He's recruited extremely well for a HBCU, which is why I doubt his coaching ability. He pulled recruits that HBCU coaches used to only dream of, and he still lost his last, and maybe biggest, game at Jackson State with far superior talent.
| FTBL 18 (now 46) players on Deion Sanders-coached Buffaloes in transfer portal
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ElephantStomp
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He’s recruited well for any college. Every major program wanted some of the dudes he pulled in like the #1 player in every ranking the year he left high school.
24and7
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Just ask all the players he threw under the bus.. basically he saying it himself .. What if Saban did that to Shulas recruits…Nope.. He made them some of his best players…Neon isn’t interested in that… That transfer portal might just get him all the cancers the other teams got rid of…
TerryP
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They lost their bowl game in overtime. It was the only loss after an undefeated season including the conference championship. How does that meet, "biggest game?"
You've peaked my curiosity. Tell me more about their bowl opponent and where the talent disparity was found.
TerryP
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The situation Saban inherited when he took over the Bama program is synonymous with the situation found at Colorado with Deion. This has been your analogy throughout the thread.
How are they alike?
I interviewed 27 people last week. I didn't hire any of them. I told every one of them that they weren't what we were looking for; they didn't fit. Did I throw them under the bus?
24and7
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Just saying Saban gave those guys redemption.. Neon gave them no hope… Some of them got even though… they waited until he excepted them… then left him…
I don’t understand how he is going to find diamonds in the rough if he’s not looking for them…
Justneedme81
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Plenty of HCBU coaches who did same thing....
There are some leftover that's still on the team. He did give them a choice. I think you took what he said to the team the wrong way. Sanders wants guys to leave who can’t handle his way of doing things.
TerryP
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Why would any coach be looking for diamonds in the rough in the first place? By implication, that's something a coach stumbles across because they are few and far between.
Here, we have a coach building a program. Diamonds are formed through time; he's looking at today.
I see that as an assumption we're looking at the same Jimmy's and Joe's with UA and UC when we're likely looking at some Jina's and Josie's for the Buff's. Even with the dearth of talent from Shula's classes those kids were still more talented than the stars found on UC roster.
Hell man, in one class from Shula he signed more four stars than that program has seen the last four or five years—pre-Deion.
Justneedme81
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He doesn't need the diamond in the rough. He just need to get the team to win 6 games this fall. Do that, and he'll even get a better player from transfer/recuiting this december.
TerryP
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I know. And that doesn't change it being a legitimate issue with some folks.
If we're honest about this, the good majority of the kids recruited with "HBCU" weren't kids that were headed to a P5 school: they were headed to DII, or FCS. Pitching "HBCU" vs UAB, or UNA? I've no issue there.
TerryP
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Even with the new influx of talent, they're still lagging behind. Have you see their schedule? There might be three wins there; four if they're lucky.
Can they get three wins out of the two Arizona schools, Nebraska, and Stanford?
OldPlayer
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Anybody want to post what their over/under on wins for Colorado this year? Here’s their schedule:
Sept. 2: at TCU, 10 a.m. MT (FOX)
Sept. 9: Nebraska
Sept. 16: Colorado State
Sept. 23: at Oregon
Sept. 30: USC
Oct. 7: at Arizona State
Oct. 13: Stanford
Oct. 28: at UCLA
Nov. 4: Oregon State
Nov. 11: Arizona
Nov. 17: at Washington State
Nov. 25: at Utah
Sept. 2: at TCU, 10 a.m. MT (FOX)
Sept. 9: Nebraska
Sept. 16: Colorado State
Sept. 23: at Oregon
Sept. 30: USC
Oct. 7: at Arizona State
Oct. 13: Stanford
Oct. 28: at UCLA
Nov. 4: Oregon State
Nov. 11: Arizona
Nov. 17: at Washington State
Nov. 25: at Utah
BamaFan334
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Six wins? Dude, that would be an all-timer if he could pull that many wins. I think like terry said that 3.5 is too high.
24and7
Member
I dont see him winning one game with his schedule and lack of depth
24and7
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Sometimes you just got to find the man that has it in him somewhere..just got to unlock it… Neon may find that after his extremely humbling year… he just better beware of believing in the transfer portal… a lot of those guys did not play or pan out at their former schools for a reason… the coaches will gladly give them a stellar review to get rid of them..
BamaFan334
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Joshua Jacobs was a diamond in the rough.
TerryP
Staff
They weren't looking for a diamond in the rough. He wasn't on Burns radar, at all, until he was popping up in a lot of places. The staff wasn't in a "let's see what we can find" mode, ya know?
Josh showed up on the scene because of his high school coach. He had a contact with either Rivals or Scout (I don't think 247 was up then) and they told him to hit Twitter. He did and then created a page for Josh and started sending video clips to D1 colleges.
Burton, then both he and Saban, saw the film. Burton flew to OK...watched him play basketball and the rest is history. I don't see the staff at Bama as "finding a diamond in the rough" with Josh.
A diamond takes time to develop. Josh was on the field very quickly; game one, year one.
BamaFan334
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Ahh ok, I see what you're saying now. And yes, you are correct from what I remember about his recruitment.
ElephantStomp
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He’ll win between 3 and 5
OldPlayer
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That’s a success after going 1-11.
