Deion Sanders Wants to Retire at Colorado, Win Multiple Championships With Buffaloes

After just one season as head coach at Colorado, Deion Sanders can already envision himself finishing out his coaching career with the Buffaloes.

"I love Boulder, Colorado and Colorado," Sanders told NBC News Now Monday. "I'm not chasing finance. I'm not chasing the bag. I'm not chasing notoriety.

"I'm not chasing hype," he added. "I love what I do and I do what I love... and I love Boulder, Colorado. I don't plan on being anywhere else in my coaching career."

Sanders, whose sons Shilo and Shedeur play for him at Colorado, wasn't as definitive in his answer when asked by The Messenger if he'd considered his future after his sons enter the 2025 NFL Draft.

“We're kind of in the moment type of family,” Sanders said about his coaching career beyond that point. "We like to dominate the moment and dominate the time.

"We're not thinking down the street. Now, the goal is for them to be drafted in the same draft, which will be wonderful. Then I'll think about it thereafter but right now, man, we just want to dominate the moment.”

While the Buffaloes' head coach may be sending mixed messages about his next steps as a collegiate coach, he has never expressed any intention to coach in the NFL.

“I don't feel like I'm an NFL type of coach, because I know how old-school and demanding and critical [I am]" Sanders told The Messenger. "I don't know if I'm cut out for that.”

Sanders took over a one-win program from 2022 and led the Buffaloes to a 4-8 record this season. Colorado turned some heads at the beginning of the season with a 3-0 start, but a 1-8 record the rest of the way delivered a brutal reality checl.

As he heads into his second season with the Buffs, this time in the Big 12, Sanders will look to the transfer portal to fill out his roster.

“I'm so excited about this next season because it's expectation,” he told The Messenger. “This season was about instilling hope and we did that at a level like no other.

"Now, it's expectation because we're expected to do the things that we couldn't conclude last season. And I love the challenge.”