Deion Sanders’ bid to restore Colorado baseball program ‘more realistic now than ever’
Deion Sanders’ recently announced bid to restore the Colorado baseball program — a team that had its funding cut in 1980 and has not fielded a team since — is something that’s “more realistic now” than ever according to the staff of BuffsBeat.
“Can Coach Prime live up to that promise? It’s hard to say,” BuffsBeat prefaced before saying, “But, clearly there’s potential value for the football team in adding baseball. Every year there are multi sport athletes who seek out these types of opportunities to compete in more than just football. Either way, the prospects of baseball returning and possibly softball beginning, seem a whole lot more realistic now than ever before.” Sanders had called his shot of bring baseball back to Boulder on the August 31 edition of The Colorado Football Coaches Show.
“(Rick George) and I talked about this, like that’s my dream,” Sanders said. “I want to be so dominant here, I mean we’re going to be so dominant, that we’re going to pack the stadium, we’re going to sell out all our apparel. We’re gonna do this, we’re going to be on television.”
Deion Sanders would find way to make coaching Colorado football and baseball teams work if he wanted to: Analyst
Throwing out a bit of a hyperbolic statement in response to Coach Prime’s proclamation that he would help bring a Buffs baseball team back to Boulder, OutKick’s Matt Reigle said that if Sanders wanted to coach both football and baseball, like Drake and Josh, he’d find a way.
“The school has a club baseball team, but we’ll have to wait and see if it can add a baseball program in the future,” Weir wrote. “This means the big question would be does Sanders have the time in his schedule to coach that hypothetical baseball team? Not likely. But let’s not forget the man once played an MLB playoff game and an NFL game on the same day. If he wanted to do it, he’d find a way to make it work.”
Given how much work he’s done on the gridiron recruiting trail, the odds are low that Deion Sanders would consider adding even more to his plate. But I like Reigle’s sentiment: doubt Deion at your own risk.