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2024 seen as an all-in year for Deion Sanders' Colorado football program

By Andrew Hughes

Apr 27, 2024; Boulder, CO, USA; Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders during a spring game event at Folsom Field. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports
Apr 27, 2024; Boulder, CO, USA; Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders during a spring game event at Folsom Field. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports / Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports
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Deion Sanders' Colorado football program is "all-in" on the 2024 season, which worries BuffsBeat's Jason Jones -- who openly pondered what the future beyond Shedeur and Shilo Sanders, Travis Hunter, and a large number of veteran transfers' final season this Fall.

"You don’t have to be a football analyst to get the sense the Buffaloes are all in for this year," Jones prefaced before saying, "Which again, is rather curious on what’s going on. Consider the following list of players: Shedeur Sanders, Travis Jay, Omarion Miller, Jimmy Horn Jr, Cam’ron Silmon-Craig, LaJohntay Wester, Travis Hunter, Shilo Sanders, Jeremiah Brown, Trevor Woods, Charlie Offerdahl, Arden Walker, Chidozie “Block Bully” Nwankwo, Shane Cokes and the entire offensive line minus Jordan Seaton. That list includes the vast majority of players Coach Prime speaks about most affectionately. What is the first thing that the entire list of players seem to have in common? It is very unlikely any of those players listed will be in Boulder for the 2025 football season. Who is stepping up when those key players leave? What is the personnel contingency plan? Not to mention, what if one of them gets injured?"

Coach Prime has built more depth this season than last, but there isn't much of a contingency plan behind the team's stars. To be fair, though, every team in the country faces that same issue outside of the best of the best from the SEC (Georgia, Alabama, Texas) and a few Big Ten schools (Ohio State, Oregon).

Deion Sanders trying to set Colorado football for 2025 and beyond

For right now, yes, Sanders is all in on his two sons' final Division I college football seasons before they move on to the NFL. But this isn't to say he has no plan for the 2025 season. In fact, he has a major contingency plan at QB with his Julian Lewis pursuit and will likely start filling in the gaps at other positions as the season progresses.

Coach Prime's greatest recruiting tool will be the momentum the program builds as the wins start piling up. Of course if they don't, he'll have to pivot to selling recruits on being the first great group in Boulder's "Prime Time" era.

If Sanders sticks around for five to 10 years like he said he would, he'll have something to sell CU recruiting targets.

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