Deion Sanders on his contract extension at Colorado: 'I don't know why y'all didn't believe me'

Despite the thoughts that he might eventually leave, Colorado signed Deion Sanders to a new extension at the end of March. Sanders doesn’t know why that was a surprise to anyone, though, considering what he has often said about being in Boulder.

Sanders addressed his new deal 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.

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“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,” Sanders said. “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 behind only Georgia’s Kirby Smart, Ohio State’s Ryan Day, and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, who are also the only trio of active coaches to have won a national title. Now, with that signed and to be paid out, it’s not something he wants to talk about much, if at all, moving forward.

“I don’t like talking about me and talking about money, man. I’ve never been one to do that. I don’t know,” Sanders said. “I don’t ever remember fighting for – I just ball. The money finds you, so, if that’s the approach, that’s the approach.”

“I don’t like talking about my stuff. Let’s talk about somebody else,” closed Sanders.

Coach Prime, coming off a 9-4 record with the Buffs, has become more and more viable as a coach in each season on the sidelines from Jackson State to Colorado now. That’s led to mention of him in other coaching searches across the country over the last offseason and during this one, including a notable search by the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL.

Still, Sanders is staying put for the foreseeable future at Colorado. That shouldn’t be shocking either based on what he himself says he has maintained to this point of his tenure there.