Up-and-down season ‘new territory’ for star Colorado transfer
The up-and-down 2023 Colorado football season has been “new territory” for quarterback and Deion Sanders’s son, Shedeur Sanders — with the 21-year-old winning nearly nine times as many games as he lost before the Buffs’ uneven debut under Coach Prime for the first time.
“Before coming to Colorado this year, Sanders was a combined 71-8 in his previous six years of football,” BuffZone’s Brian Howell prefaced before saying, “He never lost twice in a row and he had multiple losses in a season just two times (9-3 as a senior in high school, 11-2 in his freshman year at Jackson State). Of the eight losses, five were one-score games, including two in overtime.
“This year has been new territory for Sanders, as the Buffs slipped to 4-5 with a 26-19 loss to Oregon State last week.”
Coach Prime and Shedeur Sanders showing humility amidst Colorado football struggles
The unsilent Sanders family may have made waves with boisterous claims from Coach Prime — including a full-on verbal assault on the 2022 roster — and Shedeur flashing his watch following a narrow win over ASU on October 7 before throwing some post-game shade at the Sun Devils, but with a lot of losing, and not a lot of calls from Coach Prime to relocate his family again to a new college town, they are handling the struggles with humility.
In re-assuring everyone that the Sanders family is here to stay in Boulder, Coach Prime is proving that he understands the process it is to see success at the Power Five level. Leaving CU after a year would prove the opposite.
But Shedeur and Shilo Sanders are being advised to declare for the NFL draft in 2025, and the Buffs are hot on the recruitment trail.
Coach Prime knows Colorado isn’t going to be built in a year, and is setting up a spectacular future for the Buffs’ faithful by taking his shots on the chin and plotting a comeback when the roster is ready to win.
Which could be quickly in the transfer portal-heavy college football world in which we live.