Deion Sanders is not leaving Colorado football after 2024. It's clear in the way he's talking about the last game coaching his sons, Shedeur and Shilo, during the Alamo Bowl against BYU on December 28.
Coach Prime was emotional discussing the topic during a Big 12 teleconference.
“This is gonna be our last game,” Sanders said on an Alamo Bowl announcement event (h/t USA Today). “And you talk about monumental. You talking about something we started in the youth league and guess what? It started right here in Texas.
“It’s gonna be tough for me. I’m telling you that right now. You’re making me think about the end. I don’t want to think about the end."
The only way Coach Prime would leave Boulder for another coaching job was for his sons. Sure, the rumors persist that he'd consider linking with Shedeur with the Dallas Cowboys, but he explicitly told Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce to draft his sons. That's a man who is not joining them wherever they end up -- and also doesn't care about the NFL's tampering rules.
Sanders does have NFL connections. Perhaps those connections will continue to look the other way at comments like these.
Either way, the future in Boulder is clear: continue to hit the transfer portal for defensive difference-makers, continue to recruit elite talent at QB, WR, and CB, his areas of expertise, and continue hiring NFL veterans to help turn blue-chips into NFL pros.
Sanders is staying at CU for the foreseeable future. His kids' time to move on has come, though.