Deion Sanders is Embarrassing the Colorado Buffaloes Program

Deion Sanders is a lot of things: occasionally a wholly charming person, at other times an inspiring speaker. A snake oil salesman? Maybe. He is hot-headed, and when it comes to his sons and especially himself, he is a warrior. He also started at Colorado in the second season where he managed only four wins in the first season and only one PAC-12 win.

Prime Time will be on not-much-time should he fail to make a difference with the Buffaloes in season 2024. He transfers to a Big-12 conference with a chance at some victories, but his conduct is that of a head coach aware of the fact that he must convince the media that there is value in a product they have stopped buying.

Colorado Fall Sports Media Day was not very long ago, and Sanders pulled a card that is often concealed or, most likely, concealed by members of the press. It made the temperature rise as he immediately gave a twenty-four-hour mute to CBS or as he put it, ‘I am not talking to you CBS Next question. ’ Coach Sanders was interacting with Eric Christensen who had just identified himself as being from KCNC at the event. Except that for Christensen, it meant he was not with CBS.

This year, CBS Sports has not pinned much hope on the Buffaloes or Deion Sanders. In ESPN’s recent ranking of Big-12 head coaches, the network placed the Colorado head coach 15th among the 16 head coaches in the conference, with only Arizona State’s Kenny Dillingham ranking below Sanders. Well, it is obvious that ego centric Buffaloes coach did not like his ranking by CBS Sports, and more to CBS’ credit, they have not cowered and have called balls and strikes with the program.

CBS Sports pointed out in July that getting Colorado to a bowl eligibility status would be a tall order, and as late as August 9, the network reported of his son Shilo Sanders’ bankruptcy. A case that is from a previous year that is 2015.

Of course, Sanders does not like the CBS Sports objectivity and even less the unmasking of the overt glamour of Prime Time in the Rocky Mountains.

Sanders has been lucky to have a media that relishes the spotlight, the glamour that Sanders’ personality brings to Boulder. That is, while it is expected to serve as a watchdog and ask those probing questions that often put a bad to face on a normally apparently innocent picture, the media is subjected to ‘the knockout. ’

The Colorado Buffaloes are a program who got into the sweet spot that is only within Deion Sanders’ wheelhouse. If it is running properly the prosperity is on the process. And when it starts to came apart, it is everyone else and not the head coach. It is rather rich to see the media lose its tongue and bow before Sanders and yet when one is lifted and sees what lies behind that veil, they have the audacity to ask these questions, Sanders crawled out of the wig for a personality that is so desperate that it mimics its handlers. It is a sight pertinent and pathetic wherever he goes, and to his next destination it shall follow him.