Keeler: If Deion Sanders won’t change how he recruits, CU Buffs football won’t progress, experts say. ‘Portal reliance is dangerous.’

Deion Sanders demands more face time Just not the kind on his phone It sure helped CU when he first got the job Brandon Huffman national recruiting editor at Sports com notified me Tuesday But reliance on the transfer portal is dangerous And in Boulder three years into The Coach Prime Era the Buffs are still living dangerously on the recruiting front The early prep National Signing Day period opens Wednesday morning As of late Tuesday afternoon per Huffman and the Sports database the Buffs had just firm high school commitments lined up for the Class of Among the members of the Big only Oklahoma State four had secured fewer And the Cowboys have been without a head coach since Sept when they fired longtime boss Mike Gundy I m of the mindset that the transfer portal is a nice quick healthy fix in Year or Year Huffman continued By Year or Year you should have already by then focused on high-school recruiting I think you re seeing schools such as Florida State they hit the jackpot with Jordan Travis The next year they re back in the portal and it blew up in their faces Chosen shrapnel was felt in BoCo too The - offseason brought gold mine of transfers led by LaJohntay Wester from FAU and Will Sheppard from Vanderbilt topping off one of the best passing games and passing units in CU history The - offseason by contrast brought QB Kaidon Salter from Liberty who would lose his starting job twice while defensive tackle Jaheim Oatis Alabama and tailback Simeon Price Coastal Carolina got hurt At UCLA the Bruins went with a Moneyball approach this year via the portal ' Huffman noted They declared We re going to chase elite recruits who aren t playing at their schools Once they came you could see why they weren t playing at their previous schools The Buffs already had a base in place a year ago that portal players could complement in a Heisman-worthy QB Shedeur Sanders and a Heisman-winning generational talent in Travis Hunter When that base was gone in players noted a void in locker-room leadership as well Keeler CU Buffs - record proves Deion Sanders requirements better coaches in his ear or another Shedeur on the field This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e figures if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i