BOULDER — While Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes still have a game remaining this year, questions from the media at his weekly press conference focused much more on the big picture.
Colorado (4-7 overall, 1-7 Pac-12) wraps up its season Saturday with a 1 p.m. game at Utah (7-4, 4-4). The Buffs have one last chance to end a losing streak that has hit five games and a skid that has seen them drop seven of their last eight.
That’s certainly not how Coach Prime envisioned CU’s stretch run unfolding — but no matter what happens Saturday in Salt Lake City, he knows this season has been a solid step forward for a program that won just one game a year ago.
“We didn’t accomplish what we wanted but we accomplished what we needed,” Sanders said. “I think hope is instilled tremendously in this city, in the student body, within his team, within this building, and you see the direction that we’re headed.”
Sanders and Colorado took the college football world by storm in September. After he almost completely remade CU’s roster, the Buffs jumped out to a 3-0 start and were ranked in the nation’s top 25.
But since then, CU has struggled — and the microscope hasn’t always been kind.
“I think we didn’t do certainly what I wanted to do,” Sanders said. “But we’re doing tremendously much more than what was done. So you got to put it in perspective. Some things that we accomplished are tremendous. There’s some things that we didn’t. But we’re taking a step in the right direction, two steps in the right direction.”
What lies directly ahead — after the Utah game — is recruiting, both from the high school ranks and via the transfer portal.
Sanders said he and his staff have carefully identified needs and he is confident that the Buffs will be able to bolster the areas that need improvement.
“We have tremendous needs,” he said. “I’m pretty sure everybody in the country knows what we need and how much we need it. It’s not a secret and the recruits are responding. Trust me … They’re there. They’re calling in and we’re responding.”
When Sanders arrived last December, he and his staff embarked on a rebuild the likes of which college…
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