Colorado football, specifically head coach Deion Sanders, committed several recruiting violations during the 2024 season according to USA Today's Brent Schrotenboer. Most of them related to blue-chip 2025 QB Julian Lewis and Coach Prime's mention of him during his weekly radio show.
"The Colorado athletic department decided to stop livestreaming its weekly coaches show with Deion Sanders and also removed two episodes of the show from YouTube last fall after the name of a prominent football recruit was mentioned on it in violation of NCAA rules, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY Sports," Schrotenboer wrote.
"This minor violation happened in November, when the name of quarterback recruit Julian 'JuJu' Lewis came up before he signed with Colorado Dec. 4. According to NCAA rules, schools generally may not publicize or comment on a recruit before officially signing that recruit. Colorado self-reported this violation and decided to impose corrective measures as a result, including additional rules education for Sanders, the head coach, and a reduction of four recruiting-person days in the spring 2025 contact period.
"This was among at least six self-reported infractions in the Colorado football program that were processed in 2024, according to records obtained by USA TODAY Sports. Before that, Colorado processed at least 11 other self-reported minor violations in the first year under Sanders since his hiring in December 2022."
As Schrotenboer points out, though, these violations are not a big deal and likely won't result in any significant disciplinary action against Colorado.
"To be clear, these types of minor violations are fairly common in college sports and are not considered major issues unless they become part of a bigger pattern or are not reported by the school after discovering them. For example, Georgia and Ohio State also each self-reported four minor violations in their football programs during various periods in 2023-24," Schrotenboer wrote.
Sanders has been linked with the Dallas Cowboys head coaching job but Jerry Jones is far along in conversations with current offensive coordinator Marty Schottenheimer.
Whether or not he takes it, he has nothing to run from in Boulder. Nothing besides underwhelming NIL spending, at least.