Deion Sanders and his first-year offensive coordinator Sean Lewis’ Colorado football offense blew away every expectation, ranging from the national media’s lazy takes that too many transfers can’t come together to the most sunshine-pumping of optimistic fan hopes, during the Buffs’ monumental 45-42 upset on September 2 against TCU. 565 yards in total, four receivers with over 100 yards receiving, and a quarterback with over 500 passing yards. It rarely gets better than what CU’s offense displayed in Week 1.
Forget about Deion, Sean Lewis deserve the credit for the way Colorado’s offense was humming..
— PJ Green (@PJGreenTV) September 4, 2023
He was a HC at Kent State and he’ll be a HC again real soon..
Hence, ESPN’s David Hale sent a hyperbolic message on the team’s “miraculous” offense in a piece highlighting the media’s crow meal that must be made and consumed after what transpired throughout the offseason.
“For months, the great college football punditry laughed off Prime’s rollicking hype machine, knowing that, once the games began, a hard truth would be revealed,” Hale prefaced before saying, “Instead, Colorado pulled back the curtain on an offense that was nothing short of miraculous, a college football reveal that was something akin to Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, JR getting shot on “Dallas” and UConn making a bowl game all wrapped together. If aliens had landed at midfield wearing cowboy hats, it wouldn’t have been any more shocking.”
Colorado football a cautionary tale for the media not to let feelings get in the way of factual reporting
Coach Prime had a controversial offseason by modern standards. Between his comments about the 2022 Buffs or his comments about traits he looks for in a quarterback as opposed to a defensive lineman, Sanders made few friends in media circles.
But reporters shouldn’t have to like the subject they are writing about in order to objectively report on them. In the modern world, too many subscribe to the notion that’s a deal-breaker — and it’s led to the public being completely thrown off on what to expect Week 1 of the 2023 season.
Those who paid more attention to the players Sanders was bringing in than Coach Prime’s one-off podcast comments saw CU being far better than what the talking heads were projecting. Still, the new era Buffs’ debuting so emphatically was a cherry on top of the biggest “told-you-so” in recent memory.