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Prime Time!!! - Deion Sanders Hired as Colorado Head Coach

The Deion Sanders experiment seemed perfectly timed for the new world of NCAA football: you don't have to build a program, you just poach players as needed each season. Sanders fame and a culture of bling should have been a huge advantage but apparently coaching football is tougher than it looks.
 
Guy Chamberlin said:
The Deion Sanders experiment seemed perfectly timed for the new world of NCAA football: you don't have to build a program, you just poach players as needed each season. Sanders fame and a culture of bling should have been a huge advantage but apparently coaching football is tougher than it looks.
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Especially when you bring in former players (hall of famers even) with little or no coaching experience...
 
Guy Chamberlin said:
I'm glad my 49ers beat Cleveland yesterday, but if I'm being honest Shadeur looked like a legitimate QB out there and might not be a bust after all.
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I know in my family, and maybe on here, I am in the minority thinking he can be OK.. The problem is that he needs to be patient and needs to be on a good team. Living in Cleveland for 16 years, not sure if that is the place. As much as we complain about DR holding on to the ball too long, Sanders is just as bad.
 
Guy Chamberlin said:
I'm glad my 49ers beat Cleveland yesterday, but if I'm being honest Shadeur looked like a legitimate QB out there and might not be a bust after all.
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Eh... he hasn't shown anything through 3 games to make him seem like he isn't anything other than "just another Browns QB".

In the 2 games he has started his QBR is 8.5 and 16.1. JJ McCarthy has only had one game with with a QBR lower than 16.1, and he has been downright terrible.
 
Red Five said:
Eh... he hasn't shown anything through 3 games to make him seem like he isn't anything other than "just another Browns QB".

In the 2 games he has started his QBR is 8.5 and 16.1. JJ McCarthy has only had one game with with a QBR lower than 16.1, and he has been downright terrible.
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Shadeur had a terrible stat line when thrown into his first game and I know a lot of folks were rooting for him to fail miserably, but by "legitimate" I meant he looked like another Browns QB, including guys drafted before him and maybe the likes of JJ McCarthy. Let's just say he didn't embarrass himself and perhaps looked better than the average 5th Round rookie. Without the Browns horrible special teams miscues, they were giving the Niners a game.

Nasty weather in Cleveland yesterday, and Sanders had a slightly better QB rating than Brock Purdy.
 
Who in their right mind would take that AD job now? You've got a prima donna football coach that is causing the university to bleed money with lousy results, attendance is dropping, and they are promising not to raise student costs or cut any programs. How are they going to come up with that money? Local radio yesterday was talking a lot about this, and saying that Deion has to do something to figure this out now, or this program is going to be hurt for decades from this "experiment". They even went so far as to say that Deion is going to have to (gasp) actually go visit recruits now, something he has not been willing to do yet for sCUm.

From the USA Today article:

At Colorado, last year the university projected a small but growing budget deficit for the campus starting in fiscal 2027. It even told faculty and staff to move forward by “being comfortable with being uncomfortable.” This has led to concerns about how football is paying for its big new expenses.

“With a lame-duck athletic director, a dismal football season, who-knows-what to happen with the (transfer) portal, donor fatigue, the distancing of football leadership from football alums — the prospects for making much of a dent in that deficit seem very slim,” said Roger Pielke, an emeritus professor at Colorado who previously taught sports governance in the CU athletics department. “That would mean that the university will have to fill the gap.”
 
I thought Deion would be gone after his kids left. Then I thought he'd give it a 3rd year (with predictably terrible results) and then bail. But it seems like he is going to stick around. I think a few things are at play.

- We all know CU doesn't have the $33M to buy him out
- If Deion were to leave on his own this year he would owe CU $12M
- He is owed $44M over the next 4 years
- He only has to work about 25 weeks a year

Add all that up and him staying for this another year is basically $23M. That's around $1M/week for the time he puts in.
 
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