Deion Sanders offered the Colorado job- Official Colorado season thread
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True, just seeing what’s the market cap(if they could cash out)
Some might not make the league, so if they could get a couple dollars, they do…
most situations when they give those letters of thanks they ain’t returning
Sort of, but it is up to the school on whether they save a roster spot for them.
I think the CM ship has sailed. May not be a good fit. The buffs are in a good position for some really good portal DB’s. So it maybe a wrap for the young man
Former Colorado Player Calls Out Deion Sanders For Failing To Be A Mentor
When Deion Sanders took over as the Colorado head coach he was not shy about parting ways with players to make room for transfers
Kevin Borba12 hours agoDeion Sanders taking the Colorado job ahead of the 2023 season was certainly one of the biggest stories of the college footballoffseason, but his approach to rebuilding the roster in year one immediately became the biggest story of the year.
While coaches have often been known to part ways with players behind the scenes, Sanders was on video urging the players from Colorado's 2022 team to hit the portal so he could bring in as many transfers as possible. An approach that rubbed many people the wrong way, and has been described by some players as them getting cut without really getting a chance to prove themselves.
One player who was from the previous regime and opted not to be with the team this season was linebacker Eoghan Kerry, who was a part of the spring practices for Colorado. While he wasn't on the team, he was still on scholarship, which didn't count against Colorado's 85.
In a recent interview with Jason Whitlock on his podcast Fearless, Kerry revealed that he felt both "ignored" and "dismissed" by Sanders who he was hoping could be a mentor or father figure in his life.
Kerry also revealed that when the parents flew in for the spring game, Sanders refused to meet with them. The former three-star recruit out of Mater Dei (CA) elected to go to Colorado over programs like Texas and Arizona.
He is officially in the transfer portal, and is among the thousands of players looking for a new home.
Colorado's Travis Hunter named to All-Pac-12 teams
Buffs two-way talent earns conference honors despite missing three games this season
Anthony Kazmierczak3 hours agoTravis Hunter added to his list of accomplishments on Tuesday. The Colorado Buffaloes two-way star picked up All-Pac-12 first-team defensive and second-team all-purpose honors.
The Jackson State transfer ended the season as one of the best shutdown corners and led the country as the only player with 200+ snaps on both sides of the ball. Hunter had 31 total tackles with five PDUs, and 3 INTs on defense. He also added 57 receptions for 721 yards and 5 TDs, despite missing three games to start Pac-12 play.
Colorado's Travis Hunter named to All-Pac-12 teams
Anthony Kazmierczak
Hunter is the true definition of a generational type talent. He was a game-changer for Deion Sanders' first year in Boulder a two-way force the world hasn't seen before. A fair amount of analysts says he's like Charles Woodson, but he plays the game with more tenacity than the former Michigan star.
It's going to be great to watch Hunter's progression over the course of the off-season going into his junior year. He's among an All-Pac-12 finalist group for the Paul Hornung Award, recognizing college football's most versatile player.
The Buffaloes also had quarterback Shedeur Sanders, defensive back Shilo Sanders, running back Dylan Edwards, and punter Mark Vassett named to the honorable mention lists.
Git, yo Benedict Arnold ass outta here! Going on dat fat greazy coon's show to talk shit tells you everything.
Fa real…
Nearly didn’t post it because it was Jason but said what the hell
Jason, Rob Parker, TMZ and Bomi
Get passes over by me… especially TMZ I hate them fucks with a passion…
And I hate being this way, but seeing their links is like wtf
You know something I felt Bomani chilled at the end and even defended Prime when jackals came around
Yea…. I give him that..
That last clip I listened tooo, got me looking at like aight, don’t fuck this up
Lmao
But them other cats
get that side eye
Yea…. I give him that..
That last clip I listened tooo, got me looking at like aight, don’t fuck this up
Lmao
But them other cats
Yo you know who else defended Prime with an ACCURATE FAIR ASSESSMENT?
Spencer Hall
Man he let that man disrespect him by calling him a halfrican American
- holy shit, then he shit on his own dad . In a weak attempt to shit on Prime 
. The same coach that allowed you to keep your scholarship to go to school for free this year. If he was a baller he would have taken his ass to D11 like all the other players that left, and then tried to work his way back up the hard way. Sometimes it ain't the coaches fault for why you failed :shrug: This is a bad look young man, and bad tape to leave out there
I don’t know much about him… his reporting
Lmao
When I see Whitlock I know it's bullshit and he has an agenda
Interesting comment…. On a YouTube video…
(I haven’t check the stats, but I know Auburn was shits)
@dmvdoll458910 hours ago (edited)
I agree, they'll have a much better season next year. People fail to realize when you compare Colorado against the other Power Five's 10 first-year head coaches. AZ State, Stanford, Purdue, MS state, Cincinnati, Georgia Tech, Auburn, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Louisville, CP didn't have a bad season. Here's how these 11 coaches match up:
• 7 of 11 - won 5 games or less
• 4 of 11 - have improved records from 2022 (Colorado, Georgia Tech, Louisville and Nebraska)
• 1 of 11 - inherited a 1-11 2022 team (Colorado)
• 1 of 11 performed as expected with 4 wins, but considered a failure (Colorado)
• 1 of 11 - Is a first year D1 Head Coach (Colorado)
• 1 of 11 - Was never a D1 HC, OC, DC, NFL coach, Asst HC or PC(Colorado)
• 1 of 11 - Has been coaching at a collegiate level since 2020 (HBCU) and came within 1 score of winning against 5 tenured D1 coaches without an O line.
• 1 of 11 - had a completely new coaching staff and 80% new roster thats been together since the spring (Colorado) Normal expectations for new HC is lose big year 1, lose close year 2, win close year 3 and win big year 4. Example - Jedd Fisher, since taking over 0-5 (covid) Arizona.
• 1-11 year 1- 2021
• 5-7 year 2 - 2022
• 9-3 year 3 - 2023
(I haven’t check the stats, but I know Auburn was shits)
@dmvdoll458910 hours ago (edited)
I agree, they'll have a much better season next year. People fail to realize when you compare Colorado against the other Power Five's 10 first-year head coaches. AZ State, Stanford, Purdue, MS state, Cincinnati, Georgia Tech, Auburn, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Louisville, CP didn't have a bad season. Here's how these 11 coaches match up:
• 7 of 11 - won 5 games or less
• 4 of 11 - have improved records from 2022 (Colorado, Georgia Tech, Louisville and Nebraska)
• 1 of 11 - inherited a 1-11 2022 team (Colorado)
• 1 of 11 performed as expected with 4 wins, but considered a failure (Colorado)
• 1 of 11 - Is a first year D1 Head Coach (Colorado)
• 1 of 11 - Was never a D1 HC, OC, DC, NFL coach, Asst HC or PC(Colorado)
• 1 of 11 - Has been coaching at a collegiate level since 2020 (HBCU) and came within 1 score of winning against 5 tenured D1 coaches without an O line.
• 1 of 11 - had a completely new coaching staff and 80% new roster thats been together since the spring (Colorado) Normal expectations for new HC is lose big year 1, lose close year 2, win close year 3 and win big year 4. Example - Jedd Fisher, since taking over 0-5 (covid) Arizona.
• 1-11 year 1- 2021
• 5-7 year 2 - 2022
• 9-3 year 3 - 2023
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Colorado Buffs star Travis Hunter wins Paul Hornung Award
- Brian Howell
- PUBLISHED: December 6, 2023 at 10:01 a.m. | UPDATED: December 6, 2023 at 10:15 a.m.
Colorado’s Travis Hunter is one of the most dynamic two-way players in college football in recent memory, and on Wednesday he was honored for his versatility.
Hunter has been named the 2023 winner of the Paul Hornung Award, presented annually by the Louisville (Ky.) Sports Commission to the most versatile player in college football.
“I would like to thank the Louisville Sports Commission for this award,” Hunter said in a press release from CU. “Paul Hornung accomplished great things that I also want to accomplish, and to be given the award in his name is truly amazing. I’d like to thank all my teammates for their support and Coach Prime for the opportunity to play both ways and do whatever I can to help the Colorado Buffaloes.”
The award is in honor of the late Hornung, considered one of the greatest all-around players in the history of the sport. At Notre Dame, Hornung starred on offense, defense and as a kicker and punter, winning the Heisman Trophy in 1956. During his 10-year Hall of Fame career with the Green Bay Packers, Hornung was a halfback and kicker.
Hunter didn’t kick for the Buffaloes (4-8, 1-8 Pac-12), but he did just about everything else.
A sophomore who transferred to CU from Jackson State last winter, Hunter was a full-time starter on offense and defense. Although he missed three full games due to injury, Hunter played more snaps from scrimmage than anyone in the country. He played 566 snaps on defense and 436 on offense, as well 30 special teams snaps.
On offense, he caught 57 passes for 721 yards and five touchdowns. He ranks in the top 20 in CU history for single-season catches (tied for 13th) and receiving yards (19th). On defense, he had 30 tackles, three interceptions and five pass breakups.
“Travis is a special player, a generational player, who has changed the game,” CU head coach Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders said. “We had to find ways to utilize him to the best of his ability on both sides of the ball, where he could utilize his strengths and be a force. Thank you to the award committee for seeing in Travis what we do, not only that he’s a tremendous player, but also a tremendous person. Travis hasn’t reached his full potential as of yet and his best is still coming!”
Before this year, Georgia’s Georgia’s Champ Bailey in 1998 was the last player to post at least 40 receptions and three interceptions in the same season.
Hunter is the first CU player to earn one of the major national awards since punter Mark Mariscal won the Ray Guy Award in 2002.
Overall, Hunter is the 14th CU player in history to win any national award and just the fourth since Marsical. Sefo Liufau was the Polynesian player of the year in 2016, Laviska Shenault won the Paul Warfield Award in 2019 and Jarek Broussard was one of three recipients of the Mayo Clinic Comeback player of the year award in 2020.
The Hornung Award has been presented annually since 2010. This is the second consecutive year a player from the Pac-12 has won the Hornung Award, which went to Oregon State’s Jack Colletto last year. All three finalists this year were from the Pac-12, as Hunter was chosen ahead of Arizona State’s Cameron Skattebo and Utah’s Sione Vaki for the award.
Previous winners of the Hornung Award include Alabama’s DeVonta Smith (2020), Penn State’s Saquon Barkley (2017), Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey (2015) and LSU’s Odell Beckham (2013).
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Deion Sanders promotes Vincent Dancy to replace Nick Williams as Colorado's defensive end coach
Buffs defensive assistant becomes a position coach on Prime's staff
Josh Tolle42 minutes agoVincent Dancy will move up within Deion Sanders' staff at Colorado. The Buffs quality control analyst was promoted to defensive end coach, per an announcement by Coach Prime. He replaces recently departed assistant Nick Williams, who moves on for a similar position at Syracuse.
Dancy followed Sanders to Boulder after serving as head coach of Mississippi Valley State. The defensive assistant helped back up the efforts of Nick Williams this season, working closely with Jordan Domineck and Lavonta Bentley.
Deion Sanders says Pat Shurmur likely to be Colorado's offensive coordinator in 2024
Deion Sanders says Pat Shurmur likely to be Colorado's offensive coordinator in 2024
Dancy spent five seasons at MVS and posted a 10-38 record. Keep in mind, he didn't have much to work with and often faced funding issues and a lack of resources. MVS is a foe of Jackson State in the SWAC.
Sanders will have to replace five positions on his staff. Pat Shurmur will "likely" be retained as the Buffs offensive coordinator next year. He'll be joined by Warren Sapp as the newest additions. From that point on, Sanders will need a new tight end and offensive line coach. However, those positions might be condensed into one.
The Buffaloes are in the midst of a key point in the off-season with the transfer portal open. They'll have to address several needs, including a retooling of the offensive line. It's the start to a lengthy process with early Signing Day in two weeks.
Last year post Deion made
Great interview, Deion doing zoom with the brothas…. Shit yea, I haven’t watched much of RJ clips tho..
Key notes:
• Deion learnt patience from this season
• He respect and trust these guys, with their work. He knows he can trust them.
• OL & DL coaches in home
• looking for starters in the portal and they ain’t on sale
Much much much
Key notes:
• Deion learnt patience from this season
• He respect and trust these guys, with their work. He knows he can trust them.
• OL & DL coaches in home
• looking for starters in the portal and they ain’t on sale
Much much much
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The 50 most-watched games of the 2023 college football regular season
Forty-six of the top 50 involved programs that will be in the SEC or Big Ten by next season, or Deion Sanders.- ZACH BARNETT
- 8 HOURS AGO
We ranked the top 25 at midseason, and now with the regular season complete it's time to rank the top 50.
As should come as no surprise, Alabama and Georgia were the most-watched programs of the 2023 regular season. Of each side's 13 games to date, eight are among the 50 most-watched (Alabama played in five of the top 15), and their SEC Championship clash ranks second with an audience of 17.52 million.
The unprecedented star power of Coach Prime drove Colorado into the top five; half of CU's games were among the 50 most-watched. Prime's star burned brightly, then it burned out; each of CU's first five games were among the top 20, but only one Buffs game reached the top 50 thereafter.
Appearances by program
8: Alabama, Georgia
6: Colorado, Ohio State, Washington
5: Michigan
4: Florida State, Notre Dame, Tennessee
3: Florida, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, USC
In the sports media space, the biggest college football story was the Big Ten leaving ABC/ESPN to split its games across Fox, CBS and NBC, along with the final year of the CBS on SEC package. That package was enormously profitable for both entities; the SEC isn't the S-E-C without it.
Not mentioned by the network was that it's the second time the network has made a penny-wise, pound-foolish decision with its football rights. In the 1990s, CBS owned the NFC package (the more valuable of the NFL's two conferences), let the NFL take the NFC rights to Fox, spent a couple years without the NFL, then bought back in by paying more for the AFC than it would've cost to keep the NFC in the first place.
Two decades later, CBS refused to beatESPN's to put the SEC's No. 1 package on ABC at $300 million a year, and now will pay $350 million a year to split the Big Ten's No. 2 package with NBC.
I tell you all that to say: of the 13 CBS games to reach the top 50, the top 12 were SEC affairs.
Appearances by network
15: ABC
13: CBS, Fox
6: ESPN
3: NBC
And that leads into the final major college football storyline playing out on TV sets across America, realignment. 2023 was the final season of a 'normal,' Power 5 alignment before the SEC and Big Ten assume a 'Super 2' structure.
Appearances by conference, 2023 alignment
33: SEC
22: Big Ten, Pac-12
11: ACC
6: Big 12
Appearances by conference, 2024 alignment
37: SEC
35: Big Ten
11: ACC
9: Big 12
2: Pac-2
The most-watched game thus far not to involve a program that will be in the SEC or Big Ten in 2024 was Colorado's late-night overtime win over Colorado State, which drew 9.3 million. The most-watched game not to involve the SEC, the B1G or Coach Prime? The ACC Championship: 7.03 million watched Florida State's ultimately doomed attempt to remain in the CFP top four. That game ranked 22nd.
Without further ado, the 50 most-watched college football games of the 2023 regular season (all data via Sports Media Watch):
1. Ohio State-Michigan -- 19.07 million (Fox)
2. Georgia-Alabama, SEC Championship -- 17.52 million (CBS)
3. Colorado-Oregon -- 10.03 million (ABC)
4. Michigan-Iowa, Big Ten Championship -- 10.02 million (Fox)
5. Ohio State-Notre Dame -- 9.98 million (NBC)
6. Penn State-Ohio State -- 9.96 million (Fox)
7. Colorado State-Colorado -- 9.3 million (ESPN)
8. Oregon-Washington, Pac-12 Championship -- 9.25 million (ABC)
9. LSU-Florida State -- 9.17 million (ABC)
10. Michigan-Penn State -- 9.16 million (Fox)
11. Alabama-Auburn -- 9.09 million (CBS)
12. LSU-Alabama -- 8.82 million (CBS)
13. Texas-Alabama -- 8.76 million (ESPN)
14. Nebraska-Colorado -- 8.73 million (Fox)
15. Tennessee-Alabama -- 8.01 million (CBS)
16. Oklahoma State-Texas, Big 12 Championship -- 7.89 million (ABC)
17. Oklahoma-Texas -- 7.87 million (ABC)
18. Colorado-TCU -- 7.26 million (Fox)
19. USC-Colorado -- 7.24 million (Fox)
20. Alabama-Texas A&M -- 7.23 million (CBS)
21. Oregon-Washington -- 7.04 million (ABC)
22. Louisville-Florida State, ACC Championship -- 7.03 million (ABC)
23. Missouri-Georgia -- 7 million (CBS)
24. Florida State-Clemson -- 6.71 million (ABC)
25. USC-Notre Dame -- 6.43 million (NBC)
26. Georgia-Auburn -- 6.40 million (CBS)
27. Georgia-Florida -- 5.95 million (CBS)
28. Washington State-Washington -- 5.85 million (Fox)
29. Georgia-Tennessee -- 5.73 million (CBS)
30. Michigan-Maryland -- 5.43 million (Fox)
31. South Carolina-Georgia -- 5.42 million (CBS)
32. Georgia-Georgia Tech -- 5.33 million (ABC)
33. Notre Dame-Duke -- 5.32 million (ABC)
34. Tennessee-Florida -- 5.31 million (ESPN)
35. Utah-Washington -- 5.17 million (Fox)
36. Notre Dame-Louisville -- 5.12 million (ABC)
37. Florida State-Florida -- 5.07 million (ESPN)
38. Ohio State-Wisconsin -- 4.87 million (NBC)
39. Alabama-South Florida -- 4.84 million (ABC)
40. Ole Miss-Georgia -- 4.83 million (ESPN)
41. Washington-Oregon State -- 4.73 million (ABC)
42. Colorado-UCLA -- 4.66 million (ABC)
43. Ohio State-Indiana -- 4.65 million (Fox)
44. Ole Miss-Alabama -- 4.61 million (CBS)
45. Maryland-Ohio State -- 4.51 million (Fox)
46. Michigan-Nebraska -- 4.48 million (Fox)
47. Washington-USC -- 4.45 million (ABC)
48. Clemson-Duke -- 4.39 million (ESPN)
48. Iowa-Nebraska -- 4.39 million (CBS)
50. Texas A&M-Tennessee -- 4.38 million (CBS)
We'll be back in January to rank the 100 most-watched games of the 2023 college football season.