Deion Sanders doubles down on his horrible recruiting strategy for Colorado Football as spring practice starts
Deion Sanders is currently hosting a Master Class on how to build a hype machine with absolutely zero substance or results. And this week he doubled down on completely ignoring the recruiting visit process. Good news for the rest of college football programs with any interest in high school recruiting. Maybe not for Colorado. Yes, […]
Deion Sanders is currently hosting a Master Class on how to build a hype machine with absolutely zero substance or results. And this week he doubled down on completely ignoring the recruiting visit process. Good news for the rest of college football programs with any interest in high school recruiting. Maybe not for Colorado.
Yes, it was nice that Colorado started off 3-0 last year against three bad teams. And it was cool when The Rock and a host of various recording artists decided to show up to some games. However, after that 3-0 start the Buffs went 1-8 the rest of the way last fall. Their only remaining victory coming from against a rough 3-9 Arizona State program. Questions loomed as to how Coach Prime would continue building the Colorado Football program after such a disappointing finish to 2023.
After Sanders chose not to hit the recruiting trail for much of his first year at Colorado the Buffaloes finished with the 119th ranked high school recruiting class this spring, signing just seven true freshman recruits in total. Sanders did sign 25 transfers, attempting to completely rebuild the roster for the second season in a row, but it remains to be seen whether that kind of team can win at college football's highest level.
When criticized for his lack of recruiting efforts this week Coach Prime had a nice bundle of excuses that Cody Nagel of 247Sports reported on well this week (full article can be found in post below).
"My approach is totally different…I try to save our university money every darn chance I get…I want to show them Boulder…I can't do things other coaches can do. You know why? I'm Coach Prime. And I didn't stutter when I said it."
Coach Prime truly does operate uniquely. He has his own way of doing things. But it's starting to look like his way isn't going to be the method that builds a sustainable program at Colorado.
As of this writing, Colorado is one of just five power conference programs with zero commits for the 2025 recruiting class. Sanders has reportedly used exactly zero dollars of the $200,000 allotted to him for private airplane travel for visits and other recruiting events because he just simply "wants to show [recruits] Boulder, [Colorado]" instead of visiting any recruits in person.
As spring practice kicks off Sanders seems to see no issue with his recruiting methods and approach, so in the coming months we can likely expect zero change as the most important part of the 2025 recruiting cycle is set to kick off.
Much has changed in the landscape of college football in the past few years. And for now, student athletes can transfer whenever and however they possibly can. This does in theory provide some hope for Coach Prime's transfer heavy method in roster building.
As long as he can continues to sell hope that he is indeed building something special at Colorado then high level backups and starters from fifth tier power conference programs across the country can continue pouring onto his roster. But I think we all know how that's going to work out in the end.
