OT - Go Nebraska! Beat the Buffs

Um, we play them in 4 weeks.  But I agree with you, I’d much rather Colorado become a winner than Nebraska

I shared that sense of things myself.

BUT reading Harbaugh's positive words about Sanders gave me a new perspective. 

Co-sign with this opinion.

Over the top is the whole Coach Prime brand. Shake things up. Get noticed. Get the team, recruits, and boosters excited about a program that has been in the wilderness for a couple of decades and 1-11 a year ago.

Plus, and this doesn't get emphasized enough, if "old school" people would look a little closer, they'd realize he's very old school in the way he coaches the team. He is by all accounts a tough disciplinarian and maintains strict rules about things like where and when players can have phones-- tougher than most programs I've ever heard about. 

Consider this: in their first game playing together with essentially an entirely new roster, his team committed only 6 penalties for 35 yds and one turnover. That's a disciplined team right there. That's good, old school coaching.

I like Prime. I'm rooting for him. And I usually pull for the B10 team unless they are playing ND. But I also enjoy when MSU/OSU struggle.

Normally I'd root for Neb but those guys are annying mostly bc of Scotty Frost, him mom, and also I get the sense Neb's program is basically Osborn, end of statement.

That said, I find it midly annoying when coaches/ppl moan about people not 'believing.'

"to accept that (something) is true, especially without proof."

Show me 1st, Prime. Until then, I'm not gonna be sold on you. You did just that, congrats. I still am not sold that they will be bowl eligible. Pac 12 is, ironically, pretty strong this year.

I don’t understand this mentality. Am I the outlier that roots for B10 teams in non conference? A win over Colorado would be a (small) boost for the entire conference in terms of credibility.
 

To the extreme, if every B10 school outside of UM lost every out of conference game, we would suddenly turn into the Sun Belt or MAC and be almost entirely irrelevant and would lessen the chance of making a playoff significantly.

You should try living in Colorado. It has gotten really old listening to Sanders. I usually cheer for CU but Sanders makes it difficult. I hope the start getting beat regularly so I don’t have to listen to it anymore 

I have a dog in the fight: Nebraska sucks, and I'll never root for them to win anything.

I find it embarrassing af that Michigan lost to TCU and then Sanders beats them in game 1 w/ a bunch of dudes that just transferred in. 

Pathetic. 

The non-believers are doing the recruiting? They're screwed.

I’m not a non-believer. I think Deion can coach, especially when he has much better players than his opponent. 
 

I think he is a douche for the way they ran almost all of the players out of the program. He could have done more to assist them in leaving when he arrived. He wouldn’t even met with some of them. Deion also told high school players that he would honor their commitment, then his coaches ghosted them before NSD. 
 

Deion gets results, but he is an ass. These are still college age young men and he treated close to 100 of them like trash. This is coming from someone who was a big fan of him as a player. 

There have been many upsets of over 21 points.  It's eye opening but not unprecedented by any means.  It's not even top 10 biggest upsets in terms of spread.

Hunter is a special talent.  If they continue to play him 100 plays a game, however, I don't expect he will last very long.  Even when Woodson was an amazing 2-way player, they picked their spots when deciding to put him in for offensive plays.

He’ll get tiresome eventually. But if it’s a choice between Prime vs Nick Saban whining about how it’s tougher for him to win championships these days and how we should ignore better teams in favor of giving Alabama a shot at the title due to some kind of Lifetime Achievement Award… I’m choosing Coach Prime every day

As I mentioned above, it looks as if Harbaugh agrees with you.

I saw an article that the cheapest seat at Folsom Field for Saturday's game is over $300. It's a hotter ticket than Alabama-Texas (or anything else). They couldn't give seats away last year.

I don't think we need more coaches who treat the players like meat in a packing factory, picking and choosing cuts. But why can't we just enjoy the upsets and upheaval and the spectacle? We don't have to love the guy, or to take a frickin' stand--yes, no--on everything. A good upset's a good upset, though, and that was fun football. 

Chances are they come back down to earth soon. This may not be the weekend, though.  

Miami had this going on in the late 80s early 90s.  Cocky teams are either loved or hated dpending on your rooting interest, but they do make the game entertaining.  Plus this is not new for 
Deion, he was like this at FSU under Bowden.  

As a CSU alum and sicko for watching whatever version of football they throw out there, I naturally dislike CU and the overall spirit of most who attend or have attended CU. I won't get into it but it's my own thing and I deal with it as needed. CU (and most teams on their schedule) will blow my beloved Rammies off whatever cliff they're hanging onto.

I absolutely loved the Deion Sanders hire as it gave a Vader-esque feel to the guy in charge at CU. I thought his approach to the roster was weird and egregious while his self-promotion/ego sky-rocketed on a national stage. That said, if he continues to win and win convincingly like he did at TCU as 21 point dogs, you gotta give him some credit. I still hope they lose all of their games and he's sent out of town in a year or two on a buffalo but winning is the great equalizer and shuts up critics real fast. It's a long season and I fear he actually has the coaching and/or motivational chops to turn CU into a contender against a soft PAC-12 conference. F my life.

Going out on a limb with such a wild prediction.

Oregon is going to destroy Colorado.  If not, Deion will actually have a reason to chirp.  Until then he's all bluster.