2022 Transfer Portal

[14er]

 

[SpacemanSpiff]

Webster’s Dictionary definition of blindsighted:

 

[Burrito]

 

[SeanMSan]

 

[Go Buffs]

Seeing lots of activity in the portal regarding offers and commitments, but nothing from our Buffs (except, of course, from all of our guys running for the exit). Certainly not surprised at all.

 

[777BuffFan]

I’m starting to think that Mel Tucker is a genius. The hot mess that KD walked into is beginning to look like a perfect storm. Really talented kids are getting poached by better programs, lower tier P5 guys aren’t liking the idea of getting crushed every Saturday and heading out, and the Buffs are left with trying coaching up kids (until and if) they blossom, then they are gone too. Rinse repeat. It’s easy to see where the portal and HS talent is going, and it isn’t the flatirons. The lack of University and State support is death sentence. CU can’t help with NIL for the players? Ludicrous. Buffs might as well drop down to FBS level. At least it will be humorous to watch the surprise when the revenue negative sports don’t get their money.

 

[Swish]

I’m starting to think that Mel Tucker is a genius. The hot mess that KD walked into is beginning to look like a perfect storm. Really talented kids are getting poached by better programs, lower tier P5 guys aren’t liking the idea of getting crushed every Saturday and heading out, and the Buffs are left with trying coaching up kids (until and if) they blossom, then they are gone too. Rinse repeat. It’s easy to see where the portal and HS talent is going, and it isn’t the flatirons. The lack of University and State support is death sentence. CU can’t help with NIL for the players? Ludicrous. Buffs might as well drop down to FBS level. At least it will be humorous to watch the surprise when the revenue negative sports don’t get their money.

I'm not sure we would do all that well against Ferris St., Valdosta St., or Mines at this point, let alone North Dakota St.
Those guys play some good football

 

[BuffLuke80]

I'm not sure we would do all that well against Ferris St., Valdosta St., or Mines at this point, let alone North Dakota St.
Those guys play some good football

Don't we play North Dakota St. sometime soon? I could've swore I saw that. I dread that game, they'll probably ****ing beat the brakes off of us.

 

[OsideBuff]

Don't we play North Dakota St. sometime soon? I could've swore I saw that. I dread that game, they'll probably ****ing beat the brakes off of us.

My nieces hubby is the DC...he would coach circles around Wilson..
#1 scoring defense in 2019 and 2021...nominated for FCS coordinator of the year..

Headed to Frisco to watch the championship game on 08 January..against Montana State..coached by a former NDSU alum..

Go Bison!

 

[bigbang2]

CU will be fine. All programs go through bad spell. cU just have to make adjustments to adapt to the new college football landscape. Free great education, opportunity to play at a P5 school. Great campus, great facilities and now assembling coaches that teach the game well should be CU selling point. The reality is we can't compete with the big money bags. You don't want to have a double negative which is you are bad team and you also facing multiple NCAA violations.

 

[BuffLuke80]

CU will be fine. All programs go through bad spell. cU just have to make adjustments to adapt to the new college football landscape. Free great education, opportunity to play at a P5 school. Great campus, great facilities and now assembling coaches that teach the game well should be CU selling point. The reality is we can't compete with the big money bags. You don't want to have a double negative which is you are bad team and you also facing multiple NCAA violations.

A bad spell? It that supposed to last almost two decades?

 

[SINKRATZ]

CU will be fine. All programs go through bad spell. cU just have to make adjustments to adapt to the new college football landscape. Free great education, opportunity to play at a P5 school. Great campus, great facilities and now assembling coaches that teach the game well should be CU selling point. The reality is we can't compete with the big money bags. You don't want to have a double negative which is you are bad team and you also facing multiple NCAA violations.

CU has a lot going for it, that’s true, but have you honestly seen any evidence that CU is willing or capable of making the adjustments needed to adapt to the new college football landscape?

Also, CU seems to be the only school where NCAA violations or the threat thereof are actually punishing.

 

[buffaholic]

Everything is fine.

 

[MtnBuff]

I'm not sure we would do all that well against Ferris St., Valdosta St., or Mines at this point, let alone North Dakota St.
Those guys play some good football

Considering that we had trouble trying to control the LOS against Northern Colorado which is on the lower end of FCS talent you might be right. The final score of that game didn't reflect how much trouble they gave us in multiple areas.

CU will be fine. All programs go through bad spell. cU just have to make adjustments to adapt to the new college football landscape. Free great education, opportunity to play at a P5 school. Great campus, great facilities and now assembling coaches that teach the game well should be CU selling point. The reality is we can't compete with the big money bags. You don't want to have a double negative which is you are bad team and you also facing multiple NCAA violations.

Some programs go through bad spells.

Others just suck long term, sometimes with an occasional okay season (6 or 8 wins and a mediocre bowl game) to give the fans hope but mostly they suck.

Look at programs like Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Vandy, Duke, Syracuse, etc. who are almost always "down."

These are all programs where the administration doesn't expect them to win and as a result the resources and expectations aren't at a winning level.

As CU fans we love to live in the past, live in the glory of the Mac years and the early 70's and some other stretches but the reality is that since the administration cut the legs out from under Gary Barnett in response to the bogus scandal that the administration didn't have the courage to stand up to we have sucked. Yes we went and got our butts kicked three times in mediocre bowl games but mostly we have been trying and failing to stay out of being the worst team in our division.

This isn't going to change until winning becomes a real priority backed with real support.

We can do it. As bad as we have been CU is still in the upper half of the P5 in revenues, win and we have supporters who will step up further. We don't do it though because our administration doesn't care enough to make it happen.

 

[MiamiBuffs]

I’m starting to think that Mel Tucker is a genius. The hot mess that KD walked into is beginning to look like a perfect storm. Really talented kids are getting poached by better programs, lower tier P5 guys aren’t liking the idea of getting crushed every Saturday and heading out, and the Buffs are left with trying coaching up kids (until and if) they blossom, then they are gone too. Rinse repeat. It’s easy to see where the portal and HS talent is going, and it isn’t the flatirons. The lack of University and State support is death sentence. CU can’t help with NIL for the players? Ludicrous. Buffs might as well drop down to FBS level. At least it will be humorous to watch the surprise when the revenue negative sports don’t get their money.

*FCS

CU will be fine. All programs go through bad spell. cU just have to make adjustments to adapt to the new college football landscape. Free great education, opportunity to play at a P5 school. Great campus, great facilities and now assembling coaches that teach the game well should be CU selling point. The reality is we can't compete with the big money bags. You don't want to have a double negative which is you are bad team and you also facing multiple NCAA violations.

CU would say they're fine right now!

CU has a lot going for it, that’s true, but have you honestly seen any evidence that CU is willing or capable of making the adjustments needed to adapt to the new college football landscape?

Also, CU seems to be the only school where NCAA violations or the threat thereof are actually punishing.

The evidence is that KD is perfectly acceptable and completely preferable to the administration. See contract. In fact, his hire and retention falls in line with a pattern of hires for the HFBC position for a number of years.

 

[Creebuzz]

I often have the feeling that everyone in leadership positions at CU hits the Chardonnay at noon.

 

[H.E. Pennypacker]

CU will be fine. All programs go through bad spell. cU just have to make adjustments to adapt to the new college football landscape. Free great education, opportunity to play at a P5 school. Great campus, great facilities and now assembling coaches that teach the game well should be CU selling point. The reality is we can't compete with the big money bags. You don't want to have a double negative which is you are bad team and you also facing multiple NCAA violations.

 

[Not Sure]

CU will be fine. All programs go through bad spell. cU just have to make adjustments to adapt to the new college football landscape. Free great education, opportunity to play at a P5 school. Great campus, great facilities and now assembling coaches that teach the game well should be CU selling point. The reality is we can't compete with the big money bags. You don't want to have a double negative which is you are bad team and you also facing multiple NCAA violations.

In the grand scheme of things, yes. CU will be fine. The University isn’t going anywhere. The football program at CU is mired in a cycle of sub mediocrity that has existed for 20 years. There is absolutely zero indication that University leadership is motivated to change that cycle. The idea that CU football is merely going through a bad spell is delusional. We are what we are because of decisions we have made and continue to make. The same people who made the choices that put us in the situation we are in remain in positions where they control the future of the program. Here’s where you need to pay attention: THESE PEOPLE DONT CARE IF THE FOOTBALL PROGRAM IS SUCCESSFUL OR NOT. We are depending on these same people to lead us out of the situation we are in and they couldn’t care less. It’s simply not important to them.

 

[Duff Man]

CU will be fine. All programs go through bad spell. cU just have to make adjustments to adapt to the new college football landscape. Free great education, opportunity to play at a P5 school. Great campus, great facilities and now assembling coaches that teach the game well should be CU selling point. The reality is we can't compete with the big money bags. You don't want to have a double negative which is you are bad team and you also facing multiple NCAA violations.

Evidence of coaches that "teach the game well?"

 

[Duff Man]

A program like CU should be replacing Martin with a late 20something/early 30something GA from Texas or aTm or another program along those lines who is going to jump at a chance to make $200k/year and work his dick off on the recruiting trail. Same goes for replacing Cook, and Chev (WR only) at the very least.

I just don’t understand how these “outside the box” or high risk/high reward strategies that we’ve discussed for a while now are so taboo for Dorrell and RG.

Rick George can’t actually believe this current “teach em up” strategy is actually going to work.

The Cook hire may only be marginally better than Coach Blocking Sled. Not kidding.

 

[SINKRATZ]

Evidence of coaches that "teach the game well?"

Dorrell said so, what more do you need??

 

[H.E. Pennypacker]

opportunity to play at a P5 school.

I guess we do offer that, to some of the players that would have signed to an FCS school, had we not offered.

 

[Bliff Cranch]

If we’re all honest, CU has been recruiting the equivalent of a G5 program for many years now and you become what you recruit. Yes, for now, CU is in a P5 conference but no one confuses the PAC12 as an equivalent of the other P5 conferences, save for maybe the ACC, but those days are numbered. A super-elite conference will form and separate from the rest. CU will not be in it. The power five will dissolve. So will the G5. The savviest will try to form conferences and compete for second-tier athletes and TV money.

It’s gonna happen. Get ready or get left behind.

 

[bigbang2]

I guess we do offer that, to some of the players that would have signed to an FCS school, had we not offered.

There are also good players that play at FCS schools. Are you saying they are lesser because they play at FCS schools?

CU offers Dartmouth CB Isiah Johnson grad transfer.

 

[bigbang2]

Here we go again. What do you mean by FCS level players? I wonder how many players that went to FCS schools are currently playing in the NFL.

 

[96 Buff]

Putting players in the NFL is not the measuring stick - winning against your conference opponents and other P5 teams is the measuring stick. The Buffs are ****ing miserable against that measurement and it's mostly due to having inferior talent.

 

[Duff Man]

There are also good players that play at FCS schools. Are you saying they are lesser because they play at FCS schools?

CU offers Dartmouth CB Isiah Johnson grad transfer.

Pretty much.

 

[hawg1]

There are also good players that play at FCS schools. Are you saying they are lesser because they play at FCS schools?

CU offers Dartmouth CB Isiah Johnson grad transfer.

Yes, they are “lesser”.

 

[bigbang2]

No they are not. There are good players in every conference or league. There are also bad players at P5 schools.

 

[Duff Man]

The vast majority of P5 players are better than players at FCS schools. There is not even a debate to be had here.