Rival Pac-12 coach on Colorado’s Deion Sanders: ‘Good for our league’

Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders was lauded by Arizona’s Jedd Fisch during Pac-12 Media Day on July 21 — with the Wildcats head coach calling “Prime Time” good for the conference (h/t Buffs Beat).

“I’ve known Coach Sanders for a long, long time,” Fisch prefaced before saying, “He knows what he wants in a football player and his roster. We’ve turned over our roster, too. We have five players who’ve been there since 2020. So, I think that’s just part of the deal. How he turned it over, that’s up to him. I think he’s good for our league and a great coach and a great person.”

Since taking over the helm at Arizona, Fisch is 1-1 against CU; losing a 34-0 to the Buffaloes in Boulder in 2021 but triumphing 43-20 in the return game last season at Arizona Stadium in Tuscon.

Jedd Fisch one of analyst’s top Pac-12 Media Day stars in the absence of Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders

Once Sanders was announced as unable to participate in July 21st’s Pac-12 Media Day, the question immediately became some variation of “who will pick up the slack as the conference’s next biggest star?” On3’s Jesse Simonton floated Fisch, as well as reigning Heisman winner Caleb Williams out of USC.

“Caleb Williams, well he certainly would be the biggest standout, for sure,” On3’s Jesse Simonton prefaced before saying, “In terms of character, I don’t know. Does Jedd Fisch say anything funny? I don’t know. I don’t know if he’s going to move the needle.”

On3’s Andy Staples was blasé to Sanders’ absence altogether, saying simply that “it is what it is.”

“It would have been fun to hear from Deion, but we will probably get a YouTube video about his recuperation from surgery,” Staples prefaced before saying, “And this gets him back in time for practice, so you’ve got to get done what you’ve got to get done. It is what it is.”