Colorado: House Baratheon
Brothers in black and gold that have their own unique geographic niche in comparison to those around them, Colorado and House Baratheon have shockingly similar story lines.
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While both have decent legacies of success historically, a couple decades ago, both were able to make an unprecedented rise to the absolute top of the heap. However, after maintaining in the upper echelon for a while after, things have absolutely fallen apart in recent times and there seems to be no way out of the doldrums.
House Baratheon has fallen apart with no remaining true-born (meaning, not King Tommen) survivors. Similarly, Colorado football is now a shell of the program that won conference and national championships, and mere relevance and bowl-eligibility are the dreams now as hoping for much more than that doesn’t seem realistic given Colorado’s perpetual state as the Pac-12 South’s doormat to date.
And Colorado basketball is basically Renly Baratheon: it was cute when they took advantage of a power vacuum to play King for a day, but that novelty was ended fairly quickly. Authorities in Boulder are still searching for the demon shadow that stabbed Tad Boyle’s coaching talents in the heart.
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