BOULDER, Colo. — University of Colorado head coach Deion Sanders held his weekly news conference Tuesday morning as his Buffaloes fight to remain bowl eligible.
Sanders and the CU Buffaloes (4-6) next play Friday night against Washington State (4-6) in Pullman, Washington.
The Buffaloes are two games shy of bowl eligibility with two games remaining in the season. CU would need to win both of their final games — against Washington State and Utah — to lock in a bowl game.
Meanwhile, rumors are circulating in the national media that Sanders could be a possible head coaching candidate at Texas A&M. Texas A&M fired head football coach Jimbo Fisher on Sunday.
ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith said Sanders needs to go to Texas A&M and the SEC.
“That’s what I’ve been saying, Deion Sanders in the SEC,” Smith said. “With that vault that they have available to them. Them hogs that he could recruit. He doesn’t have them at Colorado, and he ain’t going to get them. I don’t think they’ll do it. Texas A&M. Primetime, Deion Sanders in the SEC? That needs to happen.”
Coach Prime immediately addressed the rumors and Smith’s comments at the start of his Tuesday press conference.
“I want to win, I want to win a game,” Sanders said Tuesday. “So you think I really do sit down and think about that kind of stuff? Let what strikes me about that, about myself that you guys think I really sit down and say ‘Ah yeah, Stephen A., yeah.’ C’mon. I’m good. We got to win. Let’s focus on this week when we play Friday so we lose a game of practice.”
Colorado Buffaloes beat reporter Brian Howell said that should Sanders make another move, he’d either have to leave his children, Shedeur Sanders and Shilo Sanders, behind at CU or risk them having to sit out the 2024 season as two-time transfers.
Sanders was asked what he would tell parents if they were to come to him and ask about his future at Colorado.
“I tell them what I told them when they came: I’m here. I’m here,” Sanders said. “I tell them my mother’s here. My sister’s here. My dog is here. My daughter’s here. Three of my sons are here. My other daughter comes during every home game. We here. I get mail here. I pay taxes here. I’m here.”
“I don’t hear that. Maybe our recruiting staff hears that, but I don’t hear it. I’m too honest with parents, I’m going to tell them the truth,” Sanders added.
“You know what I’m really happy about? That real football enthusiasts, football people who know football, know what we’re really doing here. There’s a lot of people that don’t and think that we’re just losing. No, you got to find a win in the midst of a loss and I love it that football people understand what time it is without looking at their watch.”
Sanders has no interest in coaching at Texas A&M at this point, according to Sports Illustrated’s sources.
Sanders was hired by Colorado on Dec. 3, 2022.
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