Agreed with this. I'm done with all Curse and Simulation talks. Going back to Solich honestly, you can track the ways the program has continued to shoot itself in the foot. Whether it's athletic director micromanagement, poor staff / roster management, lack of efforts in recruiting, inability to build a strong culture, inability to adapt scheme, we've seen it all. And it all boils down to a program unable to get out of its own way or learn from its mistakes. There have been some act of God elements like us getting screwed on scheduling, bad calls, or player injuries, but I still see the overall reflection being on a program that has been overseen by subpar management up until this point. And in Frost's instance, it was criminally neglegent management. It's baffling. I've lost track of the number of times after a season was done that we would hope a coordinator or assistant moves on or we would try and recruit more depth at a position, only for those thoughts to be ignored. Then it's finally acted on more as an act of desperation instead of aggressively proactive self reflection. We finally saw that happen in full this off season. And we may not be perfect. Maybe Satterfield proves to not have it for being a qualified P4 coordinator like some have said, but getting Glenn Thomas on board and overhauling the QB room at least showed effort in fixing things after just one year.
I'm also done with the notion that "Colorado has beaten us the last three times, so really we have no room to talk or should just expect more of the same". Colorado 2018 and 2019 were under Frost's watch. Historically speaking, the only similarity those teams have with this one is that they both wore the N on their helmet (maybe some starters this year were freshman on the roster then, but meh). Sure, the record books show three straight losses, but the variables those teams all operated under are all different. And the variables from last year to now are also vastly different in a lot of ways as well. If we throw out 2018 and 2019 and just look at what happened last year and what both programs have done since then, I'm really excited to see that game play out versus dreading more of the same.