I hope he fails, and spectacularly so. Cumulatively CU has now had over 50 enter the portal. He's down to 16 scholarship players from prior seasons. Basically he kicked out the whole team. He's been transparent since day one that he would. What does that say about him as a coach? He has no confidence in his ability to coach up existing players, he's just going to cut them all. Tells me he's a lousy coach.
There are rumors he's actively hindering players from finding new schools, and that he's forcing them into the portal instead of letting them just leave the team but stay at CU, in which case they'd still have a guaranteed 4 year scholarship. All of this attrition in late spring also hinders these kids from finding a new home, many are going to lose out on a high value D1 scholarship and will end up in FCS or something.
I can't imagine what parents of recruits would think watching this fiasco. I'd never send my kid to play for this egomaniac. Deion either forgot that he has to recruit beyond this one season and will be in living rooms recruiting moms and dads, or his selfishness means he simply doesn't care. Probably the latter. If he has success doing this it could set dangerous precedent for CFB so I'm actively rooting against him and I feel bad for the former players at CU.