Buffs Dealing with Tragedy and Turmoil as Spring Football Begins

Teona Gherasim

Getty Last off season was an uncomfortable one for the University of Colorado football program. There were the requisite departures and additions via the Transfer Portal, but that was pretty much SOP. Shortly after spring football culminated with the controversial jersey retirement of Shadeur Sanders , his father, CU Head Coach Deion Sanders quietly departed Boulder and returned home to battle what was later discovered to be bladder cancer. Deion missed all of the summer workouts, making his