Analyst: Coach Prime went from amazing story to a joke at Colorado
Coach Prime “went from an amazing national story to a joke” during his debut season as head coach of the Colorado football program according to Mike Farrell of Mike Farrell Sports — who believes all the hype Deion Sanders built up for the Buffs makes the actual results “kind of sad.”
“From allowing his son to flash bling and his other son to talk trash and his team disrespected opponents after a great 3-0 start, it all looks kind of foolish now that they have lost 6 of their last 7 games,” Farrell prefaced before saying, “Add in the rappers giving pre-game talks and the celebrities on the sidelines it all looked great for a bit and now it looks kind of sad. Deion and the Buffs have disappeared from any sniff of the national landscape and now the only attention they get is from something dumb he says like comparing Colorado to the Dream Team or saying the NCAA and Rose Bowl should replace the stolen bling of his players. Coach Prime has gone from an amazing national story to a joke and he has no one to blame but himself.”
CU was ranked following their Week 1 win over TCU, though that never should’ve indicated the Buffs would be relevant by the end of the season. Most expected a reality check for Colorado at some point; few thought it would be at the hands of Stanford and Arizona, the latter of whom cleaned up their act after a 2-3 start against Power Five programs to become ranked by the time they beat the Buffs in Boulder.
Colorado football results not even the saddest part of Buffs’ disappointing end to 2023 season
It’s not even the losses piling up that makes the 2023 season’s second half so disappointing, even if being bowl ineligible during Coach Prime’s debut season is something Buffs fans likely weren’t sweating even ahead of Week 7.
It’s the fact that no one around the country seems to want Sanders coaching in Boulder since the amount of venom spewed his way was unfathomable when he was at Jackson State and truly hard to picture had he gone to somewhere in Texas or Florida; where there’d be far more preaching of patience than there is right now in Colorado.
When the Texas A&M coaching job opened up, Sanders was linked. As other head coaching jobs potentially become available, Sanders will be linked.
There’s a large spectrum of where people project Coach Prime to be in the next few years, and very seldom is it Colorado. Even recruits think Sanders in Boulder is a short stay.
Colorado football is losing the place in America’s hearts that it had to begin the season. Increasingly, it feels like Coach Prime’s eventual exit — one that the national media can’t stop talking about — is coming sooner than any Buffs fan would like to admit.