Who will be the better hire - Freeze or Coach Prime?

What are we judging success by?

Colorado is already at the bottom of the barrel and can’t really go any lower.

Long term, I think Freeze will have more success and Sanders will just use Colorado as a stepping stone and bolt as soon as a bigger school comes calling.

Depends if Prime has support from CU admin and boosters which I question he will. I think Prime can do well but it has to be the right situation where he can do his own thing with support from the school (admissions/NIL money) but minimal booster interference. At Auburn there would be way too many cooks in the kitchen and his leash would be too short, but at Colorado I don’t know if the football investment is there to help him succeed. He will get Colorado better from talent alone but overall I think Freeze is the safer bet at Auburn.

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Prime will get them going by exposure alone.

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not sure why people think this is automatic at this level. Charlie Weis had about as solid of a winning football pedigree as you could possibly ask for and he was a failure.

Freeze for me as well. Idk how it will all shake out with Auburn (because it’s a different kind of program than most others), but to me Deion is a coach second. He’s a brand first. I thought Auburn could do well with a brand, but Freeze knows the nuts and bolts that make a competitive SEC team. Prime will do what he did at JSU at Colorado. Colorado is a nobody, and he’ll make them middle of the pack to wind up taking his brand to a bigger school in a few years. I’m not saying he won’t be successful in spurts, but I don’t see a whole lot of staying power in his current modus operandi. Maybe he’ll prove me wrong, who knows. He’ll always recruit well, but I struggle to see him building and maintaining a program entirely centered around himself.

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The guy was able to get 5 stars at Jackson State.

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This is the reason he won at JSU. He hasn't run a major FBS program yet where he is competing against other 5 star players.

It’s freeze. We already know he can coach at the power 5 level. I still think prime needs quality assistants to prop up his recruiting. He’s welcome to prove me wrong tho.

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Recruiting: Prime easily

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why?

Him simply walking into a room and telling the family "I'm deion sanders. Wathc my nfl highlights" can work for HBCU kids that don't have any other high major offers. And getting the occasional kid like Hunter. Is that going to work on kids that have high major offers from all over the country and can pick wherever they want? Will it work when his team goes 3-9 his first season?

If you're entire recruiting pitch is "look how good I used to be back when I played 30 years ago", it's only going to work for so long before you need to actually put up results on the field.

I fear Hugh Freeze's coaching ability bunches more. If he wasn't a lack of morals time bomb waiting to blow up in Mr. Yalla Wood's face I'd be terrified.

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Definitely Coach Prime imo. The guy was able to get 5 stars at Jackson State. 12-0 record this year. Everyone wants to play with Prime. Glad Auburn went with freeze.

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Something to consider. It’s pretty easy to win at the FCS level when you have a handful of 4-5 stars and all your opponents have nothing but 1 & 2 star athletes. Now he’s at the FBS level where every week he will facing opposition that has the same level of talent he does. Let’s reserve judgment on the coaching ability of Prime until he’s had a season or two facing teams on an equal footing.