r/CFB • u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan Auburn Tigers • Sep 02 '26
Feature Story Coach Prime's honeymoon phase is over and the luster is gone. Colorado needs to win now
https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/coach-primes-honeymoon-phase-is-over-and-the-luster-is-gone-deion-sanders-and-colorado-need-to-win-now-175749290.html541
u/No_Poet_7244 Texas Longhorns • Wisconsin Badgers Sep 02 '26
Step 1: hire someone who puts immediate success over building a lasting program
Step 2: win marginally more than you’re used to, initially.
Step 3: hype.
Step 4: foundation crumbles like everyone knew it would
“How could this possibly have happened?!”
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u/FireVanGorder Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 02 '26
I’m genuinely just kinda shocked he didn’t quit as soon as Shedeur graduated
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u/ChosenBrad22 Nebraska • Wayne State (NE) Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
I was all over this sub saying he's gone soon as Shadeur and Travis are gone. My theory was he’s going to utilize their high skill to generate enough hype to get back to Florida where he's from and coach somewhere like Florida State. I'm very surprised he's still at Colorado.
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u/joeychestnutsrectum Oregon State Beavers Sep 02 '26
Everyone thought he’d go somewhere else but he’s just not good enough to coach at places like Florida State
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u/ohverychill Purdue Boilermakers Sep 02 '26
I mean I don't think norvell is good enough to coach at places like florida state either buuuuut.....
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u/joeychestnutsrectum Oregon State Beavers Sep 02 '26
Yeah he’s getting fired for sure but he also led them to an undefeated season and had more success elsewhere before Florida state.
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u/crazy_akes Florida State • Maryland Sep 03 '26
Sanders is cheeks dude
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u/coronaviruspluslime Louisville Cardinals Sep 03 '26
He was good as a college qb. Not heisman good but the dude has talent
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u/melanctonsmith USC Trojans • Team Chaos Sep 02 '26
I mean Jimbo was good enough to coach at Florida State so … they should try it
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u/TheUltimate721 Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 03 '26
Are we sure he's good enough to coach at Colorado?
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u/Sorge74 Ohio State • Bowling Green Sep 03 '26
Honestly just assumed he'd end up at Auburn. But it appears he's not actually good enough to lead that trainwreck.
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u/Mr_sMoKe_3_MuCh Florida State Seminoles • UCLA Bruins Sep 03 '26
Have you seen our last couple of coaches?
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u/Chickenmangoboom Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Sep 03 '26
The infrastructure is there though. You gave Jimbo the tools to fleece Texas A&M so you are just one good hire away.
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u/Mr_sMoKe_3_MuCh Florida State Seminoles • UCLA Bruins Sep 03 '26
you are just one good hire away.
Apparently that's the hard part..
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u/FireVanGorder Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 03 '26
I was right there with you. I’m pretty sure he stayed just to spite me personally
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u/Darklord_Of_Bacon Colorado State • Michigan State Sep 03 '26
The team wasn’t even that good in their best year. He won 9 games against the weakest schedule Colorado has played in the last 20 years
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u/John_T_Conover Texas A&M Aggies Sep 03 '26
Thank you! I keep stressing this to people that wonder why they "dropped off" or whatever narrative they've been sold.
Going off of memory here, but I don't think Colorado under Sanders has beaten a single ranked team. And they've only beaten a few teams with so much as a winning record. Their 9 win seasons was incredibly weak and BYU shit canned them at the end of it for good reason.
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u/Ashep2 Sep 03 '26
I don't think Colorado under Sanders has beaten a single ranked team
They beat TCU in his very first game
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u/Sorge74 Ohio State • Bowling Green Sep 03 '26
Pre season rankings doing heavy lifting here
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u/catchemist117 Wisconsin Badgers • Stanford Cardinal Sep 03 '26
They lost to Stanford! Like mid 2020’s Stanford. Not the good ones of the past.
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u/John_T_Conover Texas A&M Aggies Sep 03 '26
Loved that game. Same game that Stanford reciever put up 300 yards & 3 TD's on Travis Hunter.
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u/Constant-Skill-7133 Sep 03 '26
That is also true. He went crazy hard on transfers. Even if that works, it's not something you are going to be able to replicate every year. It's like NFL teams and building through free agency.
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u/lookieherehere Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 02 '26
Same. I thought that was a certainty. I think all the media hype, doing Aflac commercials, etc had him convinced he was actually a good football coach.
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u/Vegetable-Leather-64 Sep 03 '26
I think a lot of big schools saw the clown show he made Colorado into and said no thanks. He is the black lane kiffin without the results. If Colorado was smart they should go for Jason eck but now they will be fighting a lot of teams for him.
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u/Sexcellence Minnesota • Swarthmore Sep 03 '26
I hate to say it, but that man has wisconsin written all over him.
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u/Flx_Httr29 Wisconsin • College of the Canyons Sep 03 '26
The problem I see is that I think Fickell will buy himself another year on this weak schedule and then Eck will be somewhere else already
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u/Vegetable-Leather-64 Sep 03 '26
I think it all depends on the buy out with luke unless he completely does something we don't expect. The weak schedule helps but can hurt him. If he doesn't blow away expectations. The biggest thing with them is how will the offense look? He needs his qb to stay healthy and look like a current type of offense imo
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u/Flx_Httr29 Wisconsin • College of the Canyons Sep 03 '26
He's successfully lowered the bar that a season that would've gotten past coaches fired(7-5) will get him another year as long as one of these 7 is against Iowa or Minnesota. And then we'll get a few more seasons like that until he finally screws one up again, we go 4-8 and he gets canned
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u/plutoisaplanet21 Michigan Wolverines Sep 03 '26
He is worse than lane kiffin in almost every single way
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u/CountTakesh1 Iowa Hawkeyes Sep 02 '26
Dont forget retire sons number
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u/Redeem123 Team Chaos • Texas Longhorns Sep 02 '26
I genuinely think this is the most embarrassing thing related to a number that a program has ever done. And that includes A&M’s 20XX plaque.
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u/hitokirizac Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Texas Longhorns Sep 03 '26
What do you think would be, say, #5 on such a list?
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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt Sep 02 '26
Step 2: win marginally more than you’re used to, initially.
Everyone pointed out the huge improvement over 2022's 1-11 team, and yes, Karl Dorrell is a terrible coach.
But that schedule was absolutely brutal.
13-2 TCU
10-3 Air Force
9-4 Minnesota
9-4 UCLA
5-7 Arizona
4-8 Cal (only win)
10-3 Oregon State
1-9 ASU
10-3 Oregon
11-3 USC
11-2 Washington
10-4 Utah
There were three decently winnable games in there for a program that, between 2006-2025, has had 2 seasons with 7 or more wins.
For comparison, in 2023 Deion faced: 5-7 TCU (W), 5-7 Nebraska (W), 5-7 CSU (W), 12-2 Oregon, 8-5 USC, 3-9 ASU (W), 3-9 Stanford, 8-5 UCLA, 10-3 Arizona, 5-7 Wazzu, 8-5 Utah.
In 2024: 14-2 FCS NDSU (W), 7-6 Nebraska, 8-5 CSU (W), 8-5 Baylor (W), 4-8 UCF (W), 9-4 KState, 4-8 Arizona (W), 5-7 Cincy (W), 8-5 Texas Tech (W), 5-7 Utah (W), 5-7 Kansas, 3-9 OKST (W), bowl game: 11-2 BYU
And 2025: 9-4 GT, 7-6 Delaware (W), 10-3 Houston, 4-8 Wyoming (W), 12-2 BYU, 9-4 TCU, 8-4 Iowa State (W), 11-2 Utah, 9-4 Arizona, 4-8 WVU, 8-5 ASU, 6-6 KState.
So even in a season with a Heisman winner, they only had 2 wins over FBS teams with a winning record - and those would've been the 10th worst teams, by record, on that 2022 schedule.
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u/Inevitable_Catch_566 Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 03 '26
I’ll always remember that 29 point blown lead against Stanford.
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u/onrocketfalls Florida Gators • Sickos Sep 03 '26
Same. You mentioning it inspired me to see what Ayomanor is up to nowadays and I am quite pleased to report that he is still with the Titans.
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u/Middle-King Colorado Buffaloes Sep 02 '26
But wins are only part of the equation. After Dorrell’s disastrous last season a lot of big donors were going to pull funding from the athletic department.
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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt Sep 02 '26
Is paying Deion $10M and funneling money to his brands and kids, in exchange for going 16-21, the solution to that?
The guy who made the disastrous Dorrell hire is the same one those donors trusted with hiring Deion. And yes, Dorrell was a terrible hire - he got fired at his last HC position, and Vandy fired him after just 1 year as OC.
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u/Middle-King Colorado Buffaloes Sep 02 '26
Look I’m not saying Deion is a good coach I’m just explaining that financially speaking (yes even including the $10M salary) the program is better off now than after Dorrell
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u/wareagle2009-20013 Auburn Tigers Sep 03 '26
Helps that the media is constantly pumping sunshine about Colorado.
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u/baba_booey420_ Colorado Buffaloes • Big 8 Sep 03 '26
We've gotten more national exposure in the past 3 seasons than in the prior 30 years combined. The poster who said that the W/Ls were only part of the equation was right...our whole AD seemed to be on the verge of total implosion ($$$) before Sanders came to Boulder.
The national exposure has translated to record applications to the university as well. The whole university and city of Boulder have benefited from having him here.
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u/Dijohn17 NC State Wolfpack • Howard Bison Sep 03 '26
Yes actually. When you're at rock bottom you just need something positive. Deion created momentum for the program, got donors inspired, got students inspired to go to games, increased interest from recruits. Now if Deion leaves or gets fired they have something to build off of, as opposed to just staying dead with no donor or alumni interest
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u/Ok-Measurement1506 LSU Tigers • Alcorn State Braves Sep 03 '26
The argument that we were 1 game a season now we are winning 4 never sat right with me.
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u/arb0531 Sep 03 '26
To be fair, last year he dealt with major personal health issues and beat cancer, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Like facilities had to set up a dedicated porta potty on the field at Folsom for him because of he had his bladder removed.
I don’t think we will be good this year, but right now Colorado’s 2027 class is ranked 30th nationally, so he’s still doing a decent job bringing in talent.
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u/onrocketfalls Florida Gators • Sickos Sep 03 '26
Damn. My dad had to have his bladder removed due to cancer and suddenly Deion is much more relatable to me.
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u/arb0531 Sep 03 '26
Yeah regardless of how you think of Deion as a person, dealing with that type of adversity in the public eye is rough. Fortunately he beat the cancer and looks to be a lot healthier and happier this year. Hopefully that translates to additional on field success for him and the team.
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u/GridironFilmJunkie Sacramento State • Great West Sep 03 '26
Ironically Kansas football is doing this exact run at the same exact time. My whole family loves Kansas athletics, and even they have begun to see the end of Lance if they aren’t bowl eligible at minimum. Losing every close game you play during the 4th quarter means nothing. 2-10 or 1-11 is functionally identical to 5-7. It’s unacceptable when you’re spending nearly $100 million a season on the entire football program including their facilities at the current spending threshold. You could spend 1/5th of that and get identical results.
Just winning more than 3 games is no longer acceptable.
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u/I_wanna_ask Colorado Buffaloes • Dartmouth Big Green Sep 03 '26
I haven’t met a CU fan who feels Deion has been a waste.
Again, we were in the shitter for decades before this.
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u/breakwater UCLA Bruins • Chapman Panthers Sep 03 '26
And people thought he was going to bolt to the NFL. Based on what?
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u/Alternative-Target31 Memphis Tigers • SMU Mustangs Sep 03 '26
As a Memphis Tigers basketball fan, this hits very hard.
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u/Rhizical Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Sep 02 '26
as long as they wait till next week to start winning it’s all good with me
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u/KansasEF5Tornado Kansas State Wildcats • Paper Bag Sep 02 '26
No they got to wait till after Halloween
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u/BlazinAzn38 Arizona Wildcats • Colorado State Rams Sep 02 '26
What about waiting till next season?
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u/WitheredUntimely Sep 03 '26
GT needs to get its swagger back they're going to beat the brakes off these bozos cmon now
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u/LimpDisc Colorado Buffaloes Sep 02 '26
I think he has the potential to recruit well, but he’s simply not interested in putting in the work. The quick rebuild through the transfer portal was going to be okay for 1-2 years at best. He really needed to pivot towards recruiting going into the second year.
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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt Sep 02 '26
Has he still refused to do a single home visit on the recruiting trail? And when your approach to OL struggles isn't to coach up your players but to just go import more from the portal, it doesn't bode well for you player development.
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u/Quiet-Day392 California Golden Bears Sep 03 '26
Coach Prime has become an expensive hood ornament.
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u/Hossflex Michigan • Louisville Sep 02 '26
Can Colorado afford to fire him?
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u/GoRangers5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 02 '26
It would only be 47% of a Jimbo.
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u/CantaloupeCamper Minnesota • Little Brown Jug Sep 03 '26
According to this https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/colorado/news/deion-sanders-buyout-contract-details-colorado-buffaloes-coach/32c9c382699a112d82e5df1f
His buyout sits as 6m if fired this year.
Dropping fast though, 4m after Dec 31.
Having said that there’s so bunch bad data on this kind of thing on the internet I don’t know what to believe.
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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt Sep 03 '26
You can find HC contracts for most public schools online: https://cu.community.diligentoneplatform.com/document/f62f1797-c88f-4707-bf61-73fa39f1059a/
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u/notaquarterback Wyoming Cowboys • Michigan Wolverines Sep 03 '26
they would let him resign before they'd fire him.
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u/HugoStiglitz1981 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Sep 02 '26
I'm sure they will have an amazing turn around once they get rid of him.
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u/Toothlessdovahkin Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 02 '26
I was always under the impression that his time at Colorado was meant to be a flashy, attention grabbing show, with the hope that he would bring attention/resources to Colorado, especially if he won/improved the program’s national standings. He got them a Heisman Trophy, and people have been paying more attention to Colorado than in the past. Isn’t this what he was supposed to do?
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u/fcocyclone Iowa State Cyclones • Marching Band Sep 02 '26
It only works if it can then be handed off to the next guy with the program elevated
In the NIL and instant transfer era it probably just leaves the program gutted again when he's gone
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u/BuffsBourbon Colorado Buffaloes • Big 8 Sep 02 '26
Marrion, the OC, is pretty fire coach. As head coach at sac st he took them from 3-9 to 7-5. As OC at UNLV they went 9-5 then 11-3.
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u/notaquarterback Wyoming Cowboys • Michigan Wolverines Sep 03 '26
I'm sure he'd hope for a breakout and to be able to get the job of Prime leaves.
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u/2017ccb1 Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 02 '26
I mean it’s not like they can get worse than they were before he was there. Even when they suck ass after he leaves it’s still an improvement
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u/fcocyclone Iowa State Cyclones • Marching Band Sep 03 '26
I mean, they've spent a lot of money to not end up appreciably better if that's the case.
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u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy Florida State • Arizona Sep 03 '26
Having lived in Boulder, the fan engagement ramped up to an insane degree once he got hired. They absolutely are in a better spot if for no reason than it cleared away longterm fan apathy damn near instantly
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u/BobbysSmile Alabama • Alabama A&M Sep 03 '26
My family loves them, and mind you they are from Canada and football aint like that up there ya'll
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u/Lopoetve Colorado Buffaloes Sep 03 '26
Got a heisman, changed the rules on multi year contracts for coaches (we can finally have them!), changed the rules on recruiting visits (we can have them), changed the transfer rules (no more 3.3 GPA in a science, engineering, business or post grad degree), built an actual NIL program (we had pocket lint and a broken yo yo), and got people to show up.
What’s that worth to you? Cause to us, that was worth a hell of a lot. Otherwise there’s real question about why invest money at all. No one was going to take the job otherwise.
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u/_TheEldestBoy_ Mississippi State Bulldogs Sep 03 '26
Honestly without Deion bringing attention to Colorado I could easily see them being left out of the Big 12 expansion.
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u/RealignmentJunkie Northwestern Wildcats • Sickos Sep 03 '26
I don't think that would happen given the history, but if Deion brought the risk of that happening from 15% to 5% or lower that's more long term value than the vast majority of coaches bring
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u/_TheEldestBoy_ Mississippi State Bulldogs Sep 03 '26
Maybe they get included regardless because of tv market but with how bad the program was I could see the big 12 looking at someone more competitive. And even though the record hasn’t been as great, they aren’t bad. The schedule hasn’t been as friendly to them.
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u/Chip_Jelly Oregon Ducks • Pacific (OR) Boxers Sep 02 '26
He was supposed to do that for more than 1 season
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u/MadMartigans80 Michigan Wolverines Sep 02 '26
He brought his Louis Vuitton with him when he came and delivered an Alamo Bowl loss. Remember the Alamo…Bowl
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u/justchillaxalready Notre Dame • Colorado Sep 03 '26
Yes exactly. If he left today CU is in a significantly better position than they were when he started.
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u/DullCartographer7609 Virginia Tech Hokies • Pop-Tarts Bowl Sep 03 '26
Yep, he's brought significant gains to CU whether the older fans like it or not.
And he's quite genuine in person. Still a big ego, but he's got a bit of humility and humor that's hard to hate.
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u/Wide-Nerve8655 Oregon Ducks • Pac-10 Sep 02 '26
Somewhat related, I’ve never seen anything like the Sanders’ family fanboys (well I have with certain politicians, but I won’t get into that). The whole family can do no wrong. It’s really weird
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u/jhallen2260 Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 03 '26
They are the Kardashians of sports
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u/DingerSinger2016 Alabama A&M Bulldogs • UAB Blazers Sep 03 '26
Wouldn't the Kardashians be the Kardashians of sports?
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u/matlarcost Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Sep 02 '26
Another P4 team needs to play Colorado OOC week 1 to get a taste of the fanbase. You expect sports fans to be a little weird on social media, but the Sanders' fans are definitely a different kind of weird. It's not a team you want to lose to because of it lol.
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u/flying_trashcan Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Sep 02 '26
CU Twitter is… something. I was unaware of how special they are until we played them.
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u/thank_burdell Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Sep 02 '26
We have our own special fans too. Never forget the noisy contingent of GT fans that wanted Deion over Key.
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u/flying_trashcan Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Sep 03 '26
They mostly stay contained on Stingtalk though.
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u/thank_burdell Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Sep 03 '26
Based on my downvotes, at least a few found their way here.
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u/Reoblivion Ohio State Buckeyes • Mercyhurst Lakers Sep 02 '26
A lot have taken over the Browns fan base and it’s horrible. You can’t have a discussion without coming back to Shedeur is being treated unfairly.
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u/Vast_Bowl247 Mississippi State Bulldogs Sep 02 '26
They were hating on Gabriel hard after game three of the preseason.
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u/Magnus77 Nebraska • Concordia (NE) Sep 03 '26
You just don't like a confident Black man being successful.
/s in case that isn't clear.
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u/herpblarb6319 Tennessee Volunteers • Orange Bowl Sep 03 '26
I mean I'd rather him play instead of DeRapist Watson, and I'm not even a Browns fan
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u/CantaloupeCamper Minnesota • Little Brown Jug Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
It reminds me of Kobe superfans… or arbitrary Yankees fans when they were winning.
They seem to be folks who want to associate themselves with a winner above all else but don’t really know anything about the sport. They just want to roll around in ‘winning’ like a dog rolls in poop it finds.
It’s wild because they constantly demonstrate they don’t know anything but they don’t realize they’re outing themselves to everyone else and just keep going…..
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u/problematic_glasses Michigan Wolverines • NBC Sep 02 '26
it worked in cfb25, why wouldn't work in real life?
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u/No-Owl-6246 Arizona Wildcats Sep 03 '26
And the fact that the coach and quarterback are publicly shitting on their line is likely the reason they can’t bring in good linemen.
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u/Strominater Florida Gators Sep 02 '26
I hope FSU hires him
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u/jpiro Florida State Seminoles Sep 02 '26
Was never going to happen and will certainly never happen now.
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u/RevengeOfTheMothman Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 02 '26
Yeah but it would funny
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u/jpiro Florida State Seminoles Sep 02 '26
As funny as opening the Paterno Family Experience unironically?
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u/Set-Admirable West Virginia • Backyard Brawl Sep 02 '26
I think Lewis can be a good QB for them. I even like the new OC. But as long as Deion is in charge of things like time management, I doubt they're going to win too many close games going forward.
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u/jayjude Notre Dame • Georgia State Sep 02 '26
I think if Lewis shows any promise as QB this year he's gone. OSU and USC are going to need QBs next year and I promise you they'll pay more than Colorado
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u/UPMichigan83 Michigan • Michigan Tech Sep 02 '26
Was this a net gain financially, or not?
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u/Quiet-Day392 California Golden Bears Sep 03 '26
Colorado’s AD is aiming for a record $27 million deficit this year.
It’s not a gain. More of a black hole.
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u/DoubletapKO Sep 02 '26
How if they’re paying him lots of money on no results, plus his entire friends and family along.
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u/Manning_bear_pig Montana State Bobcats • Miami Hurricanes Sep 03 '26
Pretty sure their athletic department is in rough financial shape right now, among worst in the country rough.
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u/Advanced-Base-5690 Ole Miss • Mississippi Gulf… Sep 02 '26
I got GT and the points tomorrow so no. They don’t need to win yet
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u/DoggedDoggystyle Florida Gators Sep 03 '26
It’s not financially making sense. They’re in deficit. Sure, we talked about Colorado for a few years and people watched their games but I think that’s all kinda faded. Now the only rhetoric about them is how it didn’t work and “when is Deion gone” posts.
The juice isn’t worth the squeeze anymore. They took a swing and it wasn’t a home run.. also wasn’t really a strike out. They hit a single and then got thrown out at 2nd attempting to steal.
With that said, it doesn’t make sense to fire him. They’re not going to be any better. So I guess this is where they sit until Deion gets sick of it and quits.
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u/Lane8323 Sam Houston Bearkats • Texas Longhorns Sep 03 '26
At Jackson State he was just able to get better players than pretty much any other hbcu could. Once he actually had to be able to develop players to compete with the top programs he was exposed as a mediocre coach. The 9 win season seems like an anomaly now. It doesn’t even seem it’s gotten as bad as it could. This year could be rough.
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u/gettinNOIZY Sep 02 '26
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Colorado hasn’t been consistent winners since the 90s.
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u/mjxxyy8 Michigan Wolverines Sep 02 '26
They did win their division in 01, 02, 04 and 05 so you are off a few years there.
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u/fcocyclone Iowa State Cyclones • Marching Band Sep 02 '26
So much was made of him being a huge improvement over the 1-11 team the year before when they went 4-8 in year 1, ignoring that they had plenty of 4-5 win seasons over the prior decade and a 10 win season as recently as 2016, and that 4-8 was still 1-8 in conference
They got a lot of overhype off of TCU and Nebraska wins that in hindsight weren't nearly as big of a deal as people were making them
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u/gettinNOIZY Sep 02 '26
Fair enough. I just don’t usually see 2 winning seasons sandwiched in between losing ones as being consistent.
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u/loewe67 Colorado State Rams • Florida Gators Sep 03 '26
But do they?
Ignore my flair.
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u/PuzzleheadedLion2205 Colorado State Rams • Florida Gators Sep 03 '26
Coach prime to Florida state when?
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u/Perfect-Slip7041 Sep 03 '26
Y'all get down to the flats tonight, make some noise. Let's help coach prime move on...
Winnable game, at home, go GT.
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u/wrapboywrap Washington Huskies • Colorado Buffaloes Sep 02 '26
I hated Prime Time when he was a player, and I'm meh on Coach Prime, but no, he is not on the hot seat, not yet. Outside of 2016, CU was a bottom dweller the entire time they were in the PAC, and Folsom has been an absolute morgue in the 15 years leading up to his hire. Since that hire though, Folsom has been full, admissions applications are up, and the Boulder business community is thriving. Outside of living rent free in some cornhusker fans' heads, no one thought twice about CU football since the mid 2000s. That the national media--and reddit--are still talking about CU in year 4 after his hire is proof that what he's done has been successful, even if the results on the field aren't stellar.
Last year was disappointing and took some of the shine off, but the Buff fan base is pretty used to bad seasons at this point. The general consensus for this season is that the offense should be good but the defense continues to be questionable, and if Deion can get CU to a bowl game, it will be a successful year. If they win 2-3 games and Folsom revers back to half full though, his seat will heat up next season.
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u/BuffsBourbon Colorado Buffaloes • Big 8 Sep 02 '26
13-15 weren’t great, but to call it a morgue the last 15 years is wildly revisionist.
Top number is CU, bottom number is Washington. And from 11-25, with exception of 13-15, they were in the top 25 of stadium capacity in P5/4 each year.
2011
93.9%
86.2%*2012
84.6%
86.1%†2013
71.4%
97.3%2014
72.9%
92.0%2015
78.5%
84.9%2016
92.9%
92.2%2017
93.8%
98.2%2018
91.3%
98.6%2019
98.8%
97.4%2020
0.4%
0.4%2021
93.4%
87.9%2022
85.4%
89.8%2023
106.0%
98.1%2024
104.6%
97.9%2025
100.6%
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u/PointBlankCoffee Texas Longhorns • Paper Bag Sep 02 '26
Its a terrible program, that actually has excitement around it for the first time in a long time.
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u/Bu5hdid9l1 Georgia Bulldogs Sep 02 '26
If he were at a serious football school he would have been fired already. I honestly feel bad for Colorado fans. That kinda truth must hurt.
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u/Lopoetve Colorado Buffaloes Sep 02 '26
Actually no. We had two goals- fix the bullshit self imposed sanctions we had for nearly 20 years. Be entertaining. He did both. We’d love to win now and see if he can sustain, but he did the job we needed.
We literally were allowed two multi year contracts before this for coaches. The head and one assistant.
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u/Particular-Way-3805 Clark Atlanta • Georgia Sep 03 '26
I think this is deions make or break season if Colorado don’t go to a bowl game then he’ll be fired but if Colorado makes one then his job is safe but idek if Colorado will keep him if they even make a bowl but who knows
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u/BigAcanthocephala637 Sep 03 '26
Deion’s head coaching career is aging like milk. It was never about his ability as a coach. His usefulness was to use his popularity to get attention on his son and himself. He should’ve left for health reasons as soon as Travis and Shaduer went to the league. Irresponsible to pocket colorados money with what he’s doing to the program. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, he’s going to leave the buffaloes worse than he got them
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u/KingofPro South Carolina Gamecocks Sep 02 '26
He should have really talked Jerry Jones into hiring him
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u/Famous-Flow2333 Sep 02 '26
Pretty sure they’re happy to be in the BIg12 over the PAC now.
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u/Appropriate_Bottle44 Michigan Wolverines Sep 02 '26
I think there's more pressure on him because he creates his own media circus, but 3 wins at Colorado isn't exactly abnormal. If he wasn't such a distraction I think he wouldn't be on the hot seat till next year.
Having a big personality/ mouth means the knives come out a little quicker
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u/worm30478 Sep 02 '26
Remember when all the talking heads were hyping him as the next NFL coach and how he should take the cowboys job? Peppridge farm remembers.
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u/PigFarmer1 Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 03 '26
I was hoping he'd coach the Cowboys or FSU. lol
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u/worm30478 Sep 03 '26
FSU was the next logical step if the wheels didn't fall off. But it was only for like the first 5 games of that season where he somewhat looked legit. Then the wheels immediately fell off.
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u/CantaloupeCamper Minnesota • Little Brown Jug Sep 03 '26
It’s Colorado… winning “now” isn’t some magic you just deploy, for anyone.
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u/Aurion7 North Carolina Tar Heels Sep 03 '26
This exact same article was written two years ago.
It's less crazed now, at least. But damn, people are really trying to find that infinite click glitch again.
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u/EddieDantes22 Florida State Seminoles Sep 03 '26
Legitimately think he could go on a run if the go-go offense is as innovative as it's been hyped up to be.
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u/toomuchfrosting Cincinnati • Ohio State Sep 03 '26
It’s not going to happen, the players are too skinny. It was worth the experiment though
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u/Howhytzzerr Georgia Bulldogs Sep 03 '26
Honeymoon phase has been going on this whole time? No bro, the honeymoon phase was over after the second year, last year was the let's see what he can really do now, and this year it's win now or see ya later. His antics only go so far.
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u/Riker_Omega_Three Ole Miss • Northwest Missis… Sep 03 '26
Prime ain't a good coach
He's not a program builder
He only got involved in coaching because nobody else would put up with his kids and he knew if either of them had any shot of getting to play professionally, he had to be the one controlling the narrative
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u/Prestigious-Elk6959 Sep 03 '26
I wish we could have honest conversations about Prime at CU. He has had fucked up growing pains but he's done a lot with some bare ass cupboards. Imo his honeymoon phase ended year 1, year 2 was a slight outlier and this past year he had higher expectations and didn't live up to it. But they also have a ton of new funding and energy they didn't have the past few seasons. Imo he brings them more than they gave him and that alone will probably get him way more time than many realize. Especially considering this year he's assembled a very good staff built off some good hires last year.
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u/Waldorama Sep 03 '26
Prime is getting out-clowned by Lane Kiffin at the moment. But give him time. He’s a competitor.
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u/GoGreeb Michigan State • Virginia Tech Sep 03 '26
As someone who went to CU for grad school, I don't think he does. There's essentially no expectations for CU football, and Deion has done well relative to CU since like 2000.
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u/JLand24 Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 02 '26
I just have to roll my eyes at articles like this. It’s bad enough when it’s someone like Deboer they write something similar about. But, Prime inherited a program that has been irrelevant for 30 years and took them to a tie for first in the B12 in year 2, has a down year, now all of a sudden “needs to win now”. He’s given that program more success in 3 years than their entire student body has seen in their lives.
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u/voodoohounds Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 02 '26
He’s making 10 million a year and not getting 10 million a year results. If they finish with 3 or 4 wins again this year, that will have been the result for 3 out of the 4 seasons with Deion. That’s not substantially better than they were in the decade plus leading up to Deion. If that’s the case, he is not creating a foundation to build upon. CU is not getting a cut of Deion’s endorsement revenue. And you don’t look good by association when your association consists of losing football.
But win 6 games, get to a bowl, and he can carry on.
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u/jayjude Notre Dame • Georgia State Sep 02 '26
You do know that Sanders doesn't even have Colorados best season of the last 10 years right? In a comically better Pac-12 than the Big 12 in 2016 Colorado played in the Pac-12 title game
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u/RheagarTargaryen Michigan State Spartans Sep 02 '26
He needs to prove that he has a sustainable model though. He had a generational player in Travis Hunter for those 2 years and he had his kid playing QB. Hunter and Sanders are gone and he has to show that he can still win football games without them.
The big boys have all caught up to the NIL and transfer portal era and have completely nullified his recruiting advantage. CU risks sputtering out and being in a position where they’re going nowhere fast if he isn’t able to build on the success of the 2024 season. Another bad year this year and they’ll be heading in the wrong direction with no clear path to get back to the level they were at in 2024.
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u/puzzical Boise State • Notre Dame Sep 02 '26
Prime's problem is he hasn't raised the floor or ceiling of the program. In the 10 seasons before Prime Colorado won at least 4 games in 8 of them. He failed to hit that mark in year 3 so that should be quite concerning to Colorado fans. Yeah Prime gave them their second best season as far as wins go in the last decade but he also gave them their second worst season as far wins go in the last decade.
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u/Money-Giraffe2521 Arizona Wildcats • Territorial Cup Sep 02 '26
He’s only beaten three P4 teams with winning records and got absolutely boatraced in his one bowl game.
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u/RampageTaco Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Sep 02 '26
You aren't Piano_Fingerbanger.