Prime is upgrading his roster. Colorado will be much better this year because of it.
If Vito can take the discipline that Prime demands, he will become a star on the field.
Takes A LOT to be given the boot from a CMS team but I do hope he lands on his feet and overcomes the obstacles he seems to continually encounter.
They have I believe 48 coming in signed and in the portal already. He said to the media that we know who we have coming in, you all don’t. I like him. When he was hired he flat told the team in his introduction that most of them prolly wouldn’t be there next season. He was hired to win and all the guys who went 1-10 needed to really show something or be cut basically. I believe like only 18-19 scholarship players are returning.
How much of a disaster could it be? They went 1-10. If he gets them to .500, and then wins like 8 games a year or two later his name will be even hotter.
I will be surprised if he ever wins 8 games there. He's already rubbing a lot of people the wrong way. 50 transfers is beyond reason. You think any of those dudes are going to leave the Colorado program and hand out a sterling review of Prime?
I don’t think it matters in the end, he has replacements lined up so it must not be too bad.
Well he’s already had two transfer into Colorado basically play a spring game and then bail back to thru portal…from Michigan and Florida
They were 1 and 11. At some point you realize there are many many reasons they were that bad. Mostly because they had no stars. None. Best to pull the band aid off and get this pain over quickly. The first thing that gets a coach fired is bad players.
Did the 1-11 squad have this cohesion you speak of? If I have to have no cohesion, I would prefer they be good players in that situation, not players in a 1 win season.
I would guess not much if any cohesion....but let's set the table reasonably. Colorado did crater to 1 -11 in 2022 but the Bufs were a 4-5 win team before that. The infamous Mel Tucker did 1 year (5 wins) and skipped on to Mich St.
I think he'll be fine at CU. I doubt they compete for PAC12 'ship any time soon, I think the real disaster will be when he does what you mentioned above and some name brand school decides to take a chance on him.
He _may_ get away with it in college w/ kids who don't know better, but I just can't see his demeanor working in the NFL.
It's more so the public facing part and inability to exhibit tact. No one is gonna blame a coach for coming in and building the best possible roster. But you don't have to look like an ass while doing it. These kids earned their scholarship from the prior staff, and pulling them is going to dash some dreams. I 100% get needing to dismiss some of the existing players that don't suit your system or meet your talent expectations, but there are ways to do that, at least public facing, that prevent one from looking like an asshole.
I was sooooo excited when we hired Ray.
Their Defensive coordinator came from Alabama, and running nickel is pretty much the norm base defense anymore.
Yes I think they did, he just wasn't head coach material. Didn't have the it factor as I recall.
