Alabama’s Nick Saban has ‘tremendous amount of respect’ for Deion Sanders amid Colorado’s historic turnaround

Colorado’s 3-0 get started has been the highest on-field tale for school soccer q4. The Buffaloes, of their first season beneath Deion Sanders, are the fourth crew in FBS historical past to start out 3-0 after profitable one sport the season prior to. If Colorado, ranked No. 19 in the newest AP Top 25, beats No. 10 Oregon in Week 4, it is going to eclipse its preseason win general of 3.5 prior to the tip of the September. 

That sort of turnaround has stuck the attention of Alabama’s Nick Saban, who complimented Sanders throughout his weekly press convention. Saban, who has gave the impression in a countrywide run of ads with Sanders for Aflac, stated “Coach Prime” displays all of the hallmarks of being chief in school soccer. 

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Deion Sanders,” Saban stated, consistent with 247Sports. “First, he’s a great person and he’s done a great job of marketing the program to create a lot of national interest. I see their team playing well on the field. They play with discipline, they do a good job of executing, they’ve been able to score points, playing decent on defense. All of those things, to me, are indicators he’s a really good coach.

“I’ve at all times idea that, and he is at all times been a success, whether or not it was once Jackson State, highschool or now at Colorado,” Saban continued. “His groups have at all times been well-coached.”

Sanders stays one of the sport’s greatest tales after main the Buffaloes to an not going undefeated get started that includes wins over TCU and Nebraska. Sanders has a 30-6 report total between Jackson State and Colorado. 

Things have not at all times been publicly cordial between the 2 coaches, on the other hand. When No. 1 recruit Travis Hunter signed with Sanders at Jackson State in 2022, Saban claimed that Hunter was once paid $1 million to signal with the Tigers. 

“We have a rule right now that said you cannot use name, image and likeness to entice a player to come to your school,” Saban said in 2022. “Hell, read about it in the paper. I mean, Jackson State paid a guy a million dollars last year that was a really good Division I player to come to school. It was in the paper and they bragged about it. Nobody did anything about it.”

Sanders spoke back by way of calling the allegation a lie. However, the hatchet seems to be buried between the 2; Sanders was once extremely complimentary of Saban throughout an look on “60 Minutes.”

“I’ll tell you this, I love and adore and I respect and every time I do a commercial Coach Saban, it’s a gift,” Sanders stated. “Just sitting in his presence and hearing him and throwing something else out there so I can hear his viewpoint on it because he’s forgotten more things than I may ever accomplish.”