If Coach Prime is to be with the Colorado football program for a good time and not a long time, he’ll have been worth the spectacle regardless says CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd — who, in the process, compared Deion Sanders to a beautiful rarity in nature.
“Whether the Buffs merely go to a bowl game or eventually win a national championship or their coach bounces prematurely, Sanders will have been worth it for the spectacle,” Dodd prefaced before saying, “But so is the time one takes to seek out Halley’s Comet as it streaks across the heavens once every 75 years. Sanders has certainly shone as bright. Now, how long can his light shine in Boulder?”
The answer to that question is perhaps the most unpredictable one in sports at the moment. While the stage is set for recruits to join Coach Prime, his sons Shedeur and Shilo Sanders, two-way superstar Travis Hunter, and the rest of the uber-talented receiving corps and secondary — with help in the defensive trenches, running back room, and offensive line all at the forefront of what the Buffs need for 2024 — there is uncertainty beyond his sons’ eligibility.
Colorado football could lose Coach Prime to Alabama
Paul Finebaum, one of college football’s most enduring voices and sports talk radio hosts, believes Coach Prime is a bigger star than Nick Saban and could be a potential replacement for the legendary Alabama head coach in Tuscaloosa one day; sharing as much during the September 10 edition of The Matt Barrie Show.
“I had a colleague ask me today, this is where we are on the morning after, who do you think the top three candidates would be if quote unquote, Nick Saban retired,” Finebaum before saying, “And I don’t know if Prime is on that list or not. But why not? And I’m not gonna I’m not gonna get too deep into the weeds or we’re not when I was trying to think of some of the names. I mean, they’re all just nice coaches, but none of them have the star power. I mean, quite frankly, Nick Saban doesn’t have the star power that Deion Sanders has right now.”
Perhaps it’s no coincidence Coach Prime hired Charles Kelly, a longtime Saban confidant to be his first defensive coordinator in Boulder. Is Sanders scouting a jump to coach the Crimson Tide in the future?
It has to be in the back of every college football fan’s mind after Finebaum, who cut his teeth in the Birmingham area coming up and has long followed Saban’s program closely, is floating it as a possibility.