Analyst ponders if Colorado can raid SEC rosters, flip 5-stars in offseason

Colorado football has flipped the narrative from Deion Sanders crashing and burning and being gone from Boulder within two years, to now potentially being capable of raiding SEC rosters via the transfer portal and flipping 5-star recruits during the upcoming offseason and beyond. At least, that’s what Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel is openly pondering about following CU’s shocking 45-42 upset over TCU.

“If it once seemed impossible to flip an entire program and play like they did on Saturday and Sanders did that, then what is considered impossible in year two or three that just may not be?” Wetzel asked. “Colorado raiding SEC rosters? Colorado flipping five stars come December? Colorado beating famed powers straight up for talent? Colorado as a national contender? How about Sanders being content to stay in the Rockies because where and in what league he coaches doesn’t matter that much because he is, uniquely, the show? ‘I’m about to get comfortable,’ Coach Prime said. College football might want to take that as a warning.”

How one game has changed everyone’s minds so drastically should actually embarrass those who were telling anyone who would listen in the offseason that Sanders and the Buffs would fail. Colorado football coverage was quite literally compromised because those covering it from a national perspective had a personal issue with how Coach Prime conducted himself.

Colorado football appears to be the perfect home for Deion Sanders

One wouldn’t think that the Florida native Sanders would want to get back to his home state eventually and recruit in perhaps the pound-for-pound most talent-rich state in the country, but where he played ball in college, FSU, — not his alma mater, Talladega College, where he got his degree — seems to have it out for him and the other schools in the state are either on the up (UCF, Miami) or are too dysfunctional to even consider (Florida).

Coach Prime always seemed like a flight risk, and hearing him say he is getting comfortable doesn’t actually guarantee anything, but for now, the fit in Boulder seems to be a perfect one — since the program’s recent history takes no precedence over what Sanders is building, as opposed to most of the schools that’d want to poach “Prime Time” away from the Rockies.