Coach Prime

[BleedCrimsonandGray]

Finally got around to watching Coach Prime on Amazon. I have to admit that he wasn't who I was expecting.

Old school, hard nose football coach who manages to mix in just enough players coach to keep the prima donnas happy.

If he can get and keep players and coaches at Colorado they'll be dangerous.

 

[M-I-Coug]

The day he stepped foot in Boulder, it's never been the same. YouTube dedicated camera crew rolling wherever he goes.

He's a celebrity, a coach, a leader and a man of faith. The question is how many seasons will he stay in Boulder?

 

[Coug90]

The day he stepped foot in Boulder, it's never been the same. YouTube dedicated camera crew rolling wherever he goes.

He's a celebrity, a coach, a leader and a man of faith. The question is how many seasons will he stay in Boulder?

He will be successful if he sticks to the plan of being CEO and CMO. That’s what he was hired for and what he’s best at. Bring players in with your flash and fame, hire great coaches and let them do their thing.

Sure sounds like that’s what he’s done so far. CU will be a problem.

 

[BiggsCoug]

The day he stepped foot in Boulder, it's never been the same. YouTube dedicated camera crew rolling wherever he goes.

He's a celebrity, a coach, a leader and a man of faith. The question is how many seasons will he stay in Boulder?

He is a false prophet. He is a celebrity pitchman. Nothing more.

 

[ttowncoug]

Who is looking to be the coach at Florida state. That’s my bet. He jumps to his school to be the savior.

 

[Coug90]

Who is looking to be the coach at Florida state. That’s my bet. He jumps to his school to be the savior.

He wouldn’t be able to resist that. Gotta be successful at CU though first. Too much on the line at an FSU to take a chance on an unknown commodity…and that’s what he is until he wins in at the P5 level.

 

[BiggsCoug]

Who is looking to be the coach at Florida state. That’s my bet. He jumps to his school to be the savior.

He needs NIL $$$ at CU to get the players he needs to get a job like that.

The problem coaches have now that are looking to get a job like FSU…. all those schools have $$$ to help their coaches get the best talent. They really have to screw it up bad now to get fired. The $$$ helps them get out of jams.

 

[79COUG]

Regarding nil, watch a 60 minutes interview with Charles Barkley last night. He absolutely hates it. Says that there will be 25 schools within 3 to 4 years that are the cream of the crop and then they'll be a wide gap between everybody else. Basically is turned college sports into a pro league.

 

[CougSinceBirth]

Who is looking to be the coach at Florida state. That’s my bet. He jumps to his school to be the savior.

Everything I've read fans/admin don't want him there...

 

[BiggsCoug]

Regarding nil, watch a 60 minutes interview with Charles Barkley last night. He absolutely hates it. Says that there will be 25 schools within 3 to 4 years that are the cream of the crop and then they'll be a wide gap between everybody else. Basically is turned college sports into a pro league.

It was almost there already. This is MLB. All of those 25 teams are the Yankees.

What will be interesting to see is the flow of talent out of these schools. I do not believe kids view it as “developing.” I think they see it as playing or not playing. How do these schools hold onto their depth of 4-5 star talent when there are not enough reps to go around?

 

[Coug90]

Regarding nil, watch a 60 minutes interview with Charles Barkley last night. He absolutely hates it. Says that there will be 25 schools within 3 to 4 years that are the cream of the crop and then they'll be a wide gap between everybody else. Basically is turned college sports into a pro league.

I hate it too and don’t disagree with Charles. Interesting though to see what’s transpired in real time in the basketball tourney. First time ever a 1 seed hasn’t made the Elite 8. I dare say FAU isn’t high on the list of NIL $$ going to players. Maybe they are who knows, we had UNLV back in the day.

Gotta have talent but that talent still has to be developed and coached. And the talent pool is deeper than ever (and global) with access to it deeper than ever as well for the little guys to fill their rosters.

I think some of these schools that can pump out endless amounts of NIL $ will get complacency syndrome within their administration and coaching staffs. When you have a built in cheat code that’s human nature…get lazy, end up with a boatload of entitled kids, then drastically underperform for the level of talent you have in the building.

 

[kougkurt]

I attribute the parity more to the portal than NIL

 

[dgibbons]

He will be successful if he sticks to the plan of being CEO and CMO. That’s what he was hired for and what he’s best at. Bring players in with your flash and fame, hire great coaches and let them do their thing.

Sure sounds like that’s what he’s done so far. CU will be a problem.

He'll have to keep bringing in quality assistants which will eventually be a problem with CU's budget. Of course, I'm assuming that Sanders will be there long enough for some assistant coach hires to be bombs.

 

[COUGinNCW]

Regarding nil, watch a 60 minutes interview with Charles Barkley last night. He absolutely hates it. Says that there will be 25 schools within 3 to 4 years that are the cream of the crop and then they'll be a wide gap between everybody else. Basically is turned college sports into a pro league.

Pro league with no salary cap.

 

[BleedCrimsonandGray]

He'll have to keep bringing in quality assistants which will eventually be a problem with CU's budget. Of course, I'm assuming that Sanders will be there long enough for some assistant coach hires to be bombs.

Not sure what their budget is, but their facilities are very impressive from what I saw, so they're spending money somewhere.

 

[cougcowboy]

I attribute the parity more to the portal than NIL

also a bunch of kids with Covid years. More maturity/experience at the non traditional powers

 

[M-I-Coug]

Regarding nil, watch a 60 minutes interview with Charles Barkley last night. He absolutely hates it. Says that there will be 25 schools within 3 to 4 years that are the cream of the crop and then they'll be a wide gap between everybody else. Basically is turned college sports into a pro league.

Just watched it. He also says the schools left out, (without big NIL money), will be "irrelevant".

 

[How_did_this_happen?]

The day he stepped foot in Boulder, it's never been the same. YouTube dedicated camera crew rolling wherever he goes.

He's a celebrity, a coach, a leader and a man of faith. The question is how many seasons will he stay in Boulder?

Also, how long will the uber liberal town of Boulder tolerate him? Not long, I believe.

 

[ttowncoug]

Florida State is getting impatient with a lot of things is my sense.

The ACC TV deal - for as much hand ringing that is going on about the Pac-12's number - is far worse and sticks them into that deal until 2036. ACC, like the Pac-12, wants to close that gap.

 

[425cougfan]

Mike Norvell is doing pretty well at Florida State. I could see him getting an SEC job in the next 2-3 years if he wanted, and that could be when they'd nab Sanders. (I'm not calling him "Coach Prime.")