Colorado is appearing in a recent Top 10 schools list put out by three-star 2021 DE Nick Dimitris of Baldwin Park, Calif.
Dimitris is a 6-foot-4, 230-pound 2021 DE playing at Sierra Vista High School. He's approaching 15 offers in total; including Colorado, five pac-12 schools have offered him (Arizona, ASU, Oregon State and Washington State).
He's also accumulating significant SEC interest, as Auburn, Florida, LSU, Mississippi State and Tennessee have also gotten on his radar via scholarship offers. All in all, Colorado, for not even technically having a head coach, and with many assistant coaching jobs vacant, nonetheless managed to be included in Dimitris' Top 10 with impressive company.
The three-star prospect took an unofficial visit to Colorado in January and was offered by the Buffs and Darrin Chiaverini in May of 2019.
Of his CU visit, Dimitris told Rivals' own Adam Gorney recently that "it was a great environment. The coaching staff was treating me like family there and they were really wanting me there and they were telling me the history there and that was interesting. The education was good and they have a lot of help there so that was really good."
Of course, when Dimitris was in town in late January, Mel Tucker was still the head coach at Colorado, as was his potential future position coach, Jimmy Brumbaugh, both of whom are now both gone.
But Dimitris dropped his Top 10 only yesterday, so it seems clear that Boulder, Colorado and its facilities are doing their respective part in terms of the recruiting process, even as the Buffaloes trudge through this transitional period in naming a new head coach, which in all likelihood will be settled soon.
Recruiting has certainly slowed a touch in the 10 days that Colorado has been without a head coach, but Dimitris' Top 10 is a good example of how things haven't ground completely to a stop.
