This is a stretch, but I wonder how much the 'secrecy' factor effects things. The biggest thing is limiting the media at practices: we, and the coaches and players, get no independent feedback and so we start the season filled with BS about how great the team is, how explosive the offense. Maybe if someone knowledgeable and open-minded had watched Spring and Fall practices, they could have been pointing out the weak areas. Same thing, to a much lessor extent, with them stopping public comments at the Buffzone: 'we don't want criticism'. After the csu game, neither of the CU insiders, the Buffzone or CUBuffs.com, said a word about controversial calls in their main articles the next day. Not sure what they are trying to achieve.