Nick Saban praises Deion Sanders, has ‘tremendous amount of respect’ for Colorado coach
1 year, 3 months ago

Nick Saban praises Deion Sanders, has ‘tremendous amount of respect’ for Colorado coach

New York Times  

Alabama coach Nick Saban took a moment Wednesday to praise Deion Sanders’ work at Colorado, saying he has a “tremendous amount of respect” for the Buffaloes coach. I saw a little bit of the game last week against Colorado State, but I have a tremendous amount of respect for Deion Sanders,” Saban said when asked about Sanders’ comments on him on “60 Minutes.” “First, a great person and he’s done a great job of marketing the program to create a lot of national interest, but I see their team playing well on the field,” Saban added. pic.twitter.com/sLY37IjCPw — Aflac September 3, 2022 Sanders appeared on Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes,” and when asked who is the best coach in college football, he joked that he needed a mirror to look at himself. “I love and I adore and I respect and … every time I do a commercial with Coach Saban, it’s a gift,” Sanders said.

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Deion Sanders says ‘I’ve got a kickstand down’ in Colorado amid coaching carousel speculation
1 month ago

Deion Sanders says ‘I’ve got a kickstand down’ in Colorado amid coaching carousel speculation

New York Times  

Deion Sanders has put his kickstand down in Boulder. Under Sanders, Colorado has transformed from the worst program in college football’s power conferences two years ago to a contender that controls its own destiny for a spot in this year’s Big 12 championship game. Former teammate and Cowboys star Michael Irvin posted a veiled message on social media Tuesday morning …

Colorado’s Deion Sanders praises rival coach Matt Rhule ahead of Nebraska game
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Colorado’s Deion Sanders praises rival coach Matt Rhule ahead of Nebraska game

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! BOULDER, Colo. — A year ago, Deion Sanders made the matchup with fellow coach Matt Rhule and Nebraska personal. He was a professional, did a phenomenal job, maybe not the job that he aspired to do, but he has a ton of experience, and I love …

Deion Sanders’ quest to keep negativity out of Colorado’s program includes shutting out columnist
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Deion Sanders’ quest to keep negativity out of Colorado’s program includes shutting out columnist

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! As he prepared for the Buffaloes’ season opener against FCS powerhouse North Dakota State, the second-year Colorado coach was asked Saturday if he ever felt persecuted “by outside noise.” “This is a way of life for me,” Sanders said. That’s a gospel song, ain’t it?” A …

Coach Prime holds combative news conference as he prepares for his second season at Colorado
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Coach Prime holds combative news conference as he prepares for his second season at Colorado

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! BOULDER, Colo. — Deion “ Coach Prime ” Sanders kicked off his second season at Colorado with a combative news conference Friday when he also celebrated his 57th birthday and became a grandfather. “Trying to get my six-pack, I can’t eat these honeybuns,” he cracked in …

DeBoer embraces chance to replace Saban at Alabama, promises ex-coach ‘100 percent access’
11 months, 1 week ago

DeBoer embraces chance to replace Saban at Alabama, promises ex-coach ‘100 percent access’

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The former Washington coach, hired two days after Saban’s retirement, said he’s giving the 72-year-old ex-coach “100 percent access” to his program — saying he’d “be a fool not to” — and that Saban firmly wants the Crimson Tide’s success to continue. But it wasn’t easy.” …

Sanders softens stance on offensive line that’s struggling to keep pressure off his quarterback son
1 year, 1 month ago

Sanders softens stance on offensive line that’s struggling to keep pressure off his quarterback son

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! That’s the picture and I’m going to paint it perfectly.” His stance softened, though, after a recent heart-to-heart conference with the players responsible for keeping QB Shedeur Sanders upright. “Not only depth, killer instinct, want, desire, will athleticism,” Deion Sanders said in reference to the offensive …

At Colorado, Deion Sanders is the only one ready for prime time
1 year, 1 month ago

At Colorado, Deion Sanders is the only one ready for prime time

LA Times  

Colorado coach Deon Sanders talks with his son, Colorado defensive back Shilo Sanders, before a 26-18 loss to UCLA at the Rose Bowl on Saturday. Late in the second quarter on a night that slowly chilled at the Rose Bowl, Colorado safety Shilo Sanders appeared to apply a textbook tackle that leveled UCLA’s Carsen Ryan. “We were just coaching youth …

Colorado coach Deion Sanders enjoys the spoof of Deion Sanders on ‘Saturday Night Live’
1 year, 1 month ago

Colorado coach Deion Sanders enjoys the spoof of Deion Sanders on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! BOULDER, Colo. — Deion Sanders certainly enjoyed the spoof of Deion Sanders in a recent skit on “ Saturday Night Live.” Actor Kenan Thompson’s parody of the Colorado coach was spot-on, from the attire — Colorado sweatshirt pulled over his CU hat, shades and whistle dangling …

Colorado coach Deion Sanders calls late game times ‘stupidest thing ever invented in life’
1 year, 2 months ago

Colorado coach Deion Sanders calls late game times ‘stupidest thing ever invented in life’

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! A few late-night kickoffs have the Buffaloes chasing wins when many around the nation are catching “Zzzs.” Coach Prime isn’t the biggest fan of those late prime-time kickoffs, either. When the Buffaloes played Colorado State on Sept. 16 — kickoff was at 8:21 p.m. Mountain — …

Deion and Shedeur Sanders have Colorado rolling toward bowl eligibility after taking over 1-11 team
1 year, 2 months ago

Deion and Shedeur Sanders have Colorado rolling toward bowl eligibility after taking over 1-11 team

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Music producer DJ Khaled is on board, too, calling the gesture “The Shedeur.” “ can’t keep doing it for free,” Deion Sanders said Tuesday as the Buffaloes prepare to host Stanford on Friday night at sold-out Folsom Field. “There’s a tremendous chance he could play,” said …

Deion Sanders heaps praise on his QB son Shedeur Sanders after comeback falls short vs. No. 8 USC
1 year, 2 months ago

Deion Sanders heaps praise on his QB son Shedeur Sanders after comeback falls short vs. No. 8 USC

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Proud papa Deion Sanders said everybody at Folsom Field and anyone watching at home knew “if we would have gotten that ball last we were going to go down there and score.” Right after talking up Williams as a great quarterback, Sanders heaped equally effusive praise …

Deion Sanders’ impact at Colorado raises hopes that other Black coaches will get opportunities
1 year, 2 months ago

Deion Sanders’ impact at Colorado raises hopes that other Black coaches will get opportunities

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Floyd Keith has waited half a century for a Black coach with Deion Sanders’ swagger and success to shake up college football. The fanfare and hoopla surrounding the Colorado program since Sanders’ arrival has been well documented, but Keith, who for more than a decade was …

Deion Sanders tunes out detractors and turns the page on Colorado’s lopsided loss to Oregon
1 year, 2 months ago

Deion Sanders tunes out detractors and turns the page on Colorado’s lopsided loss to Oregon

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! 9 Oregon last weekend — and watching the cringe-worthy film over and over — “shall set you free.” To his detractors, he made sure they knew his first defeat at Colorado hasn’t diminished his swagger. “To be 3-1 and not satisfied — don’t that say a …

Will Deion Sanders be a target in next NFL coach search? League execs say ‘definitely’
1 year, 3 months ago

Will Deion Sanders be a target in next NFL coach search? League execs say ‘definitely’

New York Times  

Deion Sanders is shaping up to be a prime target for NFL teams in need of a head coach. The Athletic polled 10 high-ranking team decision-makers to gauge the league’s opinion on Sanders, and seven of them predicted Sanders would receive interview requests for the offseason head-coaching hiring cycle. He’s crushed the transfer portal, and maybe that would carry over …

Commentary: College football review: Coach Prime has expertly delivered drama and become must-see TV
1 year, 3 months ago

Commentary: College football review: Coach Prime has expertly delivered drama and become must-see TV

LA Times  

Colorado coach Deion Sanders hugs his son Shilo Sanders after the safety returned an interception for a touchdown against Colorado State on Saturday. College football in 2023 is a TV show, and it took just three weeks of Deion Sanders leading the Colorado Buffaloes for the networks to toss the old rules into the trash and trust in the allure …

Deion Sanders: Colorado football’s Coach Prime is a one-man college-football stimulus.
1 year, 3 months ago

Deion Sanders: Colorado football’s Coach Prime is a one-man college-football stimulus.

Slate  

The University of Colorado football team won one game last year. Fox’s promotion of the game treated Colorado like the Harlem Globetrotters and TCU like the Washington Generals, despite TCU winning 13 times as many football games as Colorado in the most recent season. Colorado’s new coach is Deion Sanders, by far the most independently famous person to ever put …

Why Colorado OC Sean Lewis left a head coaching job to direct Deion Sanders’ offense
1 year, 3 months ago

Why Colorado OC Sean Lewis left a head coaching job to direct Deion Sanders’ offense

New York Times  

This offseason, Colorado brought in 51 scholarship transfers looking for a fresh start in Boulder, but one of Deion Sanders’ biggest pickups was a 37-year-old former three-star quarterback recruit who played in the Big Ten and didn’t arrive through the portal. At Kent State, Lewis’ “Flash Fast” attack led the nation in yards per game and points per game in …

Prime shocker: Colorado upsets No. 17 TCU 45-42 in Deion Sanders’ debut as Buffs coach
1 year, 3 months ago

Prime shocker: Colorado upsets No. 17 TCU 45-42 in Deion Sanders’ debut as Buffs coach

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Shedeur Sanders, the coach’s son, threw for a school-record 510 yards with four touchdowns — the game-winner a 46-yard catch-and-run by true freshman Dylan Edwards with 4:25 left —- and the Buffs pulled off an opening shocker with a 45-42 win Saturday over 17th-ranked TCU, last …

Pac-12 staffers on Deion’s Year 1 at Colorado: ‘If he wins, he’s the greatest coach ever’
1 year, 3 months ago

Pac-12 staffers on Deion’s Year 1 at Colorado: ‘If he wins, he’s the greatest coach ever’

New York Times  

The Athletic has live coverage of Colorado vs. Oregon in Week 4 college football action The Deion Sanders era at Colorado is only nine months old but has already become one of college football’s most polarizing topics. “If he wins there this year, he’s the greatest coach ever,” one offensive assistant coach said. … The only game that’s a sure …

Deion Sanders, be it by sermon, commercial or YouTube, can still sell anything
1 year, 4 months ago

Deion Sanders, be it by sermon, commercial or YouTube, can still sell anything

New York Times  

Deion Sanders steps out of the car onto the tarmac and greets a familiar face. Upon his arrival at the conference at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, hundreds of attendees want a piece of Coach Prime inside the Nicollet Ballroom, where he’ll share the stage with Aflac president Virgil Miller for a session titled “Generation Next.” The metamorphosis of one alter …

Deion Sanders builds and rebuilds roster in first season at Colorado
1 year, 4 months ago

Deion Sanders builds and rebuilds roster in first season at Colorado

Associated Press  

BOULDER, Colo. — Deion Sanders cleaned house when he first arrived at Colorado. I don’t care about culture,” said Sanders, whose team is playing its final season in the Pac-12 Conference before moving to the Big 12. “You had some young men that just didn’t want to play the game,” Sanders said of overhauling the roster after arriving from Jackson …

Deion Sanders was the talk of Pac-12 spring
1 year, 7 months ago

Deion Sanders was the talk of Pac-12 spring

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The arrival of Deion Sanders as coach created quite a spectacle at the Buffaloes’ spring game, which drew more fans than the nine previous spring games combined. Sanders was hired to rebuild a program that went 1-11 last season and his arrival has led to a …

Inside Deion Sanders’ unprecedented roster flip: ‘We have plans to go another way’
1 year, 7 months ago

Inside Deion Sanders’ unprecedented roster flip: ‘We have plans to go another way’

New York Times  

Travis Gray thought he had Sunday off. “That was my first meeting with Coach Prime since I’ve been here.” Since arriving at Colorado in December from Jackson State to much fanfare and intrigue, Sanders warned roster turnover was coming for a program that went 1-11 last season. “You all know that we’re gonna move on from some of the team …

Colorado’s quest for Deion Sanders: A network with clout, a ‘secret weapon’ and two anxious months
1 year, 11 months ago

Colorado’s quest for Deion Sanders: A network with clout, a ‘secret weapon’ and two anxious months

New York Times  

BOULDER, Colo. — Rick George was trying to focus on the task at hand, but he had pressing issues back home. Sanders had called the Colorado athletic director earlier that week with a simple message: “I’m comin’.” That alleviated some of George’s anxiety around his high-profile, two-months-long search for a head coach. “We’re going to provide the resources the coach …

Deion Sanders’ first Colorado commits feeling the love: ‘I need you’
2 years ago

Deion Sanders’ first Colorado commits feeling the love: ‘I need you’

New York Times  

By Grace Raynor, Manny Navarro and David Ubben Ryan Staub had visited Colorado three times before Deion Sanders took over as head coach. “ was coaching at Jackson State so I don’t know if he had enough time to make that many arrangements,” said Staub, a 6-foot-1, 190-pound three-star quarterback from Stevenson Ranch, Calif. Staub committed to Colorado last January …

Deion Sanders’ unwanted Colorado commits searching for a new home
2 years ago

Deion Sanders’ unwanted Colorado commits searching for a new home

New York Times  

Carson Mott had a feeling this was coming. It sucks because we could’ve been looking instead of having only 16 days before signing day.” Former Class of 2023 Colorado commits Player, Pos Hometown Rank New School CJ Turner, LB Star City 742 Taylor Starling, CB Dallas 823 Brady Nassar, Edge Pleasanton 906 San Diego State Carson Mott, Edge Simi Valley …

Colorado hires Deion Sanders to turn around football program
2 years ago

Colorado hires Deion Sanders to turn around football program

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! BOULDER, Colo. — Deion Sanders is taking over as head coach at Colorado, bringing his charisma and larger-than-life persona to a beleaguered Pac-12 program that’s plunged to the bottom of college football. They were on the cover of Sports Illustrated in July — a feature on …

Deion Sanders says report of job offer from Colorado is true
2 years ago

Deion Sanders says report of job offer from Colorado is true

Associated Press  

BOULDER, Colo. — Deion Sanders said Monday that a report stating Colorado has offered him its head coaching job is true and he has also received interest from other schools. Before the season, Colorado lost several starters through the transfer portal, an area Sanders could surely shore up should he accept the Buffaloes’ job. Hired by Jackson State in September …

Deion Sanders Scolds Reporter For Calling Him 'Deion' And Walks Away
3 years, 5 months ago

Deion Sanders Scolds Reporter For Calling Him 'Deion' And Walks Away

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Jackson State football coach Deion Sanders gave a local reporter a “Prime Time” reprimand for calling him “Deion” Tuesday at a press gathering. You don’t call Nick Saban ‘Nick,’ Sanders said, referring to Alabama coach Nick Saban. “Don’t call me Deion.” “I call Nick Saban ‘Nick,’” Suss replied. @DeionSanders @21standprime pic.twitter.com/NEnuOJlx9m — Barstool Sports July 21, 2021 …

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