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CU At The Game Podcast – Special Episode: CU Signing Day! A Record-setting Day … or a Disappointment?
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Welcome to our Signing Day podcast. I am joined for this episode by Brad Geiger and Neil Langland, and we are going to discuss one of the most important days on the college football calendar – Signing Day – with a quarter of CU’s 2024 roster sending in their Letters of Intent.
We first discuss the overall look of the CU Recruiting Class of 2024, and whether it was a success – the most four-star recruits ever signed in one day by a Colorado coaching staff – or whether it was a disappointment, as the jewel of the Class failed to sign his Letter of Intent, and there were no surprise flips from other programs.
We will then take a unit-by-unit look at the CU Class of ‘24, which was dominated by signees playing in the trenches on both sides of the ball. There were also a few talented skill position players joining the Herd, whetting the appetites of Buff fans looking for even more spectacular plays next fall.
So … Should the Buff Nation be alarmed that Coach Prime and his staff only signed five freshmen? … Did CU bring in enough offensive line talent in the “Protect Shedeur” campaign to make sack reduction in 2024 a realistic possibility? … Has the groundwork been laid for a winning campaign next fall, or is there still plenty of work left to do in the Transfer Portal between now and Fall Camp to make a bowl bid a realistic expectation?
Let’s find out …
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Most recent CU at the Game Podcast episodes …
- Crystal Ball: Game-by-Game Predictions for CU’s 2023 Season
- “T.I.P.S.” for CU at No. 17 TCU – The Debut of the Coach Prime Era at CU
- “T.I.P.S.” for CU v. Nebraska – Plus: Savoring the Huge win over TCU
- “T.I.P.S.” for No. 19 CU at No. 10 Oregon / Recapping CU’s 43-35 win over CSU
- “T.I.P.S.” for the White Out Breakfast with No. 8 USC
- “T.I.P.S.” for CU at Arizona State / Taking Positives from the 48-41 loss to No. 8 USC“
- T.I.P.S.” for CU v. Stanford /Review of CU’s 27-24 win over Arizona State
- “T.I.P.S.” for CU at No. 23 UCLA / Mid-season Report Card for the 4-3 Buffs
- “T.I.P.S.” for CU v. No. 16 Oregon State / Post-Mortem on CU at No. 23 UCLA
- “T.I.P.S.” for CU v. No. 23 Arizona – Can the Buffs Bring Home a Win on Senior Day?
- “T.I.P.S.” for CU at Washington State: The Battle for Win No. 5
- “T.I.P.S.” for CU at Utah: The Buffs Look to Finish the 2023 Campaign on a High Note
- Year One of the Coach Prime Era: Hits and Misses / Moving On: Charting Changes in the CU Coaching Staff and Roster
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Below is Episode 32 of Season 4 for the CU at the Game Podcast. You can listen to the podcast simply by clicking on the play button below, or listen to it at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio … or wherever you find your podcasts!
5 Replies to “CUATG Podcast: Signing Day, 2024!”
On paper the O line looks better. How much I’m not sure. The previous O line was pathetic for sure but I’m not sure how much of that was the lack of help in the way of diversity, blocking back etc in the Lewis and following Shurmur schemes. Still some concern on my part with Shurmur still around. Just gotta wait and see.
Looking at the bios only It appears the D line took a bigger step forward than the O line. Linebacker still maybe a concern.
Also concerned about the freshmen numbers. Yeah its the new portal era but I believe you need a core of players who spend more than one or 2 years together. The pros have free agency and trading as their version of the portal but the pro players are older and know, for the most part what they are doing…seasoned if you will.
After last years folding after the first 3 games maybe some high school recruits think Coach was a flash in the pan?…..or still not convinced he is going to hang around. CUAlum’s point is well taken but there have to be many excellent players out there who arent going to get the million dollar or even a hundred thousand dollar offers……unless Texas oil and Alabama boosters have enough cash to corral them all. I hope not.
Personally I don’t think that we should look at classes as freshman only anymore. The college football landscape has changed drastically with NIL and transfers. CU still will not be able to compete for a bunch of 5 star players coming out of HS with the NIL money deeper pocketed schools have. That is not neccesarily bad news, as a whole lot of NIL money gets put into uproven talent at the HS level. Classes in todays environment should be judged as a whole (transfers and HS) instead of just HS. There are examples of a lot of success with that, Kansas State comes to mind when they recruited a lot of JUCO players each year. Now there is vastly more talent available via transfer and Coach Prime know that. The NIL money CU does have should be prioritized for proven transfer players over unproven HS players. JMHO.
really good points
Stuart
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