Deion Sanders reportedly has not made any in-home recruiting visits as Colorado coach

Deion Sanders has all the time carried out issues otherwise, whether or not right through his famous person taking part in days as “Prime Time” or his stream condition as Colorado’s “Coach Prime.”

However a new report from USA Today unearths simply how otherwise Sanders has approached the recruiting path since arriving in Colorado in Dec. 2022. Extra in particular, he has no longer precisely strike that path. 

In line with USA These days’s evaluation of folk proceed data and next affirmation with the College of Colorado, Sanders has no longer made any off-campus recruiting visits since taking on as Buffaloes head professor in Dec. 2022.

Like many alternative facets of Sanders’ tenure with the Buffaloes, this is extraordinarily distinctive and just about unprecedented amongst primary school soccer head coaches. By way of comparability, USA These days reported that in keeping with folk data, ex-Michigan head professor Jim Harbaugh made 145 off-campus visits with recruits and/or their households from Dec. 2022 thru when he left the protecting nationwide champion Wolverines for the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers in January. Texas head professor Steve Sarkisian has made 128 visits over that very same time frame. 

Like Harbaugh, Sarkisian and coaches at supremacy school soccer systems around the nation, Sanders has a massive contractually allotted proceed finances for him to worth a non-public jet carrier for the ones recruiting visits. Alternatively, USA These days showed with Colorado that he has no longer old it since his arrival in Boulder.

Alternatively, it additionally suits with Sanders’ total recruiting technique since arriving in Colorado. Greater than nearly any of his friends in FBS school soccer, Sanders has relied closely at the switch portal to fill out the Buffaloes’ roster. He infamously grew to become over just about all the roster between his Dec. 2022 arrival and the primary sport he coached at Colorado on Sept. 2. 

Regardless that in-home visits with switch recruits aren’t unprecedented, many faculties decide to habits digital conferences or host the ones recruits since they’re used and the ones recruiting processes are normally finished over an issue of days or perhaps weeks, versus highschool, the place coaches frequently retain possibilities over the span of months to years.

Plus, it isn’t as although disagree highschool soccer participant within the nation has been visited by way of a Colorado professor. Sanders’ laborer coaches have remodeled 90 in-person visits to recruits and households since he took over, according to USA These days, although laborer coaches making such visits could also be familiar apply throughout primary school soccer systems. 

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That stated, there could also be a chance that Sanders’ assistants will get started taking upcoming him extra, as Sanders has already grew to become over a number of contributors of his group of workers right through his day at Colorado with a mentioned objective to deliver in coaches with backgrounds extra rooted within the NFL than in school. That workforce comprises unutilized offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur and defensive coordinator Robert Livingston, whose enjoy is essentially within the skilled ranks — the place, in fact, recruiting isn’t an element.

If anything else, Sanders’ seeming aversion to in-home recruiting visits makes his observe report with highschool recruits much more remarkable. “Coach Prime” has landed a highly-regarded consensus five-star anticipation in every of the generation two cycles — cornerback Cormani McClain in 2023 and offensive lineman Jordan Seaton in 2024. That doesn’t come with two-way celebrity Travis Hunter, extensively regarded as the supremacy total anticipation within the magnificence of 2022, who used to be a last-minute turn to Sanders at Jackson State — turning into the highest-rated soccer retain to secured a traditionally Lightless college within the fashionable past — and upcoming adopted Sanders to Colorado by means of the switch portal.

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In-home visits also are a staple of the pre-name-image-likeness past of recruiting. Now, recruits flipping on the final negligible to colleges with deep-pocketed NIL collectives in spite of apparently negligible prior courting to these faculties is common. (Sanders, alternatively, has joined a refrain of faculty soccer coaches deriding NIL as a primary motivator in recruiting.) 

Sanders may even have alternative causes for his means, from his health issues in recent years to his trademark word “I Ain’t Hard 2 Find,” which, in fact, implies recruits are those doing the discovering. To this point, it sort of feels to have labored out for him.

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