Buffs - Coach Prime

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highwayman said:
Aflac does pretty memorable commercials. Hardly anyone you talk to is exactly sure what they actually sell.

However, one thing they do not sell is health insurance.
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They sell supplemental insurance. Which is meant to cover what your health insurance does not cover. Close enough.
 

Colorado is in some ways a lot like Minnesota.

Major research university and state flagship located in the state's largest media market. Similar sized states and largest markets, which both have all of the four major pro sports.

CU football glory years were more in the late 80's to mid 90's I believe. Lot of Big 8 and then early Big 12 years. But since then, like the Gophers since the 60's, not a lot of major success.


Their campus is not right in the core urban area, though. Their location relative to downtown Denver, would be like if the U (of MN) was located in St Michael relatively to downtown Minneapolis.
 




USAF said:
And i feel if you're correct, Colorado fans will be sad to see him go but absolutely thrilled he was their coach.

He's gotten them from rock bottom to ranked in one offseason. Sold out stadium Saturday. NFL talent on the roster. Every college football talkibg head talks about Colorado.

NObody in Colorado will be sorry they hired Deion if he leaves in a few years. Nobody.

This is an absolute donkey of a take reserved for those who spouted all winter he'd fail and now need to find something else to cling to rather than admit they were wrong.
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Lol this thread is gold.
 

USAF said:
And i feel if you're correct, Colorado fans will be sad to see him go but absolutely thrilled he was their coach.

He's gotten them from rock bottom to ranked in one offseason. Sold out stadium Saturday. NFL talent on the roster. Every college football talkibg head talks about Colorado.

NObody in Colorado will be sorry they hired Deion if he leaves in a few years. Nobody.

This is an absolute donkey of a take reserved for those who spouted all winter he'd fail and now need to find something else to cling to rather than admit they were wrong.
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Yup, you were wrong. Deion is bringing Colorado is back to the stone age. That's right next to rock bottom.
 
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GopherGrit said:
Colorado is in some ways a lot like Minnesota.

Major research university and state flagship located in the state's largest media market. Similar sized states and largest markets, which both have all of the four major pro sports.

CU football glory years were more in the late 80's to mid 90's I believe. Lot of Big 8 and then early Big 12 years. But since then, like the Gophers since the 60's, not a lot of major success.


Their campus is not right in the core urban area, though. Their location relative to downtown Denver, would be like if the U (of MN) was located in St Michael relatively to downtown Minneapolis.
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Boulder looks and feels like a college town. Besides close proximity to downtown Denver, it has beautiful mountains five minutes from the football stadium.
 









Some guy said:
They’ve made millions of dollars in advertising from the hire. Applications are up. Apparel sales are up.
It’s not like they weren’t going to pay someone else anyways. So he makes a high salary but he is probably only making 2 million more than their next choice would’ve made

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They entered bowl season ranked for the second time in 20 years

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Colorado had never sold out their home schedule in their history. They did it twice the last two years
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www.usatoday.com

Colorado forecasts $27 million deficit after Deion Sanders pay raise, NIL payments

Colorado athletics is projecting it will run a huge deficit this year after increasing pay for coach Deion Sanders and adding payments to players.
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Why stress? The Colorado state legislature can fix all of this by selling off 10% of its future tax revenue for a small upfront payment. Maybe a 75 year contract?
 

GopherTheJugular said:
Man. when it's all said and done, seems like all they will have gotten is their 15 minutes of fame and a retired #2 jersey.
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Belichick and the the circus around him and his girlfriend at UNC hogged a lot of the spotlight this year. Prime has kind of become an afterthought without Hunter and to a lesser degree Shedeur grabbing headlines for their play on the field.

2 conference seasons with a 1-8 conference record sandwiched around a 7-2 season. I just can't see him hanging around too many more years and if it doesn't get better on the field soon the end of his time there might not be his decision.
 


MNVCGUY said:
Belichick and the the circus around him and his girlfriend at UNC hogged a lot of the spotlight this year. Prime has kind of become an afterthought without Hunter and to a lesser degree Shedeur grabbing headlines for their play on the field.

2 conference seasons with a 1-8 conference record sandwiched around a 7-2 season. I just can't see him hanging around too many more years and if it doesn't get better on the field soon the end of his time there might not be his decision.
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Colorado is absolutely stupid for extending him with the contract they did. A financial disaster combined with an on field disaster.
 

Some Day...Maybe said:
Colorado is absolutely stupid for extending him with the contract they did. A financial disaster combined with an on field disaster.
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Is he a financial disaster or is college football a financial disaster

I have always been against him because I don’t feel he is that good of a coach. But I think them being worse off financially because of him is flat incorrect
 

Some guy said:
Yeah. It’s not a revenue problem though.
It’s a cost problem
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It's absolutely both, because outside of the Big Ten and SEC, the other conferences are falling way short on the revenue side comparatively, but they're having to play by the same spending rules as the big boys if they hope to compete. So, labor costs are skyrocketing, but revenues aren't keeping pace. As others have said, that model isn't sustainable beyond a handful of schools.
 

WindyCityGopher said:
It's absolutely both, because outside of the Big Ten and SEC, the other conferences are falling way short on the revenue side comparatively, but they're having to play by the same spending rules as the big boys if they hope to compete. So, labor costs are skyrocketing, but revenues aren't keeping pace. As others have said, that model isn't sustainable beyond a handful of schools.
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They do not have to play by the same spending rules?
That is false.

They could chose to not
They could likely still be semi-competitive due to the roster size limits



There are no labor costs. College players are still not legally considered employees. The house allowed direct payments are a percentage of revenue. Meaning the direct payments can’t be more than 22% of revenue.
 
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Some guy said:
They do not have to play by the same spending rules?
That is false.

They could chose to not
They could likely still be semi-competitive due to the roster size limits



There are no labor costs. College players are still not legally considered employees. The house allowed direct payments are a percentage of revenue. Meaning the direct payments can’t be more than 22% of revenue.
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If you care to survive as a viable program you absolutely have to play by the same rules as everyone else. Schools that don’t won’t be relevant; they won’t even be semi-competitive.

Labor costs aren’t always direct. NIL
is a de facto labor cost maintained by outside collectives, but they essentially fund/attract the labor, and have been essential to keeping up in the arms race.
 

The 2025 big ten media distributions will be around $75M for everyone except sad sacks Oregon and Washington. Bastard programs like those will phase in a little slower. Sorry, not even UCLA was treated so poorly but those are the breaks. The Big 12 distributions will be around half of that? Still not as bad a disadvantage as the Twins face.

Both conferences will be negotiating new deals around 2030 or so, which will give Disney and Fox and friends Comcast, Paramount, Amazon, Apple, Netflix plenty of time to boil the frog via yearly or semiannual price increases and prepare “wow” bids to the conferences, super-conferences, and/or the Saudi, Norwegian, Chinese, Qatari owners. The next round of negotiations could give a brief advantage to the big ten as the SEC is stuck in its ten year deal until 2034, IIRC. Perhaps they can wring some revenue out via creative financial partnerships.
 

WindyCityGopher said:
If you care to survive as a viable program you absolutely have to play by the same rules as everyone else. Schools that don’t won’t be relevant; they won’t even be semi-competitive.
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Well when all of the schools are 50 million underwater per year none of them are going to follow the rules in the long run
WindyCityGopher said:
Labor costs aren’t always direct. NIL
is a de facto labor cost maintained by outside collectives, but they essentially fund/attract the labor, and have been essential to keeping up in the arms race.
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There is no labor cost. There is no labor.

There is NIL cost. It would be incorrect to call players labor. If they did it may even cost them a court case.
 

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