Colorado will have ‘entirely different caliber of talent’ in 2023

Colorado football will have an “entirely different caliber of talent at their disposal in 2023” due to their additions in the transfer portal and the recently-graduated high school class according to CBS Sports’ Dean Straka.

“While it remains to be seen if Sanders’ method will bear fruit during the 2023 season, the Buffaloes are set to have an entirely different caliber of talent at their disposal in 2023 compared to previous years,” Straka wrote. “Sanders, this offseason, brought in the No. 1 transfer portal class, according to the 247Sports rankings. It includes Travis Hunter, who followed Sanders to Colorado this offseason after signing with Jackson State as the No. 1 overall recruit in the 2022 class.” Straka was responding to criticisms of Sanders from Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables, who questioned the rapid-fire turnover “Prime Time” is imposing on the Buffaloes’ roster.

“We’re another year in establishing our standards and our culture and our values,” Venables prefaced before saying, “That matters. A year ago, I challenged the guys. I wasn’t like Deion that gave guys a bunch of pink slips.”

Deion Sanders on Colorado football roster turnover: ‘No different than any CEO’

Sanders himself isn’t worried about the massive roster turnover Colorado football has seen since the former NFL and MLB star took over in Boulder; having told FOX Sports’ Joel Klatt that he’s no different than a president-elect or a company CEO.

“I was the genesis coming in, and now there’s exodus,” Sanders said during the June 12 edition of The Joel Klatt Show. “When the President gets into office, what happens to the cabinet? He enacts his agenda. What I am doing is no different than any CEO, any person of status that has claimed a position. I got to get it right. I ain’t looking at yesterday, and I’m not looking forward to tomorrow. I’m looking at now. My feelings, thoughts and understanding are that I got to get it right now. Let’s go get it now.”

Expect to hear more from coaches around the country in an attempt to piggyback off of the attention the Buffaloes’ controversial but proven-everywhere-else first-year head coach Sanders is getting.