Buffs site fed up about overlooked aspects of CU’s improvement
The staff of BuffsBeat has had it with talking heads overlooking key aspects of the Colorado football program’s stark talent improvements following the disgraced 2022 season — asking why analysts never bring up the upgrades across the coaching staffs, offense, defense, and special teams headlined by the introduction of a 1-2 QB/WR punch of Shedeur Sanders and two-way threat Travis Hunter.
“Colorado has taken on criticism for Sanders’ roster overhaul, with over 70 new players coming into Boulder this season. Nobody mentions the fact that they’ve made significant upgrades all the way around and could shock the world. Buffs QB Shedeur Sanders is competing at an elite level, according to CU tight end coach Tim Brewer. The Deacon Jones Award winner from last year brought his top target, Travis Hunter, to Colorado, and the duo are bound to turn heads.”
The rant from BuffsBeat came as a response to a pessimistic prediction of the 2023 CU season from ESPN’s Mark Schlabach.
Mark Schlabach: Colorado football ‘not going to be very good’
Schlabach’s rant revolved solely around the simple idea that swapping out 70 scholarship players won’t allow the Buffaloes to be competitive during the 2023 season.
“The Buffaloes are going to be one of the most compelling teams in the country, but they’re not going to be very good,” Schlabach prefaced before saying, “Colorado went 1-11 last season, 1-8 in the Pac-12. Sanders and his staff tried to trade out beans and franks ingredients for beef Wellington overnight, but it won’t make much of a difference. It wouldn’t be surprising to see TCU hang half-a-hundred on the Buffaloes in the Sept. 2 opener.”
Ignoring how TCU became the kind of team that should be expected to hang half-a-hundred, Schlabach is discounting Colorado football solely because there are a ton of new faces after a 1-11 season; forgetting that swapping out that 2022 roster is probably a good idea considering the results.
If this narrative wasn’t so played out, it’d get Glory Colorado just as fired up. But September 2 is right around the corner anyway, so letting the Buffs do the talking will be the perfect kind of poetic justice.