This is your team on Coach Prime
Deion Sanders is bringing wholesale change to Colorado:
He's making players earn jersey numbers:
His explanation why:
Reaction from players to Coach Prime:
Jackson St took an immediate jump up in wins in 3 years (actually 2 with 2020 having no games) with him as Head Coach, including going undefeated in the regular season in 2022. This is Colorado's schedule. How many wins you think they'll have?
Colorado went 1-11 in 2022, with all 11 loses being blow outs. How good is the Coach Prime effect? They can go 6-6 and get into Bowl Game?
I have no idea. Not terribly familiar with their revamped roster, but that schedule looks rough for them.
Still, I'll be watching that Nebraska game for sure to see how both new regimes look.
That’s a pretty daunting schedule.
Yeah. Why'd they schedule all those Big Ten teams anyway?
There's no let up in it, no cup cake game.
That's what happens when you are the cupcake.
God I love this comment. Nailed it.
Three at best.
This is your team...
Not my team!
I knew the OP was EC without looking at his name.
no kiddin’, man. again with the twitter aggregating.
i guess if you can’t get your own twitter above 13 followers you post to mgoblog for attention.
The most overhyped coaching hire of all time. He will make them better in the short term from the talent infusion his hype brings, but they’ll be 5-7 or 6-6 or so next season at best - which would be a nice jump. However, I think they don’t get much better than that in the seasons ahead, although USC/UCLA leaving will help.
I also think he leaves the team at the first sign of success to go to a bigger name school. If Norvell can’t keep the momentum from 2022 and they see regression in 2023, FSU will almost assuredly try and get Sanders.
Even then if FSU is good and not on the coaching market, I could see Sanders bolting for a good tier 2 or tier 1 coaching job. Mississippi State might even be in play if Arnett (The bandaid replacement for Leach) sucks this next season or two.
I'm not sure how moving that quickly from 1 win to a bowl makes this the most overhyped hire of all time
It doesn't...some just want him to fail because he's stepping outside the lines and drawing attention. That attention btw is attracting talent to a place that has a lot of disadvantages.
It's not all that different from the attention JH drew/created when he came to AA (sleep overs, tree climbing, signing of the stars, satellite camps, etc). It was maximising the moment. Same for Prime.
There’s plenty of people who have thought he’s a huge douche since the day he showed up to the Falcons. And he probably hasn’t done a lot to win them over. He’s just not everyone’s cup of tea. Nothing wrong with liking him, nothing wrong with disliking him.
He played with the Falcons from 1989-93...30 years ago and you think he should be concerned with winning over people who took issue with him all those years ago. WTF. That makes sense to you...
My guess is that he's moved on and has more important things on his mind.
That attention btw is attracting talent to a place that has a lot of disadvantages.
It's laughable that there are folks think CU has disadvantages.
Good academics.
Beautiful campus.
Lots to do.
Easiest winters where snow actually falls.
Lots of pretty girls from SoCal and Phoenix.
It should be an 18 year old's wet dream.
Rather it's criminal previous coaches couldn't leverage that in recruiting.
To me the jury is still out on him as a coach. Yes he turned around Jackson State but year 2 and 3 he had a huge talent advantage over all the other teams he coached against. It will be interesting to see if he can coach with equal talent against better coaches also. Time will tell
he had a huge talent advantage over all the other teams he coached against.
So you're saying Prime knows how to recruit.
Isn't that part of the game?
FFS these posts are getting laughable.
JSU was 4-8 and 5-5 the two seasons before Sanders got there. Sanders then went 4-3 and 11-2 WITHOUT his classes.
But yeah, turning a loser around, and over a pandemic, with the same players clearly equals Prime was born on third base and is a questionable coach.
What ? The turnaround at Jac St was stunning. What's there to overhype exactly? Sanders I think will do well, he gets it.
I'm predicting two wins. April 22, 2023 and also October 21, 2023. Until then he'll have to prove me different. GO BLUE
I've said 4-8 since the day he was hired and I'm not backing off it.
He will make them better but I don't know HOW MUCH better but 1-11 last year makes it an almost certainty.
I thought the Amazon documentary of last year's JSU season was good & gives some insight into how he handles a team. Despite being the flashy, audacious PrimeTime from his youth he is a pretty old school type of coach
…wearin’ a Stetson for the win!
This is your brain….
As the kids these days say, his children are nepo babies. Sure, I bet he pushes them—but they still are getting easier opportunities due to being his kids.
Love Prime, one of my favorite players growing up, and I am happy he’s taking some weird off of Harbaugh. I hope he restores Colorado except when/if they play us.
Dan Hawkins arrived in Boulder with a more impressive coaching resume than Sanders and talked “this ain’t intramurals brother” tough stuff and still flopped on his face. The “no jersey numbers till you earn it” sounds like posturing PR gimmickry to me, but the proof will be in how they play.
Totally different environment today, though. With transfer portal, NIL, and free transfer rule, it doesn't take 5+ years to rebuild a dumpster fire. Not to mention, Hawkins trying to build a program in a conference with a GOOD Oklahoma team, a GOOD Texas (!) team, and a GOOD Nebraska (!!!!!) is a challenge. For Christ's sake, even Kansas and Missouri won 12 games in the same season in this era. This was a legit conference.
Expectations should be like 5 to 7 wins this season, while Washington and USC are making playoff pushes. But after this year, the conference opens up tremendously. USC and UCLA are gone, Washington will lose their Penix (is DeBoer staying put?), and unless you're a giant Dan Lanning fan, it doesn't seem like there will be an elite program left out west.
Not to mention the intangibles... such as replacing Barnett after the Katie Hnida thing. Boulder hated the football program at the time -- so there was no support. Kinda think like what RR walked into.
Good points.
Good points.
Most obvious failure of the Hawkins era was nepotism keeping his son the QB. And he was supposed to be an offensive genius, but never got things going. Very dysfunctional.
The only opinion I have on this is that no Pac 12 team is making the playoffs, again. 2024 is the year, though! (They SHOULD be able to eke out one of the 12 spots)
All hat, no cattle. 4-5 wins
If CU wins 5 games this year, coming off of 11 blowouts, isn't that a win for Sanders?
he'll get the player buy-in, which can be critically important. but at some point he has to have the scheme and i don't think he's shown anywhere near the chops for that. i don't wish him ill but i do think there is, as we say, 'more hat than cattle'.
EDIT: i see that powhound and i might be the same person. poor guy.
If he goes 5-7 at Colorado, he can sign a ten year, $95 million contract at a desperate mid-level Big Ten team. It has been done before!
I give him 2 wins. If he wants me to give him more than that he will have to earn it as well.
At this point, Colorado is all artificial hype. Jackson St was good because Deion recruited a few 5 stars, a few 4 stars, and some 3 stars that were just better than the rest of the FCS. Colorado will be lucky to win 5 games this year with that schedule. It's going to be predictable and funny in a few years when all of the good PAC-12 teams inevitably leave the conference and people are tricked into think that Deion has found success in a newly barren PAC-12
Deion recruited a few 5 stars, a few 4 stars, and some 3 stars that were just better than the rest of the FCS
Which is absolutely the point of recruiting.
ANNNNNNDDDDDDD...
...how many of those starz went to not just D-1AA JSU but HBCU before Sanders?!
The very definition of a "nothing to lose" hire. Has there been a worse Power 5 program over the past 20 years?
He could easily flame out. He could go 7-6 and leave after a year. Which would put Colorado right back where they were 4 months ago.
My guess is he gets them to functionality (4-6 wins) and then who knows.
Nice to see in this era of entitlements where so many kids these days expect to be awarded or given things without really earning it, I know that comment is going to ruffle a lot of feathers, if it does, then you're the problem.
Looking at that schedule, they might be able to win 4 to 6 games, if he ends up being a good coach.
I know that comment is going to ruffle a lot of feathers
It already is.
Look at all the shit talking in here: questionable coach, had better players than his opponents at JSU, he's just hype, etc.
It's just not Sanders -- look at all walks of life and how the echo chamber can turn on its idols. You see it in entertainment, in politics, in business, everywhere.
Echo chamber: Coach prime comming.
Sanders: God and you have to earn stuff.
Echo chamber: He said WHAT? Fuck that guy. He's a bum and all hype.
March 27th, 2023 at 10:40 AM ^
okay boomer
I would be really, really impressed if they get to 5-7 next year. 3 or 4 wins is realistic.
I agree with the comment that he bolts at the first sign of success.
It will be really interesting when Staee figures out how to run off Tuck and them brings in Prime.
How come we aren’t talking about the player in the front row who looks like he’s about 5-1?
All I know is they’re going to get crushed by CSU.
Go Rammies!
The 3d motivator: I always wonder about the efficacy of trying to send a positive message with negative words.
Approximately he said "You'll have bad moments but only you can decide if you'll have a bad day."
They can beat OFF on Oct. 21. Nice.
I doubt they go bowling this soon, but I still think they failed upwards going from Tucker to Deion.
I think they'll go 6-6, in a couple years. It's going to take some time. Took both Chip and Harbaugh a couple seasons to turn around UCLA and Stanford.