Dimitry Stanley is obviously overjoyed.
I've been mostly quiet on our offensive staff hires, but I'm really struggling with our attrition.
When KD went to fUCLA, he took over for Bob Toledo, a middling .605 coach. HCKD turned them into a .565 juggernaut. In other words, he did not move the needle. I expected him to do about the same here. Take a perennial 5-7 team and turn them into a, well, perennial 5-7 team, hopefully with a couple 7-5, 6-6 seasons punctuated by the occasional 4-8.
Year one looked like that was the way CU was headed. Somewhere in the back of mind, the W's over SDSU and AZ looked like the proverbial mirage after the beatdowns administered by Utah and the school of the mutant cow in the Alamo Bowl. (I mean just once, couldn't we go to the Alamo Bowl and play the part of the Mexicans instead of the Texans?, I digress). Perhaps when CU is there they should call it the LMAO bowl.
UNC, looked bad winning by 28. No prob, first game. Hung on with aTm, wow, maybe this will work after all, then Minny took their little rowboat and sank the good ship Ralphie good and proper. From then on, CU looked bad in all phases of the game, but managed to manhandle quite possibly the worst D1 team in the US (AZ), who incidentally is recruiting circles around CU, look pretty good against OSU, who promptly fired their DC for allowing the weakest O in the conference to run wild, and beat an inept UW team. 4-8.
Then the mass exodus of most every significant contributor on the team. This is new to the Dorrell experience. Usually he just plods along at the same level of his predecessor. I do not see many examples of creating massive roster turnover followed by success, unless of course, the staff recruits like a house a fire. Since that has never been HCKD's calling card, I think there is something systemically wrong up there and this will keep CU down for a long while.
Bummer.