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Colorado football coach Deion Sanders just finished another recruiting season in Boulder with the same highly unusual track record as before:
No in-home visits for recruits. No off-campus visits to high schools.
The university confirmed this after USA TODAY Sports requested records of any recruiting trips he’s made in the last year after not making any before that, either. The latest recruiting period for head coaches to make off-campus contact with player prospects ended earlier this month, shortly before national signing day on Feb. 5.
“Head coach Deion Sanders did not make any in-home or off-campus recruiting visits,” the university said recently.
This remains unique in college football as a completely different way of convincing recruits to play for a college team. It’s also worked for Sanders so far, as shown by his results on the field last year and the major upgrade in talent he’s made to Colorado’s roster since his hiring there in December 2022.
But wouldn’t he be even better at Colorado if he invested himself more in recruiting high school prospects?
That’s one way of looking at it, recruiting experts told USA TODAY Sports. His employment contract at Colorado even includes a $200,000 annual budget for him to use private air travel for recruiting, which he didn’t use.
On the other hand, off-campus recruiting for a head coach doesn’t matter nearly as much in this rapidly changing era of college football.
Sanders, 57, seems to be proving that singlehandedly, even if few other college coaches could get away with this approach. He’s meeting the moment in his own way after the rise of wide-open free agency for transfer players and recruits now picking schools based more on money and exposure than having the coach sit down to dinner at home with mom.
Here’s how it breaks down after his third winter…
Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/colorado-coach-deion-sanders-again-110432019.html
Author : USA TODAY Sports
Publish date : 2025-02-18 11:04:00
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