Congratulations to Coach Prime! He’s officially been named Sports Illustrated’s 2023 Sportsperson of the Year!
“The Oregon game, I’ve forgotten it,” Sanders said at the SI interview. “I’ve moved past it. The others stay with me. Three points, seven points—details, consistency. We want to win now.”
Coach Prime is here, and he’s just getting started
Deion Sanders is SI’s 2023 Sportsperson of the Year! https://t.co/Xebtm9bmNZ pic.twitter.com/Sdt500V93u
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) November 30, 2023
“This was a program lacking relevance, and he’s Mr. Relevant—he’s given them that. I’d say B-plus so far. The question is, how good of a football program is he building?” says Chad Chatlos of TurnkeyZRG Executive Search, which handles high-profile coach and athletic director searches
Sanders has been instrumental in the rebuilding of the CU football program, making major moves in his first year as head coach.
“It has that 1990s energy all over again,” says Mark Heinritz, co-owner of The Sink, a bar within a 10-minute walk of Folsom Field. “There were a lot of discussions over a couple decades of, ‘Why do we have football?’ This is why we have football.
Sander’s issue of SI will be released December 15 and the “Coach Prime” season 2 comes back to Prime Video December 7.
