FanNation’s Nick Ferguson doesn’t see Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders ever returning to coach one of the teams he played for in the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys, given the promise he was given by CU AD Rick George to allow Coach Prime to craft his own program in Boulder as he sees fit.
“The Dallas faithful hope Sanders will come back to save the Cowboys, but I’m afraid that’s never going to happen,” Ferguson wrote. “Keep this in mind, Colorado and Rick George gave Coach Prime an opportunity to make this program his own. Sanders is grateful because it was a chance no other program was willing to give him with full and total control.” Ferguson doesn’t believe that a return to coach any NFL team is in the cards for Deion, considering his motivations is to be a mentor and not a mediator to millionaires.
“If you understood anything about Coach Prime, the rumors never made sense on a surface level,” Ferguson prefaced before saying, “The Hall-of-Famer doesn’t care to coach millionaires, and his real passion is being able to serve as a mentor to his players coming up in the college ranks.”
Deion Sanders’ Colorado football future cast into doubt by Joel Klatt
FOX Sports analyst Joel Klatt cast Coach Prime’s Colorado football into doubt when he simultaneously shut down any NFL talk as he was openly pondering whether Sanders would be the Buffs’ head coach for the long haul.
"Deion doesn't want to coach in the NFL. He's told me that point blank to my face."
— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) September 13, 2023
— @joelklatt shuts down Coach Prime rumors pic.twitter.com/BlxXuzoOmD
“He’s not going to the NFL,” Klatt told Colin Cowherd during the September 13 edition of The Herd. “I don’t know if he’s gonna be at Colorado for sure (going forward), but I can tell you for sure, he’s not going to the NFL.”
Sanders has the keys to the kingdom at Colorado, but the program’s brain trust needs to provide him everything else he can find elsewhere; mainly, a big bag of cash that’s too good to pass up.