Colorado's Deion Sanders Targeted Former Florida State Assistant While Building Staff
Colorado head coach and former FSU great Deion Sanders continues to make headlines, win or loss this season. After a promising 3-0 start, the Buffaloes have dropped two in a row, with one being a devastating 42-6 loss to the Oregon Ducks. Sanders is in his first year as the head coach of the program and has had surprising success with recruiting and staff hires.
Most recently known in the eyes of FSU fans for flipping five-star recruit, Travis Hunter, from the program a few years ago, Sanders picked up former Seminoles such as Bishop Thomas, Derrick McLendon, Travis Jay, Brendan Gant, and Omarion Cooper through the transfer portal.
Coach Prime may have fixed his eyes on another Seminole to add to his arsenal in former FSU offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham, who spent two years in Tallahassee and a season in Oregon prior to becoming the head coach at Arizona State.
“Got great history [with Dillingham]," Sanders said on Tuesday. “I don’t know if he would want me to tell this story. I was assembling a staff once upon a time, I’m not going to tell you who, for what, but he was a part of it. We communicated quite a bit.”
The two head coaches are slated to face off this Saturday when Arizona State hosts the Buffaloes at 6:30 p.m., and it appears Sanders still holds Dillingham in high regard.
“We saw one another at the PAC-12 meetings and that was like, yeah, that embrace was awesome to me because I know his climb and I know what kind of man he is," Sanders said. "He’s great for their program, great for college football, he’s a tremendous mind, offensively, tremendous mind."
"He’s going to be a great head coach, man. So I have the utmost respect and love and admiration for him because we were going to work together at one point," Sanders continued.
Other former FSU coaches on Colorado's current staff include tight ends coach Tim Brewster (2013-2017) and defensive coordinator Charles Kelly (2013-2017).
Arizona State is currently 1-4 on the season under Dillingham and a matchup against the Buffaloes could be the spark he needs in 2023. Both Colorado and the Sun Devils are 0-2 in conference play.
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