With one of his sons, Deion Sanders Jr., heading up his team’s social media presence, Colorado coach Deion Sanders consistently invites cameras into areas of a college football program rarely seen by the outside world.
Now, as Coach Prime enters his second season atop the Buffaloes program, he’s unveiling an all-new, believed to be first-of-its-kind camera experience: the first-person coach’s cam.
Sanders strapped up with a harness that held a GoPro-like video camera Tuesday for Colorado’s spring football practice.
The nearly 15-minute video showcased Deion Sanders imploring his coaches to be in actual contact with their players, not just speaking at or to them, and also showed Coach Prime as he challenged his team to be great.
“Anybody remember the question of the day?,” Sanders asked his players. “What’s holding you back and what’s stopping you from being you, to do what you want to do in life, to go where you want to go in life? To achieve what you want to achieve in life? What’s stopping you from being a dog today? What’s stopping you from being a starter today? What’s stopping you from being dominant today? What’s stopping you from being him today?”
Sanders then paused and reiterated the question, awaiting the team’s response.
“What’s stopping y’all?,” he asked.
“Nobody,” they answered.
“What’s stopping y’all?,” once more.
“Nobody.”
The video also showcased Sanders passing on precise coaching pointers to members of the Buffaloes secondary, particularly as Sanders worked with cornerbacks – the position he made famous and turned into Pro Football and College Football Hall of Fame careers.
“When he goes outside, you can’t use the inside hand,” Sanders told a DB. “You’ve got to use the odd hand. You used the wrong hand.”
Moments later, he stops a drill just before a live rep to ask the defensive back a question.
“What corner are you?” Sanders queried.
“Left,” came the response.
“That means outside foot up,” Sanders instructed.
But Sanders, who used new graduate assistant coach Warren Sapp, the former Miami legend and NFL great, as an example, delivered his most poignant address at the onset of the session, when he urged coaches to be in physical contact with the players.
“How can you go a whole day without touching your kids? Because touch, the physicality of the touch means love, it means compassion, it means attention,” Sanders said. “So don’t only just yell at them and scold them, I want you to get down there (and ask), ‘How you doing today? You all right, (Warren) Sapp? How was your first day yesterday?’
“Let’s physically touch the kids.”
See the full video below: