When the Colorado Buffaloes hired coach Deion Sanders, most expected a flurry of NFL alumni to follow suit and join his staff. They got a blizzard. Now, Sanders

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders appeared on the main stage at Big 12 football media days on Wednesday and opted to talk about football, not his health.

He now has to prepare to coach a team for the first time in his career without his children in uniform. That personal tie of his family keeping Deion in Boulder is now gone, and perhaps a jump to a more prominent blueblood or even the NFL could be tantalizing.