“It’s easy to clap when it’s going well, but when all hell breaks loose, ain’t nobody there but the criticism and the negativity on social. I’m trying to do a great job of being a good steward of my relationship with these young men and helping them progress the right way.” ~ Deion Sanders
I’m not one of those people waiting for Prime to fail. I can be a Monday Morning QB at times–I tend to look at my kid’s High School team and think, “this is a badly coached team” and I’ve worked to step back from that. It is easy to be on the outside of something and decide that you know the root cause of the bad. In terms of the Colorado Football team, there is a lot of bad. There is also a lot of good. For starters, he took full responsibility for what happened. He shielded his coordinators and his players from dealing with the press.
The game sucked. Last week sucked. They’ve been sliding, and while he takes responsibility for it, a lot of it is on these players. Prime said, “thinking that you’re doing the right things, and you’re not.” I found that idea particularly on point and particularly damning. It is something that can be seen from the outside at times. When Ray Lewis went into that locker room he said that it wasn’t a team. My own son, who’ve I asked about the culture of that team, says he sees what it going on from connections he has in state, and it is about that locker room. It is about that respect and trust and relationships.
There is something going on in Boulder and it isn’t good. Those who hate are rejoicing in the moment. They want to see him gone and that will make them feel better–the way it has for other operations this season. There is a ton of turnover out there. What crushes me is how the hate (and the media is often an amplifier for that hate–especially the unchecked social media) pushes people to make decisions. I don’t know what will happen in Colorado, but I do know that there will be a lot of noise and a lot of clamoring for Prime to get fired. Two huge losses on top of a losing season. This is year 3–usually the turn around year or progress year in a program. However, for this org, it is clearly a fresh rebuild. They haven’t found the answer at QB. The secondary is terrible. This team needs to come together now more than ever. Unfortunately, I see them falling apart.
What I want to see is who is left after the fall. Those are the Dogs who will determine the future.