{"id":3572,"date":"2023-04-25T21:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T02:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2023-04-25T21:30:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T02:30:59","slug":"lincoln-riley-deion-sanders-at-colorado-is-great-for-the-pac-12-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/lincoln-riley-deion-sanders-at-colorado-is-great-for-the-pac-12-college-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Riley: Deion Sanders at Colorado is great for the Pac-12, college football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boulder, Colorado, became the center of the college football universe for a brief while on Saturday afternoon as everyone got the first taste of Deion Sanders<\/a><\/strong> as a Power 5 head coach. And USC<\/a><\/strong> head caoch Lincoln Riley<\/a><\/strong>, one of his Pac 12 coaching peers, thinks scenes like the one at Folsom Field are great for the sport.<\/p>\n

Colorado<\/a><\/strong> packed more than 45,000 people into the stadium for a spring game the year after going 1-11. Results on the field are still pending for Sanders at Colorado, but everything so far look like a step in the right direction from Riley\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think any time like that where maybe you\u2019ve had a program \u2014 any part of the country \u2014 that\u2019s been down, to see it start to come back and get momentum and get excitement like that, that\u2019s good for college football. We want all of our good programs out there to really be good. And we want great coaches. We want energy around the game. And Deion\u2019s certainly brought that. I know he\u2019s going to do a tremendous job there,\u201d Riley said<\/a> on \u201cFirst Take\u201d on ESPN.<\/p>\n

While USC was not nearly as bad on the field as Colorado was the year before Riley got there, he engineered an impressive turnaround in Pasadena. From 4-8 in 2021 to 11-3 in 2023, Riley \u2014\u00a0along with quarterback Caleb Williams<\/a><\/strong> \u2014\u00a0had the Trojans on the brink of a College Football Playoff berth. <\/p>\n

Sanders doesn\u2019t have the same roster talent that USC did then, but he\u2019s working the portal hard to get there<\/a><\/strong>. And even getting the Buffaloes back to bowl contention would be a good enough start in Boulder in Year 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s great. I think it\u2019s great for the Pac 12. I think it\u2019s great for college football. Deion is obviously one of the greatest players that\u2019s ever played the game. And he\u2019s got a big personality. He\u2019s got just a great kind of vibe about him that, obviously, he\u2019s done a tremendous job getting into the coaching side of it. And he\u2019s brought a lot of energy and excitement,\u201d Riley said.<\/p>\n

And Riley isn\u2019t the only person hyping Sanders up after the spring game. Fox Sports\u2019 Joel Klatt had high praise<\/strong><\/a> for the Colorado head coach. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was electric. Even I tweeted out when you look at what this has been so far, it has been a major success,\u201d\u00a0Klatt said<\/a>\u00a0on Monday. \u201cThe spring game was incredible to watch, wish I could have been there \u2026 I\u2019m so excited for what Coach Prime is doing there in Boulder. And by the way, from what I saw on the field, I think they\u2019re going to win 6-plus games this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

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