Colorado to give transferring players access to practice film - ESPN

Colorado players who have entered the transfer portal will have access to practice film from 2022 and earlier, the team said Wednesday, in response to players who had been denied access to the footage.

Tight end Zachary Courtney and outside linebacker Kaden Ludwick both told ESPN that, when asked, the team would not provide film from fall 2022 practices. The film had been requested by prospective coaches after the players entered the portal earlier this month.

Courtney, a freshman who missed spring practice while recovering from surgery — and entered the portal April 19 — tweeted about his situation Tuesday, writing, «this is not a shot at [coach Deion Sanders] I just wanted coaches to know I have no film for them!!»

For the coaches who are trying to recruit me. I am sorry but I will not be able to get y'all my film from my practices last season since I am not allowed to have it because the head coach at CU won't allow it. This is very unlucky and if you have any questions just text me!

Courtney told ESPN that he had contacted Colorado's video staff, who informed him that only game footage would be released.

«I didn't expect to get so much attention to my post, and I wish I didn't post now, because it put a bad look on both me and Deion, and I didn't want Deion to have any bad rap,» said Courtney, who received scholarship offers from Miami (Ohio) and Coastal Carolina even without providing film. «I just wanted my film. I got hurt midway through the season, so I didn't have enough game film to show. It would have been really nice to show, because I went against the first-team defense [in practice].»

Ludwick said that players normally accessed film through an iPad app but that film from 2022, including scrimmages at