The new 1980s Miami Hurricanes in the making?
The hype is even worse than Miami and it got way out ahead of the team's development.
Fair to say they got distracted and too chippy
Bart Scott used to say (when a WFAN host) you have to have some "goblins" on your team acting as enforcers. Colorado doesn't have many goblins that I've seen so they should be careful about provoking dirty teams that do.
Sanders has been vocal about having high character players who don't associate with negative characters. For TCU game he was telling players that it "doesn't matter who they are playing" because they just need to play against themselves and their own weaknesses - strive to be their best.
Then for Nebby that started changing and he was telling team you "need to protect crib" and "don't let people come into your house and push you around - its personal."
Then the sunglasses thing played into the "personal" thing and the team starts getting wound-up and getting "personal" over State. The "doesn't matter who we play" thing wnt out the window.
Then there were all the washed-up rappers pushing the "personal" beef with Sanders Mom and it was no surprise teams were pushing and shoving before dressing. The Rock is there, A Migos rapper (cookin drugs with an Uzi) is there promoting his records on sideline interviews. Sanders worked with sunglasses brand to sell 1.2m in stock. The whole atmosphere turned into an unfocused carnival with Game Day present. I wasn't surprised when State started lighting them up and playing dirty.
You can't try to take 2 wins and act like Miami on Saturday when you've been trying to be ND or Boy's Town since January. Don't preach living a clean life free from "elements" and then show-off your druggy rappers who have band members get killed. Wayne had some issues at Jackson St with another rapper he beefed with. Coach Prime became Coach Neon this week and hopefully things just got carried away for week and not a whole season of "beefs" and bluster - keep the carnival off the sidelines