And so it begins...(tracking Coach Prime decommits/transfers)

[Kazman5k]

Must have redshirted a year on offense while still playing defense. I think that's how that works.

 

[BIGSTICK67]

The real Bison

 

[Juro]

Must have redshirted a year on offense while still playing defense. I think that's how that works.

Someone on the CU football staff was dumb and got high and couldn’t figure it out.

 

[HerbRedman]

RIP to those NDSU DBs tonight

(unfortunately)

 

[vailhusker]

NDSU depth chart. I could only find a picture on Twitter, nice socks 🤣.

 

[Stan Raymond]

Colorado RBs last week:

Miller (actually a WR) 2 for 7
Offerdahl (walk on) 5 for 23
Hayden (tOSU transfer) 9 for 20


RBs that transferred out of Colorado last season:

Wilkerson, Georgia State, 8 for 43
McCaskill, Arizona State, 7 for 17
Edwards, Kansas State, 5 for 43, 1 TD
Hankerson, Oregon State, 24 for 155, 2 TDs

Oregon States starting LT and C came from Colorado as well.

Did they really improve their talent this offseason?

 

[Cornicator]

Colorado RBs last week:

Miller (actually a WR) 2 for 7
Offerdahl (walk on) 5 for 23
Hayden (tOSU transfer) 9 for 20


RBs that transferred out of Colorado last season:

Wilkerson, Georgia State, 8 for 43
McCaskill, Arizona State, 7 for 17
Edwards, Kansas State, 5 for 43, 1 TD
Hankerson, Oregon State, 24 for 155, 2 TDs

Oregon States starting LT and C came from Colorado as well.

Did they really improve their talent this offseason?

I've been arguing this topic with a few Husker fans on other sites. The ultimate irony of Prime's desire to bring in his own "Louis," is CU actually had some decent offensive linemen.

 

[Ripping Lips]

 

[Stan Raymond]

I've been arguing this topic with a few Husker fans on other sites. The ultimate irony of Prime's desire to bring in his own "Louis," is CU actually had some decent offensive linemen.

More than just OL, they would be a much better team if they didn't just run players out. But the ironic thing to me, is he's run out guys that he brought in, that would help this team. Sometime it's just roster turnover for turnover's sake.

Look at TE. They had Harrison, good receiving TE, nothing special, but a solid player 31 catches for 284 and 5 TDs last season, they dump him, bring in the Cincinnati TE Metayer, he doesn't last past the Spring. Now they are stuck with the Hart kid from tOSU and Smalls a converted Edge defender. Meanwhile:

Harrison at San Diego State had 3 for 22 and
Metayer at Arizona State had 2 for 32

And Colorado doesn't have a TE that they even trust to play. Harrison and Metayer aren't game changers, but they are solid pieces that a team is built with, but pieces that Sanders just tosses away. You can find players like that at every position, players that help make a team, that Sanders just pushes out or doesn't try and keep. It really is an amazing story to follow. He's killing the program while he makes headlines, just fascinating how he has hollowed out the program, there are hardly any underclassmen on the roster. It's a crappy team that is going to return next to nothing for next year.

Their scholarship distribution tells the story. LINK

10 Freshmen
11 RS Freshmen
12 Sophomores
17 Juniors

They don't have enough returning scholarship players to do much, only 50 players will be back, if they don't transfer out. Nebraska has 48 Freshmen on the roster while Colorado has 50 FR, RS FR, SO and JR scholarship players.

I've hated Colorado for years as I use to live there, and Sanders has fanned that hate, but the roster management is worth following just as a college football fan as it is very unique and is going to have a spectacular ending failure coming up.

 

[Tonkasker]

More than just OL, they would be a much better team if they didn't just run players out. But the ironic thing to me, is he's run out guys that he brought in, that would help this team. Sometime it's just roster turnover for turnover's sake.

Look at TE. They had Harrison, good receiving TE, nothing special, but a solid player 31 catches for 284 and 5 TDs last season, they dump him, bring in the Cincinnati TE Metayer, he doesn't last past the Spring. Now they are stuck with the Hart kid from tOSU and Smalls a converted Edge defender. Meanwhile:

Harrison at San Diego State had 3 for 22 and
Metayer at Arizona State had 2 for 32

And Colorado doesn't have a TE that they even trust to play. Harrison and Metayer aren't game changers, but they are solid pieces that a team is built with, but pieces that Sanders just tosses away. You can find players like that at every position, players that help make a team, that Sanders just pushes out or doesn't try and keep. It really is an amazing story to follow. He's killing the program while he makes headlines, just fascinating how he has hollowed out the program, there are hardly any underclassmen on the roster. It's a crappy team that is going to return next to nothing for next year.

Their scholarship distribution tells the story. LINK

10 Freshmen
11 RS Freshmen
12 Sophomores
17 Juniors

They don't have enough returning scholarship players to do much, only 50 players will be back, if they don't transfer out. Nebraska has 48 Freshmen on the roster while Colorado has 50 FR, RS FR, SO and JR scholarship players.

I've hated Colorado for years as I use to live there, and Sanders has fanned that hate, but the roster management is worth following just as a college football fan as it is very unique and is going to have a spectacular ending failure coming up.

TE thing is really going to hinder their ability to run offense in conference play. If they can’t run anything but empty sets or 10 personnel they’re going to be running the offense everyone figured out how to stop 10 years ago

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

TE thing is really going to hinder their ability to run offense in conference play. If they can’t run anything but empty sets or 10 personnel they’re going to be running the offense everyone figured out how to stop 10 years ago

I am curious to see how the rest of the year plays out. Seemed to me like NDSU was playing a lot of drop 8 and they just didn’t quite have to athletes to pull of bringing enough pressure and maintaining good coverage during extended plays.

Colorado was never really able to pick them apart to force them to move from it or make them honor the run game. I chalk some of that up to Sanders’ tendency to bail instead of stepping up in pocket but you should also be able to handle 4 rushers better than that. Also should be able to run better against very light boxes.

 

[HerbRedman]

the roster management is worth following just as a college football fan as it is very unique and is going to have a spectacular ending failure coming up.

The post mortem on the Deion 2 yr era is gonna be nuts. Deion has so many friends in media that they really enabled him (like a drug addict) doing this idiotic roster building.

And it's not just the former players, all the former NFL network guys too. Rich Eisen for one absolutely excoriated every program that had a HC opening that winter for NOT hiring Deion (NU was one of those obviously). Even Nick Saban was talking about how awesome he is.

You saw this in yesterday's game when Brock Huard was trying to throw Benetti w Deion after his "Nebraska could start 7-0" comment. If Deion resigns in JAN 2025 it will be interesting to see if anyone in the media actually lets loose on Deion's leadership malpractice during these past 2 years.

Deion Sanders has a media ally in Nick Saban

Despite facing media criticism, Deion Sanders found a strong supporter in Nick Saban, who highlighted Sanders' positive impact on HBCUs.

awfulannouncing.com

 

[Stan Raymond]

The post mortem on the Deion 2 yr era is gonna be nuts. Deion has so many friends in media that they really enabled him (like a drug addict) doing this idiotic roster building.

And it's not just the former players, all the former NFL network guys too. Rich Eisen for one absolutely excoriated every program that had a HC opening that winter for NOT hiring Deion (NU was one of those obviously). Even Nick Saban was talking about how awesome he is.

You saw this in yesterday's game when Brock Huard was trying to throw Benetti w Deion after his "Nebraska could start 7-0" comment. If Deion resigns in JAN 2025 it will be interesting to see if anyone in the media actually lets loose on Deion's leadership malpractice during these past 2 years.

Deion Sanders has a media ally in Nick Saban

Despite facing media criticism, Deion Sanders found a strong supporter in Nick Saban, who highlighted Sanders' positive impact on HBCUs.

awfulannouncing.com

I think there will several folks doing a tell all. It will make for some fascinating reading.

 

[Stan Raymond]

Get a lot of article like this on Sanders and Colorado LINK

Headline:

Deion Sanders provides injury update for Colorado defender​

Then this is the meat of the article:

Deion Sanders, who brought Silmon-Craig with him from Jackson State, was able to provide an update on the senior safety during his postgame press conference. But it wasn't regarding his status going forward. “No, I don’t. Not whatsoever,” Sanders stated about whether he was updated about Silmon-Craig’s condition. “Hopefully they get me one soon.”

I know, probably just AI generated garbage, but really that headline is complete garbage.

 

[HerbRedman]

Joel Klatt surprisingly harsh on CU after their game one vs NDSU.

Klatt almost raised his voice when talking about their idiotic clock management at end of NDSU game. Said that everyone outside of Shedildo/Hunter/Horn is "questionable". Says they are playing Hunter too many snaps and it's not sustainable.

Colorado portion is the last segment.

 

[Tonkasker]

Klatt almost raised his voice when talking about their idiotic clock management at end of NDSU game. Said that everyone outside of Shedildo/Hunter/Horn is "questionable". Says they are playing Hunter too many snaps and it's not sustainable.

Colorado portion is the last segment.

Yeah the fact that he’s not the subject of a fan uprising for that shit proves that entire fanbase doesn’t know ball. Might be the worst coaching I saw the entire weekend

 

[Stan Raymond]

Yeah the fact that he’s not the subject of a fan uprising for that shit proves that entire fanbase doesn’t know ball. Might be the worst coaching I saw the entire weekend

It's a huge mistake that can cost a game. As bad as taking the ball in OT (Sanders did that twice last year). They are not well coached.

 

[Tonkasker]

It's a huge mistake that can cost a game. As bad as taking the ball in OT (Sanders did that twice last year). They are not well coached.

You can add clock management against Oregon State and Stanford to that list too. There’s a reason nobody is trying to replicate the Deion hire. Trend is actually going the opposite direction where schools like Colorado are hiring experienced high floor, low ceiling guys with a ton of coaching experience instead (Bronco, Jerry Kill, Choate, Leipold even to an extent). Experience matters

 

[Stan Raymond]

Colorado has huge issues.

When the same issues from year 1 show up in year 2, the failure is on the coaching and the way the program is being run. We saw it under Frost and see how Rhule has corrected things. Sanders doesn't know how to fix the issues at Colorado and every one they play will take advantage of their huge areas of weaknesses. There is more than a blueprint in how to beat Colorado, there is a step by step guide. They are going to lose a lot of games this year. Klatt, a Colorado alum, was really down on them and rightfully so, what was supposed to be fixed or at least better just isn't better.

 

[Stan Raymond]

Joel Klatt surprisingly harsh on CU after their game one vs NDSU.

Klatt almost raised his voice when talking about their idiotic clock management at end of NDSU game. Said that everyone outside of Shedildo/Hunter/Horn is "questionable". Says they are playing Hunter too many snaps and it's not sustainable.

Colorado portion is the last segment.

Damn, Klatt goes in hard on Colorado, deservedly so.