Syracuse's Dino Babers applauds Deion Sanders for Sean Lewis hire at Colorado

Dino Babers knows his fair share of talented offensive football minds. The former two-way player at Hawaii has spent a majority of his 39-year coaching career focused on that side of the ball and enters year eight as head coach at Syracuse. One of his original hires for the Orange now makes his transition with Deion Sanders to Colorado.

Sean Lewis wasn't a household name, but he was well-known in the college ranks. The former Syarcuse co-offensive coordinator left Babers' staff in 2018 for a head coaching job at Kent State. Lewis returns to the Power Five level as Colorado's OC, which Babers believes was a fantastic hire for Sanders.

"We're really excited," Babers said about Lewis going to CU. Sean's part of our (Syracuse) family. We expect good things out of him offensively from those guys. A fantastic hire by Deion Sanders."

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Babers was once an assistant coach out west three times over at Arizona, Arizona State, and UCLA. He sees Deion's takeover in Boulder as a positive for the university as a whole. It's not a step that many head coaches take going from FCS to major FBS competition, but Babers believes Sanders is setup for success.

(Deion's) already done a nice job," Babers noted. The recruiting is going well. You expect to see good things happen. You got the players, you should have a chance."

Baber and Sanders are two of fifteen black head coaches in major college football. As it stands now, Deion is solo in the Pac-12 with David Shaw and Herm Edwards leaving the conference last year.