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Shurmur discusses how he's installing his offense, working with a limited RB room, the offensive line and more.

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Jimmy Horn Jr. discusses his previous injury, the WR room and more.

This is why so many think private equity and direct corporate sponsorship/ ownership is coming as teams decouple from colleges for legal reasons. Going to get very expensive to pay players and it won’t be from NIL with collective bargaining in play.

Wonder who else is starting to do the same.

Story on the CU defense and the approach they’re taking this spring under Robert Livingston:

BZ: FB - CU Buffs leaning on veteran duo of Shilo Sanders, Cam’Ron Silmon-Craig at safety

BZ: MBB - Men’s basketball: WSU transfer Andrej Jakimovski brings untapped potential to CU Buffs

BZ: WBB - After redshirt year, Kennedy Sanders looking to make impact with CU Buffs women’s basketball

CU AD: TEN - Buffs Fall to Utah in First Round of the Pac-12 Championship

CUATG Blog: FB - Big 12 Notes – If Herm Edwards admitted violations, why did ASU pay him off instead of firing him for cause? + Proposal: Group of Five to break off and do their own playoff

Mike Farrell Sports: FB - Mind of Mike: Is it Crumbling in Boulder?

CBS Sports: FB - Shedeur Sanders NFL Draft stock: Five Colorado games in 2024 season where Buffs QB can dazzle pro scouts

Sportico: Deion, Colorado Still Haggling Over Nike Co-Branding Deal

Buffs Wire: FB - Ranking all 16 Big 12 football head coaches by career wins

Cheers!

I would really like to read the full study and am looking for it. Again, just one study, but looks interesting none the less. Ive been on the hunt for the roster changes " of half of everyone in teh top 25's 2023 roster transferring out". I have yet to be able to find this and in fact a roster by roster look says that it isnt even 1/4 of those rosters. This is not shocking but I did read a lot of really cool articles. Lots of winners and losers. The guys at the top predicatbly - lost mostly non starters and gained some key pieces. The guys in the middle not so good. The guys with losing records have more churn and lost both starters and non starters and gained mostly backups or guys yet to play. So far no shock and most of the data has had to be tracked down throgh fan sites of schools adn articles and blogs. This one just caught my attention becuase I love Money Ball and how statistics can be applied to anything in life

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The Buffs add another key piece as Ohio State running back Dallan Hayden announces his commitment to the program following a visit to Boulder. The Memphis native had an impressive freshman season rushing for 553 yards and 5 touchdowns in 2022 but was limited last season and ended up with just 110 yards and a touchdown in 3 games on 19 carries.

He's currently rated as a four-star transfer and No. 126 overall by Rivals. He is the first four-star transfer addition to join the Buffs this offseason that is not either on the offensive or defensive line.

This is mostly about the game's exclusive window of being the stand alone D1A game on that date (the second Saturday in December):

The CFP’s expansion from four to 12 teams starting this fall has triggered two conversations, both of which could impact Army-Navy:

• Bowl Season officials and their TV partner, ESPN, are exploring moving up the start of bowl games to the second weekend of December to free up television windows for the four first-round playoff games scheduled for the third weekend of December.

• CFP leaders are examining how to consider a game (Army-Navy) that kicks off six days after CFP selections are made when the new format allots an automatic spot for the highest-ranked Group of Five champion.

“It’s tricky. I don’t envy the decision-makers,” said Mike Buddie, the Army athletic director who on Feb. 16 sent a letter to the CFP Management Committee about the situation. “I’m a realist. I understand there’s a lot of money and a lot of games to be played, but I still think Army-Navy transcends the sport of college football and has for decades.”
However, the game could soon get competition from the relocation of bowl games.

During last year’s opening day of Bowl Season, Saturday Dec. 16, seven bowls were played. On that day this year, Saturday Dec. 21, three first-round playoff games are scheduled to kickoff, with a fourth played on the preceding Friday.

Nick Carparelli, executive director of Bowl Season, confirmed to Yahoo Sports that the organization is exploring shifting at least some of those bowls up a week to expand television windows and avoid TV conflicts with playoff games. Final decisions likely rest with ESPN, owner and rights holder to the majority of bowl games.

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Anyone see or hear anything about these two? I thought they would be nice big WRs that could be impactful but haven’t read or seen anything about them.

With the UFL making it so far thru week 4 and the only three spring games that will be on a networks that belongs to Neilson or reports numbers being over this is how football in the spring has done so far (will update at the end of the UFL season)

UFL Week 1 - Sat - Fox - 2:00 PM - 1,349,000
UFL Week 1 - Sat - Fox - 11:00 AM - 1,181,000
UFL Week 3 - Sun - ABC - 1:05 PM - 1,023,000
UFL Week 3 - Sun - ABC - 10:00 AM - 974,000
UFL Week 1 - Sun - ESPN - 10:00 AM - 960,000
UFL Week 4 - Sat - ABC - 10:30 AM - 954,000
UFL Week 4 (two regional games) - Sat - Fox - 5:00 PM - 951,000
UFL Week 2 - Sat - ABC - 6:00 PM - 908,000
UFL Week 2 - Sun - ESPN - 10:00 AM - 902,000
UFL Week 2 - Sun - Fox - 2:00 PM - 849,000
UFL Week 3 - Sat - Fox - 5:00 PM - 837,000
UFL Week 2 - Sat - ESPN - 10:00 AM - 718,000
UFL Week 1 - Sun - ESPN - 1:00 PM - 703,000
Ohio State - spring game - Sat - Fox - 10:00 AM - 660,000
UFL Week 3 - Sat - ESPN - 2:05 PM - 534,000
Michigan - Spring Game - Sat - Fox - 10:00 AM - 505,000
Alabama - spring game - Sat - ESPN - 2:05 PM - 482,000
UFL Week 4 - Sun - FS1 - 12:00 PM - 243,000

CU is 27th:

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In hopes to regain AAU accreditation. They are worried the Big Ten might decided to kick them out over it. They were an AAU school when they joined, but lost it a few months later. One thing I have respected about the BIg Ten over the years is they want to be both an academic and athletic association of schools.

BZ: FB - Football notes: Robert Livingston pleased with progress of CU Buffs defensense

BZ: FB - Video: Analysis of transfer portal news, CU Buffs spring football

CU AD: FB - Buffs DC Livingston Likes Spring Ball Progress

CU AD: TEN - Buffs Take On Utah in First Round of the Pac-12 Tournament

CU AD: WGOLF - Buffs Finish 11th At Final Pac-12 Championship

CU AD: FB - “Travis is a unicorn – the sky’s the limit”

CUATG Blog: MBB - **Video: Men’s Basketball 2023-24 Full Season Recap**

CUATG Blog: Big 12 Notes – Transfer Portal winners and losers: CU in both categories

CBS Sports: FB - Colorado transfer portal tracker: Who's in, who's out as Deion Sanders turns over roster ahead of Year 2

Cheers!

And the drum beat gets louder. All the stuff the talking heads have laid out for many years and the coaches and admin drop hints on seems to be happening.

I’d be all for this but it’s a massive undertaking and can’t imagine it happens before the split of P2/4 from college ball to its own entity. There would be more money for some G5 teams but as a whole, at first, I think it could be less.

Wrote about the state of the Colorado running back room after this week's changes:

BZ: FB - Football recruiting: Former Ohio State RB Dallan Hayden commits to CU Buffs

BZ: FB - Running back Dylan Edwards leaving CU Buffs, to enter transfer portal (RB Sy’veon Wilkerson, LS Cameron Warchuck also transferring)

BZ: FB - Football notes: CU Buffs opener vs. North Dakota State moved to Aug. 29

BZ: MBB - Men’s basketball: Cody Williams makes it official with NBA draft; Luke O’Brien to Georgia Tech

CU AD: WGOLF- Buffs Fall To 11th At Pac-12 Championship

CU AD: FB - Colorado-North Dakota State Football Game Moved To Thursday

CU AD: WBB - Miller Signs Training Camp Contract with Seattle

CU AD: WBB - Buffs Land Oklahoma State Transfer

CUATG Blog: FB - Running back Sy’veon Wilkerson makes it an even 20 CU scholarship players in the Transfer Portal + Running back Dylan Edwards no longer with the team

ATHLON Sports: FB - Deion Sanders, Colorado Hosting A Must-Get College Football Recruit This Week

Essentially Sports: FB - Coach Prime Accused of “Stealing” Valuable Evidence to Save Son Shilo Sanders From Charges of Assault & Battery

Buffs Wire: FB - Social media explodes as Colorado lands Ohio State transfer Dallan Hayden

Buffs Wire: FB - Ten players to watch in Colorado's spring football game

Buffs Wire: WBB - Colorado women's hoops picks up Oklahoma State transfer Lior Garzon

Cheers!

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Apologies, my audio on the Livingston video was malfunctioning. Here's what Livingston's presser via my good friends at DNVR.

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Bummer

Right here:

"I love Colorado I mean I like it out there it's a great little area. I spent a lot of time with Shedeur out there and just like talking to him about his whole journey."

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Brian Howell has confirmed that Sapp is going to be a GA and is enrolled in classes, allowing him to do more on-field work with players.

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Figured this one deserved its own thread. Freshman cornerback Cormani McClain is entering the transfer portal after one season with the Buffs. The former five-star recruit and top-rated cornerback in the 2023 class made four starts and played in 10 games in his first season. He finished the year with 13 tackles but also found it difficult to get on the field at times with the Buffs.

“This year is gonna be different,” Seaton said.

Jordan Seaton and the O-line aim to solve last season's pass pro deficiencies ⬇️

50,000 to 18,000...wow
I know much better than prior to last year but wow what a drop!

Seems like a bit of sour grapes because I'm pretty sure they really wanted him to succeed (especially as such a high profile recruit), but it does say something some of us are concerned about:

"I feel like I just don't want to play for clicks. I actually want to be involved with a great leading program that's going to develop players."
Play for Clicks

We have guys both coming and going on this list. Shows we are in the mix at least