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Report: Colorado Football Players Felt Deion Sanders' Roster Purge Was 'Impersonal'

The Colorado Buffaloes underwent a massive roster overhaul after the arrival of new head coach Deion Sanders, but the players involved reportedly don't hold any ill will for how the process played out.

According to ESPN's Kyle Bonagura, Adam Rittenberg and Andrea Adelson, only 10 scholarship players remain from Colorado's 2022 team. Of the 86 newcomers this season, 53 of them are transfers, the most a college football team has ever had in a single offseason.

However, the players who were replaced reportedly understand that it's simply the new nature of college football:

"It was harsh, like an NFL cutdown day, except for players who mostly arrived in Boulder under the assumption they had a home until they exhausted their eligibility.