BlackNGold
Club Member
CU did not get here overnight and it will take many changes to return CU to any kind of relevance. I have been watching CU football since Sonny Grandelius was the coach. During that time success always came back to the ability to recruit. CU is not in a recruiting Hotbed, so the ability to recruit has always been a cornerstone to CU success. A big part of that is support for getting players accepted into CU. The Academic side of the house has always been a challenge for CU.
Over the last 20+ years academic side of the house has put up many roadblocks to recruiting. This was starting before McCartney retired, Neuheisel alluded to it when he left to go to Washington with his "Colorado has everything money can't buy!" Comment.
When Barnett took over recruiting was getting more difficult but CU still had good Brand and recruiting pipelines into California and Texas. Barnett was determined to battle through those limitations until the fake scandal occurred and then he was pretty powerless when it came to recruiting. Since that time CU has not had many coaches the emphasized recruiting, Hawkins early on but he lost interest, Embree was trying to improve recruiting but was in over his head overall, McIntyre was a horrible recruiter and seemed to have little interest in improving that area, Tucker was a good recruiter but one of the reasons he left was he was not able to get kids into CU ( he stated privately the CU did not come through with things he was promised), Dorrell was a poor recruiter at UCLA which is located in one of the great recruiting hotbeds, he has no clue.
CU has let those recruiting pipelines dry up, the CU brand has greatly diminished because of poor on the field performance and the PAC 12 media problems. Hot coaches don't want to come to CU because it is a place that is perceived to be difficult to win.
If CU is going to be successful in football, it has to start with the administration making a commitment to making concessions in the admissions of student athletes and JUCO transfers. Just hiring a hot coaching name and not fixing the system will just prolong the agony.
I actually think Rick George is the right guy. He knows recruiting and he knows what the problems at the school are - he hired Tucker and tried to hire Sarkisian. I really want to know who pushed the button on Karl Dorrell - I just do not believe it was RG.
There is a lot to fix with CU Football and it is going to take more than a new coach, and/or AD. There has to be fundamental change throughout the University.
Boosters are burned out with unfulfilled promises. Now our most visible boosters are Twitter stars Kelli Brooks and Jerdough - their tweets are not helping.
They have to fire Dorrell, but without some other changes the result is going to be the same.
Over the last 20+ years academic side of the house has put up many roadblocks to recruiting. This was starting before McCartney retired, Neuheisel alluded to it when he left to go to Washington with his "Colorado has everything money can't buy!" Comment.
When Barnett took over recruiting was getting more difficult but CU still had good Brand and recruiting pipelines into California and Texas. Barnett was determined to battle through those limitations until the fake scandal occurred and then he was pretty powerless when it came to recruiting. Since that time CU has not had many coaches the emphasized recruiting, Hawkins early on but he lost interest, Embree was trying to improve recruiting but was in over his head overall, McIntyre was a horrible recruiter and seemed to have little interest in improving that area, Tucker was a good recruiter but one of the reasons he left was he was not able to get kids into CU ( he stated privately the CU did not come through with things he was promised), Dorrell was a poor recruiter at UCLA which is located in one of the great recruiting hotbeds, he has no clue.
CU has let those recruiting pipelines dry up, the CU brand has greatly diminished because of poor on the field performance and the PAC 12 media problems. Hot coaches don't want to come to CU because it is a place that is perceived to be difficult to win.
If CU is going to be successful in football, it has to start with the administration making a commitment to making concessions in the admissions of student athletes and JUCO transfers. Just hiring a hot coaching name and not fixing the system will just prolong the agony.
I actually think Rick George is the right guy. He knows recruiting and he knows what the problems at the school are - he hired Tucker and tried to hire Sarkisian. I really want to know who pushed the button on Karl Dorrell - I just do not believe it was RG.
There is a lot to fix with CU Football and it is going to take more than a new coach, and/or AD. There has to be fundamental change throughout the University.
Boosters are burned out with unfulfilled promises. Now our most visible boosters are Twitter stars Kelli Brooks and Jerdough - their tweets are not helping.
They have to fire Dorrell, but without some other changes the result is going to be the same.
