The only part of that analogy I relate to is the itching like crazy after an unexpected hookup.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Prime effect
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Or, she turns back into a pumpkin
Copyright be damned, this stuff is too good not to be shared with everyone:
I’ll start with the due diligence, which is pointing out that Colorado’s 45-42 victory over TCU last Saturday was one football game. A big game, for certain, and a stunning result, but merely the first in a long season. As sensible sports fans, we know not to make a big deal out of a brief moment, when one game is just a fraction of a larger story, yet to be told.
Blah, blah, blah, due diligence performed. Let’s get to the fun.
Deion Sanders. That’s the fun.
Is there anyone in college football who has had more fun the first week of September than Sanders and everyone associated with the University of Colorado? I don’t think so. Is there a college football program in America that feels more intriguing? Have you heard from Boulder grads you haven’t heard from in years, asking how many wins makes a team “bowl eligible?”
Is there anyone who isn’t now at least a teensy bit curious to watch Colorado play old rival Nebraska (with its own new fancy head coach, Matt Rhule) in Boulder this Saturday at noon ET?
“This is personal,” Sanders said. “That’s the message of the week.”
Think about that! We are getting fired up to watch Colorado play Nebraska. This rivalry hasn’t been relevant for decades—it’s like being excited to hop into a Mazda Miata, crank Use Your Illusion II and go see “Dances With Wolves.”
It’s all because of him. Deion. Coach Sanders, Coach Prime, Prime Time, “Neon” Deion, whatever you want to call him—as long as it’s Coach Prime. Sanders, a ’90s relic himself, is now college football’s charismatic change agent, a big man among Buffaloes, instantly the most discussed figure in college football and possibly all of sports.
“We told you we coming,” a proud Sanders said after his Buffs stunned everyone on Earth but Sanders.
He’s not for everyone, but Coach Prime feels built for right now. He is revitalizing one of college football’s most forlorn programs—Colorado finished 1-11 last season, close to dead last in national rankings for offense and defense—by tapping into a loosened transfer portal and making a forgotten program seem like a gridiron Xanadu again.
“Extreme Makeover,” is what the Journal’s Laine Higgins termed it, as Colorado brought in 57 transfers, nine of them from Sanders’s former team at Jackson State, including two-way sensation Travis Hunter, and Sanders’s quarterback son, Shedeur Sanders.
It was a brusque overhaul, one that sent prior Buffaloes players packing, but this is now the state of play in today’s college game, which is finally beginning to resemble the free market it always claimed it wasn’t. Sanders, with his ample charisma and Hall of Fame NFL career, doesn’t need to tap in to fussy alumni, tradition or shiny campus toys to make CU an attraction.
He’s the attraction. Deion himself.
Sanders, 56, has been a sports character for eons—a sensation at Florida State who dazzled his way into a two-sport football/baseball career, notably with the Falcons, Yankees, Braves, 49ers and of course those peak ’90s Dallas Cowboys. He played cornerback and returned punts (played a little receiver too), won two Super Bowl rings, batted .533 in the 1992 World Series, made music with MC Hammer and served as both the host and musical guest in a 1995 episode of “Saturday Night Live.”
He is as famous as an ex-athlete can be, and yet Sanders the coach took a different path. For three seasons, the former youth coach was the man in charge at Jackson State in Mississippi, where he compiled a 27-6 record, 19-2 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. He delivered an instant recharge to one of the country’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and it felt like only a matter of time before new opportunities arrived. It wound up being…not a contender on the verge, but Colorado, a basement dweller.
Sanders was undaunted. “We’re coming to work, not to play,” he said at his introductory press conference. “We’re coming to kill, not to kick it.”
There is no caution to the messaging, one of the many ways in which a Coach Prime regime is different (another way: he’s replaced “captains” with “leaders” and “dawgs”). A tentative coach might have labeled last Saturday’s road opener versus TCU a “soft opening,” not knowing how they could fare versus a strong program that reached the national championship last season.
Sanders wasn’t tentative. And neither were his Buffs, 21-point underdogs who played like they expected to go toe-to-toe against a nationally-ranked opponent in a hostile stadium. Shedeur Sanders threw for a school record 510 yards and got a congratulatory text from Tom Brady. Hunter, a highly-recruited five-star player whose loyalty to Sanders began with his decision to enroll at Jackson State, had an interception on defense to go with 119 yards receiving, instantly joining the (extremely premature) Heisman shortlist.
Again: one game. But even one game could be read as a signal of college football’s evolution—that geography, tradition and recent records are no longer the foundations of football success. If a conference like the Pac-12 can crumble overnight, if a West Coast school can join an East Coast conference, why can’t an also-ran like Colorado rebrand as a fresh power with a starry new coach?
Then again, maybe it’s just Deion, sui generis. There’s no one quite like him, from his on-field NFL bona fides (YouTube is a gold mine) to his sideline flair to his agile social media (run by his son Deion Jr.). Sanders is a Black head coach in a sport where Black head coaches remain significantly underrepresented (14 out of 133 Division 1 FBS schools). Attention will be relentless, but he seeks it, and prefers it that way.
A skeptic might argue The Deion Show will eventually get tired, and there will surely be a gleeful pile-on the first time Coach Prime’s Buffs lose. But what’s happening in Colorado isn’t a one-man act. If you listen to Sanders, he frequently credits the bevy of assistants he brought to CU, and it’s clear they have built a motivated, talented team. More talent seems certain to arrive. What recruit doesn’t look at CU and think: That looks fun?
Nebraska at Colorado. Noon time for Prime Time. I can’t wait. This is no time for due diligence or caution. Somebody needs to gas up the Miata.
I might have been a touch DILFy eight years ago, but I'm not out of the league of any SI Swimsuit Model. Maybe if you meet my special lady at the tailgate this weekend, don't mention that I said that.
Hey, I think you agreed your couch was available. Just confirming. See you Saturday night.
I've turned down offers to sleep on my couch several times for this game. I believe you were one of them.
I hate thinking this.
Yep it's true. Despite all the success in the 80s and 90s, Buffs have never sold out every game of a season. They have always played second fiddle to the Broncos."CU has never sold out every home game in a single season"
is this true? If so, that is a surprise.
Only 2 CU games with tickets available after USC, CSU games sell out
The Buffs have never sold out every game in a season.www.9news.com
The difference now is that CU has a magnetic personality at coach / environment and the Donkeys are awful.
Also a huge increase in population in the greater Denver metro. 3.3 million now and I read a forecast this year that it's expected to be 4.4M by 2050. It's not the previous 20% in a decade we just had, but still booming. And places like CO Springs are growing faster. That's a lot of people looking to spend their entertainment dollars.
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Broncos have a good shot at no longer being awful
All thanks to Prime
Thanks for the response.
We have plenty of time for those 2 final home games to sell out, so this year very well could be the year to do it!!
SeanMSan
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I don’t have Twitter, so I haven’t been up to speed on Jeredough’s updates…
Did they just meltdown after KD’s firing, and turn to vapor after Prime’s hiring?
No, I was just thinking back to when he was claiming big things were on the horizon, that CU would be competing for the CFP immediately…under KD.
Made the NYT feed. **** the NYT. Bring the hate.
Is The Athletic owned by the NYT?
If there's one thing I know about NY sports fans, it's that they'll accept losing while coddling bad coaches and players because it's the decent thing to do.
Get da fuk outta here with that bullsh!t. Are they saying anything about Pitino doing the same thing to try to fix St. John's basketball?
NYT used to be a beacon of journalistic excellence. Such a shame to see that it and everyone associated with it are destined to burn in hell with the other infidels and non-believers
Edit: god damn that gif needs an epilepsy warning
Hold on, hold on.
Hear me out.
For decades, universities, networks, merchandisers, the NCAA and Methodists have ridden the backs of these players in a cash grab. We consoled ourselves saying, "we're giving these fine young men an education, and that is everything". It's a narrative that was pleasing to me, and it was pleasing to others. And sometimes the commonly held, virtuous narrative was true. And more often it wasn't (looking at you Chapel Hill).
And then Coach Prime comes in and says, "hey, let's give the players some advocacy and choice and yes, get them an education and more. Let them promote themselves and benefit from their hard work and, if they want to dig down deep, be a part of a winning team."
And he's the bad guy?
Yes, but you don't see the NYT promoting Athletic content every day.
branding it a "scorched earth strategy" is completely misusing the term.
what Sanders is doing at CU is not scorching any thing. he's fukking building a championship football team, and doing so effectively. Scorched earth is what HCKD did here.
United still trying to ride Prime's coattails
Since when? the NYT is a piece of crap and has been so for many many yrs.
I don't think HCDS originated the 'keep receipts' talking point
Yukon
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It was more than just that. "hot tub", "do you believe", etc.
Article with pics of the setup on farrand field.
www.9news.com
Colorado prepares to host 'Big Noon Kickoff'
The biggest pregame tailgate in the country will be on the CU campus for the first time with free food, prizes, swag, giveaways and Coach Prime.
www.9news.com
Interesting. I kind of thought the desk would 180* the other way so you could see the Flatirons in every camera shot?Article with pics of the setup on farrand field.
Colorado prepares to host 'Big Noon Kickoff'
The biggest pregame tailgate in the country will be on the CU campus for the first time with free food, prizes, swag, giveaways and Coach Prime.