He now has to prepare to coach a team for the first time in his career without his children in uniform. That personal tie of his family keeping Deion in Boulder is now gone, and perhaps a jump to a more prominent blueblood or even the NFL could be tantalizing.

Big 12 Media Days are underway in Frisco, Texas, and Colorado took center stage on Day 2. Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders always commands a crowd when he steps up to the microphone,