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Deion Sanders will undertake his third season as a Buffaloees football coach in Colorado and the first without his sons SheDer and Shilo playing for him.
The ESPN star, Stephen A. Smith, wondered in a “First Take” segment with the expertise of university football Paul Finebaum and if Sanders decided to take a job with a school in the dry. He specifically harassed the idea that Sanders replaces Kalen Deboer as a chief coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide.
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Colorado head coach Dion Sanders runs the players during a NCAA university football cabinet on Thursday, August 14, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP photo / David Zalubowski)
Alabama, one of the greatest powers in university football in the last decade, has failed to make the play football playoffs last year during his first season since Nick Saban retired. In 2023, the team lost against the Wolverines of Michigan in Rose Bowl. Michigan won the national championship.
“Imagine if he was in Tuscaloosa,” said Smith. “What if, instead of Deboer, it was him coach of Alabama? What if it was leading him to Texas A & M with this oil money? These former students contributing to the program and beyond. What if he trained a coach like Florida? What if Florida’s state had gone with him? Not to say that their coach did not want to do a good job. want.
Smith said he thought he thought that the crimson tide was “considerably softer” in 2024 and would not have disturbed if Sanders had packed his bags in Boulder for the Alabama challenge.
The Alabama head coach Kalen Deboer talks about with the wide receiver of Alabama, Germie Bernard, before a university football match in NCAA against southern Florida, on September 7, 2024, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Photo / vasha hunt, file)
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“And so, I just say to myself, him in the dry … Listen, Florida, Alabama, because I am not sold on Deboer. I know he did an excellent job in Washington,” he said. “But listen, they miss Nick Saban in Alabama. They miss Nick Saban. Damn, I miss Nick Saban.
“We did not see this with Deboer. I thought they were considerably softer, and I will not lie to you, I would not have been disturbed at all if the Alabama changed course and that they brought someone like” Primetime “in Alabama.
Deboer, just like any head coach who tries to replace Saban in Alabama, has enough pressure on him. Team No. 8 of the country will play Florida State to start its season on August 30.
Sanders was, at one point, the target of the Dallas cowboys head coach. But both parties have never reached an agreement.
Head coach Deion Sanders of the University of Colorado talks about his journey against bladder cancer at a press conference at the Touchdown Club at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado, Monday, July 28, 2025. (Aaron Oniveroz / The Denver Post)
It does not seem that Sanders wants to leave Colorado and is more focused on the coming season and his health while he is advancing.
