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Its crazy how Deion just simply refused to fix any of Colorado's shortcomings. He had all the momentum headed into last season (Most of us knew they weren't for real), but it added some excitement to what had become a moribund Colorado program. However, they look like the same exact team as last year, maybe a bit worse. It appears Deion has no idea how to run a program. This could crash and burn badly this year. Will be interesting to see how the rest of the season plays out.
 
Bottom line for me, at JSU, Prime had athletes the other programs at that level simply could not match. So he looked like Saban. At this level even 5 star talents like Hunter and Shadeur are NOT enough. Everyone they play has game breakers.

Now the value he creates in terms of marketing and fan interest/ selling out definitely has value but without wins that will fade.

A good comparison is when Charlie Weiss went to Notre Dame and proclaimed they would have X's and O's advantage every week. Other coaches sneered at that, and the rest is history.
 
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noeynox said:
Bottom line for me, at JSU, Prime had athletes the other programs at that level simply could not match. So he looked like Saban. At this level even 5 star talents like Hunter and Shadeur are NOT enough. Everyone they play has game breakers.

Now the value he creates in terms of marketing and fan interest/ selling out definitely has value but without wins that will fade.

A good comparison is when Charlie Weiss went to Notre Dame and proclaimed they would have X's and O's advantage every week. Other coaches sneered at that, and the rest is history.
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Their offensive line is soft. Shedeur is getting hammered on every play. The defense isn’t good and their offense can’t keep pace.
 
UConnDan97 said:
Just one of many reasons why I think the answer to the question is:

Mora > Sanders
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i'm ready to close this thread now. great reply :)
 
Jetskies said:
i'm ready to close this thread now. great reply :)
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Remember, agreement is not confirmation.

Great minds think alike... but so do mediocre minds... (I'm not sure which ones we are yet)
 
I haven't been able to verify it, but people are claiming that the Sander's arrived at Memorial Stadium in their own ride and not with the team. I tend to doubt it, especially because the media and Buff's fans would be all over it like on a goose. But, if it's true, it speaks volumes.

My prognostication is that Coach Past His Prime will declare that he's retiring for medical reasons at the end of his boy's eligibility in November. Oooops, I mean at the end of the season.
 
Prime outrecruited everyone at JSU and could rely on being completely over matched against everyone. Now at Colorado he can't do that and be the most stacked team in the country. His recruiting is clearly just try to just get highly rated players and no development or coaching at all. There's a lot of rumblings he plays favorites to his kids and Sheduer showed that to be true by literally blaming the entire O Line for him sucking.

He chose Colorado over USF who i belive was in the running. I think he would have had way more success at USF just based on the recruiting in FL alone. But way more success is still worse than what USF is now.

Nepotism will be his downfall and he'll be back on the NFL network in a couple years.
 
huskysupporter said:
Why would he be fired? He has brought a ton of money to what was a doormat program in recent years.
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That would be the dumbest thing Colorado could ever do lol. He brought them so much money they upgraded their stadium.
 
Buffett10 said:
That would be the dumbest thing Colorado could ever do lol. He brought them so much money they upgraded their stadium.
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He will be fired or leaves before the end of 2025
 
You're all over thinking it. He took the job to showcase his kids. Their eligibility is up at the end of their season. Do the math.
 
Didn’t want to start a new Colorado thread - one is enough - but I actually don’t think Travis Hunter gets enough attention. An Ironman who might be able to start on offense and defense at the next level. The Shohei Ohtani of the NFL?
 
the problem with some UConn fans they think they can now compete with SEC teams in football. Comparing Alabama to UConn football is like comparing UConn basketball to UNH.
 
Meanwhile Colorado is 4-1. I think Colorado will go bowling this year.
 
But let’s be serious for a minute. While Mora certainly has his football bonafides and has diligently been trying to improve the program for three years, what’s saving us is the gift of the transfer portal (and Mora’s skill at spotting the right players for our system). It’s what’s driving our resurgence this year and gives us a renewed confidence in the future. And hopefully, the confluence of greater success on the field brings us a larger infusion of “NIL money” which, as we all know, is critical to our ability to compete at the level we aspire to, and enables our entry into a P-4 conference.

That's the bottom line, existential necessity for UConn. Period, end of sentence.

So it’s pretty precious to hear all the vitriol being levied against Coach Prime. Imagine if Coach Prime had been hired here—bringing his two sons, Travis Hunter, and his promotional genius. The amount of exposure and TV relevance would have put this program on an entirely different level. The public would have developed a completely different impression of UConn’s football program. Money would have flowed, the stadium would be filled and raucous—and with our BBall success and Yormark’s dream of a Northeast presence for the conference, we would already be in the BIG 12
You can criticize Sanders all you want, Three of my grandkids went or currently go to Colorado Boulder, One was there before Coach Prime arrived but with him in his senior year. He had experienced the incredible transformation from losing seasons, a half empty stadium and a ho-hum attitude toward game days (sound familiar?) to pandemonium and incredible “must be there” excitement every weekend.

I like Mora, but I’d trade what we have for the Colorado experience in a heartbeat—and so would you. Time is getting shorter, the P-4 train is leaving and we must be on it. We have no other choice.
But reality is what it is. Yes, we all support what we seem to be creating here—and brighter days on the field should provide us with greater opportunity to survive. But acting like we’ve been lucky not to have had to suffer the circus and the antics of Coach Prime who is “unable to run a program” is laughable. It’s akin to the kid who, when not invited to the big party, says “I never wanted to go there anyway.”
 
Nostical said:
But let’s be serious for a minute. While Mora certainly has his football bonafides and has diligently been trying to improve the program for three years, what’s saving us is the gift of the transfer portal (and Mora’s skill at spotting the right players for our system). It’s what’s driving our resurgence this year and gives us a renewed confidence in the future. And hopefully, the confluence of greater success on the field brings us a larger infusion of “NIL money” which, as we all know, is critical to our ability to compete at the level we aspire to, and enables our entry into a P-4 conference.

That's the bottom line, existential necessity for UConn. Period, end of sentence.

So it’s pretty precious to hear all the vitriol being levied against Coach Prime. Imagine if Coach Prime had been hired here—bringing his two sons, Travis Hunter, and his promotional genius. The amount of exposure and TV relevance would have put this program on an entirely different level. The public would have developed a completely different impression of UConn’s football program. Money would have flowed, the stadium would be filled and raucous—and with our BBall success and Yormark’s dream of a Northeast presence for the conference, we would already be in the BIG 12
You can criticize Sanders all you want, Three of my grandkids went or currently go to Colorado Boulder, One was there before Coach Prime arrived but with him in his senior year. He had experienced the incredible transformation from losing seasons, a half empty stadium and a ho-hum attitude toward game days (sound familiar?) to pandemonium and incredible “must be there” excitement every weekend.

I like Mora, but I’d trade what we have for the Colorado experience in a heartbeat—and so would you. Time is getting shorter, the P-4 train is leaving and we must be on it. We have no other choice.
But reality is what it is. Yes, we all support what we seem to be creating here—and brighter days on the field should provide us with greater opportunity to survive. But acting like we’ve been lucky not to have had to suffer the circus and the antics of Coach Prime who is “unable to run a program” is laughable. It’s akin to the kid who, when not invited to the big party, says “I never wanted to go there anyway.”
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I understand where you're coming from, but I think Sanders is a complete A hole.
 
huskysupporter said:
Didn’t want to start a new Colorado thread - one is enough - but I actually don’t think Travis Hunter gets enough attention. An Ironman who might be able to start on offense and defense at the next level. The Shohei Ohtani of the NFL?
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The only reason Travis gets overshadowed is because Shedeur and Shilo are on the team. Travis would start on literally every team in the county. I doubt he'll play both sides of the ball in the NFL. Sanders did both sides in college if I remember correctly. As did Desmond Howard. We will probably never see another player like Ohtani in any other sport, and in baseball for that matter.
 
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