Deion Sanders calls out past criticism of Colorado's transfer approach: 'Where's the out roar?'

Deion Sanders called out previous criticism of Colorado’s transfer portal approach where players came in and out en masse. Now, it’s a regular thing throughout the portal windows in the winter and spring.

It has been for the last few years, but activity has seemingly increased. That caused some dismay from Sanders, who wondered where the criticism was for other programs who have had a revolving door of players.

Colorado will do as it always has: try to improve the roster at every opportunity. Sanders just wants balance.

“We’ve always been active,” Sanders said. “Why is it welcomed that everybody’s active … But a couple years ago, it was a problem. I just read somewhere, correct me if I’m wrong, because my reading is not great as well. One school had 30 guys jump. Is that correct? Yeah, where’s the outpouring and where’s the ignorance? ‘What is he doing?’” 

As far as what Sanders wants to do in the transfer portal, there’s barely a limit. Well, unless it’s special teams.

“I want to target every area,” Sanders said. “You don’t just sit back and think you got it, you know, I mean, I think the kicking game is set. Think we tight in the kicking game. Long snappers as well as kickers and punters. We straight. Everything else we need to improve.”

Whatever Sanders is doing, it’s clearly working year to year. Despite losing Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter, who are both projected to be top 10 picks, Coach Prime wants to keep it rolling.

Sanders addressed his contract shortly during his press conference on Thursday. He said he wasn’t going to leave, although other circumstances could have suggested otherwise, and didn’t understand why any of them would have thought he was actually going to leave the Buffaloes.

“I mean, I told y’all I wasn’t going nowhere. I don’t know why y’all didn’t believe me, you know,” Sanders said. “I’ll cry to you before I lie to you.

“I love it here. I adore it here. I wanted to get some things done before I was able to do what we did long-term, as far as collectives, NIL stuff, few of the coaches as well and we got them taken care of. So, then I came in, came in and got mine done.”

Sanders got the deal done and delivered for five years at a total of $54 million, which makes him the fourth highest-paid coach per year in all of college football. It trails only Georgia’sKirby Smart, Ohio State’sRyan Day, and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, who are also the only trio of active coaches to have won a national title.