Colorado transfer, family member speak out on mass portal exodus

Is Deion Sanders forcing kids out of Colorado?

41 Colorado football players players have entered the NCAA Transfer Portal since the April 15 window — and it isn’t a conincidence. If you don’t fit Coach Prime’s bill, he doesn’t want you in his program. Some players have had to learn that the hard way.

“I couldn’t have stayed (at Colorado),” Grant Page, a former Buffs wide receiver told the Denver Post on Monday. “I really wanted to. They said it was just best for me to leave.” Page entered the portal shortly after Colorado’s spring game.

It’s not like this has been an easy transition for anyone involved. Sanders is trying to mold Colorado’s program into a very specific shape, and players holding over from the previous regime just aren’t that.

John Tyson, the father of Colorado transfer Jordyn Tyson wasn’t happy with the new trajectory of the program, either. Tyson was the Buffaloes’ leading receiver returning to the program. He hauled in 22 receptions for 470 yards and five touchdowns in 2022 and also served as the team’s primary kick and punt returner.

All this proves is that there isn’t a single soul is safe from Sanders’ purjury of last season’s leftovers.

“My thoughts on Deion wouldn’t be good, so I’m not going to say anything,” John Tyson said. “It’s a bad situation for us as a family, I will say that. And it’s unfortunate, but it’s the nature of the system.”

The first time Sanders addressed his team after being named head coach at Colorado, he told those players that they better get ready when his guys from Jackson State head their way. Now that the biggest names from his JSU team are with him in Boulder, he has no use for anyone else that isn’t one of his guys or a transfer that brings some sort of name value to the program.

“I’m bringing my luggage with my luggage with me and it’s Louis,” Sanders told the team at the time. “I want y’all to get ready and go ahead and jump in that portal. The more you jump in, the more room you make.”

Whether or not you agree with Sanders’ controlled incendiarism of his program from the inside out, there’s no denying the legitimate excitement that his radiating from Boulder. Coach Prime brought his luggage and his swagger with him and is poised to bring Colorado back from the brink and make them a contender in the Pac-12.