Vincent Dancy is out of the analyst office and on the field this season coaching outside linebackers and defensive ends. The former head coach at Mississippi Valley State University made the transition to Colorado when Deion Sanders left Jackson State for Boulder. The move is working well the way he sees it.
“It’s been great. Of course, I’ve been in the secondary for about 13 years in my life, but I’ve been a D-coordinator for ten so I understand how we want the front playing, what we expect from the front. But it’s been great overall, especially working with these guys who come out to work every day and give us everything they got every day,” Dancy said.
After his first day on the field at Colorado’s spring practice, he has a positive outlook on what he’s seen.
“These guys show up to work every day. The consistency, holding each other accountable, understanding that is a lot of edge. We’ve got a lot of guys on the edge, but only two guys can play, but just the competition, making sure that they understand that, hey man, we coming out every day to compete and get better and then the next guy is up.”
One name that stands out in particular so far for Dancy is LSU transfer Quency Wiggins.
“Quency understands what we expect from him, especially coming from a big time program like LSU, but just making sure he that he gets the fundamentals of each technique that we want him to play correctly because they they are both two different techniques that we asked him to play. So we want to him we want him to make sure that he can play to five technique before we able to put him in the three technique. So we asked him, do dual things. But he’s adjusted to them well.”
Now in the second spring of the Coach Prime era, Dancy sees a tangible difference across the program.
“These guys understand the culture. They understand the standard and we got to hold them to the expectations. So it’s been great, being with these guys in the past two months, being in the weight room with them, seeing them compete, seeing them hold each other accountable. That’s what we want. We want to build continuity and chemistry. Of course, when you get a lot of transfers, that’s the first thing you have to do is build continuity and chemistry. And I think these guys are playing along just fine.”
