BREAKING: Deion Sanders agrees to coach CU Buffs football
Deion Sanders has agreed to become the Buffs’ football coach, CU announced Saturday night, ushering in a new era for both a downtrodden CU program and for an NFL icon tasked with leading the Buffs out of the darkness.
Sanders reportedly picked the CU job despite interest in the head-coaching vacancies at Cincinnati, which moves from the American Athletic Conference to the Big 12 next year; and at South Florida, an AAC program roughly two hours and 20 minutes north of his hometown of Fort Myers, Fla. CU is regarded nationally as one of the tougher jobs among Power 5 programs, generations removed from its salad days under Bill McCartney, Rick Neuheisel and Gary Barnett. From 1982-2005, the Buffs played in 17 bowl games and won a share of the national championship in 1990.
This will be Sanders’ first opportunity as a head coach at the FBS level and his first in the mountain region, where he has few professional ties as a player or coach. The Florida native had been enormously successful at Jackson State, winning 27 of his first 32 games with the Tigers and coming off a 12-0 season and a SWAC championship in Jackson, Miss., this fall.
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