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Outbound CU transfer could’ve contributed in DL rotation: Analyst

By Andrew Hughes

Outbound Colorado football transfer EDGE rusher Chance Main could have contributed in the DL rotation, but wouldn't have started for the Buffs (Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images)
Outbound Colorado football transfer EDGE rusher Chance Main could have contributed in the DL rotation, but wouldn't have started for the Buffs (Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images) /
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Outbound Colorado football transfer Chance Main is someone who could’ve contributed to the Buffs’ defensive line rotation during the 2023 season before his transfer to Texas State, but according to AthlonSports’ Kevin Borba, the Cherryvale, Kansas product was never going to start.

“He was viewed as someone who could contribute in the defensive line rotation, but wasn’t projected to be a starter,” Borba wrote. “On (August 21), it was revealed by a social media post by Texas State announcing their new additions, that Main had actually transferred to Texas State.” Borba isn’t sweating the loss considering the depth Deion Sanders and defensive coordinator Charles Kelly brought on in the offseason.

“While they lose a depth piece, Colorado does have experience across the defensive line in Arkansas transfer Jordan Domineck, West Virginia transfer Taiga Alston, Florida State transfer Derrick McLendon II, and Dartmouth’s Shane Cokes among others.”

Colorado football transfer Chance Main on his college football journey

Main started out at FCS school Incarnate Word in 2019, transferred to CU as a grad transfer for the nightmarish 2022 team, was offered a chance to stick with Coach Prime, and ultimately decided to head just southwest of Austin in San Marcos, Texas — and the EDGE knows that his journey is as unconventional as they come; remaining thankful he still gets to be on it.

“I probably have taken the hardest path that you can really do for college football. I have seen a lot,” Main told BuffStampede.com on August 22. “There are tough times in football you go through and you ask yourself, do I really want this? You wake up, you are beat up, you are tired, you are sore, you are injured. Everything can add up and you question that sometimes.

“But I will tell you this, the season I missed in ’21, that was the first time that football was taken away from me. I wasn’t part of a team. I wasn’t going through weight training and running. That feeling right there was enough for me to realize how much I truly do love football and that I want to do this as long as my body will allow it and I have opportunity.”

Main now gets to finish out his career in the Lone Star State, where it all started. With that said, he gets to know moving forward that he was never the target of Coach Prime’s demands to players to hop in the transfer portal.

Main did it on his own terms.

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