Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat.
Colorado is a not very good football team with a couple or more exceptional football players. Deion Sanders dove into the portal last year - with the key additions being family and his best other players from Jackson State - and transformed a one-win team into…a four-win team who went 1-8 and held down the Buffs’ spot at the bottom of the Pac-12.
Or as Billy Beane put it:
Deion saw this and chose to roll again with the same strategy - fire everyone who performed below expectations or was otherwise deemed unworthy and replace them with transfers instead of committing energy and resources to player development.