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USA Today via Reuters

USA Today via Reuters

Deion Sanders and Co.’s Big 12 debut came with a bang! As Colorado makes its way to its new conference, Deion Sanders is tagging his Prime idea along to the Big 12 conference table. Making an appearance in the Big 12 conference meet for the first time, Deion Sanders clinched the opportunity to pitch his ‘unprecedented ideas’ to the conference.

Everyone knows that Deion Sanders has not shied away from experimenting with things at CU. The best example is the Spring Games festivities. Sanders wanted to continue bringing the same spirits to the Big 12 with his new idea: inter-school football practices.

Leveraging the platform he got on The Pregame Show Network, Deion Sanders made his proposal to the Big 12 public. “I just got from the Big 12 meetings and they talked about spring and what I would like. I said I would like to play somebody. I would like to practice against somebody that we wouldn’t play in the regular season. I would like that because everybody get tired of playing against each other, your own team in a squad,” Sanders admitted.

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Prime’s logic was simple. Players of the same school playing against one another, with a squad that they have practiced about a hundred times before, might present itself as a hindrance in making them NFL-ready. Bringing the equation of CFB players having the freedom of practicing with players from other schools brings that competitive edge back in the practices, making them ever-so-ready for the game day. “I would like to do like a two-year deal with a certain school. We go there, you come here, we good and we practice against each other like the Pros do on a Friday. Then Saturday we do like a simulated game. I would like that all right,” Deion Sanders admitted.

Since Prime couldn’t implement the idea sooner, the off-season couldn’t yield the results Prime desired from it in the off-season. While they might have missed implementing it in the off-season, the future holds plenty of room for that.

What the future holds in store for Deion Sanders and Co.

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If the proposed idea of Sanders is implemented, the competitive edge in the day-to-day CFB practices would increase multiplefold. With that, the players could also gauge the strengths and weaknesses of their opponents much better on gridiron, making the game even more challenging for them.

The players might also be forced to hone some strengths in secret, which they might need as their ultimate weapon on the field. Colorado currently ranks 11th among the 16 teams present in the Big 12 conference. Would this idea be the boost they need to jump up in the conference board? Drop your thoughts in the comments.