{"id":626576,"date":"2026-05-06T09:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626576\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:29:10","slug":"espn-believes-colorado-buffaloes-football-coach-deion-sanders-got-major-offseason-decision-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626576\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN believes Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders got major offseason decision right"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESPN believes Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders got major offseason decision right<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Colorado Buffaloes<\/a> head coach Deion Sanders handed the play-calling reins to Sacramento State Hornets<\/a> head coach Brennan Marion for the 2026 College Football season after quietly firing Pat Shurmur, following an in-season demotion to QB coach<\/a> in November 2025.<\/p>\n

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ESPN\u2019s Eli Lederman, Max Olson, and Adam Rittenberg<\/a> are excited about what Marion will be walking into in Boulder, with a reloaded offense around redshirt sophomore quarterback Julian Lewis<\/a>. They referred to Marion as a splashy move and lauded his success at previous stops at Sac State and the UNLV Rebels<\/a>. Overall, ESPN ranked CU’s offseason as the ninth-best of the 16 teams in the Big 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s easy to get excited about what Marion is working with in his Julian Lewis-led offense. The Buffaloes reloaded at receiver with Scudero, Moore and Kam Perry coming in to complement Joseph Williams<\/a>. They inked seven offensive linemen with starting experience to get things fixed up front,\u201d Lederman, Olson, and Rittenberg wrote.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t all positive for Coach Prime\u2019s offseason, though. The ESPN team pointed out the seismic losses, with left tackle Jordan Seaton<\/a> transferring to the LSU Tigers<\/a> and receiver Omarrion Miller committing to the Buffs\u2019 Big 12 rival, the Arizona State Sun Devils<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Deion Sanders needs Colorado\u2019s coordinator hires to land for his Buffs future<\/p>\n

Colorado has a new AD, Fernando Lovo, who is immediately facing a $27 million budget deficit. Needless to say, with the \u201cPrime Time\u201d profits down from Sanders\u2019 early years at CU, the Buffs will be under the microscope in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Another down year, which would mark three of four in Coach Prime\u2019s tenure, would give Lovo a good reason to convince Sanders to step down behind the scenes, with it being considered \u201cretiring\u201d for the media and the College Football world.<\/p>\n

Marion and internal promotion\u00a0Chris Marve have a lot of pressure to perform in their new roles, mainly for Coach Prime’s sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN believes Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders got major offseason decision right originally appeared on The Sporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[271116,5691,188926,1605,1607,1602,1601,271118,352,399,53494,53495,77262,6342,271117,398,396,397,38392,9365,99,100061],"class_list":["post-626576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-adam-rittenberg","tag-arizona-state-sun-devils","tag-brennan-marion","tag-coach-prime","tag-college-football","tag-colorado-buffaloes","tag-deion-sanders","tag-eli-lederman","tag-espn","tag-football","tag-jordan-seaton","tag-joseph-williams","tag-julian-lewis","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-max-olson","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-pat-shurmur","tag-sacramento-state-hornets","tag-sports","tag-unlv-rebels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626576","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=626576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}