Deion Sanders predicts Colorado will add a baseball team due to football success

Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders has big dreams for the Buffaloes. And not just the football program.

Sanders, who came this offseason to rebuild the Buffaloes football program, plans on being such a boon to the university that they can build out the athletic department. In Sanders’ mind, they’re going to bring in enough revenue to support Colorado adding a baseball program.

“Rick [George] and I talked about this, like that’s my dream. I want to be so dominant here, I mean we’re going to be so dominant, that we’re going to pack the stadium, we’re going to sell out all our apparel. We’re gonna do this, we’re going to be on television,” Sanders said during his weekly radio show, as the crowd in attendance started to cheer. “We going to command so much revenue for this university that we’re going to have a baseball team. That’s the dream.”

The subject of baseball came up as Sanders discussed how he and his children were all multi-sport athletes.

He noted one of his sons, Shilo, is a particularly good baseball player.

“They played baseball all the way through,” Sanders said of his sons, several of whom are now on his football team, playing baseball.

The Colorado head coach, who played professional football and baseball, said being multi-sport athletes is basically the family business.

“That’s the family job. You’re gonna do that. You’re going to play sports. That’s what we gone do. It’s the family job. That was the expectation. Like Bill Gates, he’s gonna give his computer to his kids like, ‘Let’s go.’ So that was the family job,” Sanders said. “But my thing with my kids, I told them ‘You don’t have to be the best, but you have to give me your best.’ So I want you to go at it, go hard at all times. If you don’t want to go hard, we have no business doing here.”

Currently, Shilo and Shedeur Sanders play for their father on the Colorado football team. But if Sanders has his way, they might be on a baseball team soon enough, too. 

Sanders is keeping it brash this week

Sanders isn’t a fan of the word or the philosophy of culture, necessarily. Sanders just wants to win at all costs. To do so, the players will get along on the field and let the play do the talking, not the unity or camaraderie.

“I’m not welcoming to that word, culture,” Sanders said, via ESPN. “That’s all I heard when I was in Jackson. Culture, culture, culture, culture, culture. Now culture, culture. What the heck does that mean? I don’t think you got to have unity whatsoever. You got to have good players.”