Deion Sanders gives first team meeting without Shedeur, Shilo: 'Now I can just be a coach and not be a dad'

For the first time in his coaching career, Deion Sanders is just a head coach and not a father.

In a video from Well Off Media on Sunday, Coach Prime held the first team meeting for his next roster at Colorado. That team will not include several notable players and, namely, two of his sons in QB Shedeur Sanders and DB Shilo Sanders. That was a big change for Sanders but is a welcome one for him moving forward in Boulder.

Coach Prime’s first team meeting as a Head Coach without Shedeur and Shilo:

“I’ve been praying about this day; Now I could just be a coach and not be a Dad.”

It’s a New Era.

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“It’s an honor and a privilege to be standing before you. It’s, uh – I can’t explain how happy and how thoughtful and thankful I am for this day. I’ve been praying about this day. I’ve been anticipating this day,” Sanders said. “You’ve got to understand this is emotional for me. This is the first day I’ve been up here without two knuckleheads in here.”

“This is the first day I’m coaching without my boys, which is a pleasure and an honor for me,” said Sanders. “So now I could just be a coach. I don’t have to be no dad and I likes that and I love that.”

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It was actually so different for him that Sanders expected Shilo to be late or to miss the meeting.

“I’m looking back. Shilo told me I was going to get mad at him for not being in the meeting today knowing he not supposed to be in the meeting today,” joked Sanders.

Shedeur Sanders declared for the 2025 NFL Draft as one of the first projected players, let alone quarterbacks, off the board in April. Shilo Sanders was then out of collegiate eligibility after six seasons with three programs. They’re now two of several departures from last year’s team that went 9-4 and contended for spots in the Big 12 Championship and the CFP.

Still, although his children are no longer members of the Buffaloes, Sanders expects to love those on this next team like they are his own.

“I feel like I’m going to treat somebody in here or a multitude of y’all in here like you were sons because I love y’all just that much because you could’ve chosen anybody but you chose us and I feel like you chose me,” Sanders said.

This will be unfamiliar for Sanders as compared to his other seasons on sidelines in high school and college. Even so, he’s glad it’s happening as he begins work for his third season at CU.