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Who was the tall Safety from the eastern plains? My gawd that dude sucked. FOUND IT - Tom Freakin' Hubbard.Awful CU DBs have evolved over time. Some say it started with the Jogger, Patrick Mahnke, who would track receivers stride for stride, but 5 yards behind them, into the end zone.
I think what you can’t measure with those stats is the fact that all the new players coming in were hand picked by Prime and believe in his system. They’re coming in with some swagger.
I 100% get that. I just keep reading that the people CDS is replacing the the outgoing transfers with are worse than what we had, and that the only reason our transfer rating is so high is because a) bouyed by about 3 or 4 players, and 2) because we have so many.
Don’t think this guy will see action for at least a year but who gives a fooook . Excited to see him develop
That's the plan in general. Load up on grad transfers as prospective starters/ 2-deep rotation and then bring in high upside underclassmen and preps to push in the hope that some of them bust out and take some of those jobs. You know, make CU a real program again with depth and competition.
I didn't have a problem with Gray. But I think too many people gloss over offer lists with these comparisons. Whatever. I hope Gray finds a great opportunity and that Conner becomes a multi year starter and NFL pick for CU.
I’m just gonna say it, if we are gonna fancy ourselves as a top 10 program, Gray is maybe a walk-on
Gray is the perfect example of what’s wrong with the ratings system. He has everything needed except he’s soft.
It's a mix. Always been true. Can't just be star chasing. It's about evaluation. Good evaluation and recruiting will lean heavily towards blue chips but will also include some guys in a class who aren't on everyone's offer list board.
Exceptions don’t prove rules.
Duh. Of course not. I’d of course rather have a team full of 4 and 5 star guys. But for us to compete, we need more than our share of these kinds of exceptions. Hopefully the coaches bring that out.
Again, untrue. For Colorado to compete, we don’t need any zero star players.
Of course we don’t want zero star guys. He’s just an example that ratings and offers don’t always tell the full sorry. I look at Oregon State and Washington State, two programs who’ve climbed to fairly sustained P12 respectability recently and it ain’t with 4 and 5 star classes. It’s taking 3 star guys (and some 2s) and coaching them up and running the right scheme for that personnel. Given the fundamental obstacles still in place at CU, even if CP makes a radical shift in culture, I don’t see us consistently getting classes like USC, Oregon, UCLA or even Utah. (And yeah, we may not even be in the P12 soon, but that’s our barometer for now.)
Prime is not trying to emulate either Oregon State or Washington State, and what fundamental obstacles are you referring to?
Of course ratings and offers don’t always tell the full sorry. But you can't build a program based on cinderella stories.
