Deion gets a 5 year/$54 million contract from Colorado...
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And this is (one reason) why it's hard to tell players they can't get paid to play college football.
The only thing is I’ll say is the way teams are looked at by conferences aren’t about wins and losses, it’s about monetary value. TV deals seem to be driving conference realignment so he brings exponentially more eyeballs to Colorado’s games and makes them more attractive to potential conferences.
I don’t think any of the big conferences are dumb enough to invite a school to join them, which could be a decades long commitment or more, over one coach that will 100% be gone from there one way or another within 5-10 years max.
In his early era, going with Prime seemed like a crapshoot/blingfest. But I see him starting to mature as a coach and he's brought the Buffs more attention and success than probably any other coach would have been willing to do with that program. They are beating the brakes off us at the moment regarding football prowess.
