Colorado is preparing for the arrival of Deion Sanders tonight with the expectation that he will formally accept its head coaching job, sources tell SI
coach Deion Sanders on Saturday evening with the expectation that he will formally accept the Buffaloes head coaching job, sources tellSanders, the gregarious 55-year-old NFL Hall of Famer, is coaching his team in the SWAC championship Saturday, set for a 3 p.m. CT kickoff. The Tigers meet Southern with a chance to win a second straight conference title and potentially claim the mythical Black national championship.
Multiple sources close to Colorado’s search process confirmed to SI that they are expecting Sanders to land in Boulder around midnight local time this evening on a flight from Jackson, Miss. The Colorado Board of Regents has scheduled a special meeting at 10 a.m. Sunday, presumably to approve Sanders’s contract.
However, Sanders and those close to him have been mum about his plans to accept the job. Earlier this week, he publicly confirmed, something Fox Sports reported last weekend. The deal, while agreed to in principle, has not been finalized, sources tell SI. Meanwhile, the university is preparing for a grand announcement on Sunday, and an on-campus celebration is scheduled, multiple people familiar with the plans say.that Sanders is headed to the league. Sanders’s flirtation with other jobs is nothing new. He interviewed with multiple colleges over the last several years, including TCU, Arkansas and his alma mater Florida State.
If Sanders does officially agree, the hire is a resounding victory for athletic director Rick George, who wins the jockeying over one of the cycle’s hottest coaching candidates. In just his third season as coach, Sanders
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