Spring/Summer – 2023

Some 70% of the players sent packing by Coach Prime and his staff have found homes with new schools … but only about 20% have landed at Power Five conference schools … A breakdown of where CU’s 2022 roster will be playing in 2023 …

CU at the Gamers picking up their game! Latest entries (6/3): Notre Dame (as in Paris) … Husky Stadium … Philadelphia … and the Great Pyramids! … Latest entries (5/27): From Folsom; Stanford Stadium … and Mexico! …

Caesars Sportsbook: CU ninth-best odds to win the Pac-12 … Pac-10? Pac-16? How about the Pac-91? … The Athletic: What would a return to the Big 12 mean to CU? … Holiday Bowl suing UCLA and the Pac-12 over cancelled 2021 game …

45% of Power Five QB’s in 2022 were transfers; Shedeur Sanders one of the Top Five for 2023 … Athlon: Six Buffs who can impress this fall … ESPN: Is Deion Sanders writing a new script for how to win or just scripting college football’s most chaotic reality show? …

Interview with freshman linebacker Kofi Taylor-Barrocks … “The Luggage Has Arrived” – New Buffs First Impressions … Joel Klatt defends Coach Prime: “This was always the plan” …

Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi: “I didn’t kick anybody off when I came to Pitt. Zero. Those are your guys. When you become a head coach you inherit that team and you coach that team”… Could Narduzzi have constructed a team at CU on that theory? (No surprise: the numbers aren’t on Narduzzi’s side) …

What would be a “successful” September record for CU? … If an experienced QB backup isn’t in the cards, what are CU’s options? … Did CU make a mistake by raising single game ticket prices for the Nebraska game? … What will the Pac-12’s media contracts ultimately look like? … Let’s find out …

Has CU found its run-stopping defensive linemen? … Has CU, last in the nation in sacks last season, found its edge rushers? … Are the inside linebackers and safeties good enough to keep opposing defenses at bay? … Will Travis Hunter and Cormani McClain form the lock-down corner tandem we expect? … Let’s find out …

Not-so-bold prediction: Shedeur Sanders will be CU’s starting quarterback on Sept. 2nd v. TCU … The other ten starters? There are some likely candidates at wide receiver and the offensive line, but you never know … My Way-too-early starting lineup projections …

CU men’s golf finishes third at NCAA regionals; advance to NCAA finals for the first time in 21 years … CU women’s basketball fares well at annual CUSPY Awards, including “Sports Moment of the Year” …

Can CU get by with Shedeur Sanders and two freshmen quarterbacks? … Has the offensive line (with five transfers with zero Power Five offers) really been upgraded? … Has the recent influx of defensive line commitments given the unit enough talent (and depth) to compete in the Pac-12? … Let’s find out …

Past experience (or ratings out of high school) no guarantee of future success, but bringing in three five-star prospects and eight four-star prospects (while losing zero four- and five-star defensive prospects) can’t hurt … Overall, CU’s is welcoming four five-star players and 11 four-star players – while losing none …

Anonymous Big 12 Director of Player Personnel: “It is just absolutely unreasonable to think you can sign 25 players out of the spring transfer portal and make your team better” … Except the numbers don’t bear that out … A unit-by-unit look at the ratings and Power Five offers of the Buffs coming in and the Buffs who left …

Last December, Coach Prime said the roster cuts were coming … Before and after the Spring Game, Coach Prime said the cuts were coming … Still, the unprecedented overhaul of the roster has been met with criticism and ridicule … Overreactions? Or cause for concern? …

Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule has been none too pleased at the national attention Coach Prime has been receiving … Rhule (and the Big Red faithful) have been taking pot shots at CU and its new head coach, with the Big Red envy making this off-season all the more enjoyable …