re: USA Today: Colorado is still Black America's football team

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I'm not too rustled by this. If they are the new U or whatever, that is fine.

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He and CU are getting a lot of early season hype because the media is bending over backwards to hype them and Deion is having rappers show up at the game. That's fine. I'm sure CU is enjoying it because they haven't really been relevant in almost 3 decades. Plus, there weren't a ton of great games early in the season.

CU is now entering Pac 12 play...which has several good teams...and will likely start to get thumped. That's fine. That was kind of expected. However, I doubt they become the new "U" for one big reason....Boulder, CO is not Miami, FL.

There may not be a better concentration of great football players than in the Miami metro area. The genius of Howard Schnellenberger was that for the first time ever he was going to recruit the ghettos of Miami to get that talent to attend an otherwise (from a sports perspective) relatively small private school in Miami. Schnellenberger didn't have to go all that far to build some powerhouse teams. He pulled in most of the best of South Florida and then supplemented the QB spot with Western PA area players.

Prime will get a few guys to leave the south, or Los Angeles, but not enough to make a huge difference because unlike in the early 80's, the Georgias, Alabamas, LSUs, etc of the world aren't as reluctant to bring in inner-city kids.

Prime and Colorado have been a fun story for college football thus far. But that novelty will eventually wear off and they won't be able to have the success of a 1980's Miami in a MUCH different social climate among college football.