Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffs are showing great strength this season, especially after an impressive victory against the Bearcats. Currently, the team is enjoying a well-deserved bye week to rest and regroup before their upcoming match against Texas Tech. However, they were pleasantly surprised by a thoughtful gift from Coach Prime’s absolute favorites: LeBron James and Dwyane Johnson.

Today Buffs head coach Deion Sanders took to Instagram to share his heartwarming gratitude towards LeBron James and Dwyane The Rock Johnson for sending their exclusive products to the CU staff, saying, “Thankful for the blessings.” Coach Prime thanked Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for his thoughtful gift, as the Hollywood star and professional wrestler gifted the team a luxury grooming kit from his Papatū line. “He has a tremendous line that is in stores everywhere, and he sent all of us packages. So I think they’re going to have everyone’s going to have his skin care and body shampoo and lotion,” he said. Not only Johnson but basketball star Lebron James too, send them all new Lebron shoes.

However, Deion Sanders mentioned a specific reason for his complete admiration of the brand new LeBron James collection—the shoes are designed in black and gold, which happen to be Buffs’ colors. In fact, these exclusive shoes were even sent to the entire staff. That’s truly remarkable. It’s not just that the products exude luxury, but they are also adored by the team.

Talking about the shoes gifted by LeBron James, the team appreciated his efforts, saying, “You got extra grip on these joints ready to run 100 mile dash, knees, 10, two flat.” Well, when you win, this is what happens to you. After all the efforts that the team and Deion Sanders have put together to turn their fate from last year, they deserve a little appreciation.

Deion Sanders turning Buffs’ fate

You can hate him or you can love him, but you can’t deny the fact that Deion Sanders actually turned Colorado’s fate this season. When Coach Prime joined the program, it was considered one of the worst teams in college football after their blowout of 1-11 in 2022. From there, Sanders’ took the program to 4-8 last year. But even then he was given a hard time for his coaching techniques and labeled them as the team that only “plays for the clicks.” But this season the Buffs are not only smashing their past records but are also playoff-eligible.

Well, their playoff dreams came to reality after the Buffs’ recent win against the Cincinnati Bearcats with a score of 34-23, which gave them a streak of 6-2 this season. After their game, Sanders expressed his fulfillment with the Buffs’ performance this season but also highlighted the fact that this is just the start of the next chapter, saying, “That’s a tremendous hurdle; that we’re happy, we’re excited, but that’s not the end goal for us. That’s the beginning, but we are thankful and appreciative that the hard work is going to be noticed.” The team is going to appear for the first time in the playoffs since 2020; how can that go unnoticed?