Six-decade coaching legend: Deion Sanders is a fix-it guy

Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders is a fix-it kind of guy — one not likely to sit and sulk about problems but instead actively address them — according to six-decade coaching legend Mack Brown, who complimented Coach Prime at the ACC Football Kickoff on July 27.

“I think the thing I would tell any young coach is do what you know is the right thing to do,” Brown said (h/t Buffs Beat). “Treat players right, show integrity in the game, and be positive. We’ve got so many negative things in our world right now. I’m one of those guys who likes to be positive about everything. Be realistic and understand what we gotta get done, but don’t sit around and gripe about everything. Fix it. And Deion seems to be one of those types of guys.” As Buffs Beat’s Josh Tolle points out, Sanders and Brown are kindred spirits in their lives besides the obvious differences in their professional playing careers and discrepancy in coaching experience.

“Brown and Sanders are separated by 16 years, but have traveled similar paths in life,” Tolle wrote. “Outside of coaching, they both played football at Florida State. Deion’s path went to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player, and Mack’s to the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach. Each of them also had respective stints on air in the broadcast world.”

Deion Sanders has kept Colorado football afloat despite historic roster turnover

CU isn’t seen as a disaster by the college football world despite having over 50 players leave the program since Sanders took over the coaching helm in Boulder. In fact, the Buffaloes were just seen as an asset to the Big 12, which has aggressively replaced Texas and Oklahoma with UCF, Cincinnati, Houston, BYU, and now Colorado and a program to be named.

Sanders has done miracle work in Northern Colorado, though that statement needs to be validated with a season that at minimum, hits the over on the Buffs’ over/under win-total of 3.5 victories.

Enough wins and a program overhaul that builds momentum in the coming years and Coach Prime could have folks talking statues outside Folsom Field.