What's new
AllBuffs | Unofficial fan site for the University of Colorado at Boulder Athletics programs

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • Prime Time. Prime Time. Its a new era for Colorado football. Consider signing up for a club membership! For $20/year, you can get access to all the special features at Allbuffs, including club member only forums, dark mode, avatars and best of all no ads ! But seriously, please sign up so that we can pay the bills. No one earns money here, and we can use your $20 to keep this hellhole running. You can sign up for a club membership by navigating to your account in the upper right and clicking on "Account Upgrades". Make it happen!

Prime is Polarizing

Buffnik

Real name isn't Nik
Club Member
Junta Member
And it's delicious.

I'm seeing "Coach Ego" tweets, stuff about it being all about him with no care for CU or the players, how he'll leave a mess when he bolts, how he represents all that's wrong with college football, and even people calling it a cult.

It's just getting started, too. How pissed are people gonna be once top programs start losing coaches and recruits to CU for real? How much more do they attack when Coach Prime starts winning big?

Part of it is fear and uncertainty of the world they understood being turned on its head. Part of it is race since it's much easier to accept a black guy who isn't brash, outspoken and on another level of confidence (same crowd who didn't love Ali until after he was unable to speak).

I love it. Bring it, doubters and haters. It's just more motivation up front and satisfaction at the back end of the process. Tell us why he can't, why CU can't... and then complain about how unfair it is that we're kicking your ass.
 
Last edited:
And it's delicious.

I'm seeing "Coach Ego" tweets, stuff about it being all about him with no care for CU or the players, how he'll leave a mess when he bolts, how he represents all that's wrong with college football, and even people calling it a cult.

It's just getting started, too. How pissed are people gonna be once top programs start losing coaches and recruits to CU for real? How much more do they attack when Coach Prime starts winning big?

Part of it is fear and uncertainty of the world they understood being turned on its head. Part of it is race since it's much easier to accept a black guy who isn't brash, outspoken and on another level of confidence (same crowd who didn't love Ali until after he was unable to speak).

I love it. Bring it, doubters and haters. It's just more motivation up front and satisfaction at the back end of the process. Tell us why he can't, why CU can't... and then complain
Most of the tweets ive seen trashing Prime are from sec fans, white sec fans almost certainly, with a lot a maga crap on their timelines.
 
Yes it is going to be ugly and racist. And Prime knew that when he got into this. I am glad we aren’t in the cesspool of the big 12 anymore as the number of pure out and out bigots is much higher. I think most of the really awful shots fired at us are likely to come from the sec and such.

embrace the hate, tune out the noise, and watch this happen. I like the universe better when fans of the football superpowers are bitching about Prime and us. This is justice.
 
Watch this, I just assumed you already had


Oh I thought you were referring to the specifics of the Auburn booster network stuff. Feldman said Auburn kicked around the idea of Prime, but it didn't get much traction with leadership and boosters because of what came along with hiring him, then went into the idea that boosters of big programs want the traditional CFB HC that's going to kiss their ass and play golf with them, and Prime is never going to do that.
 
Oh I thought you were referring to the specifics of the Auburn booster network stuff. Feldman said Auburn kicked around the idea of Prime, but it didn't get much traction with leadership and boosters because of what came along with hiring him, then went into the idea that boosters of big programs want the traditional CFB HC that's going to kiss their ass and play golf with them, and Prime is never going to do that.

Race obviously comes on top of that and supercharges certain issues, especially in the Deep South, but it also highlights the issues that come with tradition as there are structures and processes in place that are really hard to break up and where everyone thinks he deserves a say because he either contributes money or played for the program. You don't have those problems at places like Oregon.

We are just desperate enough that we felt forced to give it a shot also because we are running out of chances.
 
Race obviously comes on top of that and supercharges certain issues, especially in the Deep South, but it also highlights the issues that come with tradition as there are structures and processes in place that are really hard to break up and where everyone thinks he deserves a say because he either contributes money or played for the program. You don't have those problems at places like Oregon.

We are just desperate enough that we felt forced to give it a shot also because we are running out of chances.
We also don't have an overly involved booster network either, nor do I think we would ever have one even if we were winning championships. That's not to say we wouldn't have big donors, but the control the SEC boosters want and are used to having just isn't something Prime will ever have to deal with at Colorado.
 
We also don't have an overly involved booster network either, nor do I think we would ever have one even if we were winning championships. That's not to say we wouldn't have big donors, but the control the SEC boosters want and are used to having just isn't something Prime will ever have to deal with at Colorado.

Everything has pros and cons.
 
I get it from outsiders who may be jealous or spiteful. But when I see **** like this from "Buffs fans" it pisses me off. That's the soft, weak, loser mentality that's infected this program for years and needs to be eradicated. Which exactly what Prime is doing.

Edit: I don't know if this guy is on this board, but sorry not sorry. This is garbage.

 
Race obviously comes on top of that and supercharges certain issues, especially in the Deep South, but it also highlights the issues that come with tradition as there are structures and processes in place that are really hard to break up and where everyone thinks he deserves a say because he either contributes money or played for the program. You don't have those problems at places like Oregon.

We are just desperate enough that we felt forced to give it a shot also because we are running out of chances.
They aren't hiring no Black man. That's a leadership position in the South. You already know the answer.
 
I get it from outsiders who may be jealous or spiteful. But when I see **** like this from "Buffs fans" it pisses me off. That's the soft, weak, loser mentality that's infected this program for years and needs to be eradicated. Which exactly what Prime is doing.

Edit: I don't know if this guy is on this board, but sorry not sorry. This is garbage.


That guy is trash. He has **** talked recruits and players at various points and he basically blocks everybody who tries to argue with him. Absolute worst.
 
The more we see the reaction, the more I think Coach Prime was a better fit for CU than most P5 schools. Like I posted on one of the other boards, CU boosters and fans wouldn't care if Prime was purple, sprouting antennae from his head, and speaking in tongues if he gets us a couple of winning seasons. We have our own bull**** challenges, mostly related to the admin and the academics, but not a lot of that other really toxic BS he would have to put up with at a lot of other schools in the South or at "blue bloods".

It really is fascinating to read some of the takes on neutral forums or other school's boards. Coach Prime really seems almost like a human Rorschach Test with how differently people perceive him. Its also been a bit of a lesson in inherent bias with a lot off people seeming to just assume he can recruit but not coach and dismissing his success at the FCS level as simply out talent-ing teams, while ignoring the fact that he has roughly the equivalent level of experience and success as Jim Harbaugh when he was hired at Stanford.
 
The beauty of sports is that it's a meritocracy. You are what your record says you are. So at the end of the day the only bottom line that matters is scoreboard.

On the issue of race, it's basic math. 65-70% of players have been persons of color for decades, primarily African Americans. But somehow we see fewer HCs, Coordinators and ADs as a percentage of AAs than the group makes up as a % of the general population? Think about how unusual it would be for the AD, HC, OC & DC to all be black - but the math tells us clearly that all of those positions being held by white guys is what should be unusual and no one bats an eye to that.

Putting the bullsh!t of that to the side, what it tells me is that there is a deep talent pool of great AA coaches (and administrators) who just need an opportunity and the organizations who are smart enough to be agents of change will benefit like crazy. Bill McCartney recognized this and preached it 30 years ago but little has changed. I'm glad that CU is smart enough to jump at the opportunity to do what's right and too long overdue. It's a beautiful thing that a business decision within a meritocracy is also a driver of social progress.

(I'll get off my soapbox now and go back to trying to impress my son with how cool I am by using the word "drip" correctly in a sentence.)
 
I get it from outsiders who may be jealous or spiteful. But when I see **** like this from "Buffs fans" it pisses me off. That's the soft, weak, loser mentality that's infected this program for years and needs to be eradicated. Which exactly what Prime is doing.


Not everyone is going to be cool with his old school Bobby Bowden approach. Especially when you had the easy going of a player's coach that Coach Stafford was.

This also happened at JSU before they started landing 3 stars and 4 stars. Then they started winning and nothing he said could sound wrong. But this part of the process, when Deion is saying I am recruiting your replacement and your not worthy to be on scholarship playing college football, and cut full scholarship players saying the walk ons are better than you, it didn't sit well with everyone. But success is what makes people calm down especially with discomfort.
 
Mushing Dave Chappelle GIF
 
Sorry to be that guy, but any chance we could change the thread title to "Prime is Polarizing (In a Good Way)" Worried about drive by idiots taking it the wrong way. Again, maybe it's just me...
 
The beauty of sports is that it's a meritocracy. You are what your record says you are. So at the end of the day the only bottom line that matters is scoreboard.

On the issue of race, it's basic math. 65-70% of players have been persons of color for decades, primarily African Americans. But somehow we see fewer HCs, Coordinators and ADs as a percentage of AAs than the group makes up as a % of the general population? Think about how unusual it would be for the AD, HC, OC & DC to all be black - but the math tells us clearly that all of those positions being held by white guys is what should be unusual and no one bats an eye to that.

Putting the bullsh!t of that to the side, what it tells me is that there is a deep talent pool of great AA coaches (and administrators) who just need an opportunity and the organizations who are smart enough to be agents of change will benefit like crazy. Bill McCartney recognized this and preached it 30 years ago but little has changed. I'm glad that CU is smart enough to jump at the opportunity to do what's right and too long overdue. It's a beautiful thing that a business decision within a meritocracy is also a driver of social progress.

(I'll get off my soapbox now and go back to trying to impress my son with how cool I am by using the word "drip" correctly in a sentence.)
Yep, it does make you wonder how much talent is being ignored. I'm pretty intrigued by the rumors that we may be trying to convince Willie Simmons from FAU to come be the OC.
 
I get it from outsiders who may be jealous or spiteful. But when I see **** like this from "Buffs fans" it pisses me off. That's the soft, weak, loser mentality that's infected this program for years and needs to be eradicated. Which exactly what Prime is doing.

Edit: I don't know if this guy is on this board, but sorry not sorry. This is garbage.


Anybody else ever interacted with this guy? I have. He's a fvcking doooooosh.
 
Back
Top