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CU recruiting from high school coaches perspective

Big Jim

Big Jim

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Nice story in The Athletic today where they interview high school football coaches about how Coach Prime is recruiting at CU.

Summary:

Texas - several prominent head coaches love Coach Prime and how he is recruiting.
Florida - several prominent head coaches love Coach Prime and how he is recruiting.
Colorado - several prominent head coaches hate CU and think Coach Prime is a fraud.

theathletic.com

How Deion Sanders’ Colorado roster redo is landing with high school coaches in recruiting

The Athletic spoke with nine coaches of top prospects in Colorado, Texas and Florida about Deion Sanders' blunt approach.
theathletic.com theathletic.com
 
Big Jim said:
Nice story in The Athletic today where they interview high school football coaches about how Coach Prime is recruiting at CU.

Summary:

Texas - several prominent head coaches love Coach Prime and how he is recruiting.
Florida - several prominent head coaches love Coach Prime and how he is recruiting.
Colorado - several prominent head coaches hate CU and think Coach Prime is a fraud.

theathletic.com

How Deion Sanders’ Colorado roster redo is landing with high school coaches in recruiting

The Athletic spoke with nine coaches of top prospects in Colorado, Texas and Florida about Deion Sanders' blunt approach.
theathletic.com theathletic.com
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Big Jim said:
Nice story in The Athletic today where they interview high school football coaches about how Coach Prime is recruiting at CU.

Summary:

Texas - several prominent head coaches love Coach Prime and how he is recruiting.
Florida - several prominent head coaches love Coach Prime and how he is recruiting.
Colorado - several prominent head coaches hate CU and think Coach Prime is a fraud.

theathletic.com

How Deion Sanders’ Colorado roster redo is landing with high school coaches in recruiting

The Athletic spoke with nine coaches of top prospects in Colorado, Texas and Florida about Deion Sanders' blunt approach.
theathletic.com theathletic.com
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Prime says he always tells the truth. I guess CO coaches don't like the truth!
 
Big Jim said:
Nice story in The Athletic today where they interview high school football coaches about how Coach Prime is recruiting at CU.

Summary:

Texas - several prominent head coaches love Coach Prime and how he is recruiting.
Florida - several prominent head coaches love Coach Prime and how he is recruiting.
Colorado - several prominent head coaches hate CU and think Coach Prime is a fraud.

theathletic.com

How Deion Sanders’ Colorado roster redo is landing with high school coaches in recruiting

The Athletic spoke with nine coaches of top prospects in Colorado, Texas and Florida about Deion Sanders' blunt approach.
theathletic.com theathletic.com
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Sounds about white in this state.
 
Da Lama said:
Sounds about white in this state
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I honestly think it's a combination of that, and the fact that most of the HS coaches in this state went to CSU and UNC. They went to those schools because of some combination of: they couldn't get into CU, and CU doesn't offer a realistic track to becoming a HS coach.

It translates into an active dislike of CU that means any grievance at all gets magnified.
 
skibum said:
I honestly think it's a combination of that, and the fact that most of the HS coaches in this state went to CSU and UNC. They went to those schools because of some combination of: they couldn't get into CU, and CU doesn't offer a realistic track to becoming a HS coach.

It translates into an active dislike of CU that means any grievance at all gets magnified.
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Meh. The top coach in the State is a CU guy and the HC at Fairview is as well. Although I think if you asked those guys, they’d be perfectly OK with what Prime is doing. I get the sense that the Colorado guys referenced in the article are used to being a big deal and having more influence. They’re pissed that’s gone. They overvalue their own players and are upset that Prime might not be paying the kind of attention to them that they got from previous staffs.
 
Not Sure said:
Meh. The top coach in the State is a CU guy and the HC at Fairview is as well. Although I think if you asked those guys, they’d be perfectly OK with what Prime is doing. I get the sense that the Colorado guys referenced in the article are used to being a big deal and having more influence. They’re pissed that’s gone. They overvalue their own players and are upset that Prime might not be paying the kind of attention to them that they got from previous staffs.
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Regardless of how much or little attention prior staffs have paid to in-state kids, Prime represents the first HC who is likely to neglect most CO preps AND be just fine in doing so.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
Regardless of how much or little attention prior staffs have paid to in-state kids, Prime represents the first HC who is likely to neglect most CO preps AND be just fine in doing so.
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That’s a short term strategy that can work while he turns over the roster. Long term, we need a solid core of in-state guys on the team, IMO. It can’t be completely filled with mercenaries. That’s not to say we fill the team with in-state JAGs, but we should be taking the top 4-5 in-state guys every year. If one or more of those guys decide to go elsewhere, we don’t just go down the list to the next best in-state guy. We identify the in-state guys who will make us better.


I’m not saying anything that most us haven’t been saying for years. The difference here is that I believe a lot of CO HS coaches think that there’s some kind of minimum that CU has to take every year and think that if a guy like Christian McCaffery goes elsewhere it magically opens up a spot for their guy.
 
When I was a student at Colorado, I was a member of the school’s debate team. I also organized and helped run its high school debate tournament even after graduation. We grew the tournament massively and made it a nationally competitive event featuring teams from all over the nation. Some of the nation’s top programs brought their students. Those folks LOVED the tournament.

Colorado coaches, OTOH, thought that I was the devil. One well regarded Colorado coach, now passed, sent me an email that read simply, “COLORADO Classic? Hardly!”
 
manhattanbuff said:
When I was a student at Colorado, I was a member of the school’s debate team. I also organized and helped run its high school debate tournament even after graduation. We grew the tournament massively and made it a nationally competitive event featuring teams from all over the nation. Some of the nation’s top programs brought their students. Those folks LOVED the tournament.

Colorado coaches, OTOH, thought that I was the devil. One well regarded Colorado coach, now passed, sent me an email that read simply, “COLORADO Classic? Hardly!”
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Did you kill him?
 
manhattanbuff said:
When I was a student at Colorado, I was a member of the school’s debate team. I also organized and helped run its high school debate tournament even after graduation. We grew the tournament massively and made it a nationally competitive event featuring teams from all over the nation. Some of the nation’s top programs brought their students. Those folks LOVED the tournament.

Colorado high school coaches, OTOH, thought that I was the devil. One well regarded Colorado coach, now passed, sent me an email that read simply, “COLORADO Classic? Hardly!”
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Fixed that last sentence for clarity.

The above story is 100% true BTW. manhattanbuff pretty much single handedly turned the CU high school tournament into a serious stop on the "national circuit" (yes, there is one). It was one of only a handful of tournaments whose winners would qualify for the elite, invitation only national championship.

And yeah, probably 90% of Colorado HS coaches were appalled to see national excellence (and competition) brought into their parochial little world.
 
skibum said:
Fixed that last sentence for clarity.

The above story is 100% true BTW. manhattanbuff pretty much single handedly turned the CU high school tournament into a serious stop on the "national circuit" (yes, there is one). It was one of only a handful of tournaments whose winners would qualify for the elite, invitation only national championship.

And yeah, probably 90% of Colorado HS coaches were appalled to see national excellence (and competition) brought into their parochial little world.
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skibum said:
Fixed that last sentence for clarity.

The above story is 100% true BTW. manhattanbuff pretty much single handedly turned the CU high school tournament into a serious stop on the "national circuit" (yes, there is one). It was one of only a handful of tournaments whose winners would qualify for the elite, invitation only national championship.

And yeah, probably 90% of Colorado HS coaches were appalled to see national excellence (and competition) brought into their parochial little world.
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I ****ing knew you were Sasha!
 
manhattanbuff said:
When I was a student at Colorado, I was a member of the school’s debate team. I also organized and helped run its high school debate tournament even after graduation. We grew the tournament massively and made it a nationally competitive event featuring teams from all over the nation. Some of the nation’s top programs brought their students. Those folks LOVED the tournament.

Colorado coaches, OTOH, thought that I was the devil. One well regarded Colorado coach, now passed, sent me an email that read simply, “COLORADO Classic? Hardly!”
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It all makes sense now!
 
Big Jim said:
Nice story in The Athletic today where they interview high school football coaches about how Coach Prime is recruiting at CU.

Summary:

Texas - several prominent head coaches love Coach Prime and how he is recruiting.
Florida - several prominent head coaches love Coach Prime and how he is recruiting.
Colorado - several prominent head coaches hate CU and think Coach Prime is a fraud.

theathletic.com

How Deion Sanders’ Colorado roster redo is landing with high school coaches in recruiting

The Athletic spoke with nine coaches of top prospects in Colorado, Texas and Florida about Deion Sanders' blunt approach.
theathletic.com theathletic.com
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It seems to me that this is a purely personal opinion. It doesn't matter who The Athletic polled in this aspect - both the head coaches and the spectators in the stands could have expressed that opinion. But if it is written in the article that the opinion was expressed by the head coaches, then such an article becomes "meaningful"... Not for me.
 
Zakkker said:
It seems to me that this is a purely personal opinion. It doesn't matter who The Athletic polled in this aspect - both the head coaches and the spectators in the stands could have expressed that opinion. But if it is written in the article that the opinion was expressed by the head coaches, then such an article becomes "meaningful"... Not for me.
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Well said.
 
Zakkker said:
It seems to me that this is a purely personal opinion. It doesn't matter who The Athletic polled in this aspect - both the head coaches and the spectators in the stands could have expressed that opinion. But if it is written in the article that the opinion was expressed by the head coaches, then such an article becomes "meaningful"... Not for me.
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Why? Do you think the perspectives and opinions of the coaches and the spectators in the stands carry the same weight?
 
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