Rating the Hire: National Media on Coach Prime


2022 Season Archive

Fox Sports Analysts: What would constitute a successful Year One for Coach Prime? (a well done story) … Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables: “I was unlike Deion (Sanders). I gave guys 12 months of grace to figure it out” …

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Transfer Portal Tracker

//posted 6.30.2023

(6/30) Gavin Layton, a 6’6″, 290-pound offensive lineman from Rochester, Minnesota, becomes the fifth junior college offensive lineman to commit to CU … (6/9) CU adds another 1,000-yard rusher, with junior Sy’veon Wilkerson becoming the latest Jackson State Tiger to join the team …

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NIL News and Notes

//posted 4.29.2023

Travis Hunter signs NIL deal with Phil Long Ford (Hunter ranks No. 3 nationally in NIL valuation) … Buffs4Life to provide $2,000 NIL deals to football non-scholarship student-athletes …

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… The CU women capped a fantastic season with a run to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament … The sixth-seeded dispatched 11-seed Middle Tennessee and home-standing No. 3 seed Duke before falling to national championship runner-up Iowa in the round of 16 … Buffs finish with a 25-9 record and a No. 15 national ranking … The CU men, meanwhile, limped home with a second-round loss in the Pac-12 tournament and a second-round exit in the NIT tournament with a loss to Utah Valley State … Boyle’s team finished with a winning record, but just barely, going 18-17 overall, 8-12 in Pac-12 play …

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CU makes it official: Alabama “Senior Special Assistant” Sal Sunseri hired to coach defensive tackles (worked with DC Charles Kelly at Alabama and Florida State) … CU DL coach Patrick Hill hired away by the Minnesota Vikings …

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A promising start to the month – home wins over Cal and Stanford – quickly deteriorates as the Buffs go 1-4 the rest of February, including a tough 60-56 home loss to No. 4 UCLA … The CU women’s team, meanwhile, had a 5-2 record, including a tough double-overtime loss to No. 3 Stanford, to finish the regular season with a 22-7 (13-5) record (and a No. 20 national ranking) …

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The Buffs opened the new year with a pair of dominating wins over the Oregon schools, but that proved to be the highlight, as the men would only win one more game the rest of the month, including road sweeps by the Los Angeles and Oregon schools … The best news of the month? The signing of prep All-American, one of the highest-rated recruits in CU history … The CU women, meanwhile, had a strong month, re-entering the national polls on a 6-2 month, a January which included a buzzer-beating three-pointer to defeat No. 8 UCLA, 73-70 …

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Coach Prime all day every day … Coach Prime’s press conference after Signing Day II … Article from The Athletic going behind the scenes on the hiring of Coach Prime … Video introductions of Defensive Coordinator Charles Kelly and Offensive Coordinator Sean Lewis … Coach Prime at the National Championship game: “We gotta get here” …

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Less than two months from “winning” the national title for being the worst team in football, Colorado has skyrocketed to national relevance … Some see CU as moving too quickly; some see Coach Prime is getting too much credit for turning around a program still waiting to play its first game under Coach Prime … True or untrue? …

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CU’ opponents for the 2023 season have been known for years, but the schedule for those games was released just this week … The Buffs will open with a September against three ten-win teams … Can CU run the September gauntlet in tact, giving the Buffs a chance for a run to the post-season in the second half? … Let’s find out …

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What does McClain’s commitment mean to CU’s 2023 roster? To CU’s national perception? To CU’s future recruiting Classes? … Can Coach Prime keep the locker room from fracturing into and “us v. them” mentality? … Does CU’s Pac-12 schedule represent opportunities … Or a Bataan Death March? …

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Relegating Relegation

//posted 1.15.2023

State legislators in Washington are seeking to bind the Huskies and the Cougars to the same conference, trying to keep Washington from bolting to the Big Ten … With the Pac-12 gaining in national relevance, and Colorado under Coach Prime regaining its brand, CU’s chance of avoiding relegation have certainly been enhanced …

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