Not a great look but I don’t think he (or the University) will care. How does this effect their graduation rate, if the NCAA still cares?
What departing Colorado players and a parent are saying about Deion Sanders' roster purge
Grant Page and the father of another departing player shared their thoughts on Coach Prime’s roster purge with the Denver Postcoloradobuffaloeswire.usatoday.com
Your last part makes me wonder.
It will be interesting to see how well he can coach and gameplan on a weekly basis. I'm skeptical of his ability to be successful against Oregon, Washington, Utah, or even schools like Arizona, ASU, and ORST consistently for that matter.
Yeah it definitely matters how he loses when he inevitably struggle in conference play. Getting blown out and out coached is much different than losing a due to lack of talent in a certain position.
In a conference like the SWAC Sanders was able to use his star power to accumulate more talent than the teams he was up against. He won't be able to do that at nearly the same level at Colorado and will be going up against teams with comparable athletes to his team.
Right. The National Champions from 1990 and runners up in 1989 could never win a national championship.
I don’t think the odds are improved by those.
You are correct that CO was top shelf thirty three years ago. However, it's not relevant. The college football landscape has changed just a little bit since the 90's.
Plus, how can he call them runners up in '89 when Miami beat Alabama for the NC? Seems like 'bama would be the runner up, no?
They must not force them out like Deon is doing, because they are speaking out whereas other players haven’t.So coaches do force players out
Ever? You sure about that?
As far as I know, nobody has done it quite like Sanders.....he is trying to flip an entire football roster in one year.
Can you blame him? I mean, that roster did go 1-11 after all and looked woeful in doing so. Doesn’t sound like a good wagon to hitch your horses to
It's harder to convince a guy to go to Colorado instead of Georgia or Alabama than it is to convince someone to go to Jackson State over Grambling or Austin Peay.
Few and far between that I’ve heard about.
Doesn’t mean there was nothing to build on. I mean most of the players did have multiple P5 offers out of high school, they weren’t scraping the bottom of the barrel recruiting every year.
He shows no real football skills other than self promotion. Deion only cares about Deion. This will end quickly and not end well.
Fair enough. And it was likely a product of coaching more than the players themselves. Problem is, can Deion even "build?" He can certainly out-recruit, and that's what he'll try to do. It's a bummer what's happening to the kids who were already there.
Deion with a cowboy hat, down jacket limping around in freezing weather looks as right as Deion coaching in Minnesota in December. He is there for one reason, to get his kid to the NFL.
"Schools like Colorado could never provide the resources or platform to make that happen."
I called then that because they would have won it if they beat ND. Whoopty doo.
I look back to when Lou Holtz came to Minnesota - we had an even worse team than Colorado's team last year. We didn't lose 41 players -- he worked with what he had and immediately started turning it around.
I’m wondering how much is intentional…..