The Official Coach Prime and the Colorado Buffaloes Thread

[L. Deezy]

I cant believe what the fuhk Im reading right now.. this shyt is ridiculous

What happened to Deion Sanders’ Colorado castoffs? Revisiting a record-setting exodus

Coach Prime's extreme roster makeover was unprecedented in college football. Where are those players who entered the transfer portal now?

theathletic.com

 

[Karume]

I cant believe what the fuhk Im reading right now.. this shyt is ridiculous

What happened to Deion Sanders’ Colorado castoffs? Revisiting a record-setting exodus

Coach Prime's extreme roster makeover was unprecedented in college football. Where are those players who entered the transfer portal now?

theathletic.com

cliff notes since i cant access it

 

[Karume]

we lost Kofi...

 

[Karume]

 

[hashmander]

I cant believe what the fuhk Im reading right now.. this shyt is ridiculous

What happened to Deion Sanders’ Colorado castoffs? Revisiting a record-setting exodus

Coach Prime's extreme roster makeover was unprecedented in college football. Where are those players who entered the transfer portal now?

theathletic.com

damn, i can dismiss getting rid of players off principle because you assume they suck and that's why the team sucked, but you clearly replaced them with other bums and now have to run them off ... bring in 30 of your guys and more than half of them ain't your kinda people anymore. i see it happening again with the overhyping of power 5 transfers like they are future CU stars. they're transferring for a reason. you can't overlook the guys leaving your program and say they're transferring because they aren't that good, but the transfers from the other teams to yours are good apparently. odds are, most of them are gonna be mid. you know how many misses teams have on the recruiting trail and then you're just coming in vacuuming up their misses. go for the former high school recruits that were overlooked and turned out to be a whole lot better, not the ones who turned out worse than expected.

btw, when it comes to the transfers portal, i don't trust power 5 transfers as much as i do nfl prospects/fringe prospects at FCS looking to get more attention. with all of prime's NFL connections (if he doesn't have dedicated staff members scouting FCS) he should be asking his associates which FCS prospects got their attention. the NFL drafts a bunch of them every year ... some will be loyal and say i became a prospect here i'm staying, but others would jump at the opportunity for more shine.

 

[Karume]

damn, i can dismiss getting rid of players off principle because you assume they suck and that's why the team sucked, but you clearly replaced them with other bums and now have to run them off ... bring in 30 of your guys and more than half of them ain't your kinda people anymore. i see it happening again with the overhyping of power 5 transfers like they are future CU stars. they're transferring for a reason. you can't overlook the guys leaving your program and say they're transferring because they aren't that good, but the transfers from the other teams to yours are good apparently. odds are, most of them are gonna be mid. you know how many misses teams have on the recruiting trail and then you're just coming in vacuuming up their misses. go for the former high school recruits that were overlooked and turned out to be a whole lot better, not the ones who turned out worse than expected.

btw, when it comes to the transfers portal, i don't trust power 5 transfers as much as i do nfl prospects/fringe prospects at FCS looking to get more attention. with all of prime's NFL connections (if he doesn't have dedicated staff members scouting FCS) he should be asking his associates which FCS prospects got their attention. the NFL drafts a bunch of them every year ... some will be loyal and say i became a prospect here i'm staying, but others would jump at the opportunity for more shine.

lol

 

[L. Deezy]

cliff notes since i cant access it

Every day felt like a tryout. Sowell thought he had to be perfect to gain approval. He wasn’t himself. More stressed, more withdrawn. New coaching staffs can be disorienting for players, because they don’t know whom to trust. Sowell’s father grew up in Florida and revered Sanders, and Sowell didn’t want to disappoint his family by failing.

There was nowhere to hide. Cameras followed the team around constantly for Sanders’ Amazon documentary series and his son’s Well Off Media YouTube channel.

“It kinda felt like a reality TV show,” Sowell said.

It didn’t take long for returning Colorado players to figure out the narrative. Quarterback Shedeur Sanders, wide receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter and 19 more transfers were brought in for spring practice. They were the stars of the show.

“We felt like it was us vs. them instead of all of us together,” Sowell said. “That’s the best way I can put it. The new guys were going against the players that had already been there. It wasn’t a good environment to be in. It wasn’t a team environment.”

His freshman class was an inseparable group. The players lived on campus together, dined together and played pickup basketball together. They would return to the dorms at night that spring and talk openly about their predicament: What do we do?

On the morning of April 23, their group text blew up. Players were called into exit meetings with Sanders and told they couldn’t play at CU. One described the experience as going to see the Grim Reaper. Sowell’s meeting was his first one-on-one conversation with the head coach.

The following morning, Sowell said, players were locked out of Colorado’s football facility. They couldn’t grab their things from the locker room. They couldn’t grab a meal at the training table.

“When you’re gone, you’re gone,” Sowell said.





Xavier Smith’s sitdown with Sanders was later Sunday. By then, the redshirt freshman safety knew what to expect. His father encouraged him to hope for the best. But he didn’t even get a one-on-one. Defensive coordinator Charles Kelly brought Smith and safety Oakie Salave’a into the office together.

“We sat on the sofa, and he’s talking to us, but he’s not even looking at us,” Smith said. “I’m looking Coach Kelly dead in his eyes. (Sanders) said he felt like I should hit the portal. He didn’t want me to waste a year thinking I could earn a spot.

“I was actually getting mad, like tears coming to my eyes. Because, bro, you never even tried to get to know me.”

Smith wasn’t shocked he was cut, given his injury history. He’d broken his right leg during his senior season in high school and again in the spring while rehabbing. He played in one game in 2022 but missed the rest of the season with a hamstring injury. Now Smith was finally healthy and, as a young defensive back from Atlanta, eager to learn from his Hall of Fame coach.

Smith assumed Sanders would dump older players and embrace the young talent he inherited. During the team meeting, he told himself: He’s not talking about me. I ain’t leaving.



During the spring, Smith felt more like an extra in the background of the reality show. He tried to make the most of second-team reps and made plays in the spring game but struggled to get Sanders’ attention. So as he sat on that couch and listened to Kelly encourage him to leave, sure, there was frustration.

“He was destroying guys’ confidence and belief in themselves,” Smith said. “The way he did it, it could’ve been done with a little more compassion.”




Jake Wiley did not get cut. But he wasn’t looking to stay.

The offensive tackle from Aurora, Colo., spent four years with the Buffaloes and saw it all. He committed to Mike MacIntyre in 2018, redshirted during Mel Tucker’s lone season, became a two-year starter under Dorrell and had five different offensive line coaches.

“That’s not a normal number,” Wiley said.

He stayed for the spring to finish his degree and to see if he fit with the new staff. On cut day, Wiley received an ominous text.

“In our O-line group chat, one of the offensive line coaches texted the group and said, ‘Good luck fellas,’” Wiley said, “and then he just removed all of them. It said these five people were removed from the chat. We were like, ‘Huh? What happened?’”


Kopp was required to sit out the 2023 season as a two-time transfer. So were defensive back Tayvion Beasley (San Diego State), tight end Seydou Traore (Mississippi State) and offensive linemen Yousef Mugharbil (NC State) and Noah Fenske (Southern Illinois). Beasley, Traore and Mugharbil came to Colorado as transfers with Sanders and were gone by the end of the spring.

Kopp was sitting in the front row when Sanders arrived. He’d trained with Shedeur Sanders and knew what came next. In his first visit with the QBs, Sanders told them Shedeur was on the way and their job was to make him better.

“I was just sitting there thinking, it is what it is,” Kopp said. “I need to find a new home and a place that wants me.”

 

[Karume]

Every day felt like a tryout. Sowell thought he had to be perfect to gain approval. He wasn’t himself. More stressed, more withdrawn. New coaching staffs can be disorienting for players, because they don’t know whom to trust. Sowell’s father grew up in Florida and revered Sanders, and Sowell didn’t want to disappoint his family by failing.

There was nowhere to hide. Cameras followed the team around constantly for Sanders’ Amazon documentary series and his son’s Well Off Media YouTube channel.

“It kinda felt like a reality TV show,” Sowell said.

It didn’t take long for returning Colorado players to figure out the narrative. Quarterback Shedeur Sanders, wide receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter and 19 more transfers were brought in for spring practice. They were the stars of the show.

“We felt like it was us vs. them instead of all of us together,” Sowell said. “That’s the best way I can put it. The new guys were going against the players that had already been there. It wasn’t a good environment to be in. It wasn’t a team environment.”

His freshman class was an inseparable group. The players lived on campus together, dined together and played pickup basketball together. They would return to the dorms at night that spring and talk openly about their predicament: What do we do?

On the morning of April 23, their group text blew up. Players were called into exit meetings with Sanders and told they couldn’t play at CU. One described the experience as going to see the Grim Reaper. Sowell’s meeting was his first one-on-one conversation with the head coach.

The following morning, Sowell said, players were locked out of Colorado’s football facility. They couldn’t grab their things from the locker room. They couldn’t grab a meal at the training table.

“When you’re gone, you’re gone,” Sowell said.





Xavier Smith’s sitdown with Sanders was later Sunday. By then, the redshirt freshman safety knew what to expect. His father encouraged him to hope for the best. But he didn’t even get a one-on-one. Defensive coordinator Charles Kelly brought Smith and safety Oakie Salave’a into the office together.

“We sat on the sofa, and he’s talking to us, but he’s not even looking at us,” Smith said. “I’m looking Coach Kelly dead in his eyes. (Sanders) said he felt like I should hit the portal. He didn’t want me to waste a year thinking I could earn a spot.

“I was actually getting mad, like tears coming to my eyes. Because, bro, you never even tried to get to know me.”

Smith wasn’t shocked he was cut, given his injury history. He’d broken his right leg during his senior season in high school and again in the spring while rehabbing. He played in one game in 2022 but missed the rest of the season with a hamstring injury. Now Smith was finally healthy and, as a young defensive back from Atlanta, eager to learn from his Hall of Fame coach.

Smith assumed Sanders would dump older players and embrace the young talent he inherited. During the team meeting, he told himself: He’s not talking about me. I ain’t leaving.



During the spring, Smith felt more like an extra in the background of the reality show. He tried to make the most of second-team reps and made plays in the spring game but struggled to get Sanders’ attention. So as he sat on that couch and listened to Kelly encourage him to leave, sure, there was frustration.

“He was destroying guys’ confidence and belief in themselves,” Smith said. “The way he did it, it could’ve been done with a little more compassion.”




Jake Wiley did not get cut. But he wasn’t looking to stay.

The offensive tackle from Aurora, Colo., spent four years with the Buffaloes and saw it all. He committed to Mike MacIntyre in 2018, redshirted during Mel Tucker’s lone season, became a two-year starter under Dorrell and had five different offensive line coaches.

“That’s not a normal number,” Wiley said.

He stayed for the spring to finish his degree and to see if he fit with the new staff. On cut day, Wiley received an ominous text.

“In our O-line group chat, one of the offensive line coaches texted the group and said, ‘Good luck fellas,’” Wiley said, “and then he just removed all of them. It said these five people were removed from the chat. We were like, ‘Huh? What happened?’”


Kopp was required to sit out the 2023 season as a two-time transfer. So were defensive back Tayvion Beasley (San Diego State), tight end Seydou Traore (Mississippi State) and offensive linemen Yousef Mugharbil (NC State) and Noah Fenske (Southern Illinois). Beasley, Traore and Mugharbil came to Colorado as transfers with Sanders and were gone by the end of the spring.

Kopp was sitting in the front row when Sanders arrived. He’d trained with Shedeur Sanders and knew what came next. In his first visit with the QBs, Sanders told them Shedeur was on the way and their job was to make him better.

“I was just sitting there thinking, it is what it is,” Kopp said. “I need to find a new home and a place that wants me.”

bottom line a bunch of entitled babies

 

[#1 pick]

This is the 3rd hit piece from theathletic in the last 12 months on Prime while is covering the same Spring they already came at him on last year. These cacs are relentless and the c00ns who do their bidding are disgusting

 

[Gritsngravy]

Ain’t Deion like one if the few black head coaches in college football

 

[L. Deezy]

bottom line a bunch of entitled babies

wtf is entitled about not being able to even get your stuff out the locker room?

did you read it?

 

[Karume]

wtf is entitled about not being able to even get your stuff out the locker room?

did you read it?

notice he didnt say that they didnt get their stuff, just that THEY couldnt get it out of the locker room, which suggests they just werent allowed in the locker room

 

[L. Deezy]

notice he didnt say that they didnt get their stuff, just that THEY couldnt get it out of the locker room, which suggests they just werent allowed in the locker room

smh, but it came back in football Karma.

notice how that lock room robbery worked at UCLA

 

[Karume]

smh, but it came back in football Karma.

notice how that lock room robbery worked at UCLA

extremely false equivalence. robbery as karma for a pink slip...smh

 

[Left.A1]

extremely false equivalence. robbery as karma for a pink slip...smh

That’s how they think