A portion of a post on 247 for a long-time CU basketball fan who I know fairly well (PA Buff). This guy has been very generous to that program, and he can see the men's BB program has become an utter sham between Boyle and RG. To back up his comment about how lazy CU is, I gave what I think was meaningful NIL $$ to 5430 for football because I believe in Prime. The NIL program was brought in-house at the end of 2024, and I have not heard a word from anyone at CU, including Reggie Calhoun, Director of Football NIL. Not a ****ing word.
PA Buff
A number of us had hoped that TiredTad and Negative-NIL Reclining-RG would hang it up, and we'd land somebody with some exciting muscle and energy like Little Pitino or McCullom or Medved. Take a look of what those guys have been doing, piling in 4 and 5-stars though the portal at their brand-new locations. And don't hang your hat on the "we don't have the NIL." I know for a fact the pitiful push that CU gives to NIL, and also the Buffs-in-Charge total lacking of smarts. They should be doing what these hot young coaches have done -- identify a half-dozen or so studs that have Sweet Sixteen written all over them, and then you approach your already identified money supporters from alumni, to businesses, to silicon-valley-CU connections -- and you connect the friggin' dots with how their cash can win championships, and you push hard and land the deal..
But no, CU takes a relaxed approach. Boyle wants to develop 17-year-olds the old way into 22-year-old contributors, considering some challenged local college boy a great 'portal' add-on, and RG has his mind on some Scottsdale links layout, and has never given much of a s*** for basketball. He's more likely to be at the Lazy Boy shop, searching for recliners than on a swift jet to Seattle or Chicago to lay out a compelling vision for some somewhat interested CU alum or business owner.
Some of us live by hoops. I've been to Hawaii, to Vegas, to Charleston and awful-Lynchburg, and Brooklyn and much of the rest to support this team, and others have too. But the guys in charge, nice guys for sure, great to have a meal with at Shanahan's or the Buckhorn Exchange, simply have become what we all worry about having happen -- morphing into wrinkled old men who are out of touch, don't like the way the world is changing, and have lost all that that inner intensity and fire that can explode into success..
