15 Colorado players enter portal after spring game, which got me thinking...

bbrown

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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.
Holy cow I knew it was bad but had no idea it was over 50. Yikes.
 

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Too many players leaving, too many coming in . I expect an improvement, again too much or too little 6-7 or 7-6 . If Deion is successful there, as in NY6 Bowls he will be coaching in the Southeast again within 4 years.
 

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Completely agree with everything you wrote... there might not be a situation/person that represents the exact opposite of what Joe (and many others) stood/stand for. Like someone wrote above "you hire a clown, expect a circus"... I so love that quote

Another good one is, ‘play stupid games, win stupid prizes.’
 

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Something tells me Colorado will never be invited to the Big 10 with Sanders there.
 

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I am not a fan of Deion Sanders. However, what is he doing that is so wrong? He got the coaching job for a bad football team. It stands to reason that if the team is so bad then a lot of those players probably aren't that good either. So let's assume that Deion evaluated the talent on the roster, like any prospective candidate would before taking the job, He probably saw a lot of players who weren't that good and/or weren't working that hard. Then he took the job and called many of them out (albeit not by name). He may have had some conversations with some of those players and some others saw the writing on the wall so they entered the portal. I am sure there were some others who just didn't like him/his coaching style or what was happening there so they entered the portal, too. Isn't this a better option than coaching for 3-4 years with bad players that he didn't recruit and not winning. At least this way if he doesn't win, it's on him.
 

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Sold out spring game for the first time ever, tons of excitement - but 41 total (and 17 since their spring game on Saturday) players in the portal? We offered one of them (standout WR). Is this Sanders ‘cleaning house’ or players not wanting to play for him? I think it’s the latter - Sanders isn’t cut out for big boy ball and he’ll cut and run when that becomes obvious….players see he’s about one thing - himself.


Sanders is going to change the culture from losing to winning in Colorado.
 

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Holy cow I knew it was bad but had no idea it was over 50. Yikes.
It keeps increasing daily. I think as of this morning 4 more scholarship players from prior years have left, so he's down to 12. A handful of kids that followed Deion from Jackson St to CU have gone back into the portal to transfer back out, so now it appears he's treating players he already had a relationship with like dirt. From the outside looking in Deion appears like a trash coach and trash human being. The sooner he's out of CFB, the better.
 
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It keeps increasing daily. I think as of this morning 4 more scholarship players from prior years have left, so he's down to 12. A handful of kids that followed Deion from Jackson St to CU have gone back into the portal to transfer back out, so now it appears he's treating players he already had a relationship with like dirt. From the outside looking in Deion appears like a trash coach and trash human being. The sooner he's out of CFB, the better.
What about college football today is so pristine and honest that there isn’t room for one more dirtbag. If in such he is a dirtbag.
 

Tom_PSU

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If Neon Dion pulls this off there’s going to be a complete meltdown from everyone who thought they they knew anything about college football. Including me, but then again that might be really funny to see.
 

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I'm hoping he brings Antonio Brown in as a receivers coach. $h1tshow Squared
 

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'If one fights, we all fight'


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Apparently, he still has PTSD from the time no teammates helped him when he and Andre Rison got in that slap fight.
 
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'If one fights, we all fight'


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Unfortunately, for those of us in the education system, it’s comments like his that make things worse for us. This seems to be the mentality of high school kids, two people get into a fight and nobody breaks it up but rather it now becomes 20 on 20.
 
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