Michigan State could replace ex-Colorado HC with current Buffs OC

Former Colorado football head coach Mel Tucker was suspended from his post at Michigan State, and could very well be blackballed from the sport moving forward after heinous sexual harassment allegations came to light. In his stead, current Buffaloes offensive coordinator Sean Lewis, who owns five years of head coaching experience at Kent State prior to his hiring by Deion Sanders and CU, could be an option according to On3’s Andy Staples.

‘If Lewis is producing great offenses at Colorado, then I think he’s going to get looks from Power 5 schools as a head coach and after this year,” Staples said. “Because everybody’s looking for something like that, and if you go back to Sean Lewis’ Kent State history, he was a capable coach there. Again, the out-of-conference scheduling for them just hamstrung him every single year. I think if people pop the hood on that they’re going to say, ‘You know what, this guy can be very successful as a Power 5 head coach and now we’ve seen him do this offensively at Colorado. We’re going to put him on our list.'”

On3 called Lewis a coach “at the forefront of college football the last two weeks” after Colorado football put up 81 points between their wins against TCU and Nebraska in the Buffs’ season-opener and home opener.

Colorado football offensive coordinator has hitched career to Deion Sanders ‘for better or for worse’

CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd believes that Lewis has “hitched” his career to Coach Prime, for better or for worse, after Dino Barbers commented on wanting to see the former Golden Flashes head coach at the helm of a program again.

“(Barbers’ comments) might be some long-term fallout from Colorado’s earth-shaking Week 1 accomplishment,” Dodd prefaced before saying, “For better or worse, Lewis has bet on himself and hitched his career — for better or worse — to Coach Prime.”

If his future is hitched to Sanders, there are certainly worse places Lewis’ career can be right now than in “Prime Time.”