When Deion Sanders showed up in Colorado, he made it clear to the players already there that significant changes were coming. He told them to jump in the portal because he was bringing his own luggage.
“I’m bringing my luggage with my luggage with me and it’s Louis,” Sanders told the team. “I want y’all to get ready and go ahead and jump in that portal. The more you jump in, the more room you make.”
Sanders’s approach may have been brash, but the Buffaloes went 1–11 last season and were one of the worst programs in the country under Karl Dorrell.
Not everybody likes his approach.
Anwawn Jones, a former Colorado football player who spent a season with the Buffaloes in 2000, took to social media to criticize Colorado’s treatment of his son during a recent recruiting visit as he relayed the program kicked Marco Jones out of the recruiting area during a game.
“Marco explained who [he] was, they said he wasn’t on the list and was asked to leave,” Anwawn wrote Thursday on X, formerly known as Twitter. “You kicked my son and his coach out of the facility and didn’t care that they traveled from [California].”
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Jones praised Sanders in the post and didn’t want to take anything away from what the coach was doing in his first season.
However, the former defensive end was upset at how Marco, a four-star linebacker from San Ramon Valley High in Danville, Calif., was treated on his visit to the CU campus.
“I know it’s busy in Boulder with all of the cool things happening, but know, you treated a true blue chipper and the son of a CU buff like a scrub,” Jones added. “I’m sad because Marco would have been a great Buff, but the Buffs don’t know who he is.”
According to 247Sports, the 2025 linebacker ranks as the No. 106 player in the country , No. 12 player at his position, and the No. 13 player in California.
The Colorado defense could desperately use a player of his caliber.
Jones holds over 20 offers from programs like Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas, and USC among other powers.
