Coach Prime addresses Colorado's glaring weaknesses from 2024 as he lays down the law for 2025 group

Colorado coach Deion Sanders, aka Coach Prime, recently returned to Boulder in preparation for spring training with the 2025 roster after bidding farewell to the NFL-bound group containing Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders. As usual, the Buffs were once again one of the most active teams in the transfer portal before it closed on December 28.

During a meeting on Saturday that was posted on the "Well Off Forever" YouTube page, the charismatic Buffs coach pointed out the weaknesses, including the team's rushing offense, and laid down the law on which areas the team needed to improve ahead of next season.

"How can you win nine games and you're 124th in the country and last in the Big 12? That means you don't have discipline and where does discipline start? It starts in the meeting room, it starts in your personal life, in the weight room. Discipline is discipline," Coach Prime said. "If you're not disciplined off the field, you're not gonna be disciplined on it. It don't translate."

"So, everything that you see that we're gonna implement this spring by the way you dress, the way you prepare, the way you come in your attire and the way you do everything it's gonna be disciplined."

Coach Prime further expressed relief at coaching the team without the presence of his NFL-bound sons, Shedeur and Shilo Sanders.

"I can't explain how happy and how thoughtful and thankful I am for this day," Coach Prime said. "I've been praying about this day. I've been anticipating this day. You gotta understand, it's an emotional day for me because this is the first day I've been up here without two knuckleheads... this is the first day I'm coaching without my boys, which is a pleasure and honor for me. Now, I could just be a coach and not be a Dad. And I like that."

Coach Prime issues warning to Buffs seniors

With the departure of dressing room stalwarts like Travis Hunter, Shilo, and Shedeur Sanders, a new crop of players will take their place, and during the team's first meeting, the outspoken Coach Prime issued a stern warning to the seniors regarding their expected conduct for next season.

"Seniors, I want you to listen to this," Coach Prime said. "This is evident. Like coach Ray don't say it. I don't get involved in that what y'all are earning or what you're making...I don't get involved with what you make and whatever. But when you stop going to class, now you affecting me. So, we gonna affect your check. When you stop going to class and I seed a multitude of Fs and Ds up we gonna affect your check."

"Do we understand that," Sanders said. "No, no. Cause I don't want you running to coach Ray saying, 'Well, man, why y'all took this out of my check?' Well, that's the way it is in the pros. When you stop doing certain things that you're supposed to do, that you're signed up to do. You gonna be affected. So we gonna do that."

Coach Prime has been linked to the vacant Las Vegas Raiders job by the Las Vegas Review-Journal but in the meantime, he is creating the strategy for the 2025 season in Boulder.