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  1. 6 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

    BUT...

    2021 CU was 4-8, 3-6 in conference

    2020 CU was 4-2, 4-1 in conference 

    2019 CU was 5-7, 3-6 in conference 

    Obviously 2022 was an anomaly team that quit on the coaching staff and checked out. A competent coach who took over in a more normal fashion probably gets 4 wins as well this season, and that's without having a possible future NFL draft pick at QB. 

    Deion's burn and portal method was definitely unique and also definitely a complete failure. It's all about trajectory, and starting 0-3 then going 4-5 to finish the season showing development would be considered much more successful than starting 3-0 with smoke and mirrors then finishing 1-8 with the team quitting on a first year HC who burned his OC 3/4 of the way through his first season. 

    The rebuild just got much much tougher than if he had just done it the normal way. He now has to start from nearly ground zero and hope his kid can bounce back from all these injuries and actually stay healthy next season. I predict they have similar struggles next year, then his kid is gone and Deion bounces out of CU after year 2 with some excuses in hand. If he guts out a few more seasons really working hard to build it I'll have a lot more respect for him, but I'll be surprised. Grinding in relative obscurity with no hype to lay a foundation over 3 to 4 years just isn't the Deion way. 

    I mean, Mel Tucker was there at the conclusion of 2019. Anybody watching CU then would’ve agreed they were at least trending in an OK direction. 
     

    Then Tucker left in the middle of the night, COVID happened, they hired Dorrell which was a disaster.  The COVID year was smoke and mirrors where the entire Pac12 only finished with one ranked team and CU got annihilated by Casey Thompson in the bowl game. Dorrell finished bottoming out in 2022 and here we are.
     

    2022 CU played in two one score games all year (1-1). They lost all games that weren’t one score by at least 20 points. They were the assiest of ass. 
     

    2023 CU has played 7 one score games (3-4; only the Oregon State game didn’t feel like a one score game out of those) and have been truly blown out twice (Oregon; last night). UCLA and Oregon State had pretty comfortable wins. Otherwise CU’s been in every game until the end against a tough schedule. I’d say that’s improvement. 

  2. 2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Not easy to start 3-0 and not make a bowl game. Presumably ending the season with 6 losses does not help recruiting. I know some will defend him that 4 wins is a big improvement over 1 win. No, it’s not.

    In Sept, Deion could have convinced practically anyone to sign or transfer to CU. Not the case now, and he will have to put in the hard work to turn CU around.

     

    The team is unquestionably better than last year. They still are bad, but 2022 CU is one of the worst P5 teams I’ve ever seen. 

    Deion is gonna hit the portal hard again. He’s had a small class recruited for almost the entire cycle, and there haven’t been a boatload of decommits.

    Talking a bunch of shit so you get everyone’s best shot all season long when your team is bad probably didn’t do many favors though. 

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  3. I saw Williams play live in person a couple of weeks ago in Boulder. He’s built like a cinder block and made 5-7 throws that nobody else in college could make and made it look pretty damn easy.  His one pick was a broken play where his WR was open way down field, but angle of the play meant Peak Aaron Rodgers couldn’t have put enough juice on the throw and the safety came under it to intercept it.  He looked like a top NFL prospect the whole way.  

    His oline sucks this year which is contributing to USC’s overall issues. My concern for him would be potential attitude issues, but dude could just be bored. 

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  4. 1993 we brought 4 rookies. Wadkins the best Cup player of his generation was ranked in the 70s in the world rankings and got a captains pick. Went 2-1-1. US won the Cup. 
     

    2023 we’re bringing 4 rookies. Justin Thomas the best Cup player of his generation…

     

    I feel bad for Keegan but with the team composite it makes sense to bring in JT the glue guy.  I don’t see the case for Young (rookie) or Glover (hot for only two weeks, also rookie). 

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  5. It’s hard to say Beard was going to be here for 25 years and lead us to multiple national titles when he managed to get himself arrested and deservedly terminated within 18 months of assuming the job. Among all the possible outcomes considering his known personal traits coming in, what actually happened is probably on one side of the spectrum, and the 25 year potentiality is on the other. 
     

    No question Chris Beard has a better track record as head coach than Rodney Terry to date. But going forward Chris Beard is unemployable at Texas, and Rodney Terry’s prior coaching stops (1) Weren’t at the caliber of job that Texas is (2) Did not have the benefit of the transfer portal, and (3) Were before Rodney Terry might have learned something from Chris Beard about how to construct and maintain a high level program. So as we sit here right now, I don’t see how you can conclude “he’s literally incapable of matching Chris Beard.”

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  6. History shows you don’t have to putt lights out at Augusta. Better to be in form coming in which Rory is. Has to be one of the favorites and an older winner is the norm. 

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