Colorado Buffaloes Football 2025 Week 5Post Game Analysis vs BYU CougarsUnity Consciousness #3338

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It's probably best, that as of 5am on 9/29, the full game video is unavailable. There is nothing new to see.

After 30 games under Coach Prime, this is the product you still put on the field after continuously saying we have to do better and we're going to do better, and now saying this team is better than last year?
Who you foolin'?
Nobody but yourself.

If the team (players) are better, but the performance is not, then it must be the coaches who are not better, and who only looked better last year due to better on-field execution last year and outscoring opponents.

Deion's continues to fail to properly coach his coaches and snatch the reins from them. Almost all of his coaching experts are failing.
Sapp, you can't teach linemen how to get to the quarterback by getting the opponent off balance and stop trying to match strength against strength like headbutting bucks?
DB coach you can't teach better technique than that?
DC you can't scheme play to play better than that?
WR coach you can't teach blocking better than that?
WR coach you can't teach how to get separation better than that?
QB coach you can't teach quicker decisions better than that?
LB coach, WTF?

Shurmur is known for changing from plays that work and then sticking with plays that don't work. It seems like he is trying to prove how intelligent and creative he is with a variety of plays. In contrast, there is nothing intelligent or creative about a QB run, yet the other team used it to beat you. Keep It Simple Stupid. Shurmur does not adapt well to change and appears to be on the Autism Spectrum or on the Sean Lewis Spectrum.
Livingstone is known for not scheming to fit the down and distance and tendencies and biggest threats of the offense. Pass protection and run protection by LB's and DB's is ridiculous. At least 2 or 3 of them are non-factors in each play.

All this nonsense has even made the gods mad who didn't allow you to get at least two turnovers that were right in your hands. The hands of the gods took away what you didn't deserve because most of the time you continue to squander every opportunity and ability you have been given.

Colorado is the college version of the Dallas Cowboys, pretending to want to win, but doing everything to ensure you lose.
Props to the OL and DL.
Colorado has now given away 3 games. It's downhill from here, unless there are several coaching changes and several changes regarding which players play which position and which situation.
The only thing to salvage is to let other players play and other coaches coach in preparation for next year. Recruiting will suffer. Transfer exodus will ensue. Coach Prime's days are numbered unless the money he is bringing in is good enough for now.

Colorado's main problem is that Deion Sanders, Prime Time and Coach Prime are not on the same page. There are too many lingering problems for Deion to not be the main problem. Deion does not trust himself to know just as much as his coaches. He knows how to analyse football. He doesn't know how to implement. The decision in the BYU game to not go for it on 4th and 2 is an example of allowing himself to being second-guessed and giving others the benefit of the trust that their judgment and instincts are more sound than his. A confident DC would have said go for it. An OC confident in understanding what play to call, would have said go for it.
Deion should be monitoring each coach and their every movement in preparation, practice, planning and scheming and going over play by play as to what they were thinking and going over play by play what to do in certain situation against certain teams. This includes the scout team.
I am unimpressed by his statement regarding from here going forward using Drelon Miller as an RB. You should have known that last year, or at least in the preparation heading into the 2025 season. What kind of player analysis is taking place?

Regarding the WR that got a holding call that canceled a long QB run. Back in the 1980's in high school we WR's learned to block with closed hands and get into the chest, up and under the shoulder pads of the player, throw a forearm to the chest and follow through with body weight and leg drive to stay attached body to body. If they get the upper hand or position, adjust strategy and use their momentum and push them in the direction they want to go. It's up to the runner to read the block. We didn't block by extending arms. We used our full body weight. We definitely knew not to block with open hands.

In addition to all of this, it is obvious that Salter is not comfortable in a simple drop back in the pocket pass situation. He seems concerned with making the best throw after going through the entire progression. This might be due to how he is being taught. In a pocket pass situation he needs to have four choices, option 1, option 2, run, throw it away. Each of these should be one-half second. But wait! This is still too much. Salter has developed a mental block and is not playing loose, afraid to make mistakes, and trying to be hero superman. He does best when it's throw to first option or run, OR hand off or run.
Cases-in-point:
1. 1Q Min 13:14, Salter dropped back and threw to first option #4 Omarion for a completion.
2. 3Q Min 5:26, Salter drops back and completes pass to second option #8 Williams.
3. 3Q Min 2:50, Salter drops back and completes 30 yard pass to second option #6 Drelon for a TD.
4. 4Q Min 1:18, pass route design had no crossers to fill the middle which was wide open, Salter runs for close to first down. Clock is still ticking.
5. 4Q Min 1:00, the next play, again no crossing routes or slants or outlets or TE, only deep routes on a 2nd and 4, interception. Game over. Play design on pass routes is not good. They should take the advice of the TV show. S.W.A.T., fill the gaps, stay liquid. Meaning, like liquid seek to perform at the highest level of the team and as a team, stay flexible, move with force against the unmovable, fill the cracks, fill the gaps so that there is no where that is, that you are not also there and covering.
6. In most instances, failure to execute is due to one or more players and/or coaches not doing their job. One of the reasons for this when it's a player is when a player tries to be in the spotlight, be in on the play, make a heroic miraculous play and fail to do their main job. In football this is clearly seen in those who jump up and down after a play to make sure everyone knows it was them. This is partly fed by coaching emphasis on number of tackles and points and other stats, as if these are individual achievements. This problem as it manifests in CU's linebackers was identified by me in 2024 and it is still happening. This is not unique to CU or to football or to any level of any sports. Humans gone be who humans gone be. Yet and still, it's up to the coaches to teachers and leaders who put these things in their proper perspective so that the team mentality and backup mentality and got your back mentality and help defense mentality prevails, along with understanding the main things to focus on between the starting whistle and ending whistle of each play.

Prediction

1. 5 wins, 7 losses
2. Season Record 2-3
3. Conference Record 0-2

Week 6 vs Texas Christian University Horned Frogs, Stating the Obvious

By just watching a poor copy of the video of their game against Arizona State, it is obvious that TCU loves to pitch left to #6 and loves to pass to #7. On defense they are vulnerable to off tackle runs.
I stopped this analysis because, what's the point? This is the basic job of supposedly qualified professionals getting paid lots of money. If they can't see what's in plain sight, then no amount of pointing it out will help or has helped. I expect CU to lose to TCU in similar disgusting fashion as all previous 15 losses, which at least 12 could have been wins. The only game in which they had no chance was in the first year 2023 against Oregon. There is a bad habit of losing games and giving away games that should have been won? Why?
This is football, not baseball. A coaching record of 15 Wins and 15 Losses is a 500 batting average, which in football is not good enough. And neither is simply becoming bowl eligible.

We can expect more of the SSDD (same shit different day) unless Coach Prime takes a deep dive hard look within himself, and then without in the program and around him in the people he consults, then makes significant coaching and player changes on or before October 1, 2025.

10.01.25 Update 3:33am

For the past two years, I've sucked up a lot of CU content from numerous sources. This year I said I would only watch the games because most of the content is nothing new under the sun. You've seen one pregame or postgame press conference before or after a win or loss, and you've seen 95% of what will be asked and said in all other press conferences, no matter the type of sport. No more press conferences, no nothing. Well, I just canceled my television cable and have some free mental space during study breaks, that my music playlist can't fill. So against better judgment, at the suggestion of Dukes The Scoop, I just finished listening to Special Teams Coordinator Michael Pollock, on the Morning Run on the Thee Pregame Network. (Min 47.42). I said listening to this was against better judgment because what the hosts and coach said is nothing different than what has been said in the past two years, especially similar words from Deion himself. Yet, different game day, same game snafus and results. So to keep myself from being littered and cluttered with other people's opinions, I chose to focus on the on-field performance and watch the games only and the game replays. That would tell the story of everything else. The main thing is not what Deion says, or coaches or players or “insiders” who continue to say other people don't know what they're talking about, yet, as they admit, at some point, you are who you are. At the same time, these same people don't hesitate to claim to be well considered in their comments about other sports teams and other topics. And this is a second reason why, with few intermittent exceptions, enough is enough and I will not waste my precious energies listening to media, coaches or youtubers who discount anyone else's ability to critically think and analyze, while at the same time, they themselves are less focused on keeping it real and more focused on making money and being cheerleaders by putting on a happy face and positive sounding spin. Always doing that is a sickness tantamount to arrogance posing as enlightenment. Even the God, prophets, Jesus and disciples of the JCM bible didn't do that.