Colorado football coaching staff stressing importance of 2024 season
Urgency is the name of the game for the Colorado football coaching staff.
Both Deion Sanders and running backs coach Gary Harrell talked about how they are stressing to their players that there isn't a "tomorrow" and that CU needs to figure out how to win games this coming Fall.
"We don't have tomorrow," Sanders said during a meeting caught by Well Off Media camera. "We don't have the next day or next year. We have now. I mean, right now. We need to do what we need to do right now, but let me tell you this. If you show me you don't want this, I'm gonna show you I don't want you."
Harrell confirmed that Sanders is all-in on the 2024 season.
"His expectation is now," Harrell said of Sanders. "We're not waiting for Year 3 to win. We're not waiting until midseason for everything to click. It has to happen now. Every day he comes into work, his mentality, his thought process, his message and philosophy is the same. He doesn't deviate from that. It's why he's Deion Sanders."
Deion Sanders remaining with Colorado football in 2025 and beyond not guaranteed
Coach Prime was talking like a man willing to stay at CU for the next five to 10 years not long ago, but with the calendar turning to August and Shedeur and Shilo Sanders and Travis Hunter's final seasons quickly approaching, doubt about his future in Boulder is starting to creep in.
On SI's Emanuel Walker sounds skeptical about Sanders keeping "Prime Time" in Colorado given Paul Finebaum's sudden narrative shift that Sanders can end up at USC.
"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)."
Are we approaching the A.P. era? It's unclear right now, but Sanders talking like there's no tomorrow certainly lends credence to it.