Editor’s Note: This summer, FOX Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt is interviewing the biggest names in college football as part of his new podcast series, “The Joel Klatt Show: Big Noon Conversations.” The following is an excerpt from Episode I, featuring Deion Sanders.
Colorado football coach Deion Sanders is many things. The Pro Football Hall of Famer, who was named the head coach of the Buffaloes on Dec. 3, is bold, flashy, extremely competitive and a proven winner.
But above all, Sanders, who has been at the top of the college football news cycle throughout the past six months for his unprecedented roster overhaul is, simply put, unapologetic.
In college football’s new and ever-evolving landscape, in which coaches, players and administrators across the country are trying to figure out how to properly navigate the transfer portal, Coach Prime is providing a master class in how to efficiently turn over a roster.
Whether that results in double-digit wins, a Pac-12 title or even a coveted spot in the College Football Playoff remains to be seen, but the displeasure and ridicule he has received from others for his remarkable roster flip does not bother him. He knew that to transform a Colorado program that finished 1-11 last season into a winner, he was going to have to make wholesale changes from the second he officially inherited the roster.
“I value ‘now’ so much that I ain’t looking at yesterday, and I’m not looking at tomorrow,” Sanders told FOX Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt. “My feeling, my thought, my understanding is … I got to get it now.”
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