

He wanted them to see him looking at me like I’m crazy when I’m speaking what I feel is objective reality. He doesn’t want them hearing me say that. “He knows that his players probably will watch (our podcast interview). “This is where (Sanders) is uniquely aware of his message,” Klatt explained. Yet when Klatt during a podcast interview with Sanders politely dismissed the notion of CU competing for a Pac-12 title immediately, Coach Prime didn’t just push back. That’s a salty September for Nick Saban, let alone an NFL legend coaching at the FBS level for the first time. Is it anywhere between four and six wins, ideally?”Īt TCU, vs. I do get the sense - and I’m not trying to be a homer here, we all need to have some sense of reality - about what a massive improvement looks like at CU. That gets you to six wins, and that’s an extraordinary improvement. “Plus-3 in the win column in the (landscape) of college football is a massive improvement,” Klatt said. The Buffs hopped from one win to seven from ’84 and ’85 under coach Bill McCartney and never looked back. The single greatest one-year turnaround in Buffs history, from a win percentage standpoint, occurred between 1964 and ’65, when CU bounced from 2- 8 (.200) to 6-2-2 (.700) in consecutive campaigns. 667 (8-4 over a 12-game slate) or better. Since 1960, only seven FBS programs leapt in one season from a winning percentage of. How does he handle losing big? We haven’t seen that.

… Jackson State was so good because they could get FBS-level guys and beat on FCS rosters. The alternative is that they’re gonna be bad and they’ll end firing him in a big circus. Either he’s gonna be really good, really fast and leave for another gig, which, looking at that roster, doesn’t seem possible. It feels like a lose-lose for (CU) with Prime. Which is more than you can say for at least one anonymous Pac-12 assistant coach, who offered this up to Athlon Sports’ 2023 preview mag: Boulder is college football’s new Trinity Site, the sort of experiment in power and process that has NCAA lifers rooting for a 3-9 fall.Īt least Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi had the stones to stick a name behind his anti-Sanders barbs. Coach’s Prime revolution will be televised, and if you’re a CU fan, the louder the protests from the establishment, the sweeter the compliment. They don’t like it because they know he’s going to be good.” “Opposing coaches around the country ask me more about Deion than fans ask me about Deion,” FOX Sports analyst and former CU Buffs quarterback Joel Klatt told me earlier this month. If you’re a college football coach, Deion Sanders is the telephone, the automobile and the atom bomb all rolled into one, dropped in a Louis Vuitton bag from a Mile High.īecause if it works, if he works, oh, Lordy. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĬripes, he scares them.
