Deion Sanders is the antithesis of Clark Lea
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:07 am
From the Athletic:
No school has put more players in the portal than Colorado. After Monday’s departures, Colorado has now seen 46 scholarship football players enter the transfer portal in 2022-23, with 41 exiting since Sanders took over. No other Power 5 program has lost more than 29 in this cycle.
Colorado had 83 scholarship players at the start of the 2022 season. Only 20 are still on the roster as of Monday night.
Newly hired coaches attempt to flip their rosters quickly to load up on their hand-picked recruits. That’s standard operating procedure in college football, and it’s common to see this much attrition play out over the course of the first 12-24 months of a tenure. What is not normal is running off this many players in the first six months.
I have to think this is not going to pay off for Deion Sanders. Using the portal to fill in some roster gaps is one thing, but driving off players who signed scholarships under a previous regime... is just wrong, it seems to me. It makes a mockery of what the sport is. Not even the UT's and Ole Misses (under Lane Kiffin) have taken it to this extreme.
Maybe I'm just smug, but I like Clark Lea's approach better. Everyone who loves college football should be rooting for him.
No school has put more players in the portal than Colorado. After Monday’s departures, Colorado has now seen 46 scholarship football players enter the transfer portal in 2022-23, with 41 exiting since Sanders took over. No other Power 5 program has lost more than 29 in this cycle.
Colorado had 83 scholarship players at the start of the 2022 season. Only 20 are still on the roster as of Monday night.
Newly hired coaches attempt to flip their rosters quickly to load up on their hand-picked recruits. That’s standard operating procedure in college football, and it’s common to see this much attrition play out over the course of the first 12-24 months of a tenure. What is not normal is running off this many players in the first six months.
I have to think this is not going to pay off for Deion Sanders. Using the portal to fill in some roster gaps is one thing, but driving off players who signed scholarships under a previous regime... is just wrong, it seems to me. It makes a mockery of what the sport is. Not even the UT's and Ole Misses (under Lane Kiffin) have taken it to this extreme.
Maybe I'm just smug, but I like Clark Lea's approach better. Everyone who loves college football should be rooting for him.