EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Bo Nix threw three touchdown passes and No. 10 Oregon emphatically slammed the brakes on Coach Prime’s “Cinderella story,” routing No. 19 Colorado 42-6 on Saturday.

The Ducks (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12) were up 35-0 at halftime after coach Dan Lanning sent them into the matchup of unbeatens with a fiery pregame speech that took direct aim at the star-studded, hype machine that has followed coach Deion Sanders’ team for the first three weeks of the season.

It was a big-game atmosphere, but the Buffs (3-1, 0-1) were no match for the Ducks.

Troy Franklin caught eight passes for 126 yards and two scores for Oregon.

Nix completed his first 11 passes and 28 of 33 before he was pulled to start the fourth quarter. He also ran for an 11-yard TD.

Coach Prime’s son Shedeur Sanders went into Saturday averaging 417 passing yards per game, with 10 touchdowns against one interception. He completed 23 of 33 passes for 159 yards and a late touchdown against the Ducks. He was sacked seven times.

Nobody should believe Deion Sanders when he says he won’t leave Colorado for the NFL

He’s clearly a money chaser and a publicity hog who has been shown now, by two close games he could’ve easily lost and today when his coaching skills were destroyed by Oregon, to be a mediocre football coach. But the NFL is constantly pushed by the Leftist establishment to hire more black coaches and so when they come calling he’ll bail from CU like a blind date with a homely girl.

And then when he continues to fail in the NFL he’ll end up back at Jackson State. Only this time he won’t have his 5-star sons and Travis Hunter to make him look way better than he is.

The Coach Prime Experiment Will Fail Miserably in Boulder

Deion Sanders will soon realize that the Power 5 is not like the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

• SCOTT SALOMON
• AUG 14, 2023

By Scott Salomon

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Prime Time will turn into Slime Time at the University of Colorado.

While most NCAA coaches talk about establishing a culture in their locker room and building chemistry between the players, Deion Sanders, AKA “Coach Prime” has gone on record with the fact that he does not even care if his players like each other, he just wants to win.

Coming off a dismal season, that might be easier said than done.

But, then again, It’s hard to have continuity and harmony when you toss 50 scholarship players off of your team and replace them with kids from the transfer portal. Of the 85 scholarship student-athletes on the roster, almost 75 of them played football at another school last year.

“I don’t care about culture. I don’t even care if they like each other, I want to win,” Sanders stated at the Buffaloes’ annual media day Friday. “I have been on some teams where the quarterback didn’t like the receiver but they darn sure made harmony when the ball was snapped. And we’re not like that, trust me, these kids are very fond of one another.”

Sanders knows a thing or two about winning. He won in college at Florida State, played in a World Series with the Atlanta Braves, and earned Super Bowl rings with San Francisco and Dallas. He even won two SWAC titles as the head coach at Jackson State.

But this is not a championship-pedigree team that Sanders inherited in Boulder. Colorado went 1-11 last season and Slime Time flipped the roster after the Spring game.

He made his feelings known right away and put the players on notice that they were being run out of town.

“We got a few positions already taken care of because I’m bringing my own luggage with me,” Sanders told the Buffaloes in a meeting with players released on social media Sunday. “And it’s Louis (Vuitton), OK?”

He then asked his son, quarterback Shedeur Sanders to stand up and introduced him to the Colorado audience.

“This is your quarterback.”

Coach Sanders took advantage of an NCAA rule that allows first-year coaches to cut players from the active roster, but they still must remain on scholarship at the university.

This greatly upset veteran coaches like Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi.

“That’s not the way it’s meant to be,” Narduzzi said. “That’s not what the rule intended to be. It was not to overhaul your roster. We’ll see how it works out but that, to me, looks bad on college football coaches across the country.”

Narduzzi was far from finished on the subject.

“I grew up in a profession that you can’t tell a guy that he has to leave based on athletic ability,” Narduzzi said in May. “I think he’ll be shocked that he probably had some pretty good football players in that room. The reflection is on one guy right now but when you look at it overall − those kids that have moms and dads and brothers and sisters and goals in life − I don’t know how many of those 70 that left really wanted to leave or they were kicked in the butt to get out.”

Going into his ninth season as the head coach at Pittsburgh, Narduzzi kept his squad intact and taught them how to come together as a team.

“When I got to Pitt back in 2015, I didn’t kick anybody off. Zero. Those are your guys. When you become a head coach you inherit that team, and you coach that team. If someone wants to leave, that’s great. You don’t kick them out. I disagree with that whole process. That’s not why I got in the game.”

A Pac-12 assistant, who went off the record with Athlon Sports put it bluntly, “The circus is in town, and you can have a real good time. But, the circus always does two things. They take your money, and they leave town.”

There are coaches that are actually rooting for Coach Prime to lose and it has become readily apparent that Colorado might not win a game until mid-season (turns out Sanders lucked-out in two games and would have also lost to Nebraska if they didn’t have four turnovers and then got literally destroyed by Oregon).

Hunter, the number one recruit in the United States in 2022 flipped his commitment from Sanders’ alma mater, Florida State, and switched to little-known Jackson State just before National Letters of Intent were to be signed. That was perhaps the biggest flip in recruiting history.

While playing cornerback, Hunter is a pure shutdown weapon, just like his head coach was back in the day. 

He is also an elite receiver who excels at the wide-out position. A native of Savannah (Ga.), Hunter initially committed to Florida State back in March 2020, a few months after Mike Norvell was hired.

Hunter had 19 tackles and two interceptions — one of which was returned for a touchdown — during his freshman campaign with Jackson State. He also added 18 catches for 190 yards and four touchdowns — one of which was the game-tying, last-second touchdown that sent the Celebration Bowl to overtime.

It was only logical for Hunter to follow his quarterback and his head coach to Boulder.

“I’m officially a Buffalo,” Hunter said at the time before his 100,000 fans that subscribe to his YouTube channel. “Anyways, y’all know what time it is, man: Prime Time. And I’m part of that Louis (Vuitton) bag.”