Deion Sanders not shocked by reaction to transfer portal moves at Colorado

Deion Sanders and Colorado hit the transfer portal hard ever since he got hired as the head coach. He wasn’t shocked by the reaction he generated.

Colorado landed the No. 3 overall transfer portal class in 2023, per the On3 Industry Ranking. But the numbers are staggering on paper. 48 transfers in and 58 players out.

Despite having less than what he had before, Sanders doesn’t care about the outside noise.

“Not whatsoever because it’s always been that way,” Sanders told Fox Sports’ Joel Klatt. “Even when I was starting out in sports, I was the one that was not voted ‘Most Likely to Succeed.’ Undersized, this and that it was always a problem. It was always that … So I’m used to that, I’m accustomed to adversity and I’m accustomed to having an understanding of ridicule and disbelief.”

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Klatt mentioned that all the attention and coverage given to Sanders was multiplied by 10 ever since he got to Colorado.

“Yeah, you could say that, but some of it is without reason, no understanding or intelligence of the matter,” Sanders said. “When the President gets the seat of being the president, what happens to the cabinet? What am I doing that’s no different than any CEO or any person of standard, of status that has claimed this position? I gotta get it right. 

“The problem is, I value now so much that I’m not looking at yesterday, and I’m not looking forward to tomorrow. (I’m about) now. So my feeling and my thought and my understanding is, I gotta get it right. Now. Let’s go get it now.”

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Can Sanders win right away at Colorado? That remains to be seen.

There’s no doubt that Sanders will field a competitive team. It’s just not in his nature to field a team like what Colorado fans saw in 2022.

It’s a question of if the transfers will all mesh right away, take an entire year or perhaps midway through the season.

The ever brash Sanders talks the talk and walks the walk. He went 27-6 at Jackson State, winning back-to-back conference titles over the last two seasons.

The combined record after the shortened 2020 season? 23-3. That’s pretty darn impressive every which way you slice it. Sanders brought Jackson State and HBCU football to the forefront of the college football conversation with success on the field.

Can Sanders bring Colorado back to its glory days? Everyone’s eager to find out and they might find out fast.