“There is no comparison,” is quite true. What Deion Sanders has managed to do with Colorado cannot be compared with what others are doing. He took a program that had nothing to around $280 million valuation in his first year of being there. Not only that, but also got the potential No. 1 QB (Shedeur Sanders) on the team, followed by probably the best college football player out there (Travis Hunter) on the team as well. Now, in the wake of Paul Finebaum’s massive jabs directed at Coach Prime, we now find some people calling Deion out for portal bias.

And on July 27th, on Late Kick Cut, Josh Pate has the perfect answer to all that. “Mike Norvell has preached high school recruiting. Colorado and Deion have never preached that” Pete mentioned. CU has dominated portal recruitment since 2023. To give you an idea, Buffs got 94 kids out of the portal while Ole Miss took 47 and FSU took 29. All of this is in the 2023 and 2024 cycles combined. In 2023 alone, CU took 52, and that’s more than the second, third, or fourth teams combined. And why is this? Because Deion Sanders has given the portal more priority over high school recruitment. To come in now and call it some bias is just odd. As Pate puts it, “I think it makes people uncomfortable, and therefore they look for a default reason to criticize the Sanders.”

Josh Pate went on to provide his final stance on the matter. “You’re asking me, is there bias against Colorado with how people talk about them portaling versus how folks talk about FSU and Ole Miss? No,” Pate said. Colorado has been a big experiment and somehow it worked out for Coach Prime. So he stuck with getting kids on the team through the transfer portal and will continue to do so. And if the NCAA’s new rule passes, then Coach Prime is gonna have some fun with it.

A new advantage

The 2024 season is building up to be something major for the Buffs. With a new O-line, better accuracy, and a solid team comp to support Shedeur in the pocket, the Buffs are ready for all the smoke. However, while we don’t know whether the Buffs will have a solid run this year or not, we do know that Shedeur, Shilo Sanders, and Travis Hunter will all be leaving for the NFL soon.

And this is where the NCAA’s new rule comes in. So the committee has decided to increase the number of scholarships in football by 20. This means Coach Prime will have access to 20 more scholarship additions for the team. Now imagine all the young talents Deion will be able to get on board with that. Looks like Coach Prime and Buffs fans have something to look forward to post-2024.