College football has seen quick turnarounds before, but critics still look to doubt what Coach Prime is doing at Colorado — at their own risk.
Still, before the season,to Power 5 head coaches, assistants, and staffers to find out what they thought of Prime's methods in Colorado. Their answers were as predictable as they were insulting. Of course, you can be both when you're speaking anonymously.
A Big 12 director of player personnel believed the sheer number of players who left or were asked to leave was too high to expect Prime to succeed:"It is just absolutely unreasonable to think you can sign 25 players out of the spring transfer portal and make your team better unless the players they had were just that bad, which I don't buy. In the end, is the sum of the 25 new guys going to be greater than the sum of the 25 old guys? Man, I don't know.
What wasn't mentioned was the roster flips at USC and TCU. Lincoln Riley flipped the program from 4-8 to 11-3 with 20 transfers. TCU did exactly what Colorado has — brought in a new head coach, new coaching staff, and transfers who became linchpin starters — and played in the national title game for the trouble.
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