Spring/Summer – 2023

CBS Sports: CU one of the Pac-12’s “overrated” teams … Wilner Pac-12 Predictions: Can Sanders coach effectively at the Power Five level? … The Athletic posts its preseason 1-133 (CU up 40 spots from the end of 2022) …

Biggest questions surrounding the program as Fall Camp opens … Fall Camp opens today with players reporting; first practice Wednesday … Shedeur Sanders: “I just focus on the next thing to do” … Shedeur Sanders named to Maxwell Award Watch List …

Pac-9 meetings: Reports of streaming deal with “escalator” clauses … Wilner: Future of the Pac-12 could be decided week … Kliavkoff presenting media rights update to Pac-9 on Tuesday … Rating the odds of Oregon and Washington being invited to join the Big 12 …

Here are some pros and cons of a move by CU back to the Big 12 … (Note: This essay was first posted back in the good old days – June 11th – when the talk was more of San Diego State joining the Pac-12 than of CU bolting to the Big 12) …

A Potluck Episode … The Pac-12 Media contracts remain elusive – What is going on, and how is this most likely to play out? … At the two-year anniversary of NIL, where does CU stand, and what are CU’s chances of keeping up? … How will the San Diego State/MWC divorce play out for the newly orphaned Aztecs? … Let’s find out …

First prize: Two tickets to the CU/Nebraska game on September 9th!! … Second prize:

Six months from today is Christmas Day … Will the Buff Nation be celebrating Coach Prime’s first season with full stockings? … Or are there more lumps of coal than presents? … A month-by-month look at CU’s schedule, as the “Search for Six” will begin in earnest soon …

Will San Diego State be a member of the Pac-12 in 2024? … Will Shedeur Sanders break CU’s single season records for passing yards and touchdowns? … Will the Buff defense surpass last season’s sack total (9) in the first four games? … Will CU’s Recruiting Class of 2024 finish in the Top 30? … Let’s find out …

Coach Prime has given CU fans plenty of quotable quotes since his hiring … Here are the videos (and best quotes) from his introductory press conference … his Signing Day press conference … the Spring Game press conference … and the Joel Klatt podcast interview …

With an agreement on revenue sharing, the Pac-12 media revenue contracts are close to being done, aren’t they? … With uncertainty surrounding the Pac-12, what would it take for it to make sense for CU to return to the Big 12? … What does CU need to do to be in the best position for the next round of realignment? … Let’s find out …

Some 70% of the players sent packing by Coach Prime and his staff have found homes with new schools … but only about 20% have landed at Power Five conference schools … A breakdown of where CU’s 2022 roster will be playing in 2023 …

Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi: “I didn’t kick anybody off when I came to Pitt. Zero. Those are your guys. When you become a head coach you inherit that team and you coach that team”… Could Narduzzi have constructed a team at CU on that theory? (No surprise: the numbers aren’t on Narduzzi’s side) …

What would be a “successful” September record for CU? … If an experienced QB backup isn’t in the cards, what are CU’s options? … Did CU make a mistake by raising single game ticket prices for the Nebraska game? … What will the Pac-12’s media contracts ultimately look like? … Let’s find out …

Has CU found its run-stopping defensive linemen? … Has CU, last in the nation in sacks last season, found its edge rushers? … Are the inside linebackers and safeties good enough to keep opposing defenses at bay? … Will Travis Hunter and Cormani McClain form the lock-down corner tandem we expect? … Let’s find out …

Not-so-bold prediction: Shedeur Sanders will be CU’s starting quarterback on Sept. 2nd v. TCU … The other ten starters? There are some likely candidates at wide receiver and the offensive line, but you never know … My Way-too-early starting lineup projections …

CU men’s golf finishes third at NCAA regionals; advance to NCAA finals for the first time in 21 years … CU women’s basketball fares well at annual CUSPY Awards, including “Sports Moment of the Year” …

Can CU get by with Shedeur Sanders and two freshmen quarterbacks? … Has the offensive line (with five transfers with zero Power Five offers) really been upgraded? … Has the recent influx of defensive line commitments given the unit enough talent (and depth) to compete in the Pac-12? … Let’s find out …

Past experience (or ratings out of high school) no guarantee of future success, but bringing in three five-star prospects and eight four-star prospects (while losing zero four- and five-star defensive prospects) can’t hurt … Overall, CU’s is welcoming four five-star players and 11 four-star players – while losing none …

Anonymous Big 12 Director of Player Personnel: “It is just absolutely unreasonable to think you can sign 25 players out of the spring transfer portal and make your team better” … Except the numbers don’t bear that out … A unit-by-unit look at the ratings and Power Five offers of the Buffs coming in and the Buffs who left …

Last December, Coach Prime said the roster cuts were coming … Before and after the Spring Game, Coach Prime said the cuts were coming … Still, the unprecedented overhaul of the roster has been met with criticism and ridicule … Overreactions? Or cause for concern? …

Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule has been none too pleased at the national attention Coach Prime has been receiving … Rhule (and the Big Red faithful) have been taking pot shots at CU and its new head coach, with the Big Red envy making this off-season all the more enjoyable …