Deion Sanders doesn't want to go to the NFL. Well, that statement includes a caveat: he doesn't want to go to the NFL unless he can coach his sons, Shedeur and Shilo. Coach Prime shared this revelation on GMA3 Wednesday.
“You know what? The only way I would consider it is to coach my sons,” Sanders said. “Not son, sons. I love Colorado, I love my Buffaloes, I love everything we’re doing and we’re building and I love Boulder, Colorado.
"This most likely, and I’m pretty much 99-100% sure, will be the last time I’ll have an opportunity to coach my kids."
Sanders struck a much different tone back in July. He claimed he wouldn't follow his kids to the NFL and be a "baby daddy."
“Another misconception, I’m gonna leave when my kids leave,” Sanders said on SiriusXM College, per On3. “That’s the dumbest thing I ever saw in my life, like, I’m gonna follow my sons. Come on. That’s not a dad.
“No. 1, I don’t care. No. 2 is I think they think it’s about me. It’s never been about me. That’s why I’ve been going for about 30-some years now. It can’t be about you when you’re still going 30-some years later, right? It has to be about them. God blesses me because it’s always about somebody else and is always about another person. It’s not about me. He blesses me because we make sure it’s about the kids, it’s about the families, it’s about the mother, it’s about something else. That’s why God blesses me. I think that may be a misconception.”
The Alamo Bowl changed everything. All you see now when searching for Coach Prime is NFL rumors. It may not be long before "Prime Time" is gone, given the dramatic shift in narrative from even July.
If Sanders makes it to the spring game, CU is out of the woods. Or perhaps the week after the NFL draft, when Shedeur, Shilo, and Travis Hunter figure out their professional fates.