Colorado football transfer Colton Hood flexes his spring success at Auburn

Colorado football cornerback transfer Colton Hood flexed his success this past spring while with Hugh Freeze's Auburn Tigers; revealing that he was at the top of the depth chart in AU's secondary before he joined his brothers Brandon and Trent in Boulder.

"I had a really good spring (at Auburn)," Hood told The Coloradoan. "I was actually in the starting rotation at corner. The confidence I got (last season), I just pushed it over to the spring and I was just playing really good ball."

As Hood revealed, Deion Sanders is his dream coach. So even though he was projected to do big things on the Plains for a school he longed for as a recruit, the allure of "Prime Time" was too much to overcome and now Hood is a Buff.

Colton Hood dispels long-held Colorado football chatter

Hood dispelled the long-held narrative that Colorado's locker room isn't tight-knit because there's so many new faces each offseason and so much turnover in general.

"I know a lot of people on the internet talk about how we have all these transfers and how we're not going to be tight and close-knit," Colton said. "But when I came in, I felt welcomed by all the guys. We all bond, the DB room, the receivers, everybody's been great and it's been a great experience so far."

Is that just Prime-paganda or is there truth to this? CU's locker room has reportedly been host to gambling, and one major player involved, Cormani McClain, left the program. There have also been (thus far unconfirmed) whispers of initiation-like rituals. That could bring players together, but it could also create enemies if done in the wrong spirit.

Hood first-hand confirmed that players are close, so evidently, there's an overwhelming number of players who enjoy Colorado's culture regardless of the negative connotations attached to it by some in media circles who've heard some things.