re: OT: Coach Deion Sanders sets the tone of expectation for the Colorado support staff

I really wish people would shut up about Deion until he actually does something. I’ve never seen such overhype for any coach ever. It’s beyond ridiculous and it’s making me get to the point where I can’t stand the dude.

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Watched his documentary and I left with a better impression of him than I had going in.

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Shocking lol

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I really wish people would shut up about Deion until he actually does something. I’ve never seen such overhype for any coach ever. It’s beyond ridiculous

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I've said in this thread (and multiple times on this board) that I believe we don't really even know if he can truly manage a program — maybe he can, maybe he can't.

I wasn't a fan of his when he played at Florida State, and this isn't a fanboy or "hype" post.

I just think it's interesting to actually see a real staff meeting like this, and as an outside observer, I thought he handled it impressively relative to my expectations.

In other words, I still don't know how he'll do, but watching this made me think he actually might be a better leader than I originally thought. I don't see how there is anything ridiculous about that.

Oooof.....there is trouble brewing for the moose and the squirrel. He seriously just called the DEI "honey" and several other women in the room "sweetheart" LOL. Dieon is in for a shock on a woke campus LOL....that ain't gonna fly even a little bit. He also mentioned having a comfortable place for everyone, not specific groups. The problem is that I would bet that the University is responsible for the equity and inclusion group and the people within the university plus the vast majority of the CU community are all in on diversity and inclusion manifested in the manner Dieon initially intrepreted it...making the place comfortable for black folks. Boulder is a great place but it is about as woke as anyplace on the planet....and those people hold all the power at CU. They may not be overly represented in the AD (unlikely but maybe) but you can rest assured that the university administration, the student body and the boulder and university community over all is comprised of a majority of folks who are jockeying to see who can virtue signal the most and they ain't gonna stand for women being subjected to being called honey and sweetheart for long.

I had a 65 year old man who worked for me hold the door open for a female professor at UGA about 30 years ago. You'd have thought that man tried to force himself on that woman. This was 30 years ago mind you. I, as the owner of the company that person worked for, had to attend sensitivity training or we would be barred from bidding on work at UGA. The gist of the complaint was that she was perfectly capable of opening a door herself and did not need a man to open it for her. I mistakenly called her ma'am during this training and I thought the eyes of everyone in the room other than me were going to roll from Athens to Miami....I could have jumped up on the table, dropped trou and peed on that woman and they would have been no less shocked and incensed. I told them I would talk to the man but he was 65 years old, grew up in the south and would probably never learn it was wrong to hold a door for a woman no matter how capable she was. Had it not been for good pricing and good service we seriously may have never been allowed to submit bids on work at UGA again. Dieon is already in trouble and don't know it yet but it will come to the surface....people bent that way ain't accustomed to living and letting live....

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Dieon is already in trouble and don't know it yet but it will come to the surface....people bent that way ain't accustomed to living and letting live....

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no he isnt because the university higher ups, like president and board, want to frickign win. and when he starts doing that they will tell the others to stfu and get in line.

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he has no reservations talking about his religious beliefs, and I am glad to see that. and will be interested to see how that goes in Colorado.

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It'd be fine in Colorado in general, it is going to ring VERY hollow in Boulder LOL. Boulder makes Austin look like 1930s Munich. Fort Collins is much more akin to a southern university town and Mike Bobo, another southerner like Sanders, was never a good fit at Colorado State in part due to his being a typical southerner. The fine folks in Boulder will be conflicted to begin with because they will have to be nice to the black man to remain PC but that will wear off soon....it always does with that type of person....and Dieon's "quaint, charming, southern ways" will morph into backwardness and worse. I have lived in the western half of the US and I am about as middle of the road as a person can be....and most of the people out there would consider me a mouth breathing knuckle dragging reprobate, unreconstructed welp of a whore to the KKK LOL. Initially they will accept Dioen and he may be able to win them over but his open christianianity will be accepted at best, it will not be appreciated and will, at worse, be a barrier to success. Seriously, if you haven't lived among them you have NO idea how seriously judgy and prejudiced those people are. I have lived amongs knuckle dragging white folks in the south who were horrible human beings and they were more accepting of people different than they were than the people in Boulder, Denver, and almost all of the western US. Even the ones who claim to be conservatives are, at best, merely left of center.

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He doesn’t stand a chance… That place is way too white for him. Should’ve waited.

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Seriously may be the whitest place in the United States. That will initially work in his favor as they will be falling all over themselves to prove they are more accepting than Jesus but it won't last long and his calling women honey and sweetheart is going to create a problem sooner than later. There is one thing you can count on from woke folks and one is they will climb a tree to prove they are the best person on the planet when they could stand on the ground and simple be a good person and they will change their minds about what is right and wrong as conditions and the masses dictate. The first woman to complain about being called sweetheart will be ignored as will the next few until the first hint of adversity sets in and then they will come out of the wood work and may well run Sanders out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered. Time will tell but it is like oil and water having a decent person like Sanders wading into that woke environment.....

CU is a good match for the PAC 12 in that winning is not the bar by which they measure success. It is more about being the most virtuous or at least more virtuous than most. Winning ain't going to be the balm in Boulder that it would be in a normal college town and no where near what it would be in a place like Athens or Gainesville. Auburn just hired Hugh Freeze and outside of anti-Auburn folks using his past as a means of making fun of Auburn very few people truly think Auburn shouldn't have done it because of his past....he would be hung in effigy if not actually in Boulder or Seattle or Berkeley. Seriously....we have a history of ill behavior in the south which is well earned but we are far more accepting of people who are different but good people than folks in places like Boulder are....you have to toe the line with those people, being a decent person ain't enough you gotta be exactly like them and be offended by everything and willing to destroy anyone who is slightly offensive to you. It'll be interesting.