Reality hit Deion Sanders pretty hard when his final game coaching his sons ended Saturday night.
Colorado fell 36-14 to BYU in the Alamo Bowl, but it was the final game for Shedeur and Shilo Sanders under their father, Deion. Coach Prime was visibly emotional pregame following his traditional walk with Shedeur on the sideline.
It wasn’t the way they wanted to end it, but Deion Sanders tried to put it into words.
“When we walked. When we did our walk and Shilo was there and looking across the field and I’m seeing Cam and I’m seeing Herm and so many of the other guys that have been on this journey with us, man, that’s tough,” Sanders said postgame. “I’ve been knowing this young man for a long time, and he’s been balling out for a long time. Just the consistency that he has.
“And then my sons, man, that’s tough. That’s tough, to know that that’s it, that that walk won’t happen again. That’s tough. We’ve been doing this for a long time. You recollect just the times in youth league and seeing them lay out uniforms in my closet, getting ready for the next game, and he used to have 100 wristbands on his wrist trying to stunt. All of those things I recall.”