"Still got a lot of unfinished business" - Colorado athletic director sets expectations straight as Coach Prime conducts first meeting of 2025

Colorado coach Deion Sanders has been busy promoting the season three premiere of his show "Coach Prime" and attending the Hula Bowl in Orlando in the offseason. On Saturday, he was back in Boulder with his new cohort of players ahead of the start of spring training.

In a clip posted on "Well Off Media's" YouTube page on Sunday, Buffs athletic director Rick George addressed the players and set the expectations for the 2025 season.

"We had a great year last year," George said (3:30). "We still got a lot of unfinished business, welcome back. For you new guys, this is a great place. You're gonna fall in love with this place, this city, this community, this department, this university. It's a great place. So, I'm excited to get to know all of you and go through this spring together because this is a really important spring.

"The student-athletes, the coaches, the administration, we all have to be in this together but it's the work that we put in starting tomorrow that's gonna show next fall, remember that. Things that we do today are gonna show up in the fall. And so, the expectations for you and the goals for you are to be ready to dominate from the first practice in the first thing you do tomorrow morning."

The meeting also marked the first time since Deion Sanders took over that his sons, Shilo and Shedeur, and two-way star Travis Hunter were not present.

Coach Prime's Colorado future addressed

Coach Prime has always coached his son, Shedeur Sanders, who has started at quarterback from their days at Jackson State to Colorado. But with the influential quarterback off to the NFL via the 2025 draft, the future of the Buffs coach has been an ongoing discourse.

Despite Colorado athletic director Rick George challenging the student-athletes to prepare for next season, the charismatic Buffs coach's future is still up for debate with several NFL jobs still vacant.

During Sunday's segment of the "Nightcap" show, former NFL stars Chad Johnson and Shannon Sharpe addressed Coach Prime's future and what would tempt him to make the step up from college football to the NFL.

“You know, seeing Prime at the NFL level and him always saying I would never want to coach NFL players. Yeah, you know, it would change Prime... Everywhere he's gone, he has turned those programs around,” Johnson said. "The Raiders find a way to go all the way up and get Shedeur, now we talking."

Last week during an appearance on the "Tamron Hall Show," Coach Prime revealed that the only way he would coach in the NFL was if he was coaching his sons. Colorado fans will continue to bite their nails as long as some jobs stay vacant.