Colorado has to know (and have known) that Prime was/is never going to spend the rest of his career there. He's quite obviously using them.
It's just a place that gave him a step-up from HBCU, to see if his ideas and ways of doing things could work in the P5. He'll either have success, and then move on somewhere bigger, or flame out.
Just somewhat a "shame" that they're letting their school name/reputation get attached to some of these shenanigan type things going on, for the sake of (hoping to) winning.
Hope they get something out of it.