Colorado football alum: Deion Sanders brings 'true greatness' to Buffs
Colorado football alum Matt McChesney knows a thing or two about how things operate in Boulder, having played for the Buffs in the mid-2000s under Gary Barnett. So when he says that Coach Prime is bringing "greatness" to CU, it's hard not to listen to someone who's been in the trenches cheering on a program that is coming out of its dark ages.
“The opportunity to take something that Coach Prime knows he is, which is great, and sprinkle it all over the program and turn it into dinner table conversation, dog, like that’s how great he is," McChesney said on "Zero 2 Sixty" podcast (h/t Essentially Sports). "Bro, it’s something new every day from the perspective of trying to figure out how they’re going to do things but true greatness is hard to find in this world, and watching it, it’s incredible. He brings to the University of Colorado, his own personal greatness which you know, is pretty hard to find out there.”
Sanders' level of recruiting is a major step up over what the Buffs had been doing for decades on the trail. The results on the field figure to follow at some point.
If, of course, Coach Prime sticks around. Which there's no guarantee he will.
Colorado football reporter has many questions about whether or not Deion Sanders will be back for Year 3
On SI's Emanuel Walker is openly skeptical about whether or not Sanders is a two-and-done in Boulder -- wondering if Paul Finebaum's suggestion for Coach Prime to replace Lincoln Riley at USC is a bellwether of what's to come.
"Could it be that Paul Finebaum sees something that many of the Buffs fans have yet to realize? Coach Prime doesn’t like to lose, his sons will be gone, and doesn’t believe in rebuilding a football program with younger players outside of the transfer portal," Walker prefaced before saying, "And if Colorado has another losing season, will the Buffaloes faithful begin to grow tired of all the hype without the wins to go along with the slick catchphrases? Is anyone starting to become a 'non-believer' with what's going on in Boulder?
"Did Finebaum use Riley to make his take on Sanders based on the infinite love they both have to recruit players out of the transfer portal? Watching more athletes leave their programs as a means to say that Colorado needs to prepare for life A.P. (After Prime)."
If Coach Prime leaves after two seasons, it'll be hard to call his time in Boulder great; barring an unforeseen Big 12 championship or anything more. If anything, it'd come off like he was trying to get his sons Power Conference facilities to enhance their game before going to the NFL.