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Probably.
After CU loses the next four games and gives up 50 on average we will see about that.
You do realize we are talking about the folks who hired Dorrell and fully guaranteed the deal to make him the highest paid CU coach in history, right? IMO, there is no level of bad management decision out of their reach.
Only because it's coming off the Dorrell hire/firing, but Sanford is a better candidate than Dorrell if a program had to choose.
True, after Dorell, CU is in a cannot miss position, and cannot take a risk on Sanford. But yes, Sanford, and practically anybody above HS level would have been better than Dorrell, all other things equal.
Shut the **** up Brian
The only thing Sanford does better than Dorrell is have more energy.
Nah. He also is putting forth the effort to make the players know that it's about them and he cares about them. He's been promoting CU traditions. He has personally reached out to students to get them involved. He's been much more available and open with the media.
And he recruits better than Dorrell, I think
And Dorrell's relevant HC record in modern CFB was 8-15 and almost assuredly would have been 9-21 or maybe 8-22 had he coached out the season.
Sanford is garbage. He got fired from a non P5 HC job for being bad. Offenses he’s directed regressed while he was calling the plays INCLUDING AT COLORADO. The offense got better after he stopped calling the plays. He is a disaster.
Everyone else? Is it that you don't think we can land Rhule or O'Brien - or do you have Herman & Bronco that much above them?
I don’t think Rhule and O’Brien are realistic options. I think both Herman and Mendenhall are realistic if we decide we actually want to field a competitive football program and give them the resources and support they need.
Dorrell was the lead recruiter for Jordyn Tyson. I don’t think Sanford has any “ins” with any players near that level.
My position stands, regardless of CU’s past incompetence, this is just not realistic. You’d have to believe the powers that be were deliberately trying to torpedo the entire Athletic Department for this to be true and if that were the goal, keeping Dorrell would have been a way cheaper means to the same end.
I led the Tyson hype train, but very few here were impressed with him because CU was his only P5 offer.
Sanford is in an everything to gain, nothing to lose honeymoon period. Nobody expects him to do anything with this team and he’s going to get almost no criticism no matter how bad the team performs the rest of the year. It’s really easy to be out glad handing fans and being available to the media when no one is criticizing you and you’re absolved from every loss the rest of the season. How’s recruiting going under Interim Sanford? No one knows or cares.
There’s a lot to like about the guy, his energy and engagement you mention along with his connection to the Petersen and Harbaugh coaching trees. I suspect he’d also be able to put together a pretty decent staff (guys like Junior Adams at Oregon and Maurice Crum at Ole Miss) who worked with him before. BUT, the most important part of the job-fielding a good team-has just been too awful to overlook.
Well, supposedly there’s some good news on this front coming later this week.
Do you think they were trying to destroy CU FB when they hired Dorell? No, they were just that bad.
