College football Week 1 thread: Chasin’ That Neon Deion Rainbow

It was a broken sport before, and its a broken sport now. If the current broken version tilts a little bit more with player empowerment, I am good with that. If the tailgating drunk alumni calling into Paul Finebaum can't recognize the players without a program, oh well.

 

My only quibble with people saying "they beat a team that played for the championship last year"

No they didn't. 13 of those players were either drafted or undrafted free agents, including a first-round wide receiver, the Jim Thorpe Award winner, a third-round running back and the quarterback who was runner-up in the Heisman.

 

It's becoming a joke at this point.

 

Statement withdrawn, counselor. (Been watching a lot of Lincoln Lawyer and Suits).

I'll go with:
"They beat a team that was favored by almost three touchdowns."

 

And that's a totally major thing to play up. It was a huge upset. It's the same people saying he took a team that went 1-11 -- no, as you pointed out, he stripped it bare and its a whole new team. Winning like that is impressive, because of chemistry, familiarity, etc. but the talent level of 2023 Colorado is miles ahead of 2022 Colorado

 

The sport has been broken ever since the College of New Jersey lost to Rutgers.

"The two schools had originally scheduled to meet three times in 1869, but the third 1869 game never took place, reportedly because of the officials at both programs who complained about more emphasis being put on the contests rather than academics and studying. Other sources claim that it may have been canceled due to disagreement over what set of rules to play under."

I blame Teddy Roosevelt, who had a chance to ban the sport when dozens of players were getting killed every year and didn't. Although universities would have still found ways to beat each other senseless in the name of athletic superiority. But that'd be rooting for the laundry, which journalists would never do.

 

Yes it is but that’s only because of him.

 

And the funny thing is FSU, much like Colorado, is a team almost completely built by the transfer portal. About 17 of the 22 starters, Norvell has been loading up on transfer classes.

 

I see a lot of parallels with 2023 Colorado winning at TCU and 2020 Miss State winning at LSU. High-scoring wins as huge underdogs with a new coach (Sanders, Leach). However, both TCU and LSU lost their QBs and other key components.

MSU went 4-7, even with that historic win.

All of the attention Deion gets, he has a high-level staff in Boulder. I would trust them to reach 5 or 6 wins after what I just saw.

The portal means that, a program that really wants to commit and write the checks can get better fast.

My concern for Colorado is the same for everyone, post-McCartney. If you’re great, you’ll move on. If you’re not, you’re fired in three years.

 

He’s been great at it, finding the market inefficiency to flip a bad and rotted roster and culture. Now schools like LSU and USC have brought in bigger transfer classes the past couple of years and now Norvell has the credibility and trajectory to be in position for a Top 5 high school class.

 

My UF alum and friend/former roommate is ready to can Napier and go all in on Deion. That it would be another perceived slight toward FSU from Deion is but a value add for UFers.

 

Colorado's move to the Big XII probably helps them out with Deion. He's got big-money friends in Texas that might not have die-hard collegiate alliances and just want to see their friend succeed to spite the system.

But, as I was telling a friend, if Deion leaves...I don't think he's going to the SEC. I don't think he's going to Florida. He would go to SMU. He loves Dallas. And SMU can finally do the financial flexing they have been wanting to do for 40 years. He would make Ron Meyer did look pale in comparison.