ESPN senior director of programming and acquisitions Kurt Dargis made a somewhat sad revelation about Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders:<\/p>\n
His first year in Boulder was the true ratings-grabber, but the Buffs\u2019 9-4 2024 campaign<\/a> didn\u2019t get nearly the same fanfare.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Dargis mentioned Sanders in a question about whether or not Bill Belichick\u2019s North Carolina Tar Heels program could mirror the same monstrous ratings<\/a> Colorado got during Coach Prime\u2019s first Power 4 season in 2023.<\/p>\n Dargis sees potential for \u201cChapel Bill” this fall.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to wait and see. The potential is there. There\u2019s definitely interest in him outside the typical college football fan,\u201d Dargis said during an interview with Front Office Sports, per FOS\u2019s Michael McCarthy and David Rumsey<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDeion was such a phenomenon. I still can\u2019t believe some of the numbers we got that first year he was there. It\u2019s too early to say.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Clearly, negativity sells.<\/p>\n During a tumultuous 2023 debut for \u201cPrime Time,\u201d Coach Prime\u2019s public beef with Cormani McClain<\/a> took center stage. Accusations from Athlon Sports\u2019 Steve Corder that there was a \u201cgun culture\u201d that season dominated the summer of 2024. The report has been scrubbed from the internet<\/a> after a potential behind-the-scenes settlement, however.<\/p>\n When CU turned it around, though? Nowhere near the same fanfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN senior director of programming and acquisitions Kurt Dargis made a somewhat sad revelation about Colorado Buffaloes football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[7025,32648,32651,1601,352,399,32649,32650,398,396,397,7027,99],"class_list":["post-40400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-bill-belichick","tag-colorado-buffaloes-football","tag-cormani-mcclain","tag-deion-sanders","tag-espn","tag-football","tag-kurt-dargis","tag-michael-mccarthy","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}