Deion Sanders pushes back on idea that Colorado is taking hits in transfer portal losses

Deion Sanders pushed back on the idea that Colorado took major hits in the transfer portal with player exits in the double digits.

Sanders simply asked what did the Buffaloes lose in the portal? Present reporters responded with backups and “potential starters” at certain positions.

Sanders had enough of the narrative his team lost quite a bit.

“I wish you guys do a little more homework when you start talking about the portal and understand what we losing, What are we losing? I got time today,” Sanders quipped. “What are we losing? Potential? Where? You haven’t been watching practice have you? We good. We’re good.”

Sanders has plenty of faith in his staff, recruiting department and players to make the right decisions and make the right moves.

“I trust the recruiting team,” Sanders said. “I trust that coaches and please have some faith in me. We aight. We alright. What happens with the portal man, and you guys need to know, a lot of people are fighting for backups. When a guy is a starter and he transfers you got to really think about that. I mean, is he really that? I don’t know how many starters have really transferred around the country.”

Coach Prime alluded to some portal players who could be on their way to Boulder to offset any potential losses, at least how those outside the program characterize them.

“I think we got some coming in for visits pretty soon, maybe even this weekend,” Sanders said. “But we can attract those type of players, but I don’t think we’re losing those type of players. And if we do, we’re good. We’re good. Quit making a big deal out of that.

“God I want to say so much stuff, but I can’t. God I want to say so much stuff. I can’t. Gotta remember I’m a head coach. Let’s go.”

Sanders previously didn’t pay the critics any mind and said this is simply how it goes in today’s age of college football.

“They don’t know how this stuff works,” Sanders said on DNVR Sports. “We don’t talk behind closed doors … Let’s get this straight, when real players want to jump, they can’t talk to personnel, right? So who do you talk to? (The players). How stupid are you to think that they don’t talk to one another? That’s when you know who’s who and what’s what.

“That’s where it comes from first. Like if I know who’s going to jump into the portal from our team, what are my players are gonna tell me? Not a coach from somewhere else because it’s illegal? Correct? For the coach to be having these conversations, although they happen … But when Shilo says this, he’s not lying.”