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Posted: Sep 17, 2023 - 8:55am

 Coaxial wrote:
The Colorado State coaches a dirty brand of football. So many illegal plays that seemed to try to injure...Dirt, just plain dirty.
{#Snooty}

Didn’t their coach throw shade on Deion Sanders?  How’d that work out?  

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Posted: Sep 17, 2023 - 6:19am

The Colorado State coaches a dirty brand of football. So many illegal plays that seemed to try to injure...Dirt, just plain dirty.{#Snooty}
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Posted: Sep 4, 2023 - 5:53am

 steeler wrote:
 Coaxial wrote:

He brought players that wanted to play for him. He inherited a group that had little to no talent and he had no reason to keep the low performers. I see no reason to condemn him for his use of the portal to build his team around the three players that remained from last years Colorado team.  

Condemn is a little strong; I would say I question how this was done. For example, telling players to leave and then labeling them as quitters bothers me. Prime is about his brand and, yes, about winning. He has quickly turned the team around, as we saw yesterday against TCU. An impressive win.
 
Sorry, maybe chastised would be a better word. He did what he had to do and we will never see it happen like that again. I don't think their will ever be a need to do it again. X amount of those players didn't want to put in the work and left. Maybe they couldn't take orders from a man like Prime...We just don't know...I know this though, he cut out the cancer that lost eleven of twelve game last year and transplanted it with a group who all gave him 110% and my hats off to him.{#Meditate}
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Posted: Sep 3, 2023 - 3:57pm

My initial thought on a prophylactic measure is for there to be a maximum number of portal transfers one college can bring in per year/season.

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Posted: Sep 3, 2023 - 12:51pm

 steeler wrote:

That is how I see it. I think it is an apt description.


I take issue with folks trying to tear the man down… I certainly couldn’t argue with someone who’s had the success he’s had in sports and life. If you followed sanders since Jackson st, building player’s abilities and individual character has been central to his messaging.  
as for turning these amateurs into a business, that’s been evident for decades…mixed feelings but agree they should be able to monetize their own image …but much against  schools paying any athletes 


black321

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Posted: Sep 3, 2023 - 12:51pm

 steeler wrote:

That is how I see it. I think it is an apt description.


I take issue with folks trying to tear the man down… I certainly couldn’t argue with someone who’s had the success he’s had in sports and life. If you followed sanders since Jackson st, building player’s abilities and individual character has been central to his messaging.  
as for turning these amateurs into a business, that’s been evident for decades…mixed feelings but agree they should be able to monetize their own image …but much against  schools paying any athletes 


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Posted: Sep 3, 2023 - 11:25am

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He may not have used those words...but that's exactly what he said when he was hired.


That is how I see it. I think it is an apt description.


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Posted: Sep 3, 2023 - 11:22am

 steeler wrote:
By the way, I used the phrase about not letting the door hit you in the ass on the way out to describe the situation as it appeared to me. I never said that he had said that. I put quotes around statements he has made.

He may not have used those words...but that's exactly what he said when he was hired.

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Posted: Sep 3, 2023 - 10:33am

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Do you not like Sanders because he said don’t let the door hit u on the ass(which he didn’t), or because they quit (which some did), or because he used the portal system to replace players he didn’t think were up to his standards and others who quit, and rebuild a team that was 1-11, not to mention had been underperforming for a decade plus… which he was hired to do? 

Ps what I do like about Sanders is his ability not only to rebuild a program but also build young players, most of whom won’t make it to the pros, to be successful adults.  




I do not dislike Deion Sanders (in fact, I have followed his career starting with his time at Florida State). I have stated a few times now that I questioned what he did and how he did it. I especially do not think he needed to be as publicly vocal about getting rid of players so he can bring new ones in (“No way that I can put new furniture in this beautiful home if we don’t clean out the old furniture."). He made it known to the old players on Day One that they should be looking to enter the transfer portal and he did so, by his own admission, to open up as many scholarships as possible to be able to bring in new and better players. Not a surprise, then, that so many players chose to leave the program.

Curious as to what you are basing your statement that he works to â€œbuild young players . . . to be successful adults?” Not saying he hasn’t done that; I really do not know. I do think he showed some unnecessary disrespect for the Colorado players that were encouraged to leave the program,. It does appear to me that his public statements inescapably branded the ousted players as losers. Did not Colorado and Sanders owe them more than that? In this regard, I echo rgio’s comments. These are student-athletes (supposedly). To me, this underscores that winning is all that matters.

By the way, I used the phrase about not letting the door hit you in the ass on the way out to describe the situation as it appeared to me. I never said that he had said that. I put quotes around statements he has made.

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Posted: Sep 3, 2023 - 9:09am

 black321 wrote:
Ps what I do like about Sanders is his ability not only to rebuild a program but also build young players, most of whom won’t make it to the pros, to be successful adults. 

He could have done that for last year's players as well. 

It's about winning.  In order to rebuild, you first have to tear down.  That involves the same number of lives, who had committed to CU only to have them turn on them. 

So much for amateur athletics.


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Posted: Sep 3, 2023 - 8:56am

 steeler wrote:

Condemn is a little strong; I would say I question how this was done. For example, telling players to leave and then labeling them as quitters bothers me.

Prime is about his brand and, yes, about winning. He has quickly turned the team around, as we saw yesterday against TCU. An impressive win.




Do you not like Sanders because he said don’t let the door hit u on the ass(which he didn’t), or because they quit (which some did), or because he used the portal system to replace players he didn’t think were up to his standards and others who quit, and rebuild a team that was 1-11, not to mention had been underperforming for a decade plus… which he was hired to do? 

Ps what I do like about Sanders is his ability not only to rebuild a program but also build young players, most of whom won’t make it to the pros, to be successful adults.  



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Posted: Sep 3, 2023 - 5:32am

 Coaxial wrote:

He brought players that wanted to play for him. He inherited a group that had little to no talent and he had no reason to keep the low performers. I see no reason to condemn him for his use of the portal to build his team around the three players that remained from last years Colorado team.  

Condemn is a little strong; I would say I question how this was done. For example, telling players to leave and then labeling them as quitters bothers me.

Prime is about his brand and, yes, about winning. He has quickly turned the team around, as we saw yesterday against TCU. An impressive win.



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Posted: Sep 3, 2023 - 5:09am

 steeler wrote:
 black321 wrote:

Referring to “some” of the players back in Dec, he said he’s bringing his own luggage…you can jump in the portal and see what you can get.  Addressing a team that was 1-11 and saying I’m coming and building a winning environment, how could you not expect a significant # would be gone?  Many were asked to leave and many left on their own. 

“I’m coming. And when I get there, it’s gonna be changed, so I want y’all to get ready to go ahead and jump in that portal and do whatever you’re gonna get because the more of you jump into (the portal), the more room you make because we bring kids that are smart, tough.” The message was clear. Only 10 scholarship players from last season remain. 46 transfers into the program. Speaks for itself, I think. One could argue it was meant to be motivational, but those numbers belie that as do subsequent statements from Deion that he talked with 20 players about it being best for them to transfer and the others “quit.”  The turnover was unprecedented even in this transfer portal era.
 
He brought players that wanted to play for him. He inherited a group that had little to no talent and he had no reason to keep the low performers. I see no reason to condemn him for his use of the portal to build his team around the three players that remained from last years Colorado team.  
steeler

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Posted: Sep 3, 2023 - 4:52am

 black321 wrote:

Referring to “some” of the players back in Dec, he said he’s bringing his own luggage…you can jump in the portal and see what you can get.  Addressing a team that was 1-11 and saying I’m coming and building a winning environment, how could you not expect a significant # would be gone?  Many were asked to leave and many left on their own. 


“I’m coming. And when I get there, it’s gonna be changed, so I want y’all to get ready to go ahead and jump in that portal and do whatever you’re gonna get because the more of you jump into (the portal), the more room you make because we bring kids that are smart, tough.”

The message was clear. Only 10 scholarship players from last season remain. 46 transfers into the program. Speaks for itself, I think. One could argue it was meant to be motivational, but those numbers belie that as do subsequent statements from Deion that he talked with 20-some players about it being best for them to transfer and the others “quit.” 

The turnover was unprecedented even in this transfer portal era.


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Posted: Sep 2, 2023 - 6:07pm

Why do they call it a horse collar tackle? I would think it would be really hard (impossible) to tackle a horse. Why not say dog collar tackle? I can see that.

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Posted: Sep 2, 2023 - 5:44pm

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Ah...not even close.  It's an entirely new team. 

From ESPN 3 days ago....

When the Buffaloes take the field in Fort Worth, Texas, against No. 17 TCU on Saturday (noon ET, Fox), the only resemblance to last year's team will be the uniforms. Only 10 scholarship players from the 2022 roster remain with the team. The team's 86 new players come from all over — from high school to junior college to the SEC — including nine who followed Sanders from Jackson State, led by Shedeur Sanders, Deion's son and CU's starting QB, and Travis Hunter, the No. 2 overall recruit in the 2022 class. According to ESPN Stats & Information data, it's the most incoming players to an FBS roster since the inception of the transfer portal in 2018.

Link to story

As for the "don't let the door hit you in the ass" comments.  He literally said the day he took over that he was going to dump most of the players.  It's a whole new team.


Referring to “some” of the players back in Dec, he said he’s bringing his own luggage…you can jump in the portal and see what you can get.  Addressing a team that was 1-11 and saying I’m coming and building a winning environment, how could you not expect a significant # would be gone?  Many were asked to leave and many left on their own. 

black321

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Posted: Sep 2, 2023 - 5:44pm

 rgio wrote:

Ah...not even close.  It's an entirely new team. 

From ESPN 3 days ago....

When the Buffaloes take the field in Fort Worth, Texas, against No. 17 TCU on Saturday (noon ET, Fox), the only resemblance to last year's team will be the uniforms. Only 10 scholarship players from the 2022 roster remain with the team. The team's 86 new players come from all over — from high school to junior college to the SEC — including nine who followed Sanders from Jackson State, led by Shedeur Sanders, Deion's son and CU's starting QB, and Travis Hunter, the No. 2 overall recruit in the 2022 class. According to ESPN Stats & Information data, it's the most incoming players to an FBS roster since the inception of the transfer portal in 2018.

Link to story

As for the "don't let the door hit you in the ass" comments.  He literally said the day he took over that he was going to dump most of the players.  It's a whole new team.


Referring to “some” of the players back in Dec, he said he’s bringing his own luggage…you can jump in the portal and see what you can get.  Addressing a team that was 1-11 and saying I’m coming and building a winning environment, how could you not expect a significant # would be gone?  Many were asked to leave and many left on their own. 

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Posted: Sep 2, 2023 - 5:38pm

 rgio wrote:
 Coaxial wrote:

He got the group that went 1-11 that year
...My hats off to him and that kid that played every play practically was amazing. {#Eek}

Ah...not even close.  It's an entirely new team.  From ESPN 3 days ago.... When the Buffaloes take the field in Fort Worth, Texas, against No. 17 TCU on Saturday (noon ET, Fox), the only resemblance to last year's team will be the uniforms. Only 10 scholarship players from the 2022 roster remain with the team. The team's 86 new players come from all over — from high school to junior college to the SEC — including nine who followed Sanders from Jackson State, led by Shedeur Sanders, Deion's son and CU's starting QB, and Travis Hunter, the No. 2 overall recruit in the 2022 class. According to ESPN Stats & Information data, it's the most incoming players to an FBS roster since the inception of the transfer portal in 2018. Link to story As for the "don't let the door hit you in the ass" comments.  He literally said the day he took over that he was going to dump most of the players.  It's a whole new team.
 
What I meant was they sucked and good riddance.{#Lol}
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Posted: Sep 2, 2023 - 5:29pm

 Coaxial wrote:

He got the group that went 1-11 that year
...My hats off to him and that kid that played every play practically was amazing. 
{#Eek}

Ah...not even close.  It's an entirely new team. 

From ESPN 3 days ago....

When the Buffaloes take the field in Fort Worth, Texas, against No. 17 TCU on Saturday (noon ET, Fox), the only resemblance to last year's team will be the uniforms. Only 10 scholarship players from the 2022 roster remain with the team. The team's 86 new players come from all over — from high school to junior college to the SEC — including nine who followed Sanders from Jackson State, led by Shedeur Sanders, Deion's son and CU's starting QB, and Travis Hunter, the No. 2 overall recruit in the 2022 class. According to ESPN Stats & Information data, it's the most incoming players to an FBS roster since the inception of the transfer portal in 2018.

Link to story

As for the "don't let the door hit you in the ass" comments.  He literally said the day he took over that he was going to dump most of the players.  It's a whole new team.

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Posted: Sep 2, 2023 - 5:23pm

 steeler wrote:
Prime backs up all the talk. Kind of hate to see it, though. What he did and how he did it — telling players not to let the door hit you in the ass on the way out — could not have been done in the days before the transfer portal.
 
He got the group that went 1-11 that year...My hats off to him and that kid that played every play practically was amazing. {#Eek}
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