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

Can Shadildo automatically autocorrect to shadildo, please?
Robert Redford Nod GIF
 
A while back when the CU hype was starting to hit full steam, a friend of mine texted, “Everyone loves Deion’s toes!” and I’ve been calling him “Deion’s Toes” ever since.
 
Looks like Colorado has lost another assistant, I believe this makes 6. Sal Sunseri the DL coach appears to have left, he was a very experienced College coach with stops at Alabama, Tennessee and the NFL. Replaced by Damione Lewis who was on staff as an analyst, he was an assistant DL coach in Seattle for a few years and an assistant athletic director of football/player development at FIU. Maybe he will do great, but it sure looks like a sizable downgrade. Sanders staff has been seriously downgraded this season, personally I think every replacement is a worse coach than their replacement.

Just another interesting thing on Colorado. Besides the interesting and unique way of building a roster that is small and lacks underclassmen, Sanders has replaced experienced and some very good assistants with coaches with very little experience but a lot of NFL playing time. Unconventional and not the way I would do it, but it is interesting to see how it works out. College experience of replacement coaches:

Lewis - DL - assistant athletic director of football/player development at FIU in 2019
Shurmur - OC - Stanford OL 1998, Michigan St TE, OL and ST 1990-1997, Michigan St GA 1988-89
Livingston - DC - Vanderbilt defensive quality control in 2011, Safeties at Furman in 2010
Loadholt - OL - Oklahoma offensive analyst 2022-23, Ole Miss offensive analyst 2020-21, UCF offensive assistant 2018-2019
Phillips - WR -Has a lot of experience mostly WR and passing game at Texas State, Houston, Baylor, SMU, Kansas, Oregon State, Utah State, Jackson State, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Dancy - OLB - HC Mississippi Valley State HC 2018-22, Mississippi Valley State DC 2015-2017, Paine DC 2014, Jackson State Safties 2012-2013

Actual P5 assistant coaching experience on staff is Shurmur back in 1988-98, and Phillips in short stints. That's it nobody else has been an actual P5 assistant before.

The 4 returning assistants

Hart and Mathis have only coached at Trinity Christian HS and Jackson State before Colorado.

Harrell, Bartolone have experience at a variety of small college and G5 schools like Alabama State, FAU, Howard, Bowie State, Morgan State, Florida A&M, Texas Southern, Whittier College, St Lawrence, Carleton College, and Nevada then they both coached for Sanders at Jackson State.

No wonder they keep bragging about years in the NFL as the collective experience at Major College Football is very poor.

So what where these 6 new coaches doing before hired by Sanders:

Shurmur - Unemployed for a year after Broncos fired him
Livingston - Secondary coach for Bengals
Loadholt - Oklahoma Offensive Analyst
Lewis - hired as an analyst from Seahowk assistant DL coach then promoted to DL coach this year
Phillips - Hamilton Tiger-Cats WR coach
Dancy - hired as an analyst from Mississippi Valley State HC (he resigned but was 10-38 as HC), then promoted to OLB coach this year

The other 4 Hart, Mathis, Harrell and Bartolone came from Jackson St with Sanders before last season.
 


While our players are doing dumb shit like getting ready to start fall camp, Travis and shadildo will spend 2 days playing a video game that they are in

Hope the game is realistic enough that Mike Vick can satisfy his lust for dog blood by chainsawing a pitbull's head off on the VT at Lane stadium.
 
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I can't wait to see how that goes over in the locker room.
It's weird bc Deion himself has already done a ton of shit talking about his own o-line. Granted that was last year's and this year's is supposed to be "way better"

But in a weird way, classless shit talking about your own is actually a key part of their culture.
 
Sal Sunseri hasn't been with that team since January. Lewis was basically handing the D-Line coaching duties through the Spring, so its not really as big of an adjustment as you might think.

But the announcement tells me that CU is hurting for money. Why? They had to pay out Sunseri's contract thru the of June. I don't think that program was able to afford hiring a new D-Line coach until July 1st. I want to highlight some information about CU's defensive line because their fans are exalting a really bizarre narrative. This is the group they have under scholarship:

SHANE COKES 6’3, 280 DT - 2023 transfer from Dartmouth - Started 9 games for CU last season had 0 sacks and 0 tackles for loss. He was really quite terrible.

RAYYAN BUELL 6’3, 275 DT- transfer from Ohio U. 13 career starts - 12 tackles for loss - All MAC 3rd team

AMARI MCNEILL 6’4, 290 DT- Transfer from Tennessee in 2023 - had 3 tackles in 2 seasons at Tennessee - 4 starts at CU last season had good games vs. Colorado State, Arizona State, and Oregon State - 0 tackles vs. Nebraska

ANQUIN BARNES 6’5, 315 DT - Transfer from Bama - Spent 3 seasons with the Tide and played in ZERO Games

CHIDOZIE NWANKWO 5’11, 290 DT - 33 career starts at Houston (9 of them in the Big 12, 24 in AAC). - 94 total tackles, 12 tackles for loss, 4 sacks in career

TAUREAN CARTER 6’3, 305 - transfer from Arkansas - 5 career starts in 3 seasons - 60 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks

TAWFIQ THOMAS 6’4, 300 DT - transfer from Louisville - 0 starts in 2 seasons - 12 total tackles, 0 tackles for loss 0 sacks

QUENCY WIGGINS 6’5, 275 DT - transfer from LSU - 0 starts in 2 seasons, only played in 9 total games. - 7 tackles, 1 TFL.



8 Defensive Linemen at CU.
- 63 career starts
- 27 career starts at the Power 5 level


Nebraska's defensive line:

Ty Robinson - 33 Power 5 Starts
Nash Hutmacher - 15 Power 5 Starts
Jimari Butler - 6 Power 5 Starts
Cameron Lenhardt - 4 Power 5 Starts


4 Nebraska defensive linemen have more total starts and power 5 starts than 8 defensive linemen at Colorado.
 
Sal Sunseri hasn't been with that team since January. Lewis was basically handing the D-Line coaching duties through the Spring, so its not really as big of an adjustment as you might think.

But the announcement tells me that CU is hurting for money. Why? They had to pay out Sunseri's contract thru the of June. I don't think that program was able to afford hiring a new D-Line coach until July 1st. I want to highlight some information about CU's defensive line because their fans are exalting a really bizarre narrative. This is the group they have under scholarship:

SHANE COKES 6’3, 280 DT - 2023 transfer from Dartmouth - Started 9 games for CU last season had 0 sacks and 0 tackles for loss. He was really quite terrible.

RAYYAN BUELL 6’3, 275 DT- transfer from Ohio U. 13 career starts - 12 tackles for loss - All MAC 3rd team

AMARI MCNEILL 6’4, 290 DT- Transfer from Tennessee in 2023 - had 3 tackles in 2 seasons at Tennessee - 4 starts at CU last season had good games vs. Colorado State, Arizona State, and Oregon State - 0 tackles vs. Nebraska

ANQUIN BARNES 6’5, 315 DT - Transfer from Bama - Spent 3 seasons with the Tide and played in ZERO Games

CHIDOZIE NWANKWO 5’11, 290 DT - 33 career starts at Houston (9 of them in the Big 12, 24 in AAC). - 94 total tackles, 12 tackles for loss, 4 sacks in career

TAUREAN CARTER 6’3, 305 - transfer from Arkansas - 5 career starts in 3 seasons - 60 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks

TAWFIQ THOMAS 6’4, 300 DT - transfer from Louisville - 0 starts in 2 seasons - 12 total tackles, 0 tackles for loss 0 sacks

QUENCY WIGGINS 6’5, 275 DT - transfer from LSU - 0 starts in 2 seasons, only played in 9 total games. - 7 tackles, 1 TFL.



8 Defensive Linemen at CU.
- 63 career starts
- 27 career starts at the Power 5 level


Nebraska's defensive line:

Ty Robinson - 33 Power 5 Starts
Nash Hutmacher - 15 Power 5 Starts
Jimari Butler - 6 Power 5 Starts
Cameron Lenhardt - 4 Power 5 Starts


4 Nebraska defensive linemen have more total starts and power 5 starts than 8 defensive linemen at Colorado.
Good info but you don't need 8. I imagine if you took the next 4 Nebraska guys that's not going to add many starts.

Looks they have a few with decent experience.
 
Good info but you don't need 8. I imagine if you took the next 4 Nebraska guys that's not going to add many starts.

Looks they have a few with decent experience.


Their two players with the most experience, Nwanko and Cokes, would be 3rd string at Nebraska. My point is if you're going to bring in multiple transfers, it doesn't really benefit you to bring in a shit ton of dudes who have very little game experience.
 
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