Menu
What's new
By:
Filters
AllBuffs | Unofficial fan site for the University of Colorado at Boulder Athletics programs

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • Prime Time. Prime Time. Its a new era for Colorado football. Consider signing up for a club membership! For $20/year, you can get access to all the special features at Allbuffs, including club member only forums, dark mode, avatars and best of all no ads ! But seriously, please sign up so that we can pay the bills. No one earns money here, and we can use your $20 to keep this hellhole running. You can sign up for a club membership by navigating to your account in the upper right and clicking on "Account Upgrades". Make it happen!

Official CU Head Coach Search Thread - Primetime

PhillyBuff said:
After reading this board and various articles, I have come to the conclusion that we will know everything within a few days of the SWAC Conf Championship. I don't believe that this is a done deal UNTIL after the game AND CU accepts the transfers that he wants.

Coach Prime is in the Geico commercials with Saban. You bet your rear end that Prime will only go to a place that he can do what he wants with the players that he wants. Prime won't set the goal of beating our "rival" Utah. Screw that, he will go for Saban and Smart (maybe even former OU QB Heupel- BUT- Colorado never lost to Heupel (as a player). In fact, Colorado was the ONLY Big 12 team that Heupel did NOT beat!
Click to expand...
**** that. I'm imagining Deion beating USC next year.
 
SINKRATZ said:
It’s not his age, as in the number, specifically - it’s the fact that he’s never had to run a program, much less a program that needs this much work. He’s never had to hire and manage a coaching staff, establish an effective recruiting operation, or design and implement an NIL/Transfer strategy from scratch. And he’d be taking on those pressures at his alma mater which adds an additional level of expectations/pressure. So it might be more appropriate to say his experience is the concern, not his age.

For a lot of those reasons I like Prime and Herman much, much more and then maybe Grimes who has done what Walters is doing for longer and at bigger programs.
Click to expand...
This is a great post. Walters just feels like too big a leap right now.
 
ahoelsken said:
**** that. I'm imagining Deion beating USC next year.
Click to expand...
One of the few good things about these past two horrible seasons…. We are at the absolute bottom of CF. There is nowhere to go but up. Any coach coming here can only improve things, no matter what. That’s a really interesting position for a coach to be in upon arrival. Just how big a savior will he be? If it doesn’t work out well here, it’s totally a CU problem—obviously.
 
GawainBuff said:
One of the few good things about these past two horrible seasons…. We are at the absolute bottom of CF. There is nowhere to go but up. Any coach coming here can only improve things, no matter what. That’s a really interesting position for a coach to be in upon arrival. Just how big a savior will he be? If it doesn’t work out well here, it’s totally a CU problem—obviously.
Click to expand...
It makes the job very interesting. You get paid a lot and you can only have various measures of success. No downside.
 
This is why Deion takes the CU job. Is a no lose situation, come in at rock bottom either have immediate success (bowl game) in 1-2 seasons or continue to suck

Option 1 - gets to look like a savior and genius - offers from bigger programs start come knocking
Option 2 - tried my best, but CU institutional problems just to big to fix - leaves Boulder with reputation still intact
 
SINKRATZ said:
“They’ve got money”? Has the narrative around CU being poor been wrong? This combined with some of the whispers we’re hearing about some huge resources being thrown into the offer to Prime has me wondering if we’re not as have-notty as I thought.
Click to expand...
We are not notty.
 
The biggest threat to Coach Prime coming to CU is Georgia Tech at this point. Fritz hasn't signed yet and it seems GT put the brakes on that hire real quick. Sanders has the DNA to tackle even the most difficult of challenges. GT and CU both definitely fit that bill. But GT has regional familiarity to him and he'd get them competitive faster than he would CU, IMO.
 
married2abuff said:
The biggest threat to Coach Prime coming to CU is Georgia Tech at this point. Fritz hasn't signed yet and it seems GT put the brakes on that hire real quick. Sanders has the DNA to tackle even the most difficult of challenges. GT and CU both definitely fit that bill. But GT has regional familiarity to him and he'd get them competitive faster than he would CU, IMO.
Click to expand...
Tom Osborne will have the deciding vote, so I think we're okay.
 
Hank said:
Not out of the realm of possibility that we get Coach Prime and Walters as DC. Not saying it will happen. And probably unlikely. But I can see how it would make sense from Walters's perspective. Fully drinking the Kool-Aid.
Click to expand...
More importantly-Is Becky on the Coach Prime to Boulder train?
 
married2abuff said:
The biggest threat to Coach Prime coming to CU is Georgia Tech at this point. Fritz hasn't signed yet and it seems GT put the brakes on that hire real quick. Sanders has the DNA to tackle even the most difficult of challenges. GT and CU both definitely fit that bill. But GT has regional familiarity to him and he'd get them competitive faster than he would CU, IMO.
Click to expand...
I disagree-I haven't seen Deion's come up at GT outside of some random GT accounts pining for him. I read that as their boosters trying to get their interim HC one more crack at getting the job. He went 4-4 with a couple wins over ranked opponents. Not sure I'd hand it to him, but I think there's an argument to be made that he should get the gig.
 
married2abuff said:
The biggest threat to Coach Prime coming to CU is Georgia Tech at this point. Fritz hasn't signed yet and it seems GT put the brakes on that hire real quick. Sanders has the DNA to tackle even the most difficult of challenges. GT and CU both definitely fit that bill. But GT has regional familiarity to him and he'd get them competitive faster than he would CU, IMO.
Click to expand...
While anything is possible, the Ga Tech opening is the one where there seems to be zero chatter surrounding Deion Sanders.
 
married2abuff said:
The biggest threat to Coach Prime coming to CU is Georgia Tech at this point. Fritz hasn't signed yet and it seems GT put the brakes on that hire real quick. Sanders has the DNA to tackle even the most difficult of challenges. GT and CU both definitely fit that bill. But GT has regional familiarity to him and he'd get them competitive faster than he would CU, IMO.
Click to expand...
The GT job has been open longer than CU’s job and they’ve had their AD in place for 6 weeks. There’s been no smoke around Prime. The Fritz situation screams that it was leaked prematurely and they are backpedaling because he is about to coach Tulane in the AAC CG. Basically, same situation as CU/Prime, except CU/Prime have been able to keep a lid on it for the most part
 
married2abuff said:
The biggest threat to Coach Prime coming to CU is Georgia Tech at this point. Fritz hasn't signed yet and it seems GT put the brakes on that hire real quick. Sanders has the DNA to tackle even the most difficult of challenges. GT and CU both definitely fit that bill. But GT has regional familiarity to him and he'd get them competitive faster than he would CU, IMO.
Click to expand...
Won’t be georgia tech.
 
The names for Georgia Tech have been centered around Tulane head coach Fritz, Coastal Carolina head coach Chadwell, former UAB head coach Bill Clark, and Ga Tech interim head coach Brent Key,
 
ahoelsken said:
I disagree-I haven't seen Deion's come up at GT outside of some random GT accounts pining for him. I read that as their boosters trying to get their interim HC one more crack at getting the job. He went 4-4 with a couple wins over ranked opponents. Not sure I'd hand it to him, but I think there's an argument to be made that he should get the gig.
Click to expand...
I dunno. I was at the GT Miami game a couple of weeks ago and they looked like ****. Still can't figure out how they beat NC. GT definitely needs a new HC. I don't think the boosters are content with the interim HC.

I think it boils down to three options for Sanders: GT, staying at JSU, and CU.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
The GT job has been open longer than CU’s job and they’ve had their AD in place for 6 weeks. There’s been no smoke around Prime. The Fritz situation screams that it was leaked prematurely and they are backpedaling because he is about to coach Tulane in the AAC CG. Basically, same situation as CU/Prime, except CU/Prime have been able to keep a lid on it for the most part
Click to expand...
I’ll give that to RG. I think he kept a lid on it on our end; the leak most likely came from Prime’s camp. I think we’re pretty much his #1 option. I don’t see some kind of Lincoln Riley bait and switch happening with GT.
 
married2abuff said:
I love everyone's confidence! Hope Prime comes to CU. If he does, we'll buy season tickets again.
Click to expand...
Right now, I think it’s 50% / 50% CU versus the field. I just don’t see Ga Tech as being the main competition.

The beat writer for the university of Cincinnati saying that school was not in pursuit of Sanders was huge. I hope he is correct in his reporting, as I thought UC would be a big threat given Sanders history with the city and playing baseball for the Reds.
 
Hank said:
Not out of the realm of possibility that we get Coach Prime and Walters as DC. Not saying it will happen. And probably unlikely. But I can see how it would make sense from Walters's perspective. Fully drinking the Kool-Aid.
Click to expand...
It really does feel out of the realm of possibility. I can’t imagine Walters being a finalist for the HC job here then going to work under the guy who beat him for the job.
 
SINKRATZ said:
It really does feel out of the realm of possibility. I can’t imagine Walters being a finalist for the HC job here then going to work under the guy who beat him for the job.
Click to expand...
I think it would speak more to Prime's recruiting ability than anything else.

The very first test of a new coach is how well they recruit their assistants.

Are they willing to recruit over some of their current ones?

If they are willing, how high do they aim/achieve?

Landing him as DC would be a huge indication of the assistant salary pool, the commitment the school has made to fixing transfer/admission issues, and Prime's recruiting ability.

All that being said, it also would not be a negative if he didn't come, and would really be expected for him to stay put and wait for a HC offer this or next cycle.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top