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Jay Norvell angry he has to climb coaching ladder as Deion fast-tracked to Colorado football job

By Andrew Hughes

One writer believes Jay Norvell has beefed with Deion Sanders because he has had to climb the ladder while Colorado football hired Coach Prime prematurely
One writer believes Jay Norvell has beefed with Deion Sanders because he has had to climb the ladder while Colorado football hired Coach Prime prematurely / Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Sports
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One Nebraska writer, Husker Corner's Oliver Vandervoort, believes former Cornhuskers offensive coordinator Jay Norvell is angry at Deion Sanders because the Colorado football head coach has seemingly skipped several steps to become a Power 4 HC while Norvell has had to try to climb the ladder on the long way.

"It seems clear that the two just do not like each other very much," Vandervoort said of Norvell and Sanders. "At least part of the reason for that could be that Norvell has been working hard to climb the coaching ladder. Sanders, on the other hand, seemingly gets jobs because of the flash factor he brings.

"And despite posting a 4-8 record, Sanders routinely gets talked about for NFL head coaching jobs. Meanwhile, Norvell is toiling away in relatively obscurity as he tries to rebuild Colorado State."

In short? Norvell was deemed a jealous hater. Sure, Sanders does get special treatment from the media, but everyone involved with the industry should know by now that college football is a business -- and it booms when Coach Prime is in the spotlight.

Understandably, though, a man with experience as an OC at programs like Nebraska, UCLA, and Oklahoma should feel slighted when someone who's only coached in the Group of 5 and at high school has a better job than him for off-field reasons.

Jay Norvell and Deion Sanders have made something of Colorado State-Colorado football rivalry

Norvell has made things personal with Coach Prime since Sanders touched down in Boulder, and it produced some of the most entertaining news bites from the 2023 season.

Ahead of the 2023 Rocky Mountain Showdown, Norvell questioned if Sanders was raised right. That was the opening salvo in a back-and-forth rivalry that has since seen Norvell's wife claim Shedeur Sanders acted like a "B" and Rams DB Henry Blackburn lay a dirty hit on Travis Hunter during the first quarter of their Week 3 matchup that kept No. 12 out of action for a month.

Colorado was never much of a football state since the 1990s, but Norvell and Sanders have brought the spotlight back to the Centennial State.

And it's all due to some good ol' fashioned hate.

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