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Colorado sucks…

AkronCane said:
Those are excuses for Deion’s poor recruiting, at least it smells like excuses to me. It’s been a long since CU was a major power on a national scale, but in my lifetime they’ve been a top tier program. They used to clean up in Southern California, specifically San Diego, Texas and Louisiana, all urban and all warm. Deion is just a lazy, arrogant and indifferent recruiter. There’s no other way to call it. Who the **** is elitist to refuse making in-home and at school recruiting visits. I’ve never heard of such ****ery, the results have shown that his approach hasn’t worked. Colorado isn’t a hotbed, sure, but he’s a legend, he could clean up in Texas and Florida if he put in the work, but he seems stubborn and disinterested.
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They had some pretty good teams in the 1970s too. Lou Saban's first game as the UM HC was at Colorado and if I recall the Buffs were heavily favored. We had a bunch of talented freshmen like Lester Williams, David Jefferson, Fred Marion, Mark Richt. Mark Cooper plus upperclassmen OJ Anderson, Jim Burt, and Don Smith on the team but we couldn't beat Colorado. But every time they've been talented they've been dinged with NCAA issues (or so it seems).
As others have noted, it's a pretty campus in a beautiful setting. I have a relative who is a Physical Trainer at the school and she loves out there.
This is a school with a lot of pluses, but the coaches have to work their tails off to get recruiting right.
 
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MedleyCane said:
They had some pretty good teams in the 1970s too. Lou Saban's first game as the UM HC was at Colorado and if I recall the Buffs were heavily favored. We had a bunch of talented freshmen like Lester Williams, David Jefferson, Fred Marion, Mark Richt. Mark Cooper plus upperclassmen OJ Anderson, Jim Burt, and Don Smith on the team but we couldn't beat Colorado. But every time they've been talented they've been dinged with NCAA issues (or so it seems).
As others have noted, it's a pretty campus in a beautiful setting. I have a relative who is a Physical Trainer at the school and she loves out there.
This is a school with a lot of pluses, but the coaches have to work their tails off to get recruiting right.
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Every single person I’ve ever met that went to, the school absolutely raves about it. The culture, the people, the actual school / academics, all of it. Seems like a great place.

It’s also pretty cool because it receives more NASA astrophysics technology research grants than any other school. Also, through its Laboratory for Atmospheric Space Physics (LASP), CU has sent an instrument to every planet in the solar system AND is the only university in the world to have done so.
 
caneingville said:
Every single person I’ve ever met that went to, the school absolutely raves about it. The culture, the people, the actual school / academics, all of it. Seems like a great place.

It’s also pretty cool because it receives more NASA astrophysics technology research grants than any other school. Also, through its Laboratory for Atmospheric Space Physics (LASP), CU has sent an instrument to every planet in the solar system AND is the only university in the world to have done so.
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I worked 18 years at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and worked with many astronomers and scientists who studied and/or taught at Colorado. Alot of folks from that school and Ohio State and some with links to both schools.
As you noted, they have a good school in the physical sciences
 
MedleyCane said:
I worked 18 years at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and worked with many astronomers and scientists who studied and/or taught at Colorado. Alot of folks from that school and Ohio State and some with links to both schools.
As you noted, they have a good school in the physical sciences
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May I ask what you did there? Engineering?
 
Coach Sanders could have had that roster littered with blue chips but took the easy way out thinking he could be the portal king.

He’s landed multiple 5 stars (not all have worked out of course) without even trying other than saying “I’m Coach Prime”. If he put even 50% effort into recruiting, he could have had the most talented roster in the big12 until TT started dropping oil bags.
 
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