Today is just so anti climatic across the sport. I feel like with the early signing day, constant social media barrages on who is going where, transfer portal news, etc that the final signing day is just a big nothingburger. I hope some of the push from coaches to eliminate the early signing period comes to fruition.
I miss the excitement of the day and it just isn’t there in December when so many guys don’t sign and things are happening with actual games etc.

Hope we get what guys want today and land some guys but man I miss wasting a day at work refreshing to see who signed with us and across the country. I suspect the media misses it too and will be the driving force to somehow make things more exciting for eyeballs

NU.

They kept their Regis pipeline alive. Missed on the other 3 Regis preps but managed to snag Barnes. Barnes is a fast kid. A little light, but very fast.

An hour ago on Pac12 radio Gorney, unsolicited, tosses out quip that "Rumors are that [5*] Cormani McClain won't be signing with Colorado tomorrow after all" without mentioning any basis for such. Good Grief, WTF Dude? !

After National Signing Day, 233 of the top 250 rated high school players have signed. I've compiled a list below to show where we are at with the remaining 17:

Undecided
Duce Robinson TE
Nyckoles Harbor ATH (offer) (Signed South Carolina)
Jaden Rashada QB (offer) (signed Arizona State)
Walker Lyons TE (offer) (signed USC)
Rodrick Pleasant CB (offer) (signed Oregon)
Omarion Miller WR (Signed CU)
Malik Elzy WR (signed Illinois)
Jamarion Wilcox RB (offer) (signed Kentucky)
Mikal Harrison-Pilot WR (offer) (signed Houston)
Jelani McDonald ATH (signed Texas)
Ashton Porter SDE (offer) (signed Oregon)
Committed Unsigned
Cormani McClain CB Miami (signed CU)
David Hicks Jr SDE Texas A&M (offer) (signed A&M)
Jeremia Cobb RB Auburn (signed Auburn)
Raymond Cottrell WR Georgia (signed A&M)
Shamar Easter TE Arkansas (Signed Arkansas)
Zavion Hardy SDE South Carolina
Kendrick Gilbert DT Kentucky

I wonder if the staff is working on more offers from this list? It would seem like SDE would be a position of need. And we could get be pushing hard on some of these we've made offers to. What is everyone's thoughts on these? Any insights?

USC did beat out Oregon for him after all. He has a GF going to USC. Huge commitment for that program. All wasn't lost for Oregon though. They got super sprinter and CB Rod Pleasant. State record holder in the 100m in California. Glad we will never face Harbor. NFL #1 in 3 years. Pleasant will be top 5 unfortunately so we'll have to contend with him.

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Now that my Hawks don’t have any more picks I hope Russ finds some success with Payton. Couldn’t be much worse!

Colorado gets mentioned twice with nods to the work Sanders has done.
I agree with the second writer who said Sanders had done great work but knows there is more work to be done. 23 transfers are a short term fix but 12 come from FCS and the rebuild is only going to happen with solid high school recruiting which is where Sanders is focused.
That writer gets what all good coaches including Sanders know. Nice to see us mentioned over and over for 23 and I think 2024 could be a top 20 class again with what I’m seeing so far.
Regardless of what happens tomorrow you have to call the salvaging of an absolutely dreadful recruiting class good work.

Apologize if I missed info posted in the past.

BZ: FB - CU Buffs’ Shedeur Sanders among stellar group of quarterbacks in Pac-12

BZ: MBB - Amid shooting slump, CU Buffs point guard KJ Simpson looks to reboot all-around game

CUATG Blog: FB - Coach Prime to be featured in a Super Bowl commercial

CUATG Blog: FB - Rating the Hire: National Media on Coach Prime

CUATG Blog: Pac-12 Notes - Pac-12 Media Right Deal: Time to Get it Done

USA Today: FB - Deion Sanders drastically overhauls Colorado’s football roster in just eight weeks

Athlon Sports: FB - Joel Klatt deems Travis Hunter the most interesting college football transfer ahead of 2023

Cheers!

This would not include the D1A college football playoff since it is not ran by the NCAA itself. But would include the MBB tourney. There are currently 358 MBB schools, so that would expand the tourney to 90 schools. The current NCAA/ESPN (the men's tourney is a separate contract) TV deal for 29 NCAA tourneys is up in the summer of 2024. ESPN currently pays $34 mil per year to broadcast all 29 tourneys.

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BZ: MBB - Mental miscues adding up for CU Buffs men’s basketball

BZ: WBB - Colorado Buffs women’s basketball drops from AP Top 25

BZ: MBB - Pac-12 notes: Conference race heats up as pack catches up to UCLA

BZ: Chat replay: CU Buffs beat writer Brian Howell (Jan. 30, 2023)

CU AD: LAX - Buffs Named To Top-25 in Preseason Poll

CUATG Blog: FB - Colorado Recruiting Class of 2024 - Video: Wiltfong Whiparound on CU’s Recruiting Weekend

CUATG Blog: FB - Pac-12 Notes - Pac-12 Presidents and athletic directors meeting Monday with a full agenda

DP: FB - Pac-12 recruiting: Our National Signing Day preview finds Colorado, Oregon, USC and perhaps ASU in the spotlight

ESPN: FB - National signing day 2023 preview: Football recruiting storylines (Colorado/Coach Prime Featured)

The News Tribune: FB - Western 100: Colorado on the rise in high school football recruiting, college transfer rankings

Buffs Wire: FB - WATCH: Four-star Buffs recruit D'antre Robinson vlogged his CU visit

Buffs Wire: FB - Deion Sanders' introductory press conference was a full-circle moment for Jeremy Bloom

Buffs Wire: FB - Former Buffs QB JT Shrout finds new home at Arkansas State

Buffs Wire: FB - 2024 four-star WR Bredell Richardson has Buffs in final 8

Cheers!

Interesting tidbits from the Sports Business Journal:
This year’s total is projected to be less than half of the industry’s record high of $11.9 billion set in 2020. However, the more than $28.5 billion in projects that are scheduled to finish from 2024-27 is the largest backlog since SBJ began tracking such data in 1998.

But it’s the $1.7 billion in college stadium construction, matching last year’s record level, that will be the industry’s primary driver in 2023, led by nine-figure football renovation projects at Oregon State, Nebraska and Texas A&M. This year also will see construction completed at one of the more unusually named venues: The new training facility for Michigan State’s football team — the $67 million Tom Izzo Football Building — is named after the school’s longtime men’s basketball coach.

Just curious how things are going for anybody that has any insight, we heard Rick George say we don't have the money but we will find it, will, did we find it? do we have a large donor stepping up or are we still searching for a way to pay prime time?

Watching the videos, it seems prime time is overhauling everything, which is awesome to see his commitment to CU, but does he have an open checkbook? Is he giving the finance department an ulcer?

Seems he is hiring staff left and right, I know we have a budget for staff, how are we doing on that? More ulcers or more than enough money to cover?

I just bought 2 more season tickets, my current seats are in section 108 and it was completely sold out, had to find a couple seats in section 107, section 109 only had 5 single seats available, all sounds great and hopefully it's all buff fans and no corntards buying season tickets.. Overall, how are season tickets sales? Can they sell every single seat to season ticket holders or limited in some way (Maybe a stupid question but just curious)?

Between season tickets, merchandise et cetera, I would think the buffs are doing very well right now.. Maybe they can fix the stupid sound system that they already tried to fix and failed, increase South side jumbotron, finally finish the West side renovations and more..

This prime time train at CU may be limited to 3 to 5 years but I'm gonna enjoy every second of it and if CU can cash in while the iron is hot, make some significant changes around the football program, the next head coach will be salivating to take over this program - won't be a rebuilding situation..

Last, watching prime time love Colorado and investing so much (vail, snowmobiling etc), I would not be shocked if he was here longer than we all anticipate, maybaby this place can grow on him.. this summer weather and all things to do, could seal the deal..

Johnson started for the Broncos in at least one preseason game.

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The final visit weekend before the next signing period and the next dead period is shaping up to be a big one for the Buffs. Juniors will mostly be in focus that weekend and there are already a few name to add to the list. The group, so far, is highlighted by an elite receiver, a rising quarterback from Nebraska and the first 2024 commitment for the Buffs.

Login to view embedded media Offers: 40+ including USC, Oregon, Nebraska, Texas A&M, LSU, Clemson, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisville, Tennessee & Penn State
Ryan Wingo is one of the top receivers in the 2024 class and is currently rated No. 2 overall at his position. The five-star prospect from St. Louis has a busy month planned with three visits over the next three weekends. He will visit Tennessee (currently viewed as the favorite) this weekend followed by a trip down to College Station to see TAMU before wrapping up the month in Boulder. I watched him last summer and he is as advertised. Simply a playmaker who has good size and is a natural at the position. On top of that, he's a really good kid with a strong head on his shoulders. He seems bound to make an early decision, so getting him on the trip to CU this month could prove to be key as he pushes through the process. As a five-star prospect he has already been on the radar for a bunch of schools and that has led to a lot of visits, so it says a lot that the Buffs have been able to make up a lot of ground in such a short amount of time.

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Login to view embedded media Offers: Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas State, Kansas, Florida State, Minnesota, Vanderbilt, Arizona State, Michigan State, Rutgers
The three-star prospect from Bellevue has collected a nice list of Power Five offers already, and like most quarterbacks he plans on being someone who decides on a school early. Kaelin has been able to visit a number of programs already in the process, but with CU now jumping in with an offer recently there is a new option on the table. He plans to make the trek out to Boulder for a visit with the Buffs. As of now it is the only trip set in stone for the 6-foot-2 signal caller, so that is a positive sign since it could end up being the last trip he takes before coming to a decision. February is completely dead for college visits, and right now Kaelin is targeting a February or March commitment.

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Daijon Calimon committed to the Buffs just before Deion Sanders was announced as the next head coach in Boulder. There was some thought that potentially he would have to open up his recruitment, but it quickly went away and he remains the first member of the 2024 class for CU. Since Calimon visited prior to the new staff being in place, he will get his chance to get back out to Boulder and meet with the coaches as he pushes forward in the process. There have been no hints that Calimon is looking elsewhere, but it is still an important visit for both sides to get more familiar with one another.

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We'll see more of this. Other coaches will have to find ways to try to undermine the Prime Effect.

"You know you're close to the target when you start catching a lot of flak...". Love it

2008 was the only time that has happened since DU went D1 in 1998-99.

2008:
Air Force - 10-21
Colorado - 9-22
Colorado State - 9-22
Denver - 15-16
Northern Colorado - 14-18

BZ: WBB - Women’s basketball: No. 25 CU Buffs upset by USC Trojans

BZ: MBB - CU Buffs men’s basketball program accustomed to late-season surges sliding into February

CU AD: WBB - Buffs Suffer First Home Loss of the Season

CU AD: TEN - Buffs Fall At Denver, 6-1

CU AD: VB - Colorado Celebrates Historic Season at Annual Banquet

CUATG Blog: Transfer Portal Tracker - Former Buff quarterback JT Shrout lands at Arkansas State

CUATG Blog: FB - Videos: Getting to Know CU’s OC Sean Lewis and DC Charles Kelly

DP: FB - Keeler: Dave Logan’s advice for Coach Prime, CU Buffs football on in-state recruiting? Lock the gates, or someone else will

Buffs Wire: MBB - Takeaways from Colorado's loss at Oregon State

Buffs Wire: FB - Five things to watch on national signing day

Buffs Wire: FB - Transfer Profile: Five things to know about Colorado WR Jimmy Horn Jr.

Cheers!

From John Canzano:
Here’s a fun fact this season: 44 percent of the Pac-12 Conference’s scholarship basketball players have either sat out or left a game due to injury.

That hurts. Also, the Pac-12 as a whole had a rough performance in early-season games. The Pac-12 is just 81-41 (.667) in non-conference games this season. That ranks last among the Power Five conferences. Troubling non-conference losses have dragged down the NET rankings of the teams in the middle of the conference standings.

“We hammer the 75 percent figure into coaches heads,” Zaninovich told me on Friday. “Conferences across the board that win 75 percent of non-conference games in any given year get 50 percent of their teams in the tournament.”

The Pac-12 fell about 10 non-conference wins shy of that target win percentage. It’s why Cal losing to Eastern Washington, UC Davis and Santa Clara eventually hurts the whole conference. Same goes for Oregon’s losses to UC Irvine and Utah Valley. And Oregon State lost to Portland State — twice. That can’t happen if you want to boost the overall NET ranking and get half your conference in the NCAA Tournament.

The Pac-12 is due for a refresh on the strategic front. It has been five years since the last one in basketball. In the past, the Pac-12 hired scheduling consultants, studied the markers of successful programs, and urged members to invest more heavily in basketball.

“The top brands have been investing consistently over a long period of time,” Zaninovich said. “Some of the other programs have more recently got to the investment levels.”

Pac-12 fans hope a couple of NCAA Tournament teams will emerge in the group that includes USC, Utah, ASU and Oregon. I’ve seen USC up close. The Trojans look like a tournament team, especially now that they’re healthy.

I talked to USC coach Andy Enfield last week after his team throttled ASU in Tempe. I asked him about the top-six teams in the conference. What does Enfield see when he looks at the standings?

He said: “We have our hands full every night.”

If you feel like delving into the details of a tough loss tonight, I've got the story for you here

20-15 Buffs with 8m to go in the first half.