wonder how much of this is due to a much easier schedule.
But, in true wet towel fashion, I have to wonder how much of this is due to a much easier schedule.
Oklahoma State? They’re dead last in the Big 12 at 0-7 with an average loss of 15 points per game.
Honestly, I think that even if it’s a close loss, Indiana deserves an at-large bid. If 11-1 with your only loss on the road against the #2 team isn’t enough to get into the playoff then what’s the point of having a playoff?
Indiana hasn’t just been winning, they’ve been crushing teams. They beat UCLA by 29, Nebraska by 49, and Michigan State by 37. Their 20-15 win over Michigan last weekend was the first time all season that Indiana didn’t win by at least 14.
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