Deion Sanders sure does looks like he’s settling in at Colorado, not shipping out to the NFL

There has been no shortage of speculation about Deion Sanders coaching this NFL team or that NFL team.

Speculation, mind you, not even rumors or anonymously sourced reports.

In a media landscape desperate for engagement, you aren’t going to miss when putting, say, Coach Prime and the Dallas Cowboys in the same sentence. And so it snowballs.

Up in Colorado, where he coaches an 8-2 team that controls its College Football Playoff destiny, Sanders just sort of smiles and waves it off.

“I’m happy where I am,” Prime said this week. “I’m good. I’ve got a kickstand down. You know what a kickstand is? … That means I’m resting. I’m good. I’m happy. I’m excited. I’m enthusiastic about where I am. I love it here. I truly do.”

The lengthy list of college coaches who say they aren’t going anywhere that wind up going somewhere — often with head-spinning speed — prevents anyone from taking Sanders’ pronouncement at full value, no offense to him.

Tommy Tubberville, after all, once said he would only leave Ole Miss in a “pine box.” He wound up taking a private jet to the Auburn job.

Still, the visual of Prime content on his bike, his kickstand down, surveying all the good things happening around him presently, and seemingly into the future, is pretty compelling.

Consider that on Thursday, during an appearance on the “Pat McAfee Show”, Rivals.com five-star quarterback Julian “JuJu” Lewis of Carrollton, Ga., announced he was headed to Colorado. The former USC commit, who fielded a late Georgia recruiting push, seemed eager to take over for Sanders’ son, Shedeur, who will head to the NFL Draft.

“I don’t think there is a better person to learn how to read coverages from than Coach Prime,” Lewis said.

Welcome to Prime 2.0 — at least in terms of his Colorado era.

It started as a seemingly…

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Publish date : 2024-11-21 19:13:00

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