Back in the 80's and 90's, maybe even up to the early 2000's, the University of Colorado had a much bigger football culture, and was constantly challenging for top 10 positioning.
Once Gary Barnett was gone, they hit a major slump and haven't shown any signs of climbing out of it, aside from a fluke year by Mike McIntyre, and a few flamboyant moments from Deion Sanders.
Right now, the Colorado faithful are actually accepting of Deion Sanders' performance, where last year's decent season (where they had the best player in all of college football) were the equivalent of a gift handed to them by God.
Also, he's actually hung in there against some of the tougher teams (Georgia Tech, BYU were by 1 score).
He actually keeps that spark of hope alive, and has improved the "home grown" recruiting by a good bit.
Expectations and demographics have significantly changed in Colorado
Replies to: "Expectations and demographics have significantly changed in Colorado"
- Amazing how perception skews reality. Brian Kelly is probably done at LSU, and deservedly so. - Clem - 5:43am 10/26/25
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- Deion isn’t paid to win, he’s paid to drive clicks and revenue [NT] - LanceManion - 10:05am 10/26/25
- Sanders is in year 3, and he put Colorado on the map - Chris94 - 8:56am 10/26/25
- "put Colorado on the map", This is absurd, maybe you're too young to remember, but - Clem - 9:49am 10/26/25
- Maybe you’re too old to remember, but they were godawful for decades - Chris94 - 10:35am 10/26/25
- You have no idea what you're talking about, do you? Guess you had to say something. - Clem - 11:23am 10/26/25
- Deion is helping them print money on the backs of all of the suckers [NT]
- KWIRISH - 9:59am 10/26/25
- This I can get behind and agree with. [NT] - Clem - 10:01am 10/26/25
- Maybe you’re too old to remember, but they were godawful for decades - Chris94 - 10:35am 10/26/25
- “People”? - TakethetrainKnute - 9:02am 10/26/25
- "put Colorado on the map", This is absurd, maybe you're too young to remember, but - Clem - 9:49am 10/26/25
- It's because he's friendly to the media. BK is simply an ass. [NT] - faircatchcorby - 8:28am 10/26/25
- Colorado and LSU are different animals. - AlbanyIRISH - 7:45am 10/26/25
- Like I said to Chris94, Colorado was vying for natty's year after year. Paying $10M per for - Clem - 9:54am 10/26/25
- Expectations and demographics have significantly changed in Colorado - ndunabomber - 11:34am 10/26/25
- Colorado fans are mostly high and happy with the attention. LSU is still - whatsamataU - 9:13am 10/26/25
- I guarantee there are few if any tree huggers amongst the powers that be that - Clem - 10:00am 10/26/25
- Yep…in a nutshell. [NT] - TakethetrainKnute - 8:51am 10/26/25
- Like I said to Chris94, Colorado was vying for natty's year after year. Paying $10M per for - Clem - 9:54am 10/26/25