We'll have 85. Wouldn't be surprised if 5-10 are PWOs who get schollys at the end of training camp though.
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2022 Transfer Portal
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Is it good when your entire starting secondary transfers off a 4 win team?
Why blame the player when the inept staff and admin at this school can do nothing right to keep players here? Misplaced anger and disappointment.
Maybe you can send Rice and Gonzales a good luck card, with a bouquet of flowers, for transferring out of CU.
If you can replace them with better players...
Rick George ordering more rebar and a backhoe for his bunker extension right now.
Even then, the depth takes a major hit.
The good news: Dorrell, Bob Lopez and Wilson are all still employed at CU. I'm psyched!
NautiBuff1
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Sigh... Have we hit rock bottom yet?
He wants us to be patient, remember?
Who is ready for a “young secondary” excuse after we get smoked by 50+ the first time next year?
KD is really holding the team together
Edit: Completely missed the initial post
Fogo
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Duhhh, Hawaii doesn't have the Flatirons.
SINKRATZ
PhD in Analogy
I find it a little strange to drop a #BUFF4L tag on a tweet announcing you’re transferring from CU.
Costa Rica Buff
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Have we hit 20% of scholarship players in the portal yet?
This is a problem inherent in the new, ad hoc system. Once a team starts to lose players, it’s going to become a cascade problem. How do you get players to come to (or stay at) a sinking ship. It may become a reality that a number of teams are incapable of fielding real teams…. We seem to be at the front of that line….
I knew this was going to continue to cascade like this when I saw RG’s press conference, without even knowing what he was going to say specifically. You don’t have a press conference like that if you haven’t been hearing ominous warnings from players, both in the program and out. I lay bets they’ve had players tell them—outright—that they have been promised NIL money elsewhere and don’t see CU as being competitive in that (and even on multiple levels).
This really isn’t even about football right now. it’s about perception and money. This is an unprecedented moment in sports, as far as I can tell.
The lack of transfer portal signings is the big red flag (we have one QB with a really odd tape, right?). I think it’s highly likely this may not end until it truly raises issues with fielding a team. Does this become a player safety issue at some point, having to play guys who really shouldn’t be out there? I suppose we can take a bunch of former walk-ons. Not sure what that looks like.
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Mr. Babar
I have no elephant books
Hate to even feel this way in January, but 0-12 seems like a real possibility next year. My only hope is that the team (what’s left of it) gels and plays well above expectation. HCKD clearly isn’t painting a vision that inspires guys to be a part of the program.
bigbang2
blindslighted
Here we go again. Reacting to every transfer like it is the end of the world. There is going to be more transfrs even after spring ball. CU is going to add guys even during summer. Lers calm down and wait for the final roster. At the end of the day, CU will need to play better on the OL and DL to be a better football team. There are good prospects in the secondary that we can still add from the portal. CU will probably add one Corner and one safety. The young guys like Dixson, Xavier, Oake, Mills, Harris and Wiggins will play early. Hopefully Woods, N Reed, Taylor and Moore can take the next step in their development. We are going to be a young team not by choice. But no point sulking. The coaches got to coach them up, starting with spring football. The goods news is Wiggins, Oake, X Smith I think are early enrolees. M Blackmon didn't really play down the stretch last season. It was the young guys like Moore and Reed that played alongside C Gonzeles.
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Kuratz
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The trajectory of teams is getting accelerated exponentially. I fully expected a few abysmal years but didn’t think it would happen so quick. Fortunately positive momentum can potentially work the same way. Get a fired up, charismatic guy with a vision and a program could probably turn around a lot quicker than 5-10 years ago
I felt this way, essentially, prior to losing 3/4ths of the entire starting defensive backfield without taking on ANY replacements through a historic period with the most jam-packed portal that will likely ever exist. We are bare bones at depth… having lost real, young talent and starters… we needed to up-grade not lose our best talent with no replacements.
And, as I understand it, we start classes Monday (?), and CU is not like A&M (for instance) in allowing mid-year transfers academically. (Maybe I’m wrong on this, but I see CU admin as being a stumbling block in the midst of the team already falling over.)
It’s getting close to the point where any one we “pick up” can only join in the summer… which does not help build any momentum toward/during spring ball, or even being able to field two teams for a “game” like good teams do (even just for presentation purposes).
Most critically, we seem to have NO NIL strategy or money to compete for players with. This is a year when teams are-quite literally-buying players through the portal. Yet, we appear to be coupon clipping like an episode of Extreme Couponing, looking to get to the register without having to pay any money…. as a plan.
RG, at the very least, knew this was coming from two years!!! And we have NO NIL plan or money from donors to offer as enticement, even to our own players. This is why RG held his press conference. It was a prayer in the wind, as if anything could or would change.
As I see it, we have pretty much one “name” player left who I have been worried would leave all along. He plays a critical position. If his name hits the portal, it’s a free-for-all (even more than it’s been).
Mb2658
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