Deion Sanders has made a lot of changes to the Colorado football program since taking over late last year. Not all of those changes are going over well with his peers though, as one ACC head coach just made clear.
Speaking to Brandon Marcello of 247Sports, Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi made it clear that he doesn’t care for Sanders’ massive roster overhaul at Colorado this offseason. He believes that it breaks the spirit of certain rules and “looks bad on college football” for coaches across the sport.
“That’s not the way it’s meant to be,” Narduzzi said. “That’s not what the rule intended to be. It was not to overhaul your roster. We’ll see how it works out but that, to me, looks bad on college football coaches across the country. The reflection is on one guy right now but when you look at it overall — those kids that have moms and dads and brothers and sisters and goals in life — I don’t know how many of those 70 that left really wanted to leave or they were kicked in the butt to get out.”
Sanders has used a rule that allows first-year coaches to remove players from the roster as long as they remain on scholarship. But he’s hardly the only coach who has used this rule to his advantage.
🔥 Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi isn’t biting his tongue about Deion Sanders’ roster overhaul.
“That’s not the way it’s meant to be,” he tells @bmarcello. https://t.co/gs5JXCKpIK pic.twitter.com/KZV2jFQxLv
— 247Sports (@247Sports) May 22, 2023
Nevertheless, the end result has been a level of roster overhaul that is rarely seen in college football. Tons of players have left the program in response to the equally large number of players who have joined it via the transfer portal.
The end result is likely to be a Colorado team that will be contending for the Pac-12 title or at least bowl eligibility very quickly.
The game itself may suffer in the process though.