FOX announces its two biggest BIG NOON KICKOFF games: Coach Prime and "The Game"
FOX is LOVING the Coach Prime hype. It doesn't matter if the hype pans out to have substance or not. It's putting butts in seats and remote clicks to FOX:
You think these games will be heavily laden with commercial breaks?
Cool
Ok cool. Hook ‘em.
That would be the University of Texas
I'm already anticipating how annoyed I will be with whatever Wendys ad runs 25 times during the game
Take 1 shot of whiskey for each showing. Or whatever your drink of choice.
Less chance of a thrown tv remote in my case. Maybe it'll help you.
I'd be more likely to throw the remote, but less likely to hit whatever I was aiming at.
We lived through the “Fancy Like Applebee’s” season of 2021. We can no longer be killed with conventional advertising…
Simply record and start watching @40 minutes later-fast forward through commercials and voila-a seamless gameday experience.
If you dont care for half time an hour works best for me. OSU has to be real time though I still cant do that for the game yet. It is fantastic to go for an hour hike and catch the non-commercial broadcast!
I used to do that, but don't you text with friends during the games? I hated having to avoid looking at my phone during the games.
Those will be playing right after the Fansville ads
One of these is not like the other.
How so? They could both be matchups of undefeated teams!
/s, just in case
I'm wondering if FOX will just use a picture in picture, with the primary shot of Sanders the whole time and the game in the little box.
It will also make an interesting drinking game if you have to drink every time they use the word "transfer".
How about every time they say Prime?
With Coach Prime mic'd up
Joel Klatt is a Colorado alum and has publicly been loving him some Prime. That alone probably makes it a certainty that they get one Big Noon game this year. For all the hype surrounding that program, given all the turnover, they may only have 65 scholarship players left on the roster (albeit with more talent than the 85 scholarship players they had last year), which means they likely won't be a good team. They probably can't put a 3-6 Colorado in that timeslot later in the year, but early in the year against a team that made the playoffs last year, that makes sense.
I read it differently. The first game is FOX's season opener for the 2023 Big Noon season, and the OSU-Michigan game is essentially their closer, the final Big Noon game of the season.
Whether people want to admit it or not, there is going to be a lot of interest in that season-opening Colorado-TCU game given the offseason at Colorado with Deion Sanders and TCU coming off a CFP National Championship Game appearance. Might as well sell the Coach Prime hype before the @TCU, Nebraska, USC, @Oregon gauntlet they face in the first month of the 2023 season rather than after that. I am interested in watching Colorado not for the Coach Prime antics but to see what a program looks like in Year One after running off almost all the scholarship players from last year's team and trying to replace them through the transfer portal.
good take
and they get in on the hype before the feces stain on CU's season starts to show.
TCU just wants to move on from the last game they played
I'd be fine if I never heard the name "TCU" again.
It also feels like less will be made of the fact that TCU hired Kendal Briles as their OC and did, frankly, a pretty poor job handling the inevitable blowback. Sanders is going to suck a lot of air out of that game.
The TCU-Colorado Big Noon selections reminds me of when they made the 2015 Utah-Michigan a primetime game and the first game of the CFB season (in the days before Week 0) just because of the Harbaugh hype.
Part of it is that FOX is also limited by their inventory. The only Big Ten game of note in Week 1 is OSU @ Indiana. FOX shares Big 12 and Pac-12 with ESPN so that is probably the best game they had rights to for Week 1. The 2023 Week 1 schedule is pretty bad and made worse by the fact that the games are spread out over Labor Day weekend.
Both Utah and Michigan ended up winning 10 games that year so it was a good choice. Highly doubt Colorado will reach that level.
A game that would've been won had Ruuudock had more practice time with his receivers. Remember a 4th quarter where he was looking at a sr. TE with 1 career catch and a frosh with none when Darboh and Chesson were runninng around open.
A game that would've been won had Ruuudock had more practice time with his receivers. Remember a 4th quarter where he was looking at a sr. TE with 1 career catch and a frosh with none when Darboh and Chesson were runninng around open. Would've resulted in an 11 win debut.
I definitely get why its on Fox - obviously coach Prime vs. runner up TCU - but this is gonna be like Texas-ND or the richrod years Michigan-ND games: this is ultimately going to be a 4-8 team playing a 7-5 team
That’s a whole lot of hype for a team that will be lucky to win 3-4 games this year. I know Deion is recruiting talent, but he barely has enough scholarship players to even field a starting 22 right now.
Colorado will be patient with him, but I have a feeling all the hype for this year’s Colorado team will fizzle out by early October.
Last I read yesterday, he only needs 9 more. He's been steadily at work in the transfer portal.
I might be way wrong but imo Sanders is just Jerry Glanville in college football. All flash and hype, grabs some skilled players but can't sustain a winning program.
Extending the Glanville analogy (which I like) ---- at some point, "Coach Prime" is going to piss some coach off enough that he goes all Sam Wyche on him.
That's in reference to the ultimate "FU, run-up-the-score" game in 1989 when Cincinnati beat Houston 61-7.
Cincinnati led 31-0 at the half, called an on-side kick when up 45-0 (it worked!), was passing the ball well into the 4th quarter, Wyche called all his timeouts on the Bengals' last drive, kicked a FG with 0:25 left and then called another on-side kick (didn't work, Houston was expecting it).
All that on a day when the temperature was 3 degrees above zero!
The shine left Glanville for good after Washington thumped them in the playoffs when Jerry showed up in a fur coat and mc hammer on the sidelines.
Bringing this full circle --- Prime Time was on that Falcons team!!!!!! 1991.
(Brett Favre was also on that Falcons team. He went 0-for-4 on the season, throwing 2 Interceptions. Glanville thought "enough of that, let's trade him, Chris Miller is the future!")
MC Hammer and the Falcons made a music video that year. That was the era when NFL teams just LOVED making music videos. ("Ram It" was, by far, the best of the bunch)
Glorious!
We also have "Buddy's Watching You!" from 1988. Luis Zendejas at the 1:00 mark --- with the single worst rapping performance in human history.
Too bad there wasn't a 1989 video. Title could have been "Buddy has a Bounty on You!" --- Zenedjas left for Dallas, and supposedly he and Aikman were the guys Buddy put a bounty on for the Thanksgiving game.
Pretty sure their roster is close to full right now and Prime is still lurking in the portal.
Hard to see this team winning more than 3 games when it only has like 23 scholarship players right now. They'll get a bunch in August. But they will largely be castoffs with hardly any time to adjust to a new program filled with strangers.
https://thednvr.com/prime-tracker-everything-you-need-to-know-about-colorado-buffaloes-football/
These two posts back to back are amazing.
1. He has a full roster
2. He has 60 open scholarships
The reality is he actually has well over 60 players on scholarship. About 15-20 spots to fill. The problem will be the coaching them into a team. There just isnt enough practice time in the day to field a brand new team and be as competitive as teams that have been playing together for 2-3 season.
Will anyone really watch the TCU game when they have to play a team that just had 20+ "transfers" and may not get enough players to replace them? Let alone having the new players learn the plays in time for the game. (I understand the hype to get people to watch.)
I'll take TCU -28.
The 2nd game is a No Brainer to watch.
He is on pace to complete filling the roster by June 1.
It's one thing to fill a roster. It's another one to build a team. Taylor Upshaw was out after spring practice. How content are some of these transfers going to be to ride the pine? And many of them are going to be stuck with the new NCAA rule restrictions on a second transfer and waivers.
Tough to put together a worse team than Colorado had last year. They’re already a much more talented group, we’ll see how well they’re able to get a cohesive scheme together but last year’s Colorado squad was arguably the worst in the country.
True, but it is still a Power 5 roster. There were still some players on that team as some of those outgoing players found decent landing spots (~10-15 of the Colorado transfers ended up at Power 5 programs). Can you replace all of that in one cycle through the transfer portal? I think they are going to be better at some positions with the influx of talent from his Jackson St team, but can you build an OL and DL that way in one year? Will he have the depth necessary to compete? It's going to interesting to watch.
P5 roster by technicality maybe, but it was hardly a P5 quality roster. Colorado was pitiful. 9 of their 11 losses were by 25+. They didn’t belong on the same field as the rest of the Pac12 and got blown out by… Air Force
Will he have the depth necessary to compete
I’d argue they’re probably DEEPER than they were last year. They’ve increased the overall talent and they’ve brought in a ton of transfers to offset losing bench players from a 1-11 team that couldn’t compete.
Now I’m not saying at all that they’re going to compete and win a bunch of games. That would be miraculous. I’m simply saying we aren’t acknowledging just how dreadful that Colorado team was last season if we’re just assuming they’ll be worse. Prime is running those players off for a reason, and while the way he’s going about it may be undesirable, they needed a talent and culture reset. I have a real hard time arguing they would have been better off just keeping their original roster and moving forward with a couple transfer additions.
God help me ... yeah, I'll watch. Honest to God, I'm not even sure who I'll be cheering for. I've always kinda liked Colorado, and I've always kinda disliked TCU (even before ....). Deion Sanders makes it harder, though ...
Think CU is gonna get stomped on Prime Time…well…afternoon.
And there will be a lot of people tuning in to watch it. Kind of like a ND game--I think more people tune in to watch them lose than win.
It will be interesting to see if he benches all the starters for the second half after the stomping in the first half.
Tcu by 70
New drinking games, do a shot every commercial break.
or
During the commercial break, do a shot when the same ad comes up that you have already seen.
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