The Colorado Buffaloes football team is excited about the latest batch of talent that has arrived in Boulder, Colorado. Coach Prime has once again given the fans a glimmer of hope that a conference championship is the goal for the Buffs this upcoming season. The Buffs faithful fan base has held onto the thought of them becoming conference champions, winning bowl games, and now that the college football playoffs have expanded the number of participants, the team would be a representative to compete for the National Championship.
That could happen this season once summer camp begins and the new players get comfortable with one another, building a cohesive unit and playing for one another. The ongoing problem remains the development of players. There is entirely too much football knowledge among the coaching staff to watch players leave the program for bigger-name Power 4 programs, with a few people close to the program wanting to talk about what players are paid or choose to move on. Instead of being upset because a player chooses to take their futures into their hands and move on from the program, a few things should be questioned: why have there been over 100 players to leave the Buffs football program in a matter of three seasons? The second is that they are being coached and developed in a manner that better positions their future earnings if they want to play on a professional level.
Coach Prime said he’s been hands-on recruiting this group of new Buff football players who were recruited to the program. As of today the Buffs haven’t signed a 5-star athlete, which is something he spoke highly about doing in the past. Is that because the bigger-name athletes are overlooking offers from the Buffs because they know, behind all of the slogans and catch phrases, there is an empty box of promises that won’t be fulfilled? The Buffs lost several key playmakers on both sides of the football each season, who have transferred to other programs and succeeded. The allure of Coach Prime Deion Sanders as the Head Coach of the Colorado Buffaloes football team and his slogan “I ain’t Hard to Find” didn’t age well, like the number of wins (3-9) last season after all of his Louis luggage had left the team.
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The Buffs’ current constructed team has athletes but lacks size at several key positions on both the offense and defense. Several players who lack playing time could be costly, preventing the team from competing for a conference championship or college football playoff run. If the Buffs wanted to run off talent with high NIL evaluations for talent they could recruit at a lesser value, they have achieved that goal. Coach Prime has made it clear that the Buffs football program doesn’t have NIL money to pay the athletes. After watching the team play lackluster football in 2025, the donors, alumni, and supporters are second-guessing whether they want to continue donating to the program that has shown little to no success. Coach Prime doesn’t make it any better, saying his players quit on him during a rough patch of the season when things got rough, when the team was trying to figure out who was going to be there signal caller.
The courting stage of this relationship, and the Buff fans are growing a bit impatient with the excuses and reasons why the teams haven’t been successful. Now that the Buffs have added former Sacramento State Head Coach as the new offensive coordinator, and former Gainesville High School Head Football Coach Josh Niblett as the new Tight End coach, the Buffs’ offense should provide a spark for red-shirt Freshman quarterback Julian “JuJu” Lewis to be successful this upcoming season. Colorado Buffs fans keep the faith in your team and the current head coach, because something good should come from all of the changes taking place.