Head Coach - Mel Tucker - never been a head coach in 30+ years of coaching.
Offensive Coordinator - Jay Johnson - was the former OC at Minnesota in 2016 (only an analyst the last two seasons)
Defensive Coordinator - Tyson Summers - last time a DC at Colorado State in 2015. Became head coach at Georgia Southern (
Fired after 19 months on the job. Another analyst last season)
DL Coach - Jimmy Brumbaugh - spent last two years as the DL Coach at Maryland where the Terps finished 2nd to last, ahead of Rutgers, in sacks.
OLB Coach Brian Michalowski - Brian has never coached, anywhere, at any level, ever in the game of football. No seriously.
CB Coach Traveres Tillman - Traveres has never coached, anywhere, at any level, ever in the game of football, no seriously... again.
TE Coach Al Pupunu- Came from the College football power Weber State.
QB and Receivers have talent and explosiveness. The scheme is much different though as its built around a power scheme. It will be interesting to see if Johnson tries to hamstring their strength. Frankly, that would be stupid. We will see. Offensive line has ZERO depth. That's indicative of a lot of offensive lines, but the fact a guy like Hambright can come in and start is red flag for that group. Langham is a big running back. I bet he will be pretty good down the road.
Offensive Linemen:
C Tim Lynott, JR - 24 career starts
RG- Colby Pursell - 12 starts
LT - William Sherman - 9 starts
RT - Arlington Hambright - (transfer from Oklahoma State where he started 5 career games)
Running Backs:
True Freshman - Jaren Mangham will start. No returning experience
QB - Steven Montez - 29 career starts
WR- (Team Strength) - Laviska Shenault - NFL 1st Rounder
WR- KD Nixon - caught 52 passes for 636 yards and 4 TDs
WR- Tony Brown - more experience, 30+ catches last season
TE- GRAD TRANSFER Jalen Harris - Transfer from AUBURN - 4 Career TDs at AUBURN, never started a game.
DEFENSE: - Linebackers are good, led by Landman. But they will be adapting to a different scheme which will limit the amount of pressure they apply from the edge. The D-line and Secondary is going to be a mess.
DL:
Mustafa Johnson - 22 career starts - All PAC 12 candidate
no other Defensive linemen on the roster has ever started a game.
OLB - Davion Taylor - 14 starts - 10 tackles for loss in 2018
ILB - Nate Landman - 20+ starts - future NFL ILB - All Pac 12 talent
OLB - Carson Wells - 0 starts, but talented player who came on late in 2019.
no other viable LB with experience. Will look to lightly recruited JUCO backers for help.
CB- Delrick Abrams- only Corner with any game experience on roster.
So far this Fall, CU has been moving some receivers to Cornerback. They moved Backup QB Sam Noyer to Safety. Back up running back Beau Bisharat has been moved to Tight End.
Coach Tucker was pissed off on Monday and forced the team to start practice over after about an hour of the team playing grab ass.
CU is a 10 point favorite over Colorado State in week one. The Rams were awful last year, and haven't been competitive with CU the last two seasons. But.... I would be tempted to take the Rams +10 this year. I think CU is going to be a mess this year. That coaching staff is one of the worst in the Power 5. When mixed with their depth, it looks like the recipe for a disaster in 2019.