sigh, It’s May and we have to talk about Colorado football for all the wrong reasons. The college football offseason is well underway, with the University of Colorado looking to improve on a 4-8 season in which they lost eight of their past nine games.
Much has been said about Colorado’s roster turnover, and while head coach Deion Sanders has improved the team since taking over, that lack of depth has come back to bite the team as the season progresses. Ta. On April 29, The Athletic’s Max Olson wrote an article about some of the 53 players told by Deion Sanders and Colorado to enter the transfer portal before the start of the 2023 season, and one of his quotes is: The department has returned to Boulder. , starting quarterback Shedule Sanders responded on social media.
The first reaction to Sanders’ tweet is simple: “It’s okay if you don’t tweet.” I don’t think this will affect Sanders’ draft stock or anything, but it’s rather nifty. You can leave it as is without adding any quotations or anything.
On Wednesday, Deion Sanders made himself known in the feedback from this article. It started off so well that he defended Shedur on social media.
But it quickly becomes something different, and I would argue, something much worse.
It quickly reached a point where everyone involved probably needed to stop tweeting. Dion protecting his son is cool. That’s what any father would do if his child were in Shedur’s shoes. However, belittling or criticizing former players on social media is never a good idea. It’s fine to simply say what every coach says and call it “rat poison” or “let everyone talk and we’ll do it here”, but this is a bridge too far. is. Coaches cannot make fun of players on social media.
The whole Deion Sanders/Colorado era was pretty fascinating, even if it was only a year old. This gold and black is mixed with lots of shades of gray. The roster shake-up is unprecedented at the Power 5 level, but before Sanders, Colorado’s program was in dire straits, coming off a 1-11 season. Even considering the late-season slide, it’s impressive that Sanders and Colorado led the team to 4-8. But how the roster has been turned over is a much bigger problem and shows the cracks in the program’s potential instability.
Waving dozens of players from the team and creating depth issues in the first year was a huge risk, especially when the goal was to bring in a ton of transfers over several years. This would be fine if the Buffaloes did at least a little better in the high school recruiting area as well, but it still raises some issues. Colorado is ranked 15th in the Big 12 and 80th overall in 247Sports’ recruiting rankings. In terms of On3 team rankings, Colorado has him No. 57 overall and No. 12 in the conference. It’s good to make a lot of transfers, but we need players on a four-year cycle to improve the team and give it depth. That’s not happening in Boulder, which raises questions of sustainability.
Overall, the big lesson here is don’t tweet. Because there are some things that are better said behind closed doors.
