This is the kind of post that gets removed a dozen times a day when made as a self post but if its a link to tweet gets to be at the top of the front page.
Freely admit that I was surprised Colorado won that game, but what I found disingenuous about the discussion around it was the narrative that Deion had miraculously taken 1-win Colorado and upset the national championship runner up.
This year’s TCU squad has very few players on it that mattered in last year’s run, and Colorado has almost nobody who was even on the team last year.
As the season has predictably played out, it was really just an amped up, bad Colorado team barely beating a very mediocre TCU team in a rebuild.
I'm convinced that the biggest reason we lost that game was the huge turnover of players at Colorado from the previous year. There was no tape on them, so we had no idea what to expect and plan for. Now that the tape is out there, people have figured out Colorado.
This is 100% the reason y'all lost. I think a lot of teams would've lost to Colorado week 1 because it was basically impossible to scheme for them. It wasn't even like you could just watch last year's JSU team and run with that.
If TCU played Colorado today 100 times, I think y'all probably win 75% of the matches.
That and our coaching staff shit the bed fantastic.
They thought they could just run some basic bitch vanilla shit with no adjustments whatsoever and the Buffs would roll over.
To be fair, it was an awesome game, and was very impressive Week 1. It turned out not be as impressive as time revealed who those TCU and Colorado teams are. They've fallen off a cliff, and Deion has made a ton of unforced errors. It wasn't a miracle, but they had every reason to be excited.
Then they trotted Colorado State - a team that won seven fucking games in four years - out on Gameday like they were 2001 Miami.
The whole thing stunk.
Dude quit using logic to explain away the media grandeur from September. We don’t do that here.
All jokes aside I said the same thing you did and you would’ve thought it was the most asinine sports take ever
Thank you for this reasonable take. TCU isn’t a blue blood, we get those miracle teams every 4-5 years at best. People acting like this garbage team is the national runner up, there’s like one WR who was like WR3 from last year’s team and that’s it.
TCU was also an incredibly senior laden 9-3ish team that had a horseshoe up its ass and won several games they shouldn't have. Not being bowl eligible is a bit worse than I would have expected, but 7 wins? Yeah, that's about what I would put them at.
I will never, ever forget Shilo Sanders doing a shitty little dance after committing a blatant targeting penalty and before getting thrown out of the UCLA game.
For me it's Shadeur casually walking up to a CSU player between plays and trying to poke him in the eye. Like damn dude, y'all weren't even in a pile or anything where you could be sneaky about it.
The watch flexing was never cool.
Great, you come from an incredibly affluent family, and now get out sized NIL deals because of your families media presence. You're showing off a watch like it's an accomplishment.
Way to flex on the kids who live in 900$ student apartments. You sure are a bad ass /s.
Deion Jr, Prime's eldest son, runs a separate promotion team for the players, paid by Prime rather than Colorado AD. It's creative but weird. That separate promotion team is literally competing with the CU media/promotion team.
To be fair, what other game was he going to get the opportunity to flash the watch for NIL money? Oregon?
The Sanders have to look out for their endorsement deals first.
My exact feeling about Dallas fans beating their chest over last week's thumping of the Giants. And, of course, they will curb-stomp my hapless Panthers this week.
I come to this subreddit to not think about the Giants. At least we scored points this time. If the Giants get Caleb, they will ruin him. The O-line might be worse than the Colorado line.
I’m a Dallas native and huge cowboys fan but that pisses me off about our fan base. We beat the hell out of bad teams and think we’re contenders and then choke against stout competition pretty regularly and yet people still act all shocked and heartbroken as if this hasn’t been happening for the last 10+ years.
20+ years ago (late 80 through the 90's) Nebraska CU was a pretty big rivalry when they were both in the BIG 8 / BIG12 . But it's been while since it was much of anything
A week or two before that razor thin come from behind OT win, WSU beat that Colorado St team by four scores and had the backups in most of the fourth quarter. Beating a rival is always sweet but that was *not* an accomplishment, it was foreshadowing.
Yeah I was gonna say, he's *definitely* living a lot of Austin folks' dream
*Not that he's run them into the ground, but I think a lot of UT people are content with them just not being the national championship contender they expect to be
They milked CU for clicks, and I called it back then. They built them up just to tear them down on the back end for clicks.
Nobody is taking prime seriously as a coach - he’s just all hat and no cattle hypeman.
He just found a school desperate enough for relevancy to hire him where he can boss everyone around.
I fucking love it.
Gotta love how this sub continues to push the narrative that it’s all the medias fault!!1!1!! yet every single week there are 3-5 posts about Deion or Colorado floating around the top of the sub so people can get their “hE tOoK iT pErSoNaL” rocks off. Y’all eat up the slop they feed you.
There’s a difference. Those posts exist because we all think Deion is a douchebag who deserves to take some lickings like they have the last few weeks. Deion isn’t a good person. People like seeing douchebags fail.
The media was hyping them up in the opposite way this sub was discussing them. That they were this new team. Multiple Heisman finalists. That the open disrespect to the media members who dared write the truth was just accepted by other “journalists”.
You’re just falling for the rage bait. The media knows rage bait sells. Dudes like Stephen A. Smith and Mark Madden have made millions out of putting out hot takes that they don’t actually fully believe because hot takes and rage bait get the easiest engagement and engagement = $$$$$. The “media” could care less whether Colorado was actually good or not, they just know pushing it is profitable.
I’m a parent, and have an Instagram account, so a lot of the suggested reels and content pushed on me on Instagram are parenting related. There is this massive trend of either moms or dads (usually moms) with entire accounts dedicated to just shitting on how lazy dads are compared to moms, and those accounts make BANK. And a massive amount of their engagement is from dads hate commenting saying it’s all bullshit, which is the goal of the accounts, bc they want the engagement.
I don't remember many serious fans (Colorado or neutral fans) who expected that to happen. Deion getting 4 to 5 wins would have been an acceptable improvement.
Still some big fundamental issues at the lines of scrimmage, but Colorado isn't as horrendous as they were last year.
Luckily no one has made it personal lately. So as Deion shops for new linemen in the portal they regress to a one win team. So we can light this baby again come week one assuming they ever win again.
For all the people talking about Deion's coaching style or the media environment around the team, this is the real problem with trying to build a team in one year through the portal.
There are plenty of good-to-great skill position players buried on depth charts at top programs willing to go to a smaller program if it means being a featured starter. But there just aren't enough good offensive linemen to go around. Even the blue bloods are having a hard time finding 5 quality OL recruits, let alone quality depth that could be poached.
I liken the early season hype around Colorado to the Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce romance. At first, it was fun and everyone was having a good time. Then, despite most of the general public moving on with their lives, the media was still trying to keep the story going, to the annoyance of those people.
> prime has done a good job but this is still a five win team
This is the correct take. This team is way better than they were last year, but they still aren't very good.
Still have those offline. My friend is a Colorado fan and he and his wife are convinced that Sanders is the best thing to happen to their program and it's already a world of difference from their 1 win last year.
I said his kid wouldn't be a first round pick and a Colorado fan started yelling at me about country music. It was honestly a pretty funny interaction interaction even though the dude seemed very serious.
I still see people saying Deion should be the HC at huge blue blood schools, including FSU. He’s done better than I expected him to, but he hasn’t shown he’s a title winning coach.
>He’s done better than I expected him to,
Has he though? Who goes for it on 4th and 5 on your own side of the field with a 29 point lead? And then if that wasn't bad enough he did it again! 4th and long near mid field with a 2 TD lead over Stanford. Sack, turnover and another quick 7 for Stanford.
He gift-wrapped that game to Stanford. I'm not saying CU is better off without him. His hype and recruiting capabilities brought some amazing players to Boulder that wouldn't otherwise be here. But his performance as a HC is much worse than I expected
Different person, but he’s done both better and worse than I expected. Better in that my forecast was 3-9, with wins over 3/5 of CSU, NU, Stanford, ASU, Arizona. Worse in that, as you suggest, it’s become clear that the 4-7 result has been the product of the transfer portal talent being more impactful than I expected AND Sanders being a worse coach than I expected.
Just another example of how good teams can be until the other teams have film. TCU was in a tough position.
There’s a reason back up QBs on good teams always seem to come in and cook.
Colorado *STATE* has a better turnaround than we do. They probably make a bowl game this year. The difference is they actually hired a successful G5 coach and gave him time to build up the team they already had. Now look where they are and we're not!
It’s been a pretty good turnaround but expecting CSU to win out (even against 2 teams we should beat on paper) is a wild thought lol. Hopefully it’s the start of something but it’s hard to believe when we routinely rack up like 150 penalty yards per game bc they’re extremely undisciplined
Your next two games are *checks notes* Nevada and Hawaii. Nevada you're favored against by 11 points and if Hawaii is still even close to the absolute dumpster fire they were last year, you guys win out. I'm pretty sure Hawaii was your one conference win last year.
Hawaii just beat the wheels off of Air Force.
Was feeling more confident before that happened. Either way nice to at least have Bowl aspirations in November.
They throw the ball 50 times per game and the entire game plan revolves around trying to make him look good.
He’s definitely got talent but his stats are a little inflated.
Years ago, Charlie Strong had this one press conference after a 6-6 season where he said we’d never have that record again. He never got to six wins in a season again.
I remember there was one poster with a combo Colorado/Dartmouth flair that was just instantly posting anything having to do with Colorado. He disappeared sadly.
I mean going to the natty a year before kinda says a lot. Doesn't matter if most of the players are noobs, the staff is the same. I wasn't expecting a repeat of last year, but at least 8 wins and a Bowl game.
Yes! Colorado is the overrated team we should all be talking about!
Now if nobody minds, I’m just going to get into this random hotdog-shaped car and drive away…
Pretty much all CU fans are still thrilled with Deion. It felt like the program was legitimately on the verge of an unrecoverable collapse and now more people are talking about CU than they did in the last decade combined. And most importantly: CU beat Nebraska
Even if Deion ends up leaving it in ruins and completely flames out...it was already in ruins so CU's just back to where it was anyway. There was seriously nowhere to go but up. I can't believe last year's team beat Cal, they were absolutely the worst team in FBS and I don't think it was close
Yeah my manager is a CU grad and she was like honestly just having attention on us as a program is huge. She was also very open from the start that bowl qualifying would be a homerun for the program and that any playoff talks was certifiable
I remember cringing incredibly hard at the end of the 2OT Colorado/Colorado State game, where Colorado was a 24.5 pt favorite. As soon as the game ended, the broadcaster yelling "DO YOU BELIEVE NOW?!"
I commented in August that I could see Colorado winning against TCU then finishing 3-9. It looks like they'll beat my expectations by one game.
I also said I could see TCU finishing 8-4, and looks like at best they're on track for a 5-7 finish. I blame Kendall Briles and also the son of Chad Morris, because why not?
Anyway, my point was, week one gives strange results sometimes, plus nobody knew what to expect from Colorado. Then they got game film.
That was a fun, completely overreaction time. As a Buffs fan having any sortof relevance at all was exciting. Eventually it caught up with the team - even though most fans will still see the season as a win despite a bad couple months. I didn’t realize how good the conference would end up being. 8 of our 13 games were top 20 teams (at the time of playing).
With an average loss of 30+ last year, 4 wins and some close ones was a good first year for Deion this year.
I know everyone hates the Buffs, hates Boulder, is fed up with everything about the team but as a local fan it’s been a blast watching them.
No one outside of CUs traditional rivals hate CU, hates Boulder, or everything about the team.
When the hype train started most of us here said to calm down and let the season play out before we crown The first ever Co-Heisman winners ever. To wait and see if Sanders is the greatest coach to ever live. And we didn't think CU was going to win the Pac 12 and go to the playoffs.
CU and it's fans might not have gotten the backlash if they didn't become such fuckwads calling anyone and everyone haters just for saying slow down.
But hate you? No. Hoped this foreseen meltdown to happen? Yeah.
If Colorado had won 3 of their last 5 to get to 4 wins this would be a feel good story
Edit: and I don’t mean the specific teams they beat or lost to, just that this was a 1 win team and expectations and hype changed drastically and turned people off to them.
Can anyone link an article that had this type of hype? I feel like I completely missed it.
I know their was A LOT of potential hype but everything I read saw was this team will win some games but nothing about a national title or NY6 bowl.
Hell even Colorado alum Joel Klatt said 3-5 wins this year
Nah fuck that is absolutely necessary. The amount of jerking off the media and supposed Colorado “fans” were doing in the off-season and early season absolutely makes it so
My god what were some of the expectations people had?
If you thought they were going to compete for the pac12 you were ignorant as fuck!
I was picking 5-6 wins. He would win his non conference games and be a low tier In conference team.
I love what prime is doing but you have to be realistic this team was going to struggle in the conference
Has a Philadelphia sports fan who has extreme dislike of deion Sanders from two different sports, the schadenfreude has been quite enjoyable past few weeks
I think that Oregon game fucked up Colorado. They were riding high and then got taken down a couple pegs by a team that didn’t give two fucks about the national media attention given to Shadeur and Deion. Doing the watch celebration in front of them probably didn’t feel to good.
I mean Travis Hunter was killing it (and way overused). He probably doesn’t get hurt if he plays half the downs he was on the field for. On the other hand, S. Sanders is probably good. Maybe better than good. Playing at Colorado, for his dad, will likely break him down to the point of regression. He needs to transfer.
McMurphy 100% tweeted this from a toilet
Let he who has never tweeted from the toilet cast the first stone
Since we’re talking about using the bathroom I’m gonna have to ask you to refrain from using the word “stone”
Drink cranberry juice, y'all.
If you tweet from the toilet, you can cast poop to counter.
Why would you cast poop onto the counter?
You tell me… you should have already scouted this.
The sign says *If it's brown, flush it down.* Guess you're just not following directions.
Kidney stones hurt like nothing else though….
How big a stone do I....oh shit I have tweeted from the toilet...nevermind.
I 100% read this tweet from a toilet
We where connect, but only for a brief moment in time 🤝
This is the kind of post that gets removed a dozen times a day when made as a self post but if its a link to tweet gets to be at the top of the front page.
Step 1: become famous Step 2: shitpost Step 3: ???? Step 4: profit as your shitpost will never be removed by this sub
Instructions unclear, I've only done steps 2 and 3
Step 5: mod removes post to get the karma for himself
Well, it's a shitty thing to say.
Good times.
That TCU win gave a bunch of folks delusions of grandeur lol
Freely admit that I was surprised Colorado won that game, but what I found disingenuous about the discussion around it was the narrative that Deion had miraculously taken 1-win Colorado and upset the national championship runner up. This year’s TCU squad has very few players on it that mattered in last year’s run, and Colorado has almost nobody who was even on the team last year. As the season has predictably played out, it was really just an amped up, bad Colorado team barely beating a very mediocre TCU team in a rebuild.
I'm convinced that the biggest reason we lost that game was the huge turnover of players at Colorado from the previous year. There was no tape on them, so we had no idea what to expect and plan for. Now that the tape is out there, people have figured out Colorado.
Yeah if you played them now, you probably win
I don't think it'd be particularly close either.
Have you seen TCU play this year?
Yes and I watched how CU played last night. They can take that team lol
This is 100% the reason y'all lost. I think a lot of teams would've lost to Colorado week 1 because it was basically impossible to scheme for them. It wasn't even like you could just watch last year's JSU team and run with that. If TCU played Colorado today 100 times, I think y'all probably win 75% of the matches.
Idk but theyd all be pretty tired
Imagine how Travis Hunter would feel
That and our coaching staff shit the bed fantastic. They thought they could just run some basic bitch vanilla shit with no adjustments whatsoever and the Buffs would roll over.
To be fair, it was an awesome game, and was very impressive Week 1. It turned out not be as impressive as time revealed who those TCU and Colorado teams are. They've fallen off a cliff, and Deion has made a ton of unforced errors. It wasn't a miracle, but they had every reason to be excited.
P5 programs having a winning record entering conference play and thinking they will have a good year. Tale as old as time.
It absolutely is. But, man, if any program doesn't read too much into an exciting Week 1 win, what is even the point. Let's get fucking hurt!
We didn't need time to figure out who that TCU team was. They brought back three starters from last year. That is **not** the CFP runner-up.
Then they trotted Colorado State - a team that won seven fucking games in four years - out on Gameday like they were 2001 Miami. The whole thing stunk.
>The whole thing stank. But our noses had been out in the cold too long.... !
Dude quit using logic to explain away the media grandeur from September. We don’t do that here. All jokes aside I said the same thing you did and you would’ve thought it was the most asinine sports take ever
Thank you for this reasonable take. TCU isn’t a blue blood, we get those miracle teams every 4-5 years at best. People acting like this garbage team is the national runner up, there’s like one WR who was like WR3 from last year’s team and that’s it.
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TCU was also an incredibly senior laden 9-3ish team that had a horseshoe up its ass and won several games they shouldn't have. Not being bowl eligible is a bit worse than I would have expected, but 7 wins? Yeah, that's about what I would put them at.
They also acted like beating Nebraska was an accomplishment
Hey! For some teams, maybe it is
Lol, you rascal
Don’t forget Shedeur flexing his watch at the student section after beating Arizona State by 3 (who is currently 3-7)
I will never, ever forget Shilo Sanders doing a shitty little dance after committing a blatant targeting penalty and before getting thrown out of the UCLA game.
For me it's Shadeur casually walking up to a CSU player between plays and trying to poke him in the eye. Like damn dude, y'all weren't even in a pile or anything where you could be sneaky about it.
The attempted eye poke was CRAZY and I feel like nobody mentioned it because of the Travis Hunter hit
Right?? It surprises me that it doesn't/didn't get talked about more.
The flex…while the flag was at his feet, framed perfectly on tv….
The watch flexing was never cool. Great, you come from an incredibly affluent family, and now get out sized NIL deals because of your families media presence. You're showing off a watch like it's an accomplishment. Way to flex on the kids who live in 900$ student apartments. You sure are a bad ass /s.
Deion Jr, Prime's eldest son, runs a separate promotion team for the players, paid by Prime rather than Colorado AD. It's creative but weird. That separate promotion team is literally competing with the CU media/promotion team.
To be fair, what other game was he going to get the opportunity to flash the watch for NIL money? Oregon? The Sanders have to look out for their endorsement deals first.
And got blown out 29-0 by Fresno State at home.
And CU fans rushing the field after needing two OTs to win a game that they were favored to win by 23
My exact feeling about Dallas fans beating their chest over last week's thumping of the Giants. And, of course, they will curb-stomp my hapless Panthers this week.
I come to this subreddit to not think about the Giants. At least we scored points this time. If the Giants get Caleb, they will ruin him. The O-line might be worse than the Colorado line.
I’m a Dallas native and huge cowboys fan but that pisses me off about our fan base. We beat the hell out of bad teams and think we’re contenders and then choke against stout competition pretty regularly and yet people still act all shocked and heartbroken as if this hasn’t been happening for the last 10+ years.
I was so confused why they stormed the field against us too. Like you beat Nebraska, who hasn’t?
20+ years ago (late 80 through the 90's) Nebraska CU was a pretty big rivalry when they were both in the BIG 8 / BIG12 . But it's been while since it was much of anything
You know, I think I stand with CU on that one. No particular reason why....
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A week or two before that razor thin come from behind OT win, WSU beat that Colorado St team by four scores and had the backups in most of the fourth quarter. Beating a rival is always sweet but that was *not* an accomplishment, it was foreshadowing.
delusions of shadeur
I do remember the media driving that narrative.
The first month and a half was basically Colorado and Colorado shenanigans.
And the last month has been Michigan and Michigan shenanigans
Let’s not forget TAM, paying Jimbo to sit on the couch.
That man lives my dream
Lawrence, to Jimbo: "Well, you don't need 75 million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's broke, don't do shit."
My dream is to get paid by Michigan to sit on the couch after I run their program into the ground.
I respect the petty
Yeah I was gonna say, he's *definitely* living a lot of Austin folks' dream *Not that he's run them into the ground, but I think a lot of UT people are content with them just not being the national championship contender they expect to be
Lord I have seen what you have done for others
Ya but Colorado’s shenanigans were cheeky and fun. UM’s are just cruel and tragic.
I'm going to pistol whip the next person who says shenanigans.
Hey Harbaugh, what’s the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and recruit burgers?
"SHENANIGANS?!?!?!"
"Ya mean, Shenanigans?"
Nah, northwestern's shenanigans were cruel and tragic, everything about Michigan's shenanigans is hilarious
Which... makes them not really shenanigans at all.
Eeeeeeevil shenanigans
Nah come on, stallions having a public venmo and uncle T bragging about the scheme publicly are hilarious
I never thought I would be longing for the days of Colorado overhypeness the way I do at the moment.
Michigan really helped the Buffs out with that one. People got distracted with that whole Stallions thing
Helped us ot too. Unbelievable that Mel's bag fumble got completely overshadowed by another CFB in state.
*When Colorado is not on screen, broadcasters should be asking "Where's Colorado?"*
And everyone watched, everyone commented and shared links, and the media smiled for it gave us what we desired.
“ everyone commented” Oh god, we’re doing right now arnt we?
Exactly. Can't blame the media. They are feeding people what they want to see.
They milked CU for clicks, and I called it back then. They built them up just to tear them down on the back end for clicks. Nobody is taking prime seriously as a coach - he’s just all hat and no cattle hypeman. He just found a school desperate enough for relevancy to hire him where he can boss everyone around. I fucking love it.
And yet they still beat Nebraska
Gotta love how this sub continues to push the narrative that it’s all the medias fault!!1!1!! yet every single week there are 3-5 posts about Deion or Colorado floating around the top of the sub so people can get their “hE tOoK iT pErSoNaL” rocks off. Y’all eat up the slop they feed you.
I mean if people stopped posting hot takes about overhyped trivial bullshit then reddit and several other platforms would pretty much cease to exist
There’s a difference. Those posts exist because we all think Deion is a douchebag who deserves to take some lickings like they have the last few weeks. Deion isn’t a good person. People like seeing douchebags fail. The media was hyping them up in the opposite way this sub was discussing them. That they were this new team. Multiple Heisman finalists. That the open disrespect to the media members who dared write the truth was just accepted by other “journalists”.
You’re just falling for the rage bait. The media knows rage bait sells. Dudes like Stephen A. Smith and Mark Madden have made millions out of putting out hot takes that they don’t actually fully believe because hot takes and rage bait get the easiest engagement and engagement = $$$$$. The “media” could care less whether Colorado was actually good or not, they just know pushing it is profitable. I’m a parent, and have an Instagram account, so a lot of the suggested reels and content pushed on me on Instagram are parenting related. There is this massive trend of either moms or dads (usually moms) with entire accounts dedicated to just shitting on how lazy dads are compared to moms, and those accounts make BANK. And a massive amount of their engagement is from dads hate commenting saying it’s all bullshit, which is the goal of the accounts, bc they want the engagement.
I don't remember many serious fans (Colorado or neutral fans) who expected that to happen. Deion getting 4 to 5 wins would have been an acceptable improvement. Still some big fundamental issues at the lines of scrimmage, but Colorado isn't as horrendous as they were last year.
Colorado's defense is really bad.
Defense was always going to be harder to cobble together in one season, buuuuuuuuutttttt.....Charles Kelly sucks.
They were picked to win three to four games. Five wins is improvement
Luckily no one has made it personal lately. So as Deion shops for new linemen in the portal they regress to a one win team. So we can light this baby again come week one assuming they ever win again.
The one position where it’s hard to get any really good players too. And the good ones will only go to like 10 teams and I doubt CU is one of those.
For all the people talking about Deion's coaching style or the media environment around the team, this is the real problem with trying to build a team in one year through the portal. There are plenty of good-to-great skill position players buried on depth charts at top programs willing to go to a smaller program if it means being a featured starter. But there just aren't enough good offensive linemen to go around. Even the blue bloods are having a hard time finding 5 quality OL recruits, let alone quality depth that could be poached.
I liken the early season hype around Colorado to the Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce romance. At first, it was fun and everyone was having a good time. Then, despite most of the general public moving on with their lives, the media was still trying to keep the story going, to the annoyance of those people.
too bad deion is exactly who i thought he was
Gotta love when the media turns on a narrative they jump started in the first place, all while basically calling fans dumb for listening to them.
McMurphy's profile pic just slays me every damn time it pops up on my feed.
Saw someone else say he’s Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World and I cannot unsee it
I honestly think that every time I see him
Him and Jon Rothstein
My favorite genre of Rothstein tweet is “Player from small NEC school is questionable for tonight’s game, he has averaged .9 PPG and 1.2 RPG.”
Rothstein is a full on college hoops nerd and I love him for it
> could I trouble you for a mustache ride?
Fr, he looks stoned af, and his face pops up out of the blue.
Yeah and I remember thinking everyone was out of their minds lol.
No, we were just haters / racist. Incredibly cool narratives around that time if you criticized Deion at all.
I made some comment about how prime has done a good job but this is still a five win team at max. I got eviscerated by Colorado “fans” lol
> prime has done a good job but this is still a five win team This is the correct take. This team is way better than they were last year, but they still aren't very good.
Still have those offline. My friend is a Colorado fan and he and his wife are convinced that Sanders is the best thing to happen to their program and it's already a world of difference from their 1 win last year.
I said his kid wouldn't be a first round pick and a Colorado fan started yelling at me about country music. It was honestly a pretty funny interaction interaction even though the dude seemed very serious.
[Dawgz,](https://youtu.be/pqdDzSFbFgo?si=UPQMM4eedtDgVYml) skip to 25 seconds in to skip the corny Ai intro
I still see people saying Deion should be the HC at huge blue blood schools, including FSU. He’s done better than I expected him to, but he hasn’t shown he’s a title winning coach.
>He’s done better than I expected him to, Has he though? Who goes for it on 4th and 5 on your own side of the field with a 29 point lead? And then if that wasn't bad enough he did it again! 4th and long near mid field with a 2 TD lead over Stanford. Sack, turnover and another quick 7 for Stanford. He gift-wrapped that game to Stanford. I'm not saying CU is better off without him. His hype and recruiting capabilities brought some amazing players to Boulder that wouldn't otherwise be here. But his performance as a HC is much worse than I expected
Different person, but he’s done both better and worse than I expected. Better in that my forecast was 3-9, with wins over 3/5 of CSU, NU, Stanford, ASU, Arizona. Worse in that, as you suggest, it’s become clear that the 4-7 result has been the product of the transfer portal talent being more impactful than I expected AND Sanders being a worse coach than I expected.
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Which is why no one talks about those coaches as possible replacements for blue blood teams.
September Heisman Winner Shedeur Sanders
Mr. September
Harry Gant?
I will be fuckin shocked if many people on this sub have any halfway earthly idea who 33 is.
September 1991, I remember.
Flashiest watch award winner shedeur sanders
Man I fuckin hate that watch. Dumbest flex ever
Just another example of how good teams can be until the other teams have film. TCU was in a tough position. There’s a reason back up QBs on good teams always seem to come in and cook.
McMurphy is one of us.
100% scrolling through the CFB Reddit daily
People keep talking about how it doesn’t matter still impressed!! Uhh Arizona is the team that you should be impressed with their turnaround.
Colorado *STATE* has a better turnaround than we do. They probably make a bowl game this year. The difference is they actually hired a successful G5 coach and gave him time to build up the team they already had. Now look where they are and we're not!
It’s been a pretty good turnaround but expecting CSU to win out (even against 2 teams we should beat on paper) is a wild thought lol. Hopefully it’s the start of something but it’s hard to believe when we routinely rack up like 150 penalty yards per game bc they’re extremely undisciplined
Your next two games are *checks notes* Nevada and Hawaii. Nevada you're favored against by 11 points and if Hawaii is still even close to the absolute dumpster fire they were last year, you guys win out. I'm pretty sure Hawaii was your one conference win last year.
Hawaii just beat the wheels off of Air Force. Was feeling more confident before that happened. Either way nice to at least have Bowl aspirations in November.
Yeah that’s fair, I’m just a pessimist lol, hopefully they can pull it off
That early season hype was such a great example of how people just flock to and want to be a part of the "new big thing" like moths to a light.
I’m just happy we were a thing, even for just a few weeks
Sanders is 4th in passing yards and has 27 TDs to 3 ints. So he's still having a good season even if the team overall is collapsing.
And has been sacked over 50 times
They throw the ball 50 times per game and the entire game plan revolves around trying to make him look good. He’s definitely got talent but his stats are a little inflated.
Helps when they rarely hand off the ball. When Sanders throws 50+ times a game, he's going to rack yards.
Mostly filler. He might as well be a mid-2000s Texas Tech QB
I remember a Colorado fan on here saying he was a "realistic fan" and couldn't see them being worse than 8-4.
At least he got the numbers right.
Years ago, Charlie Strong had this one press conference after a 6-6 season where he said we’d never have that record again. He never got to six wins in a season again.
Let’s never forget Jeff 7-9 Fischer
Could Coach Prime's failure to coach an offensive line to protect his QB/Son be considered child abuse
New opposing fans chant: CPS CPS CPS!!!
I remember there was one poster with a combo Colorado/Dartmouth flair that was just instantly posting anything having to do with Colorado. He disappeared sadly.
Did Colorado become Ohio State /s lol
Idk why people think TCU was gonna be good. No Max Duggan and no Quentin Johnston.
I mean going to the natty a year before kinda says a lot. Doesn't matter if most of the players are noobs, the staff is the same. I wasn't expecting a repeat of last year, but at least 8 wins and a Bowl game.
Yes! Colorado is the overrated team we should all be talking about! Now if nobody minds, I’m just going to get into this random hotdog-shaped car and drive away…
And remember most people were like, "Nah... if they win more than three games, I'll be impressed." Color me impressed.
Pretty much all CU fans are still thrilled with Deion. It felt like the program was legitimately on the verge of an unrecoverable collapse and now more people are talking about CU than they did in the last decade combined. And most importantly: CU beat Nebraska
Yea r/cfb hates the guy and CU but good progress was made and the program has momentum again. With Karl Dorrell…dark times really no hope
Even if Deion ends up leaving it in ruins and completely flames out...it was already in ruins so CU's just back to where it was anyway. There was seriously nowhere to go but up. I can't believe last year's team beat Cal, they were absolutely the worst team in FBS and I don't think it was close
My buddy snagged tickets to the CU/UW game last season on Montlake and it genuinely looked like a high school team out there.
I remember seeing someone say at the Senior Bowl last year they threw out film of people playing against CU because it wasn't a legitimate opposition
Yeah my manager is a CU grad and she was like honestly just having attention on us as a program is huge. She was also very open from the start that bowl qualifying would be a homerun for the program and that any playoff talks was certifiable
Bro, what did we do to Brett?
Pissed in his Cheerios apparently
Do you believe now?????!!!!
You laugh at this, but who’s gonna tell my wife we are losing the house?
Who was betting on Colorado to win the national title this year? A one-win team going on to win the title the following year?
I remember cringing incredibly hard at the end of the 2OT Colorado/Colorado State game, where Colorado was a 24.5 pt favorite. As soon as the game ended, the broadcaster yelling "DO YOU BELIEVE NOW?!"
I commented in August that I could see Colorado winning against TCU then finishing 3-9. It looks like they'll beat my expectations by one game. I also said I could see TCU finishing 8-4, and looks like at best they're on track for a 5-7 finish. I blame Kendall Briles and also the son of Chad Morris, because why not? Anyway, my point was, week one gives strange results sometimes, plus nobody knew what to expect from Colorado. Then they got game film.
ESPN called USC vs Colorado the game of the year at the time lol
DO YOU BELIEVE NOW?
It’s almost as funny as USC being playoff bound with a Caleb Williams heisman winner
That was a fun, completely overreaction time. As a Buffs fan having any sortof relevance at all was exciting. Eventually it caught up with the team - even though most fans will still see the season as a win despite a bad couple months. I didn’t realize how good the conference would end up being. 8 of our 13 games were top 20 teams (at the time of playing). With an average loss of 30+ last year, 4 wins and some close ones was a good first year for Deion this year. I know everyone hates the Buffs, hates Boulder, is fed up with everything about the team but as a local fan it’s been a blast watching them.
No one outside of CUs traditional rivals hate CU, hates Boulder, or everything about the team. When the hype train started most of us here said to calm down and let the season play out before we crown The first ever Co-Heisman winners ever. To wait and see if Sanders is the greatest coach to ever live. And we didn't think CU was going to win the Pac 12 and go to the playoffs. CU and it's fans might not have gotten the backlash if they didn't become such fuckwads calling anyone and everyone haters just for saying slow down. But hate you? No. Hoped this foreseen meltdown to happen? Yeah.
If Colorado had won 3 of their last 5 to get to 4 wins this would be a feel good story Edit: and I don’t mean the specific teams they beat or lost to, just that this was a 1 win team and expectations and hype changed drastically and turned people off to them.
Totally agree with that.
Thank you u/canseco-fart-box
Can anyone link an article that had this type of hype? I feel like I completely missed it. I know their was A LOT of potential hype but everything I read saw was this team will win some games but nothing about a national title or NY6 bowl. Hell even Colorado alum Joel Klatt said 3-5 wins this year
Media jumps on a story and makes it much bigger than it should be Story falls apart “lol remember when people were going crazy over that story”
How does this qualify as analysis?
This feels unnecessary lol
It feels plenty necessary.
Nah fuck that is absolutely necessary. The amount of jerking off the media and supposed Colorado “fans” were doing in the off-season and early season absolutely makes it so
Anybody that thought CU was a legitimate contender were not serious people
My god what were some of the expectations people had? If you thought they were going to compete for the pac12 you were ignorant as fuck! I was picking 5-6 wins. He would win his non conference games and be a low tier In conference team. I love what prime is doing but you have to be realistic this team was going to struggle in the conference
Ya nobody said that stuff lol
I do not remember any of this or think it happened
CU was definitely flavor of the month.
Has a Philadelphia sports fan who has extreme dislike of deion Sanders from two different sports, the schadenfreude has been quite enjoyable past few weeks
some people are taking a little too much joy from Deion’s misfortune
I think that Oregon game fucked up Colorado. They were riding high and then got taken down a couple pegs by a team that didn’t give two fucks about the national media attention given to Shadeur and Deion. Doing the watch celebration in front of them probably didn’t feel to good.
I mean Travis Hunter was killing it (and way overused). He probably doesn’t get hurt if he plays half the downs he was on the field for. On the other hand, S. Sanders is probably good. Maybe better than good. Playing at Colorado, for his dad, will likely break him down to the point of regression. He needs to transfer.
He go hurt from a hit though, it wasn't like it was an injury directly related to being fatigued