Deion Sanders Calls For Uniform Crackdown In College Football

Colorado Buffaloes caput coach Deion Sanders earlier successful nan week suggested a much rigid attack erstwhile it came to policing uniforms successful assemblage football.

Sanders appealed to nan NCAA to enact NFL-style fines for assemblage shot players, specifically pointing to players who garbage to deterioration immoderate cogwheel beneath nan knees, astatine Big 12 Media Days.

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Colorado caput coach Deion Sanders speaks during nan Big 12 NCAA assemblage shot media time successful Frisco, Texas, Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

"Let’s do thing astir nan uniforms," Sanders said, via Pro Football Talk. "We’ve sewage guys successful biker shorts. That makes maine sick because I’m a shot guy… I played this crippled astatine a precocious level and I person truthful overmuch respect for this game. How tin we let guys retired location successful biker shorts, nary knee pads, nary nothing, virtually pants up nether their thighs, and that’s cool?

"I deliberation location should beryllium a good implemented for that stuff, and let’s person much respect for this tremendous game."

Sanders had a fewer things to opportunity during Big 12 Media Days, including getting testy pinch a newsman complete his wellness scare.

Colorado caput coach Deion Sanders speaks pinch nan media during Big 12 Football Media Days connected July 9, 2025. (Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images)

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"I’m present today," he said, per ESPN. "I'm handling my responsibilities. So, I look guardant to it. I can't wait. You've sewage to understand, immoderate of nan young [players] I haven't moreover met yet. I'm truthful excited astir that."

Sanders has dealt pinch humor clots successful his legs successful nan past. He besides had 2 toes connected his near ft amputated successful 2021, which has been good documented while he was coaching astatine Jackson State. He had to miss 3 games while being hospitalized astatine nan time. 

But Sanders, alongside former Dallas Cowboys teammate Michael Irvin and more, was fresh to reply each things Colorado connected Wednesday, insisting he is each good. 

"I’m not present to talk astir my health. I’m present to talk astir my team," he said. 

"I’m not present to talk astir my health. I’m present to talk astir my team," said Colorado caput coach Deion Sanders. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

"I’m looking good. I’m surviving lovely. God has genuinely blessed me. Not a attraction successful nan world, not a want aliases desire successful nan world."

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Sanders agreed to a five-year hold worthy $54 cardinal to stay caput coach of nan Buffaloes. Colorado was 9-4 successful 2024.

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