Gotta find two legit starters at LB. I would like to see London and Alex emerge as starter locks for 2026 this year as EDGEs. As long as we add more depth to the DT room, we should be fine. Prime gonna have to hit the portal hard for corners. DJ needs to move back to CB2. We need two starting corners, one being a nickel. We need Carter to be consistent so we can feel comfortable about the safety spots going into 2026.
Those guys weren’t doing much, if anything, with the team over the Summer. Nobody on the regular staff and that’s pretty standard. Mostly S&C staff.
Prime being out with cancer did not help us in the year we needed Prime the most.
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Don't hold your breath. The other backs will get healthy, and Drelon won't figure in the backfield going forward. This staff isn't that smart.
CP said the opposite in his presser
The defense played a lot better than I thought they would. They played well enough for CU to win.
Also our DB can’t do anything but hold and DPI. That doesn’t help.
The majority of the guys who got snaps for the BYU, Houston and GA Tech teams are not guys that Prime had any interest in recruiting out of HS. I think he's adjusted his mentality about this, but his philosophy his first year was 100% "if you can't help the team on gameday in the upcoming season, why would I sign you?" His roster management was like he was in the NFL or at a JUCO. CFB is at least as much about talent and culture development pipeline within your roster as it is about game-ready talent at the top of your roster.
Only problem with the Drelon thing is they'll know what's coming. Maybe they could put in a short pass in that package.
Ole Miss is making it work.
That play really pissed me off. Looked like video game bullshvt. Throw it the **** away if its not there.
Perfect post! You can jury-rigged when you have Shedeur and Travis Hunter. But when you don't have those special talents at key positions, you gotta build with a multi year plan in mind. Most of our seniors aren't even rotational. This portal model only works when you do it right. Faulk was the only one getting gems out of the portal with Trackhawk and Price. Half of these seniors we landed aren't even rotational. They are just jags.
Outlier. Lane's among the best and most experienced coaches in the biz, he's a college offense guru, and he's wired mentally to do well in this era. Cignetti is similar. Prime needs to model Saban and find a college OC guru to build and run his offensive system.
Lane has real money, we don't. We don't have their budget. We are middle of the pack in the Big XII budget wise, Ole Miss is an SEC team with a massive budget. We aren't anywhere near the same league with money. Consider us to spend like the Rockies and Ole Miss spends like the Padres. They don't have Dodgers money like Texas, A&M, UGA, and Bama but they got Padres and Yankees money.
I was talking about making the team gel with a high number of transfers.
He's getting proven starters. It's easier to gel when guys are consistent and productive. We went after many players they did in the portal and we couldn't come anywhere close money wise
This is where Prime is supposed to be our X factor.
He is our X factor, do you know how much worse CU would do with their recruiting map. They would be G5 level recruiting wise and always losing players currently on the roster looking at this place as a stepping stone.
And what good is that skill set if it doesn’t translate into wins?
Id argue cb and S is a worse room than lb this year and this is not a defense of hart
Everything was built for perfection had Shedeur had another year of eligibility. He and Travis on this team would be special
Maybe. Or maybe we’d be playing at the Oklahoma State level.
HCP has said a lot of things in his pressers this year...
Its not even close. Those guys do the right thing 7 out of 10 times. The LBs are generally messing up 6 out of 10 times. You can't win like that. Last year LB was doing the right thing around 7.5 out of 10 times. Not great but a lot better than right now