Coach Prime

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At the end of the year I think we’ll look at back at what we saw yesterday as a great game played between two mediocre teams. Thing is, for Colorado to be merely mediocre is a hell of an accomplishment. Yes they are infinitely more talented than last year, but it’s not easy to get a team of 90+ new guys to play well, now matter how talented, especially early in the season.
 
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Boston Vol said:
At the end of the year I think we’ll look at back at what we saw yesterday as a great game played between two mediocre teams. Thing is, for Colorado to be merely mediocre is a hell of an accomplishment. Yes they are infinitely more talented than last year, but it’s not easy to get a team of 90+ new guys to play well, now matter how talented, especially early in the season.
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Exactly. I shouldn't be surprised that has to be spelled out.
 
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Boston Vol said:
At the end of the year I think we’ll look at back at what we saw yesterday as a great game played between two mediocre teams. Thing is, for Colorado to be merely mediocre is a hell of an accomplishment. Yes they are infinitely more talented than last year, but it’s not easy to get a team of 90+ new guys to play well, now matter how talented, especially early in the season.
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This exactly.
One game. One win that was unexpected.
That is a classic first step.
He may not win another all year, but my first mental prediction about his tenure was wrong. I thought they would lose. TCU is a well-coached team.
TCU probably does have a big fall off this season, but I 100% expected them to take care of business against Colorado.

If you dislike Deion, so be it. I get it.
I don't like him, but I think it is a mistake to dismiss him.
 
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Boston Vol said:
At the end of the year I think we’ll look at back at what we saw yesterday as a great game played between two mediocre teams. Thing is, for Colorado to be merely mediocre is a hell of an accomplishment. Yes they are infinitely more talented than last year, but it’s not easy to get a team of 90+ new guys to play well, now matter how talented, especially early in the season.
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I recall Coach Heupel getting a lot of praise here for reloading after UT lost 25 or so players in the Pruitt debacle.

Prime reloaded 3x that. I'm not a fan of how it went down but there's no denying from what we saw with Coach Heupel that it's not easy to replace a bunch of players.

Colorado is in no way as good as we were after Heupel's reload but giving props to Coach Prime for the TCU win isn't pronouncing him the next Saban or campaigning for a statue or whatever.

An unproven coach comes in, completely cleans house, reloads almost 90 players in a single offseason, and wins the first game when they were a 20 point underdog.

Good for him. That's it. No statue. No, OMG, he's headed to the championship! No, I bet he gets hired as an NFL head coach.

Nope. Just the TCU win was a good win given what happened over the off season.

Why is that so hard for some folks?
 
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VolCalls said:
No matter the approach, he’s the real deal.
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I don't care anything about Colorado, but I think it's a nice story so far. That was an exciting game yesterday .... but why isn't he recruiting better? I thought that was a big part of his draw?

Colorado is just 66th in the 247 Sports Football Class of 2024 Composite Team Rankings. So far, they only have 8 commitments, with just three 4 stars and five 3 stars.

At this point in the recruiting cycle, that is not any better than what Colorado did with Mike MacIntyre and Karl Dorrell.

Is Sanders just going to completely fill his roster through the portal? If so, I don't think that is sustainable over time.
 
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#132
Coach Prime... showed everyone why the playoffs should of had 3 SEC teams in it last year.
 
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#133
I don't think Deion's act will ever work above CFB.
Hungry young men will come to play for him.
Millionaires don't need another millionaire playing like he's the main attraction.
 
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My dislike of him goes further back than most here, of course, given that he famously went to basically no classes while at FSU. I'd say the problem with his image now is that he's so brash and antagonistic whereas we are used to head coaches that speak in hushed, humble tones.

His demeanor is not what we are used to from a coach and it's off putting. Seems to work for him but long term who knows.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
I recall Coach Heupel getting a lot of praise here for reloading after UT lost 25 or so players in the Pruitt debacle.

Prime reloaded 3x that. I'm not a fan of how it went down but there's no denying from what we saw with Coach Heupel that it's not easy to replace a bunch of players.

Colorado is in no way as good as we were after Heupel's reload but giving props to Coach Prime for the TCU win isn't pronouncing him the next Saban or campaigning for a statue or whatever.

An unproven coach comes in, completely cleans house, reloads almost 90 players in a single offseason, and wins the first game when they were a 20 point underdog.

Good for him. That's it. No statue. No, OMG, he's headed to the championship! No, I bet he gets hired as an NFL head coach.

Nope. Just the TCU win was a good win given what happened over the off season.

Why is that so hard for some folks?
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I refuse to be positive about a coach who calls a team meeting with his players solely so he could film himself rolling in to tell them they should "pack their bags."

He used those young men as props. He knew what he was going to say to them - and he had the audacity to film it and publicize it, hype it up. "Look at me, I'm Coach Prime, I'm serious business."

I refuse to praise that.
 
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Voltopia said:
I refuse to be positive about a coach who calls a team meeting with his players solely so he could film himself rolling in to them they should "pack their bags."

He used those young men as props. He knew what he was going to say to them - and he had the audacity to film it and publicize it, hype it up. "Look at me, I'm Coach Prime, I'm serious business."

I refuse to praise that.
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I specifically said I didn't like the way he replaced the team and I don't like him as a person. He's arrogant and abrasive.

He won a football game he shouldn't have won with a group he basically cobbled together after he was an ass (for the 65,875,921 time in his life) but all I addressed was the win.

It was a good win by a guy I don't particularly like but it's still a good win.

My world isn't 100% good or 100% evil.
 
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Can the media drop the Coach Prime tag line already ?Maybe Coach Marketing is more appropriate.
Plenty of coaches have nicknames but the media is not lapping it up.
Maybe ESPN and the like can start calling Heupel. Coach Hype. 😉
 
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irish1485 said:
Its really not hard to just give him props yall.. seeing a lot of excuses
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Giving up 500 passing yards against anybody is atrocious. I’ll give credit just because of how bad Colorado was last season, but I bet TCU ends up being bad. I just highly doubt Colorados offense is doing that against any SEC team, including Vanderbilt.
 
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KoachKrab127 said:
It always baffles me when people say TCU didn’t belong in the national championship game. It was a playoff, and they won their first game. They beat undefeated Michigan in that playoff game. If you win in a playoff, you advance. You think they didn’t deserve to advance after winning?
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They didn’t deserve to be there in the first place. Alabama did.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
They didn’t deserve to be there in the first place. Alabama did.
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Tennessee should have been there before Alabama ... based on the head to head result, with the same conference record and the same overall record, and comparable strength of schedules.

... and I don't feel like Tennessee deserved to be there.
 
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Anyone who watched the interview and subsequent feature on Deion and the Colorado program on Gameday just now, and still thinks he’s all about himself and bad for football, is just delusional.
 
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mackievol said:
He recruits good kids, on and off the field. Good kids in the classroom. I see nothing wrong with Coach Prime
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Not to start an argument, but two points. Actually. make it three...

1) ESPN shows you what they want you to see. I trust anything they produce or say the same as I do a wet fart.

2) How many "good kids in the classroom" did Deion run off when he got to CU?

3) Juwan Mitchell. Which category of "good kid" does he fit in to?

Deion Sanders has put CU on the FBS map, and he is going to do good things there. But make no mistake, a lot of what he does is purposely designed for the cameras. He knows how to play that game almost as well as he did football. Example: You ever see any other coach, of any other FBS team...ever...have that level of press coverage of their first meeting with their new team?

Right now, he has a lot of the media and a bunch of otherwise intelligent people swinging from his jockstrap. I'm in more of a "wait and see" mindset. I've seen this act before. It's just that Deion is much better at it than Butch Jones was...

Go Vols.
 
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