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*OFFICIAL* Deion Sanders aka Coach Prime is the new CU Football Head Coach thread
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And keep Prime here if we can. I feel like 3 years is what we need to change a culture, build a program, and establish ourselves as a national destination.
Give what a rest?
To be clear: those are the things I believe RG will need to do in order to keep Prime. He’s gonna need to be a rainmaker and Ray Donovan from Season One all at once.
**** that. I want Prime to win and in 3 years, I want CU to give him $12m/year and a $10m salary pool, along with literally anything else he asks for, including stadium renovations, facility upgrades, etc. because $22-25m/year is going to be chump change compared to the money being thrown at this program at that point
I believe
Yep! Big and SEC schools are going to come hard and they have to TV money to back up their bets.
In three years my guess is 13-17 Mil per year to keep him.
(+10 for the Ray Donovan reference).
To be clear, I wrote a minimum of $20 million per year. A 10/10, 11/9, or 12/8 HC/AC split (NOT including the Prime Coaching Academy members and other support staff) is what I envision as mandatory minimums. Agree that going to $30 million for everyone including HC, ACs, Prime Coaching Academy members, and other support staff would be more ideal.
If we are in, or threatening the playoffs at that point, the latter is a no-brainer. If we are competing for league championships I think we can get away with less with incentives
The other part of the discussion is the impact on Pac-12 (or Big 12) viewership with a CU that is competing for playoff spots.
I think that it might level the playing field a bit.
For instance, Would a #3 CU vs #10 Oregon matchup draw the same amount of eyeballs as say a #5 Michigan vs a #15 Wisconsin?
I’m only concerned about winning and keeping a once in a lifetime person as our HC. Ratings and conferences will solve themselves.
You are wrong. If Colorado is competing for league championships, the amount I described will be the minimum buyin for Prime’s services.
It is incredible how “once in a lifetime” he is.
Agree. I am just saying, I don’t want the mindset of leadership to be, let’s have Prime rebuild the program and brand over the next 2-3 years and then wish him well. They have now shown the willingness to compete. If a coach shows he’s worth it, they need to be willing to making him a top 3-5 highest paid coach, IMO
What if his next challenge becomes proving he can create something amazing and create all sorts of opportunities doing Rick George's job?
I don’t have a crystal ball of what the going rate will be, neither do you. We are in agreement though, that whatever it is, it will be worth every penny if we are in either of those scenarios
Pass your drugs!
You're right. I missed the news of the documentary with all the awesomeness going on
If he proves that someone that was a Brand before he was a coach can blow it all up so easily I think you see a few more flashy guys make this move. If you pull in a top 10 class out of the portal that puts A LOT of traditional coaches in a hard place.
Some things can't be bottled and replicated.
Photographic memory. I had a boss that had that skill, who would remind me of something I said years earlier in passing like it was yesterday.
For sure. Prime Time is pretty one of a kind.
Michael Strahan doesnt have the coaching experience but that kind of personality could resonate. And that damn portal is suddenly a big deal.
That’s almost exactly what happened. I looked at him after the turn ….And just went blank. I said, I have no idea what your name is right now.I’m laughing at the moment you on the 10th hole.
“Oh yeah it’s……”.
He said, No way.
Man, I got nothing.
He cracked up. We both wanted to see how long it would take.
Parking lot. As soon as I saw his car.
Obviously for selfish reasons I want Coach Prime to win a National Championship here and make us a dominant force in college football because I am a Buffs fan.
As I think more about it though I also want him to do so for two other reasons.
1. is to stick it to the SEC/B1G syndicate that wants to dominate and ruin college football for all but their select few.
2. and bigger is that I want to see Coach Prime stick it in the eye of all those old school redneck Athletic Directors across the country who are glad to have their team be +/- 75% Black and hire a couple of token Black position coaches for recruiting purposes but who would never consider hiring a Black head coach despite the fact that there have been literally thousands of dedicated, hard working, highly intelligent young Black men who have played the game and would love the opportunity to lead a team.
As I think more about it though I also want him to do so for two other reasons.
1. is to stick it to the SEC/B1G syndicate that wants to dominate and ruin college football for all but their select few.
2. and bigger is that I want to see Coach Prime stick it in the eye of all those old school redneck Athletic Directors across the country who are glad to have their team be +/- 75% Black and hire a couple of token Black position coaches for recruiting purposes but who would never consider hiring a Black head coach despite the fact that there have been literally thousands of dedicated, hard working, highly intelligent young Black men who have played the game and would love the opportunity to lead a team.
Coach Prime protected that memory throughout his playing career.
And add in the $11 mil to pay the old coaching staff as they sit around for a year (which I would absolutely do).
CU freak’n stepped up to do this.
1 trillion percent. Everything I’ve outlined is with the express intent of keeping Prime and fulfilling his potential as a college football coach at Colorado.