I'm really of mixed minds. On the one hand, I understand why Deion is cutting those guys. We all saw Colorado play last year, they were basically an FCS team. They were beyond bad. Look at the players that are being asked to leave, look at their profiles. It's not like those kids are being asked to leave at ending up at Oregon. They aren't FBS caliber players, let alone P5 players. He's absolutely right that if he wants to win, it won't be with those guys.
On the other, he's doing stuff out loud that is supposed to be behind closed doors, and he's trying to do it all at once. The Pac-12 was one of the first conferences to guarantee 4 year scholarships, meaning you aren't supposed to be able to cut a guy in the middle of his career. Now, we know that coaches have conversations with players every year that amounts to "Look, you know where you are on the depth chart, I know it's not going to improve, maybe you should see what's out there and see if you can't get a better opportunity somewhere else.", and that's fine. But like.....don't just tell a kid he stinks and Billy Beane ax him, this isn't [supposed to be] the pros. It seems like he's basically trying to do a two year rebuild. Get what he can from the portal this year, recruit and portal up next year to be in a position in 2024.
That was always the risk with someone like Deion. He's a pro guy, not a college guy. I don't think he really gets the ins and outs of working under this sort of system, and I'm guessing he is going to run afoul of the NCAA regs on what you can and can't do with *wink wink* "student atho-letes".
