Longtime CU support staff member supports Deion Sanders’ controversial tenure
Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders got a vote of confidence and support from longtime Buffaloes support staff member Darian Hagan, who is moving from a running backs coach role he’s had since 2016 to the Executive Director of Community Engagement & Outreach seat as well as being a Football Ambassador moving forward. Hagan said that what “Prime Time” at CU is doing is “remarkable” and has generated more hype in Boulder than the Buffaloes have built in a long time.
“I think that the changes that he’s done are pretty remarkable,” Hagan said (h/t DNVR). “He’s done an admirable job of putting his vision in front of what he wants to attain and what he wants to see from the University of Colorado. I think it’s going to be a good fit. I tell people all the time that we haven’t had this type of excitement since I played when Coach McCartney was in charge.”
Hagan has been with Colorado in a coaching/support staff capacity since the 2005 season, so he knows a thing or two about what has resonated with the Boulder community over the years. The local excitement is seemingly matching the energy of the national attention Sanders’ tenure is getting.
Deion Sanders has been a part of constant ‘bulletin board material’ as Colorado football head coach
Sanders’ tenure has been marked by his bringing the same “Prime Time” attitude a two-sport professional sports All-Star in the toughest country in the world to pull that off in, and as Footballscoop’s John Brice writes, that makes him a wildly notable exception to the typical college football coaching norm.
“College football coaches, for the most part, are notoriously tight-lipped,” Brice prefaced before saying, “The fear of bulletin-board material, real or otherwise, oftentimes trumps a coach’s inclination to speak his or her mind. Deion Sanders continues to prove the exception — both in Sanders’s unflinching willingness to assess situations with his candor and for other coaches around college football to speak theirs on Coach Prime and the Colorado Buffaloes’ program.”
Sanders’ bulletin board material is certainly most prominent for the players that have departed the Colorado football program since the infamous “jump in that portal” speech, but every opponent should similarly find motivation somewhere in the words of “Prime Time” since the lights were turned to the max in Boulder.