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Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders likely won’t be taken by another program during his time in Boulder. Sanders has it too good with the autonomy he enjoys under AD Rick George and Co.
What’d draw Coach Prime away from CU, then?
His ongoing health issues, the ones that prevented him from performing several team responsibilities this offseason.
BuffZone’s Pat Rooney made that point clear during his latest “3 extra points” column.
“Coach Sanders didn’t discuss his ongoing health issues during the Big 12 media days earlier this month. Understandable. But the questions aren’t going to go away just because Sanders wants them to,” Rooney wrote.
“Whether Sanders discusses his extended spring-summer absence from campus when the Buffs open preseason workouts on July 28 remains to be seen. But at the outset of his third season at CU, he already has endured a litany of serious medical matters. In 2021 Sanders had a pair of toes amputated. In the summer of 2023, ahead of his first season with the Buffs, Sanders had two surgeries to address blood clots in his legs.
“I admittedly was surprised when Sanders didn’t emerge as a hot coaching candidate this past offseason after the swift and dramatic turnaround he authored at CU. But I’ve come around to the idea that Sanders’ long-term future in Boulder will be less about getting poached by another program than the state of his health.”
Sanders couldn’t even run onto the field with his team during their 2023 opener at TCU. While he was able to resurrect Colorado’s reputation with their most successful season in eight years last fall, he wasn’t able to come close to a full recruiting effort the subsequent cycle because of his health.
Can the Buffs sustain with Sanders’ name alone on the trail?
They may have to find out until Coach Prime decides he can’t keep up with the wear-and-tear of Power 4 coaching any longer.
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