Colorado football coach Deion Sanders gave an update on the progress of his team Friday and said players from last year’s team had “dead eyes” and “didn’t love football,” leading him to overhaul the roster because it “had to be done.”
Sanders was hired in early December and since has overturned his roster to an unprecedented degree with nearly 70 new scholarship players and just 10 scholarship players returning from last year’s team out of a limit of 85. In his first team meeting in December, Sanders warned his inherited players he would set a higher standard and try to make them quit after they finished 1-11 in 2022.