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Time to reboot this forum, I suppose
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Or he might be named our next AD.
It’s called ‘edging’. Pipe down and let us get in the mood pal
The embarrassment part is what’s going to do him in. Being a 3 score dog to a G5 program in year three, and 13 consecutive games of offensive ineptitude across two different offensive staffs is not going unnoticed.
I think he has to win on Saturday to have any chance of saving his job.
As long as RG and LC are leading the CUAD, this is not true. They’ll go down together!
I always feel bad when @Buffnik gets excited about something when I know the disappointment will crush him.
Facts!!
However, I have zero concern about Dorrell's embarrassment. After losing the majority of true Pac12 level players to transfer last year, if RG doesn't pull the trigger by week 3, I imagine any remaining talent will be gone within a week of the last game of the season. Transfers along with graduation leaves this program in such shambles, I doubt any qualified coach would take the job.
Granted transfers are the landscape today, but if you measured the quality loss, the Buffs cannot afford the remaining 3 stars with potential to split, leaving the Northern Colorado skill set and walks on.
I would love Herman but we may have to have a gap coach. This program is so bad and so void of talent, they may have to hire a guy like Walter's who may he able to get the program up to three wins a season in three years and slightly increase the talent level.
The administration will need to allow more transfers to get qualified coaches as well. MT brought in 15 transfers this year (one of them ours) after double digits the previous year.
I will lead the Ricky Rahne train for as long as it chugs down the track…
RalphieMalph
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Seconded.
MT lost to AFA at home, not on the road, and by the end of the season we were holding him up as the savior of all things CU football.
Just saying…
For successful coaches, the jump typically happens in year two. CU never got to see year two for Tucker. Michigan State has, and he made the jump there after a bad first year.
Saban lost to Louisiana-Monroe at home in year one at Alabama.
Removing the 2020 Covid year from the equation and giving him the benefit of doubt, this is effectively year two for Dorrell. So far, I don’t see a jump but he has eleven games to go.
Year one vs year three. Recruiting was seemingly elevated under MT. Georgia elite defense and other big tent program credibility vs no college credibility in 15 years. Hope of bright future vs zero hope.
The AFA and Arizona losses under Tucker were frustrating for sure, but the situations are nowhere near similar. The embarrassment on the local (and national) level with an AFA blowout is going to be deafening and a winless season will probably become even odds. RG sucks, but his hand will be forced at some point, especially if the locker room becomes toxic
Plati retiring and media getting to take the gloves off has me hopeful for the program moving forward.
I think the leash will be much shorter and CU won’t have the luxury of hiding in the future. There may actually be an element of responsibility to stakeholders like all other schools feel moving forward
We’ll see. It’s great to see it from Howell, but I’d like to see Adam also go scorched earth. Woelk won’t because he’s literally employed by them. Would also like to see Klatt and Fowler go on Twitter rants, although that seems unlikely.
I’m encouraged, but I also don’t think Plati’s semi retirement announcement has much to do with it. The Denver Post and Fan guys don’t give a ****, so Howell is probably the only one who might be affected.
How sad is it that my one shred of hope related to CU football is the off chance at public accountability a few years from now
I mean, that's true, but MT also won 4 games that year against P5 teams.
If KD can beat Minnesota on the road next week and then go 3-6 in conference, I strongly suspect he gets another year regardless of what happens this Saturday.
The AFA game under Tucker was a bit of an outlier in terms of the CU team that showed up. They were flat from the opening whistle. Tucker teams generally showed up and played hard. Basically, they didn't look like last Friday's Buff team.
Oooh. Nik going on campaign early this year. Much excitement
We've got a whole thread on EB here: https://www.allbuffs.com/threads/eric-bien-i-emys-next-job-speculation-shut-out-again.146819/
The long and short of it is that he's getting overlooked in KC because all the credit goes to Mahomes and Reid, there are questions about his temperament, and i think he's still got some stink on him from the Embree era. I was much closer to the program back then, and I can tell you EB certainly was not the most professionally behaved coach.
The AFA game was Tucker’s first loss in his first season and it was a close, OT loss following an awesome comeback against Nebraska with a s**t ton of Nub fans in Folsom so there was already some major positives happening when that let down against AFA happened.
And the Buffs still nearly pulled that game out. 5-7 is 5-7, but at least Tucker could point to being close to a bowl team with some minor tweaks (not the least of which being him having a year as head coach under his belt).
Since the third quarter of the Utah game in 2020, has anything under Dorrell felt remotely "close" to being a bowl team?
The trajectory of on the field performance, team motivation, and talent attraction and retention is not good. Not good at all.