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Colorado predicted to be aggressive in transfer portal again

By Andrew Hughes

Colorado football was predicted to be aggressive in the transfer portal in 2024 more after being such in the aftermath of Deion Sanders' hiring in December Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports
Colorado football was predicted to be aggressive in the transfer portal in 2024 more after being such in the aftermath of Deion Sanders' hiring in December Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Colorado football 2023 recruiting class is largely made up of players who suited up elsewhere in 2022, and according to 247Sports recruiting expert Andrew Ivins, the Buffaloes should be expected to aggressively pursue more players from the transfer portal for their 2024 and 2025 classes as well — but as Ivins points out, things could difficult if the success isn’t there immediately in Year 1.

“You know Colorado’s going to want to go back into the transfer portal, so you’re trying to balance all that out,” Ivins said. “But I think if you’re Colorado, we said it — 75% of the Top247 is already committed, so what’s left out there for them to go get is kind of my point. And I think Colorado, it’s going to be a difficult Year 1. So that shine is going to wear off a little bit. If you look towards the 2025 cycle, that shine wears off a little bit if it’s not a great Year 1. I don’t think they’re expecting to contend for a Pac-12 title, but could it get a little more difficult than maybe we thought it would have been a couple months ago?”

With the media making such a story of Deion Sanders’ aggressive recruiting tactics, which involved rapidly rebuilding by asking players to hit the transfer portal, any struggles Coach Prime’s guys face in 2023 are sure to be artificially blasted across the airwaves as a failure on the part of the Buffaloes’ first-year locker room leader. That could inevitably rub recruits the wrong way, causing there to be continued struggles in Boulder luring top talent to Northern Colorado.

Deion Sanders could revolutionize the sport with a successful first year coaching Colorado football

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Sanders has a chance to revolutionize modern recruiting by upending a Power Five program, gutting its roster, and replacing the existing scholarship base with guys he recruited at his previous stop.

If Colorado football can see success with a ragtag group that largely spent the prior year apart — and keep in mind that Sonny Dykes did this on a smaller scale in 2022 with TCU before leading the Horned Frogs to a College Football Playoff title game appearance –, perhaps more Power Five programs may consider the Coach Prime method of rapid roster overhaul in the not-so-distant future.

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