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Colorado's turnaround story has
ended in an embarrassing disaster.

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And now Coach Prime's team is
hemorrhaging recruits 2024 quarterback

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Danny O'Neil and 2025 running back.

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Jamaris Wilder have both
decommitted and tight end.

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Caleb Foria has entered the transfer
portal on Sunday, a second quarterback,

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Antoine Hill, also Decommitted,
and the list goes on.

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Why is this happening? Well, Sanders
dream team started three and oh,

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and everybody in America bought
in and was wearing Dion's luxury

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shades. But that was pretty much the
peak of the season if you ask me,

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because then the dream became a
nightmare and Colorado proceeded to go

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one and eight ending the season.

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A pathetic four and eight recruits
have been Decommit left and right.

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Since addressing the issue the other
day, Dion said, we're not an ATM.

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That's not going to happen here.

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Weird that he'd say that considering
that it's exactly what his son is doing.

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Shado Sanders is the
number two NIL earner,

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the only young athlete ahead
of him, briny James. Next year,

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Colorado's recruiting is ranked
65th, according to 2, 4, 7 sports.

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How they arrived at that
ranking, I don't know,

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but Colorado only has nine recruits
coming in, so that might affect it.

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Either way. 65th is really bad.

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So what's next year look
like for Dion in Colorado?

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In an article titled Dion Sanders first
year at Colorado proved how gullible

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people can be dead spin's.

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Karin Phillips wrote before Sanders
can look too far into the future,

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he has to deal with things that are
carrying over from this past season.

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He demoted his offensive coordinator,
his tight end coach quit,

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and Sanders has announced that NFL
legend warns Sapp will be joining.

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The staff s joining the staff could help,

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but the hemorrhaging of recruits and
staff will likely be too much for Sanders

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to overcome and he'll likely
bounce when his sons are done.

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