Transfer Portal Day - Open Thread

I thought that too.... but it was a very Deon thing to do, when you think about it.  He pretty much threw the entire program under the bus, calling it a mess for the past two decades.     

Get chya popcorn ready.....

It makes sense though, from Deion's perspective.  If you're a player and you decide to enter the portal, either you don't think you're good enough to crack the 2 deep or you're giving up on the program.  Neither of those things are what Deion needs on the team and its best for both parties that those players leave.

It's extremely rare that a player enters the portal and its a bad thing for the program as a whole.

The part sermon, part "time for you all to move on because I'm bringing some dogs," mostly self-aggrandizement team meeting?  Yeah, weird.  The AD had to be cringing.  Tarzan and Jane reference, I predict, is just the first in a long rocky road of Coach Prime trying to "be me" at a big university.  Gary Barnett learned the hard way in Boulder.  

Yeah.  I wouldn't want any program I like to come anywhere near Coach Prime.  I have a feeling the wheels could come off his whole operation pretty quickly if he encounters any real adversity.  

I thought the reaction to the speech was as, if not more interesting than the speech itself.  Definitely cut into two distinct groups:

A. Group A who thought it was divisive and condensending.

B. Group B who thought it was a message the 1-10 players needed to hear

I mean it was vintage Deon.  Called out the team for wearing hats in meeting while wearing a hat himself.  Told the team he was bringing his "luggage" with him, meaning his son, as the new QB.

I have no idea if the coach Prime experiment will work there or not.  I do know it will be endlessly entertaining to watch.

Meh, it was more of a if you're not gonna buy in and do what we want, then hit the portal. 

Yes it's pretty cringy and if he's mistreating them then I don't endorse that, but...

If it backfires spectacularly to the point that his coaching tenure at Colorado is D.O.A., then....what happens?  Colorado football is a tire fire for the next decade?  It already is. His Jackson State squad might well have hung with this year's CU team or maybe even beat them; the Buffs were just that bad that anything and everything will be on the table for a new head coach.

It's a challenge. Some things can't be taken as literal as they're said. He's trying to weed out the weak and challenge the guys who want to compete. It's about culture shift. 

Very odd.  Not sure what else he said but he is talking to young men he has yet to get to know.  Do the “get tough” part first then talk about getting out.

He was able to out-talent everyone at his previous school. It won’t be so easy at Colorado.

Wow, I thought that Lock had something going there . . . 

Pros:  Multiple positions open for immediate playing time, opportunities to play against teams that make the CFP at large stadiums with big crowds, NIL opportunities from mortgage bros.

Cons:  Must live in East Lansing and be a Spartan Dawg (tm), coaching, personal development, fanbase

Hey we meme on Sparty a lot, but they've been able to get some guys from the transfer portal and I think they could do it again and they'll have a chance to start fresh, and their bowl game this year will be an excellent place to build some momentum going into next season.

And if God wants our happiness to be complete, we will be the cause of those bad things.

I’d rather have Soda McGee

He must also kick extra points, otherwise we'd have to call him Six.

Phil Jurkovec (3 year starting QB at BC and graduate of a high school 30 mins north of Pittsburgh) maybe coming home to Pitt and reuniting with OC Frank Cignetti. Slovis underwhelmed this year and doesn’t have the best record in QB competitions. 

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