Calling 2022 Colorado season a mess ‘putting it mildly’: Analyst
Calling the 1-11 2022 Colorado football season a mess would be “putting it mildly” according to BeaversEdge’s Brenden Slaughter — who noted the intense turnaround in perception of the Buffs from last season, one in which “everything went wrong,” to the upcoming 2023 campaign.
“To say the 2022 campaign was a mess for Colorado would be putting it mildly,” Slaughter prefaced before saying, “With how much positive social media seemingly surrounds the Buffs today, it’s almost hard to believe that they were one of the worst teams in college football last season, but they certainly were.
“Colorado’s offense was among the worst in the country last season, averaging just 15.4 points per game, while the defense was arguably worse, allowing 45 points and 510 yards per game. Simply put, essentially everything went awry in Boulder on the football field this past season.”
Deion Sanders accused 2022 Colorado football team of having ‘dead eyes’
Deion Sanders’ derogatory comments on August 11 toward the 2022 Colorado football team certainly kicked off the deep dives into the final year of Karl Dorrell in Boulder. Coach Prime said that those Buffs were a team full of players with “dead eyes” who didn’t love the sport of football.
“It was tremendously tough because you had some young men that just didn’t want to play the game,” Sanders said (h/t USA Today). “They didn’t love football. It’s hard for me to be effective if you don’t love it, if you don’t like it, if you don’t want to live it. That’s tough. That’s tremendously tough, when you’re looking at a body of just dead eyes, that’s tough on any coach, not just me. I’m pretty sure a multitude of coaches have experienced that until they can clean house and get the roster that they want. It was tremendously challenging day by day. I’m happy with what I’m seeing every morning now. I really am.”
Sanders did see positives in last year’s team’s futility, though, at least from the perspectives of the new incoming CU recruits.
“Coming in with a whole new roster, it’s actually good, because it’s like really, just really a fair shot to be on the same level,” Sanders said. “All you have to do is go in and learn what to do. Like say if you were on the team where they already had guys go crazy the year before, it’s going to be a little bit harder to go in and do your thing.”