Colorado HC Deion Sanders on his extension: 'I'll cry to you before I lie to you'

Deion Sanders, aka "Coach Prime," has long been clear that he loves what he has with the Colorado Buffaloes.

Many viewed Sanders taking the job at Colorado, then perennially at the bottom of the Pac-12, as a "stepping stone" job. The thought was that he was using Colorado to elevate himself from HBCU ranks to Division I football, and that he'd bail on the Buffaloes as soon as a new opportunity came up.

Then, the idea was that Sanders was just sticking around to coach his sons. That thought has now been proven to be false as well.

With both Shedeur Sanders and Shilo Sanders soon to be selected in the 2025 NFL Draft, Sanders recently signed a five-year, $54M contract extension with the Buffaloes that will keep him in Boulder through 2029.

Recently speaking with the media about that extension, Sanders chided them for not believing the love he's shown toward Colorado in the past.

"I mean, I told y’all I wasn’t going nowhere. I don’t know why y’all didn’t believe me, you know,” Sanders said, according to On3. “I’ll cry to you before I lie to you.”

Sanders has put Colorado back on the map and the Buffaloes have taken care of him as a result. What looked to once be a "stepping stone" for "Primetime" is quickly becoming a destination program, especially now that the Buffs are in the Big 12.

Colorado made Sanders the fourth-highest-paid coach per year in college football. Only Georgia's Kirby Smart, Ohio State's Ryan Day and Clemson's Dabo Swinney make more.

The one thing that each one of those coaches has that Sanders doesn't in a national championship win, but Sanders seems to be bent on turning Colorado into that type of program.

Of course, he had to make sure he's being taken care of in the process as well.

“I love it here. I adore it here,” Sanders said. “I wanted to get some things done before I was able to do what we did long-term, as far as collectives, NIL stuff, few of the coaches as well and we got them taken care of. So, then I came in, came in and got mine done.”