Colorado Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders hopes that two respected NFL minds, Byron Leftwich and Mike Zimmer, will be on his coaching staff this fall. Leftwich reportedly joined Colorado last spring, while Zimmer has long been linked to 'Coach Prime.

He now has to prepare to coach a team for the first time in his career without his children in uniform. That personal tie of his family keeping Deion in Boulder is now gone, and perhaps a jump to a more prominent blueblood or even the NFL could be tantalizing.

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders appeared on the main stage at Big 12 football media days on Wednesday and opted to talk about football, not his health.