09.05.24 Colorado Football Coaches Show
First thing Coach Prime Deion Sanders said regarding North Dakota State University is “those guys were fundamentally sound, well-coached, well-oiled machine and they're accustomed to winning. They did not make mistakes. They did not beat themselves. We really had to go out there and do what we had to do to get the W.”Later he said, “you're going to get tremendous opportunities within the confines of the game, but you got to take advantage of those opportunities. And Luckily we had several opportunities that we came up on the strong end of it. And no matter how it looked, we got the W.”
As used, the word lucky does not apply to getting the opportunities because those are going to come anyway. Lucky applies to coming out on the strong end of those opportunities, [subtext: not just due to what we did better, but also due to what they didn't do better.]
Clearly Coach Prime Deion Sanders does not want to admit that NDSU almost scored another three TD's in the second half, one on a delay of game, one on a timeout and one at the end of the game when a stronger arm QB could have gotten the ball into the endzone.
It doesn't add up that NDSU did not make mistakes and did not beat themselves.A team in the first game of the season that is well coached that didn't make any mistakes, should not have lost to a team that made mistakes, including a final, almost fatal, mistake of not knocking down that last second “hail mary” pass.
At 1:50, Deion said, “in those same type games last year we came up on the other side. We had close games, seven points or less, we came up on the other side, but we found a way to persevere.” Truth is, last year, Colorado won 3 close games and lost 5 close games.
1. Won by 3 over TCU
2. Won by 8 over Colorado State
3. Lost by 7 to USC
4. Won by 3 over Arizona State
5. Lost by 3 to Stanford (the infamous game)
6. Lost by 7 to Oregon State
7. Lost by 3 to Arizona
8. Lost by 5 to Utah
It's one thing to speak in a positive way, but it's another thing to portray negative positively while never admitting that the negative is a negative or that the negative even existed.
Consider, the dangers of always positive thinking.Big Mistakes NDSU Made That Were Sugarcoated As Opportunities And “Taking The Game” So As To Ignore The Facts That Both CU & NDSU Handed Things, Opportunities & Points To Each Other.
Colorado Buffaloes vs North Dakota State Full Game Channel is Coach Prime TV1. 9:44 1st Qtr, NDSU corner gives too much cushion and safety takes bad angle on Travis. Travis scores.
2. 6:44 2nd Qtr, NDSU gets the ball on CU's 9 yard line,1st and goal. 5 yard penalty on NDSU. Then another 5 yard penalty puts them on the 19 yard line. They end up with only a field goal.
3. 1:15 2nd Qtr, NDSU QB makes incorrect read and hands the ball off instead of keeping himself and running.
4. 0:09 2nd Qtr, NDSU allows CU to complete a 33 yard pass from NDSU's 41 yard line to their 8 yard line. This results in a CU Field goal.
5. 9:49 3rd Qtr, NDSU allows a 44 yard pass completion to Jimmy Horn who was not covered. This leads to a Travis TD.
6. 2:22 3rd Qtr, NDSU delay of game, negates a long QB run. They do not get first down and have to punt.
7. 4:50 4th Qtr, NDSU has 4th and 1 and the QB breaks a long run, but the play is blown dead because the coach called timeout before the snap. They get the first down and score on the same drive at 2:30 4th Qtr. Valuable time wasted.
8. 0:15 4th Qtr, officials ran off about 3 to 5 seconds extra. NDSU did not catch or challenge.
9. 0:09 4th Qtr, NDSU had a QB and WR miscommunication that cost them the opportunity to move the ball at least 22 yards downfield.
10. 0:05 4th Qtr, QB only able to throw the ball from NDSU's 48 yard line to CU's 6 yard line. NDSU caught the ball and was tackled on the 4 yard line.
I wonder if Deion feels some of his players lack confidence, though they repeat the talk he talks. Therefore, I will not post this message until the afternoon of Saturday, September 7th, which should prevent any CU player from encountering this message before their game with Nebraska at 7:30pm on September 7th.
In this life, every person, player and coach must eventually firmly grasp their own belief from within themselves that manifests outwardly, thus provides experience, thus evidence that no set of conditions can snatch away.No amount of repeating “I Believe” or wearing it or swearing it makes it a seed of belief that can germinate within one's own being, one's own spirit-mind-emotion, one's own spirit-soul soil, so that belief germinates into growing knowledge that unfolds through stages of development and maturity and reveals more proofs to self. One of our main goals in this life is to learn from the takes and mistakes of others so we don't have to go through the lesson in order to learn the lesson. Fundamental truths are not respecters of persons. The spirit of truth can't be bluffed, no matter how huffed, puffed and buffed.
When there is a greater belief in you than you have in yourself, to the degree that greater belief exceeds your mental grasp to reach it, there is outward pressure of expectation that creates back pressure against self-estimation.
This gap between what you firmly and deeply believe you can achieve and what you are told you can highly achieve, introduces room for preventable mistakes and repeated mistakes as lessons are being learned in real time, as if no one has told you or tried to help you benefit from the upside and avoid the downside of live-and-learn lessons.
This continues to bring me back to the same conclusion that failure to admit mistakes is like a bad habit that will bite you in a much bigger way than the mistakes being denied.
We must be honest with ourselves first. It is a better service to his players and coaches if Deion says, we (me and you) didn't perform our best. We made mistakes and NDSU made mistakes. We were fortunate (lucky) to get the win. We can execute better and we will execute better because we're gonna to prepare and practice better. We've just gained valuable experience and evidence of where we're at and what we need to do. Let's move forward with determination to achieve our goals by the effort and focus we apply to each day and each portion of each day.
It's a good thing to let people know they have greatness in them, but it is a candy-coated sugar high thing leading to a crash to tell them what they did was good enough, and that they won by virtue of their own effort that had nothing to do with the gifts the other team gave them. [example: the last mistake the Ravens made versus the Eagles was that the receiver ran his route too close to the end line.]
If this is not understood by the coaches and captains, the door is open to relaxation and lapses in preparation and practice, thus also in the game.
This is because winning and success are hard and require consistent levels of discipline to resist distractions and temptations.
When coaches and players think they can allow for a margin of error, they will make errors, mistakes, fail to execute, in crucial moments, which are all moments.
Consistent improved preparation is the same as knowing better is the same as executing better.
If you want to help others who want to be better, become better, then you have to fess up when you mess up. We don't have to be perfect, but we do have to repent and not repeat what is repented. Groupthinkcan help you rise or sink.
Even so, the Supreme of Being is more circular thinking, understanding, tolerant, forgiving and merciful than any of us humans. As long as humans are in at least one of their optimal destinypurposes that is contributing to the greater good, then it is self-evident that the Supreme of Being gives us space and time to make some adjustments and improvements in some areas. There may or may not be a delay in blessings as a result. Or there may be a going farther than others but falling short of the Promised Land. So perhaps Coach Prime Deion Sanders' confidence, pride, humility are not bumping into mistakes and muting them, making them moot when speaking publicly.
Up to now I have neglected mentioning that a symbol of Shu-Kepheus is the double Anubis whose colors are black and gold. Anubis is the Alpha Dog/Jackal/Fox/Wolf. Black and Gold are also colors of the human version of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Just as I'm about to post this message, via a Youtuber, I learn Coach Prime is now a co-owner of Black and Bold Coffee, a company with a good social mission and whose colors are black and gold with a gold crown. Gold is the southern crown. Black is the north.
For a fuller understanding of my earlier takes on the psychological mistake Deion is making, see also, Psyche Analysis Psychoanalysis Of Coach Prime's Dress RehearsalUnity Consciousness #3053
