Since becoming the head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes, Deion Sanders has made some bold decisions with his roster, pushing more than half of his scholarship players into the NCAA transfer portal as he attempts to rebuild the team. And it doesn’t sound like that’s a strategy three-time national champion Urban Meyer would suggest.
During his appearance on the Urban’s Take with Tim May podcast this week, Urban Meyer said he “can’t even imagine” the scenario playing out at Colorado right now.
“How do you function?” Meyer said according to On3. “You know, I can’t even imagine the recruiting going on right now and talking to other players and other programs and trying to get them to come to you. Then I’m also trying to wrap my head around players being told just to leave. We’ve all been as a coach, you know, I wouldn’t be truthful to say there weren’t times I wanted to tell players to leave, but you just really can’t do that. You can make it hard on them and make them either improve or they leave.”
Meyer sounds concerned about the long-term ramifications of Sanders’ roster moves.
“But Deion is a friend of mine,” Meyer said. “I really appreciate him. I think he’s doing right by the player in a lot of ways, but also, you just wonder what happened to those guys that had a full scholarship to Colorado and you know, I wonder if the media will do story follow up. See what happened.
“All these players were already there and ultimately I guess you’re 1-11 and it’s been really bad football for a long time. Deion was hired to go in there and that’s what he’s paid to do and hired to do, go flip the switch and flip it around.”
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