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Mike Sanford – OC/Interim Head Coach University of Colorado
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Holding my breath for @LesGrossman response to this one.
stevetursi
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wow, you guys are brutal.
stevetursi
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no skin off my back that you all think he sucks now; maybe you ought to reply to that twitter post and tell him directly.
Having sympathy for Mr. Sanford is one thing, although we paid him a lot of money to go away so I have little. Thinking he should get a HC job based on what he's done is where you really went off the rails.
Equating his performance to what the best coach in the history of the game could do was hyperbole at the extreme.
stevetursi
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maybe the truth for Sanford is somewhere between a P5 head coach and a volunteer assistant high school coach.
I'm all about directing that kind of vitriol at karl dorrell who actually got us in that situation. Sanford was the guy to finish out the season so prime can come in and fix things starting this weekend.
I'm all about directing that kind of vitriol at karl dorrell who actually got us in that situation. Sanford was the guy to finish out the season so prime can come in and fix things starting this weekend.
To be clear, I thought he sucked from the moment he was hired.
stevetursi
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bruh did you not see that I already clarified that I wasn't equating him to sabin?
to be clear, we were mocking you, not Sanford. At least, I was.
Tell him directly by responding to his wife?
stevetursi
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You'd get a lot farther telling her than you would telling me.
I did meet him. Once. At the Pearl Street Stampede. He said, "thank you for being here." I'm sure he doesn't remember.
And I thought he sucked BEFORE being hired (looking at his previous results)
I have nothing against Sanford as a person but he was a part of that fiasco that was the most embarrassing moment (or better put time period because it dragged on) in my memory as a Buff fan and I go back a long time.
He and the rest of the staff were paid very well for a job that was very poorly done. Dorrell should have a hard time sleeping at night when he looks at his bank account because he absolutely mailed it in and his staff followed his lead.
Sanford does care about the players but has repeatedly shown that he can't coach at a P5 level.
If he wants to be a head coach he might do well at a D2 of FCS level where millions of dollars aren't on the line and he can do most of his recruiting within a one day drive of the school.
He and the rest of the staff were paid very well for a job that was very poorly done. Dorrell should have a hard time sleeping at night when he looks at his bank account because he absolutely mailed it in and his staff followed his lead.
Sanford does care about the players but has repeatedly shown that he can't coach at a P5 level.
If he wants to be a head coach he might do well at a D2 of FCS level where millions of dollars aren't on the line and he can do most of his recruiting within a one day drive of the school.
Mike Sanford got paid boat loads of money as an offensive coach by several schools. Every school’s offenses got worse while he was hired. Yet, this guy thinks that our focus should be on this privileged sucko (who’s being paid monster money to sit at home) right before Prime coaches his first Colorado game.
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stevetursi
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ok fine, he's not good enough to be at the p5 level. I think it's going a bit far to sh!t on him but whatever, reasonable people can disagree.
Looks like he can recruit, though.
To be clear, I really like Sanford as a person and as a person in a position of leading young people. I have felt, though, that major college football has become such a cutthroat business that his values have made him a fish out of water. He seems like the kind of guy who would be at home in more of a Dan Hawkins situation at a level on that Willamette to UC Davis spectrum where he could make a home, be a pillar of a community, and spend a decade or more running a program in a way that doesn't compromise too much from what he wishes his profession could be.
stevetursi
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That seems like a fair take, and I think I probably agree.