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Colorado recruiting: ‘Plenty of work’ to keep star commits from flipping

By Andrew Hughes

There's "plenty of work" to be done by the Colorado football program to keep their three 2025 commits from flipping before signing their NLIs Mandatory Credit: Naples Daily News
There's "plenty of work" to be done by the Colorado football program to keep their three 2025 commits from flipping before signing their NLIs Mandatory Credit: Naples Daily News /
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There’s “plenty of work ahead” for the Colorado football program in order to ensure that their 2025 recruiting class, featuring Shedeur Sanders’ quarterback successor, Antwann Hill, receiver Winston Watkins Jr., and running back Jamarice Wilder, sign their NLIs according to Buffaloes Wire’s Jack Carlough.

“On (October 21), the Buffaloes earned arguably their most impressive commitment so far in four-star Georgia quarterback Antwann Hill Jr., who became Colorado’s third 2025 pledge, joining four-star wide receiver Winston Watkins Jr. and three-star running back Jamarice Wilder,” Carlough prefaced before saying, “However, because the 2025 early signing period is still over one year out, head coach Deion Sanders and his staff have plenty of work ahead to ensure that Hill, Watkins and Wilder sign with the Buffs next winter.”

Given that the three 2025 commits CU has landed live a world away from Boulder in the Deep South, at least in Hill’s case, and the southwest portion of Florida for Watkins and Wilder, there’s still a lot that needs to be done to ensure that these high school juniors are ready for such a move. One factor outweighs the rest, though…

If commits don’t flip, it’s because Coach Prime is still with Colorado football

There are plenty who are writing off the idea of Deion Sanders seeing his five-year contract with the University of Colorado through — and you can count college football insider Bruce Feldman among those who see Coach Prime being in Boulder for a good time, not a long one.

“Two years from now? After the 2024 season? I would not be surprised if Deion Sanders is not the head coach at Colorado,” Feldman said (h/t AthlonSports). “I just don’t think that he is going to be there that long. It’ll either go really well. They were horrible before. So he goes from one win last year to maybe four or five this year. And then maybe eight or nine. Then I think he goes to a bigger school. Or it will not work out at all and they will all be at odds. I think there’s a lot of stuff that has the potential to create a lot of friction. If it doesn’t go great, then I think they go in a different direction.”

If Sanders stays, those commits don’t flip. Simple as that. Colorado-related projections in any year A.D. (after Deion) are not going to be so simple, whenever they come, though.

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