OT - Go Nebraska! Beat the Buffs

This is how I feel.  Seems like people are crowning Deion already and thinking Colorado just won the super bowl.  Nah.  They performed really well against a team on the decline.   They are going to play a crappy Nebraska team next.  Hit me back after they play Oregon and USC and we will have a true measuring stick of how good they are.

FWIW I think they will be bowl eligible and maybe even 8-9 wins which is a huge turn around.  But they need to quit all the heisman talk, etc. 

💯 I’d rather have someone brash like Deion than some sanctimonious clown like Dabo. 

Yeah, in general the reaction to Sanders has been.... confusing, to say the least.

Yeah, I get why someone might be put off by Deion’s ways, but having such extreme illogical hate for him (like OP does) is just people telling on themselves. 

A lame ass coach like Lane Kiffin or Mike Gundy goes off at the mouth, and it's just what a program needs, and it shows "intensity", and they fail upward.

Deon goes off, and it's him being uppity or a loudmouth.

I wonder what the difference is between them 🤔

Did you really go there? This has nothing to do with race. It has to due to being humble and winning with grace. When my son was growing up, I showed him videos of Barry Sanders scoring touchdowns and handing the ball to the ref. There were no gyrations, no taunting, no me-me-me, I-I-I, look how great I am. I taught my children to be humble. Build others up. Set up your teammates for success on the field or court. Self-promotion and bragging about yourself is just empty.

When I was growing up as a Detroit sports fan, we were blessed with such fantastic examples of humbleness from all 4 major sports teams: Alan Trammell, Barry Sanders, Joe Dumars and Steve Yzerman. There are many others - Whitaker, Kaline, Gates Brown, etc. You can be intense without being overbearing. Look at Chris Spielman or Kirk Gibson.

No one outside of Oklahoma or whoever is a fan of the current Lane Kiffin team ever likes Mike Gundy or Lane Kiffin. We all know (especially Kiffin) they are both high on the intolerable douche spectrum.  But with that said, so is Deon, and he also calls himself Coach Prime, which is kind of pathetic and childish, no matter how great a player he was. I do believe that once you step into the ranks of coaching a little humility goes a long way, because eventually your team will get their ass kicked and it will be said coaches fault.  
 

Can you imagine if Tom Brady got into coaching and called himself #CoachGOAT and wore shirts of it and shit? I would think it’s absolutely ridiculous and my view of Brady would greatly diminish as he would appear as a huge arrogant Douche. 

It’s clear based on your post that you think all Deon hate is due to him belong black. This is because you still have a mindset that projects your own insecurities onto people who don’t actually care about skin color like you clearly do. They care about the perceived character of the man himself.
 

Building confidence is a good thing as Deon does very well, but so is a dose of humility, which Deon clearly sucks at. I think Harbaugh, and honestly many others in the coaching world are great at being humble and building confidence within their team culture. Honestly, I believe the staff at UM as a whole is great at this, and many of these coaches I have the upmost respect for happen to be black as well (Hart, Moore, Clinkscale), but they aren’t arrogant douchebags like Deon, and I think most, wouldn’t care if they were black or white, as you obviously do.
 

All that said, Deon seems to be a good coach, at assembling staff, recruiting, probably x’s and o’s, and his way of motivating might work for a while. But, in my opinion, it probably has about a 5 year shelf life in this day in college football. This isn’t Miami on the 80’s and early 90’s. 
 

Sure, race absolutely does play a role, but let's not forget that Deion loudly and unabashedly pushed out most of the CU players he inherited so he could bring in more transfers, at one point saying it was like replacing old luggage with Louis Vuitton. You can argue (with some justification) that every coach pushes out non-performing players to some extent & that the difference is that Deion is just more blatant about it, but I also don't think you should be surprised with that candor generating a backlash. 

Ironically, your reference to Coach Prime haters and the 'down in fronts' overlaps in an unexpected way.

Prime does and says brash things to fit an old cultural fashion (in effect, saying "Look how bold I am!"), and using those who object (calling out those who complained) to reinforce that point.

People stand throughout a game to fit a relatively new cultural fashion ("Look how much I support my team!"), and using those who object ("the 'down in fronts'") to reinforce that point.

I take it that you are new to the sport. Steve Spurrier was doing this decades ago and catching flack for doing it.
 

Gundy failing upwards? Okie State is the only HC job he has had.

Kiffin failed in the NFL and SC, but he won at FAU and Ole Miss.

Your argument is lacking in factual basis.

I like Deon and he makes the game more fun. The Buffs certainly traded up from $Mel. Bet Prime is not making $95M(yet).

Maybe Prime can suit up as player/coach and win the September Heisman for which Sparty is so fond. Notice the preposition placement for the grammar police.

If people want to find racial overtones in something, they will.

I think there's some evidence he is a good coach. Not just the TCU game but his Jackson State turnaround was no joke.

To answer your question, I can think of another accomplished, authentic coach that doesn't care what others think. He'll be back on the sidelines in week 4.

i think there is a decent amount of evidence that Deion is a damn good coach.  

he is an exceptionally accomplished athlete and an authentic individual.

Is he, though? Sure, he can back up his talk, but that doesn't make him "authentic" as a person. I think his public persona is just that - a persona. He amplifies things to be intentionally controversial and provocative, plays to the crowd, makes certain statements to achieve an outcome. More than authentic, I think he's actually quite cunning and knows how to craft the public's perception of him. 

I wouldn't call that "authentic." 

[It's similar to, without getting political, there are many of us who may not want a political candidate to win election because apart from the issues, we don't want that particular style of campaigning or governing to be seen as a model for success]

I think this is my biggest concern.  Deion has always been brash and outspoken, and it has served him well.  But if bringing in 88 new players sets the stage for a massive turnaround, then we are going to see more teams just clean house when a coach comes in.  While the portal has caused a lot more player movement in general, the scale of it at CU does really make it clear that this is a professional sport and even the fig leaf of amateurism from the past is gone.

A lot of people who have disdain for Deion's methods also probably felt the same way about Al Davis and his "Just Win Baby" approach to football.

On the other hand though, beating a Nebraska team with a road non-conference win over a ranked opponent would be better for our SoS.