l coach s made a splashy transfer final December when he determined to rent r with a singular “Go-Go” system to assist his group rating extra factors and win extra video games.
Ten months and 5 video games later, it hasn’t been working. o is 2-3 after w and ranks 122nd out of 138 groups in scoring offense with 18.6 factors per sport beneath the brand new play-caller, n.
On Wednesday, Oct. 14, Marion confronted questions on it from native information media and bought slightly defensive at instances.
In a single case, he paused a number of seconds earlier than answering a query about sharing the ball amongst his working backs.
“I’ll attempt to be well mannered and reply the query with out being an (expletive),” Marion stated. “However to me, I don’t know why I’m getting requested run sport questions once we’ve rushed the ball for, I don’t know, numerous yards on my complete profession. We had been like, No. 1 within the nation final yr. We had been No. 1 the yr earlier than, No. 2, No. 3.”
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Marion does have a degree. He’s had a historical past of success, together with with top-10 working video games at UNLV (2024) and Sacramento State (2025). He’s not even midway by way of his first season at Colorado. As he additionally stated Wednesday, he doesn’t determine who to play at quarterback. Sanders does.
Alternatively, this and different feedback from him Wednesday revealed how Colorado’s struggles are “new territory” for him and that there’s no time to develop a younger quarterback in school soccer today, as he needs he might with 19-year-old s.
“We gotta win now or get out,” Marion stated.
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Brennan Marion reveals frustration with QB improvement
Marion lamented that Lewis wasn’t getting extra time to develop due to the stress to win instantly on this new age of s and gamers getting paid instantly by faculties.
Marion famous how Sanders’ quarterback son Shedeur blossomed at Colorado in 2024 after a number of years of improvement and dangerous blocking. The Buffaloes completed 9-4 that yr.
“No person’s giving Ju that likelihood, as a result of what?” Marion stated. “We gotta win now or get out. So Ju's simply not having an opportunity to, like, be snug in his personal, proper? It’s like, proper now, you higher have it.”
Sanders pulled the plug on Lewis at halftime of a 3 loss at Baylor Sept. 26, when the Buffaloes had been down 10-3. He hasn’t performed since.
So when will Julian Lewis get one other likelihood?
Marion made clear Sanders is the one making the decision at quarterback.
“That’s Coach Prime’s determination so far as who he decides to place on the market,” Marion stated. “I do what the top coach tells me to do, and I make it occur that method.”
Colorado as an alternative will begin ok for the second consecutive sport t at dwelling in opposition to the s, Wilson’s previous group.
Brennan Marion on the Colorado run sport and feeding the recent hand:
“I don’t know why I’m being requested run sport questions once we’ve run the ball for lots of yards my complete profession…
The run sport shall be high-quality, the working backs shall be high-quality.” J
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Lewis began the primary 4 video games for Colorado, however struggled at instances and it’s not clear when or if he’ll get one other likelihood regardless of being a extremely touted highschool recruit out of Georgia final yr at age 17. Wilson, Lewis's alternative, threw three interceptions within the second half of his final sport, a h.
Wilson nonetheless had 42 yards speeding and 290 yards passing with one landing in that sport.
“Should you take away the turnovers, he’d in all probability be participant of the week,” Marion stated of Wilson.
Brennan Marion: 'Get off the web'
Marion stated he informed Lewis he nonetheless believes in him. However he stated there are different circumstances within the “society that we’re in.”
"There’s no time for him to have the development to undergo that you’d as a freshman, as a younger quarterback,” Marion stated. “There’s not time whenever you’re in a win-right-now scenario. No person cares about improvement. Everyone, as quickly as you lose the sport, it’s ‘fireplace the coach, change the quarterback.’ So, you understand, it simply sucks for the youngsters which can be younger and have expertise, proper? As a result of he has the expertise.”
Marion additionally famous how school college students today “care about what folks say to them on-line” and it “impacts their spirit.” The criticism could be brutal after a foul sport within the public highlight.
“For Ju, he’s simply bought to get off the web,” Marion stated. “He’s bought to proceed to develop and work, after which when the chance rises once more, he’ll stand up.”
In the meantime, stress is constructing beneath Deion Sanders
Sanders hasn’t discovered a solution at quarterback – or offensive coordinator – since Shedeur Sanders final performed for the group in 2024. Deion Sanders is 2-12 in opposition to Energy 4 convention groups since then. Sanders’ four-year document at Colorado is 18-24, together with simply two wins in opposition to High 25 groups.
Regardless of this, Sanders maintained his trademark confidence Wednesday on the Colorado Soccer Coaches Present.
“I like the place we’re proper now,” Sanders stated. “I actually do. I can’t wait to see it play out.”
Observe reporter Brent Schrotenboer r. E-mail: bschrotenb@usatoday.com
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