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Wooooooeee....Coach Prime, you dog....
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09-03-2023, 09:42 AM
What a game that was against TCU. Watched every second of it yesterday. Unreal. His son had one hell of a game at QB. TCU had some INTs in the red zone but I'm not taking anything away from Colorado. I could have done without Deion's post game rant against the world (eye roll) but that was one hell of an effort by his staff and the players. Its going to be fun to watch the Buffalos this year.
09-03-2023, 10:48 AM
Fun to watch until it isn't, coach clown is waiting in the wings.
09-03-2023, 11:33 AM
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:His post game presser was really stupid. Lays into a local Denver reporter for not believing the team and being skeptical (its not a reporter's job to be a cheerleader). Goes on a rant about being a black HC, blah blah blah. "I kept receipts"! Just such ridiculousness. For me, it takes away just a smidge from the accomplishment. It was pretty amazing what they did yesterday, let's just say that straight up....for a variety of reasons. But afterwards the bluster and manufactured outrage was stupid because there were plenty of reasons for outsiders to be skeptical. But the media is in absolute heaven. They don't care other than it will have mass appeal to the 30 and under crowd/demographic.
09-03-2023, 11:43 AM
Quote: @StickyBun said:
09-03-2023, 11:45 AM
I have no stomach for the over acted antics like Deion brings to the table. Otherwise yah, media and lots of fans gonna luv this story.
09-03-2023, 12:23 PM
Quote: @purplefaithful said:I can see this as the future of "college football" you will still have FBS, but the varsity division will become like the NBA.
09-03-2023, 02:23 PM
Having lived in Colorado during the Bill McCartney "great years" (the shared national championship in 1990, when it was just votes), it was disheartening to see the Buffs fall on hard times in the last couple of decades. Those McCartney teams followed the spiritual evangelist (their Coach, who filled stadiums around the country with his "Promise Keepers" message). Great college players like Eric Bienemy and others who went on to the NFL.
Not even worth a post script, when McCartney stepped down, Rick Neuheisel was hired and took a winning program and ran it into the ground. He lasted four years and was blamed for recruiting violations and lax culture that gutted the program (how that guy even got another job in Washington, or on the air is beyond me). When Coach Prime was hired, the entire state of Colorado went into disbelief. Selling 50,000 seats in a snowy April spring game was surreal. Never happened before. If you listened to Lee Corso Saturday morning on College GameDay, he must have said a half dozen times (in under 40 seconds) that he doesn't agree with Coach Prime's methods, and he picked TCU to win in a blowout. It's okay to disagree with Prime. It's okay to dislike him. The program needed a major overhaul. Stripped down to the foundation and rebuilt from the ground up. It needed an evangelist to coach, a guy who is part preacher and a perfectionist. They got all that. What I like about Coach Prime is that he started his coaching career with several years with high school teams, before moving to Jackson State. And to those who are uncomfortable with the references to HSBCs as a talking point of segregation, yeah, I'm uncomfortable that HSBC's exist, but you cannot ignore these historically black institutions. They were all somewhat put into a sub-level of competition category by themselves, and the fact that he brings the fact to our attention...well, it's a fact, and I am not uncomfortable observing that not so subtle point. I found it interesting to see the obligatory college TV ad take his branding ("prime curriculum, prime instruction, prime location, etc.") to promote the university. I pointed out to my wife that this is one of those situations where a sports team coach, team and program can lift the entire institution to greater performance and prestige. To those who say that sports is overrated amongst academics, I point to Exhibit A, exactly what is going on in Boulder right now. The pride you are hearing and seeing down there is eye-opening. Now the Buffs have taken just one step, the win vs TCU. Made some believers, made some haters hate even more, naturally. But the college football community has sat upright and taken notice. They actually have TWO bona fide Heisman candidates in their QB and two-way star. I don't expect that level of performance to stay week in and week out, but it sure was fun to watch.
09-03-2023, 02:52 PM
His son played an amazing game, he reminds me of Caleb Williams, could potentially be working his way up draft boards, I wonder how much of the credit goes to Coach Prime and how much to Prime's son, but all of the great coaches get the best recruits, Saban has 3 QBs from the same team starting in the NFL.
09-04-2023, 03:25 PM
Living in an area where FCS is as big as it gets (albeit perennially ranked teams like Montana State and Montana), it seems that FCS teams make national news when they upset an FBS team (like when the Griz upset Washington Huskies a few years ago when they were ranked #20). But to listen to Shadeur and other playmakers, they say they are mostly comparable (except that the DL gets a quicker step off the ball). The difference between most FBS and the top FCS schools is not very far apart these days. Look at the number of NDSU players in the NFL.
09-05-2023, 08:14 AM
My guess is they'll be ranked now. This will be must see TV for many fans in CFB.
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