Wall Street Journal on the Deion Sanders Experiment

[Santa Rosa Duck]

The Deion Sanders Experiment at Colorado Begins With a Wild Win

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The Buffaloes, who won one game last year, knocked off Texas Christian, a team that played for a national championship last season, to kick off the Prime Era

 

[Santa Rosa Duck]

As I reflect on the "new" Colorado team, I am glad this game is at Autzen.

[Log Haulin]

Coach Sanders knows how to work a room. He has the whole country slobber all over the Buffs. USuC ain't gunna like it, they are the rightful owners of any love fest.

 

Couple of things that are being ignored. Colorado put up a measly 55 yrds on the ground, 1.6 yards a carry. What does that look like going forward? 

 

Colorado surrendered 262 yd (7.1 per carry) on the ground and 279 in the air. Over 500 yards total. Buffs D will stop no one. What will the top of the pac do to Buffs D? Won't be pretty.

 

TCU threw 2 pics in the endzone and missed a FG. Credit to Colorado. I only remember one of the pics. Nice diving catch at rhe goal line. TCU QB should have never thrown that ball. 

 

Bottom line. Buffs played well. They deserved the win. TCU played below their abilities and made costly mistakes. Happens first game out. Thats football.

 

Congrats to Buffs on matching their win totals from last year. Can we pump the brakes a bit on the "Buffs are the greatest" hype. Lot of football to be played.

[Jon Joseph]

The Monday After: Deion Sanders made believers out of many after Colorado upset TCU, but it's a long season - CBSSports.com

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The Buffaloes put a lot into it winning its opener vs. the Horned Frogs, but may have trouble matching that effort each week

 

[Jon Joseph]

Texas State came in 2nd after CU, 51 transfers, in portal additions with 49. Texas State won its 1st game ever against a P5 opponent with Saturday's win at Baylor. (Baylor's starting QB is out for the Utah game.)

 

CFB loves to copycat. The transfer portal will continue to have an impact down the road.

 

UGA backup QB Brock Vandagriiff relieved stater Carson Beck in the 3rd quarter of Saturday's win over UT-Martin and put up 17 points. This is a guy who could be on DL's transfer portal radar.

Edited September 4, 2023 by Jon Joseph

[Jon Joseph]

On 9/4/2023 at 1:35 PM, Log Haulin said:

Coach Sanders knows how to work a room. He has the whole country slobber all over the Buffs. USuC ain't gunna like it, they are the rightful owners of any love fest.

 

Couple of things that are being ignored. Colorado put up a measly 55 yrds on the ground, 1.6 yards a carry. What does that look like going forward? 

 

Colorado surrendered 262 yd (7.1 per carry) on the ground and 279 in the air. Over 500 yards total. Buffs D will stop no one. What will the top of the pac do to Buffs D? Won't be pretty.

 

TCU threw 2 pics in the endzone and missed a FG. Credit to Colorado. I only remember one of the pics. Nice diving catch at rhe goal line. TCU QB should have never thrown that ball. 

 

Bottom line. Buffs played well. They deserved the win. TCU played below their abilities and made costly mistakes. Happens first game out. Thats football.

 

Congrats to Buffs on matching their win totals from last year. Can we pump the brakes a bit on the "Buffs are the greatest" hype. Lot of football to be played.

Good points but SCOREBOARD! CU went on the road and beat the #17 ranked team in the country. 

[jrw]

Another take:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/09/04/deion-sanders-colorado-footbal/

Edited September 4, 2023 by jrw

[1Ducker1]

Deion has talent but no depth yet--sound similar?

[Santa Rosa Duck]

I was watching this game and here comes the AFLAC commercial with Prime Time and later California Almond Growers with Prime Time. Just now I went to Amazon Prime and the first thing that shows up is a documentary "Coach Prime". He is a master at generating exposure.

[Log Haulin]

On 9/4/2023 at 11:20 AM, Jon Joseph said:

Good points but SCOREBOARD! CU went on the road and beat the #17 ranked team in the country. 

Good points on scoreboard. But TCU lost most of the Dudes on last years team. The #17 rank is partly results of last year. TCU personel has changed over defensively as much as Oregons. More so offensively 

 

I think its a little premature to crown Buffs after one game. Nice win to start the year for Buffs for sure though.

[Washington Waddler]

     Coaches coming up against Colorado know they are not only going to face a good, if developing team, but the  blinding glare of the latest in a long line of media darlings: we give you — Neon, the Chosen One, the latest New Kid on the Block.
 

     National anticipation of this sort is a powerful addition to any team’s tool kit. It can create a sense of destiny that super charges team morale, and create a brash, impudent belief in oneself. When you exude a feeling that nothing can stand in your way, it can create doubt in the minds of your opponents that leads to mistakes on the field.
 

     That’s what TCU found itself up against: playing both Colorado and its brash, newly minted sense of destiny. After last year, TCU had some brashness of its own, but it couldn’t compete with Colorado’s. It led more to doubt and errors.

 

     Oregon knows something about this phenomena having been there; done that. We were that team during 2010-11, and nearly rode it to the top. Reflecting on that experience might help avoiding the same trap TCU fell into.
 

     How to deal with it? Keep your nose to the grindstone, and be deaf, dumb and blind to the media storm swirling around you. Let Neon blink all he wants. Just play his team, and not their image and the rest will take care of itself.

 

     

[Log Haulin]

On 9/4/2023 at 12:14 PM, Washington Waddler said:

     Coaches coming up against Colorado know they are not only going to face a good, if developing team, but the  blinding glare of the latest in a long line of media darlings: we give you — Neon, the Chosen One, the latest New Kid on the Block.
 

     National anticipation of this sort is a powerful addition to any team’s tool kit. It can create a sense of destiny that super charges team morale, and create a brash, impudent belief in oneself. When you exude a feeling that nothing can stand in your way, it can create doubt in the minds of your opponents that leads to mistakes on the field.
 

     That’s what TCU found itself up against: playing both Colorado and its brash, newly minted sense of destiny. After last year, TCU had some brashness of its own, but it couldn’t compete with Colorado’s. It led more to doubt and errors.

 

     Oregon knows something about this phenomena having been there; done that. We were that team during 2010-11, and nearly rode it to the top. Reflecting on that experience might help avoiding the same trap TCU fell into.
 

     How to deal with it? Keep your nose to the grindstone, and be deaf, dumb and blind to the media storm swirling around you. Let Neon blink all he wants. Just play his team, and not their image and the rest will take care of itself.

 

     

Thats where the "Oregon is playing Oregon", "Keep the main thing the main thing", "1/11", "do your job" comes into play. Yea, it always sounds hokey but does go a long way to combat distractions. 

 

 

[Mike West]

On 9/4/2023 at 11:59 AM, Log Haulin said:

Good points on scoreboard. But TCU lost most of the Dudes on last years team. The #17 rank is partly results of last year. TCU personel has changed over defensively as much as Oregons. More so offensively 

 

I think its a little premature to crown Buffs after one game. Nice win to start the year for Buffs for sure though.

TCU lost some dudes up front on defense, and they had 7 return on defense.  Their QB started the season as #1, but was injured.

 

Notice they were number 17- appropriate for what they lost.  They won 9 of 10 close games last year.  They made plays, and recovered from costly mistakes against Colorado. 

 

Colorado took that game from a seasoned and well coached ranked team.  After winning one game last year.  One. Colorado should have folded, and lost.  They didn't.

 

They deserve massive credit.  They aren't talented enough to beat 11 more #17 teams, but Sanders took 81 new guys, that have known each other for FOUR months, with ONE starter returning on defense, and held a team -that scored three more points than they averaged last year as a national runner up -from scoring as the game ended 

 

There is no discounting that kind of accomplishment. None.  Sanders took a perennial loser on the road and took that game.  It wasn't luck.  They seized the moment.  That doesn't happen by accident. It simply doesn't happen period. 

 

You can hate his style,. You can hate the hype, and his response to the doubters.  Sanders deserves credit and respect for defying huge odds.  Point blank.  No ifs, no buts.  No excuses.