As Deion Sanders readied for his first-ever day of fall camp as a Power 5, Football Bowls Subdivision head coach, he took a moment to introduce University of Colorado Athletics Director Rick George to the fully assembled team.
In so doing, Sanders revealed that the Buffaloes hardly had been the lone program to seek out Coach Prime after his record-smashing success at Jackson State, a Football Championship Subdivision program that reigned the HBCU SWAC under Sanders.
"Multiple people came to visit me and wanted my coaching prowess," Sanders, still moving gingerly from a myriad of surgeries, told his team. "But this man (Rick George), there was something about him.
"Something about that thing that was on the inside of him that I connected with. Lo and behold, you all are here because of the opportunity that this man gave me."
George briefly addressed the Buffaloes, as did every assistant coach of Coach Prime's inaugural Colorado staff.
"We're not offense, we're not defense, we're not special teams," said Charles Kelly, whom Sanders hired away from Nick Saban and Alabama. "We are a team."
Sal Sunseri, also a former Saban assistant who's had a long career as a college and NFL assistant, spoke much more bluntly and in the process strayed well beyond Sanders's preference of no cursing.
"If you're gonna (bs) on the field, you ain't (bleeping) playing for us," Sunseri said. "Real simple how it goes. We're expecting greatness. I didn't come here to be (bleeping) average.
"Come Prime didn't hire me to be average. So I'm going to challenge you every single (bleeping) day."
Sanders wrapped up the meeting by challenging his team.
"Do you believe?," he asked, and then added, "All you've got to do is whip your guy. You don't have to whip all of 'em. You've just got to whip your guy. You've just got to do your job. If you do your job, we do our job. We're going to win.
"Because we're going to win, right?"