Deion Sanders’ decision to hire CU assistant coach Robert Livingston is looking smarter by the week.
Colorado defensive coordinator Robert Livingston in the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, in Boulder, Colo. “I always thought he was a very confident young man. Whenever something would go wrong, a mistake, he wouldn’t let it bother him,”told me recently by phone. “He wasn’t cocky about it. He was very confident about it. , ‘We’ll get it next time.’ ”, CU defenders were required the next week to run five gassers for every flag tossed at the victorious Buffs.
Stat to clip and save: The Buffs since 2014 have finished a season giving up less than 22 points a game just once — in 2016 when CU went 10-2 and shocked the experts by winning the Pac-12 South. Defense wins you-know-whats. It’s not just the coaches. Or the players. It’s the optics. One of the prevailing images of last fall at Folsom Field was the visage of then-defensive coordinator Charles Kelly, whose face fluctuated between two expressions during the course of a game — growing concern and outright panic. Livingston, by contrast, has come off as a cross betweenIt’s taken a village to turn around one of the worst defenses in the FBS in 2023. Does Travis Hunter help? Oh, no question. Better players? Sure.
The Buffs locker room had one eye on the portal and one eye on a killer Pac-12 slate last year. It showed, especially late. Livingston was brought in from the Bengals for his ability to unify and rally NFL guys with NFL talent and NFL egos.
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