Recruiting specialist on Colorado’s 2023 prospects: ‘There’s a lot to like’
247Sports.com director of recruiting Steve Wiltfong recently spoke with The New York Post’s Zach Braziller, and during the interview, Wiltfong revealed his feeling that “there’s a lot to like” about Colorado football in 2023.
“He’s got an electric personality. If he wants to make you feel good, he can make you feel tremendous,” Wiltfong said. “[You look at] coach Sanders and his track record, what he accomplished at Jackson State, which not only was to turn them into a winner, not only make them the most talented team on the field in their classification through recruiting, but he excited a fan base.
“The attendance skyrocketed. They had 40,000, 50,000 at their games. … He not only can ignite a locker room, he can ignite a whole community and have tremendous support. There’s a lot to like about Colorado and the trajectory of their program in Year 1, from the way they’ve recruited, from the way they’ve hit the portal, from the support they’re getting in the community to the coaching staff [they] put together.”
Former Deion Sanders colleague: Coach Prime doing at Colorado football ‘what we all hoped we could accomplish’
Steve Mariucci, who worked alongside Deion Sanders at the NFL Network, revealed a high opinion of the job Coach Prime is doing at Colorado football; claiming that the Buffaloes HC is doing “what we all hoped we could accomplish.”
“He does things that we all hoped we could accomplish when we were trying to coach college football, and he’s getting that stuff done,” Mariucci said. “He will say exactly what he feels and thinks sometimes, and he can do that because he’s Deion Sanders and he is who he is. At times, some of us are careful of what we say and how we say it, and he just tells it like it is.
“He’s got old school in him, big-time, but he also has a blend of a current, in-touch [connection] with this generation. He understands when to push and pull, when to relate. He’s very up to date that way. … He’s tough on these kids. The kids don’t make the decisions, he does.”
Those intimately connected to the game, and to Sanders personally, believe in what Coach Prime is doing, while those commenting from the outside looking in are offended at how Sanders conducts himself. We’ll take into account more the opinions of those in the know over the alternative.