Colorado rewards Deion Sanders with contract extension, becomes one of college football's highest-paid coaches

Deion Sanders volition beryllium coaching successful Boulder for the foreseeable future.

Two years ago, Coach Prime brought an unprecedented level of attraction to Colorado football. On Friday, the assemblage announced that a five-year declaration hold for Sanders had received support from the Board of Regents. 

The five-year declaration is worthy $54 million, NFL Media reported.

The wage would marque Sanders 1 of assemblage football's highest-paid coaches and ties him to Colorado done the 2029 season.

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Colorado Buffalos caput manager Deion Sanders against the Arizona Wildcats astatine Arizona Stadium connected Oct. 19, 2024.  (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

According to the reported presumption of the caller deal, Coach Prime volition gain $10 cardinal successful each of the archetypal 2 seasons nether the extension. He gets a $1 cardinal wage bump for the 3rd and 4th years. Sanders' compensation jumps to $12 cardinal successful the last twelvemonth of the deal.

Rick George, the diversion manager astatine Colorado, credited Sanders for restoring the school's shot program.

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"Coach Prime has revolutionized assemblage shot and successful doing so, has restored CU shot to our rightful spot arsenic a nationalist power," George said successful a property release. "This hold not lone recognizes Coach’s unthinkable accomplishments transforming our programme connected and disconnected the field, it keeps him successful Boulder to vie for league and nationalist championships successful the years to come." 

Sanders expressed his excitement astir the accidental to proceed "building thing special."

Colorado Buffaloes caput manager Deion Sanders earlier the crippled against the North Dakota State Bison astatine Folsom Field.  (Ron Chenoy-USA Today Sports)

"I’m excited for the accidental to proceed gathering thing peculiar present astatine Colorado," Sanders said successful a connection released connected Friday. "We’ve conscionable scratched the aboveground of what this programme tin be. It’s not conscionable astir football; it’s astir processing young men who are acceptable to instrumentality connected the world."

Sanders besides notably included a tongue-in-cheek remark astatine the extremity of the statement.

"I’m committed to bringing greatness to this university, connected and disconnected the field. We’ve got enactment to do, and I wouldn’t privation to beryllium anyplace other but here, making past with these unthinkable players and this passionate instrumentality base. Lastly, anybody got astatine slightest a five-bedroom location with acreage for sale?"

Colorado caput manager Deion Sanders speaks during the Big 12 NCAA assemblage shot media days successful Las Vegas, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Lucas Peltier)

Colorado was coming disconnected a 1-11 play anterior to Sanders' accomplishment successful Boulder. He guided the Buffaloes to a 4-8 grounds successful his archetypal play astatine the helm. Coach Prime past oversaw a large offseason roster overhaul which helped Colorado amended to 9-3 successful his 2nd regular play connected the sideline. The Buffaloes suffered a 36-14 nonaccomplishment successful the Alamo Bowl this past December. 

This past play besides marked the Buffaloes' instrumentality to the Big 12 Conference.

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Sanders appeared to gully immoderate involvement from the Dallas Cowboys amid the franchise's caput coaching hunt earlier this year. Team proprietor Jerry Jones aboriginal confirmed that helium spoke to Sanders during the search, but admitted the speech was idiosyncratic successful nature.

"Just a speech astir the team, and astir wherever helium is, and his boys, speech with his boys, that benignant of conversation," Jones said.

The Cowboys yet promoted Brian Schottenheimer to the caput manager position, and Sanders volition present beryllium sticking with Colorado. 

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