He COULD be, but shenanigans be keeping him off the field.
Deion Sanders offered the Colorado job- Official Colorado season thread
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18 Buffs into portal in post-spring practice exodus
Eighteen Colorado players entered the transfer portal Monday as part of a post-spring practice exodus, as new coach Deion Sanders continues to reshape the Buffaloes' roster.
It’s a numbers thing
School are only allowed 85 spots(once some tweaking is done, the numbers can go over)
I think before spring football they was at like 100 with current players, transfer and highschoolers….
So while it so shocking to many folks, the people who know how the numbers work, folks who been listening to Deion since day one, folks who followed the early days at Jackson State know exactly what’s going on and knew it was coming.
It just a shock because its Deion and it seems like no one wants to play for him…
Maybe this video can help folks understand….
School are only allowed 85 spots(once some tweaking is done, the numbers can go over)
I think before spring football they was at like 100 with current players, transfer and highschoolers….
So while it so shocking to many folks, the people who know how the numbers work, folks who been listening to Deion since day one, folks who followed the early days at Jackson State know exactly what’s going on and knew it was coming.
It just a shock because its Deion and it seems like no one wants to play for him…
Maybe this video can help folks understand….
TRUTH BE TOLD: FACTS
Man these YouTube dudes running with this Shedeur is mad at Montana for leaving shit…
I’m sure the coaches knew about it before it hit the internet. If Deion knew about it, I know fucking well Shedeur knew about it.
They probably talked about it then went shopping together…
So many sites running with this narrative
I’m sure the coaches knew about it before it hit the internet. If Deion knew about it, I know fucking well Shedeur knew about it.
They probably talked about it then went shopping together…
So many sites running with this narrative
Shedeur Sanders Was SET UP By MONTANA LEMONIOUS-CRAIG & Here’s Why
Previous coach wasn’t doing Shit lol.
Losing 18 players hurt because you only have 25 scholarship a year. My assumption would be he fills that void with recruits and not portal kids. Who ever he replaces now would count against the 25 limit
I have to look at their scholarship total last year. But he could give out 25 scholarships and sign a few early enrollees to backfill last years class.
For example, let’s say he signed only 20 players. He could sign his 25 and then have another 5 enroll early to count agains last years class allowing him to sign 30
If I remember correctly they have 5 earlier signees… hell Ryan Staub the back freshman qb is going back to school this Friday from prom
Also Dylan Edwards is another player who fits under what you explained…
There Buffs sites who been covering the team for a while seem to think 65 new players will wear Colorado colors this year…
I think they were at 47 a while back…
I think I may be wrong and CU is in a good spot. I thought the 25 limit waiver had expired but I think it expires in 23 or 24, so a team can go over the 25 limit to replace players
Division 1 FBS teams can give out a maximum of 85 full-ride scholarships to athletes.
How many players can you carry on a college football team?
A: NCAA rules allow for 105 players to be rostered before the first day of class or the first game, whichever comes first. When school is in session, there is no limit to the number of players on the roster, but BYU maintains a maximum of 123
How many players are usually on a D1 football team?
Think about it this way: D1 FBS teams can give full-ride scholarships to 85 athletes on their roster. However, most FBS D1 teams will have 118-130 student-athletes on their roster, and those additional spots on the team are filled by talented walk-ons.
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yeah the 25 max scholarship waiver leaves either this year or next.
WHAT HAPPENED??
Deion said this is far from the team's final form.
Might just be letting dudes have a chance to move on that aren't going to play or were going to be cut.
This clip was from the beginning of the week…
Man only three players of the 20, who left I recall hearing their name
Niko Reed, Montana Len——- Craig and Jemrey Mack(who was recovering from injury).
This was understandable once Deion got hired, do you remember the first team meeting?
Colorado's transfer portal exodus is historic, expected and risky
By CHRIS HUMMER6 hrsShare96 Comments
Deion Sanders told us this would happen.
In the “everything is content” world that is the Coach Sanders experience, fans and media members alike received a candid peek into Sanders’ first team meeting with the Colorado Buffaloes. Not only did Sanders claim he’d bring in his own luggage (aka players) to Boulder – Louis Vuitton, of course – but he straight up told his newly inherited roster he planned to recruit over the majority of them.
“When I get there, it’s going to be changed,” Sanders said. “So, I want y’all to get ready to go ahead and jump in that portal and do whatever you’re going to get, because the more of you jump into (the portal), the more room you make because we bring in kids that are smart, tough.”
Jump they did.
A staggering 46 scholarship players from Colorado's 2022 roster have entered the transfer portal since the 2022-23 portal cycle opened, including more than a dozen during a portal barrage Monday after the team's spring game.
Colorado had just over 80 scholarship players to start last season. Only 20 of those players were left on the roster by the end of Monday evening.
Let me repeat that again: TWENTY.
Between graduation, professional declarations and transfers (many of whom were cut), more than 70% of the team’s scholarship allotment from last season has now departed. That’s historic turnover. We’ve never seen anything like this in college football.
This is only possible because of recent rule changes. The transfer portal allows for teams to turn over their roster quickly. And an NCAA policy change, which green-lights teams to sign up to their 85-scholarship maximum each season instead of being limited to 25 initial counters a cycle, gives new coaches nearly unlimited flexibility to turn over the rosters they inherited. Armed with historic freedom, Coach Prime is testing the limits on how far you can push the idea of a one-year roster makeover.
Rebuilds usually take years, so it’s great, conceptually, to take over a team and sign all your own recruits in a single swoop. If you could bring in your own players all at once, it’d greatly reduce the time it takes to turn a 1-11 roster into a contender. However, that assumes there are enough good players out there to fill your roster the way it needs to be filled. Right now, I’d really question if that’s the case for Colorado.
This is not to say the Buffaloes haven’t had their portal successes. They have! Colorado’s 2023 transfer portal class ranks No. 1 nationally. The Buffaloes have signed 29 players so far, a group that includes multiple plug-and-play starters and the No. 1 player in the portal rankings, Travis Hunter. It’s an excellent class, one that will only continue to grow – Colorado is in the mix for several top portal targets like Georgia’s Marcus Washington, Florida State’s Derrick McClendon and Old Dominion’s Chazz Wallace – well beyond that 29-player group.
The issue is you eventually run out of players to add.
To call the number of starting-quality Power Five talent in the spring portal cycle “limited” would be kind. It’s been slow. While there are good players to add, Colorado isn’t the only one fighting for a small number of quality additions. They’re competing with aggressive, more established teams for players at critical positions like offensive line, defensive line and wide receiver.
The Buffaloes will win some of those battles. Sanders is a proven cult of personality who can pull off the seemingly impossible in recruiting. How else does he land Travis Hunter (twice) and Cormani McClain in back-to-back cycles? But will they win enough to make up for the program’s massive scholarship hole? That’s doubtful.
Sanders may be fine losing the major of players who’ve bounced from his program – only seven of the 32 scholarship players from Colorado’s 2022 class remain, per The Athletic – but depth matters in college football.
Experienced starters like Montana Lemonious-Craigand Tyrin Taylor would’ve helped Colorado this year. Promising young players like wide receiver Jordyn Tyson and linebacker Aubrey Smith certainly would’ve aided the program long term. Instead, they and so many others have departed or were forced to depart.
This strategy might ultimately work for Sanders. He’s an elite recruiter and now has room to add quality transfers and make a run at a massive and impactful 2024 class. But there are great risks to this approach, too. Depth matters in college football. Continuity does, too. Sanders is taking both ideas and tossing them aside much like he did with most of the roster he inherited.
I was rooting for Mack in that he transferred from EMCC after balling out. I’ve been seeing that Niko Reed left because the scheme didn’t fit his talents. I’m concerned with how thin both lines, the WRs and DBs are looking(in that order). How can he be so sure that many better players will transfer over? I’m curious why the recruit from Louisiana flipped too. Honestly, this is the most concerned I’ve been of the team.
Dude from Da boot couldn’t entertain Florida and LSU offers while being committed to Colorado. So in other words, they couldn’t talk that big money talk..
They have 4 wideouts coming in
two run 4.3 in the 40…(so they will have some speed on offense)
thats just what I know… they recently reached out to a 6’4 cat from a D2 school… so
For as the lines they been trying but that money be calling
Also many of these players had to leave for the incoming player
The team will be trash this year again but that's fine. Deion is rebuilding from the ground up.
Fans just have to know this season is the season you sacrifice to move on to better things.
I do feel like those kids should have transferred before the start of spring camp. It's gonna really hard for them to find a spot anywhere at all now.
Leaving Colorado ain't the same as leaving Bama or Ohio State.
Fans just have to know this season is the season you sacrifice to move on to better things.
I do feel like those kids should have transferred before the start of spring camp. It's gonna really hard for them to find a spot anywhere at all now.
Leaving Colorado ain't the same as leaving Bama or Ohio State.
