Colorado’s Deion Sanders delivers powerful message about ‘success’ in first meeting with ‘new team’

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In Colorado’s first official team meeting following a mass exodus of players into the transfer portal, Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders delivered a powerful message to his team about achieving "success" and making it to the NFL. 

Sanders, who previously served as head coach at Jackson State, has seen nearly 50 players leave the team since his arrival in December and more than 70 in total enter the transfer portal since August, according to ESPN.

Deion Sanders, CUs new head football coach, and athletic director Rick George, right, chat in the Arrow Touchdown Club during a press conference on Dec. 4, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. (Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

However, despite the massive overhaul, Sanders is still committed to turning around a program that went just 1-11 last season.  

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"Success is something, really a quality or goal that you set for yourself and you achieve it or obtain it – through discipline and routine. That’s success," Sanders said in a video posted to the YouTube account "Well Off Media," which is run by his son.  

"I want every last one of you, including the coaches, to have success and to be successful. But that’s a whole different thing than winning."

Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders watches as his team warms up prior to their spring game at Folsom Field on April 22, 2023 in Boulder, Colorado. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

"Winning and success [are] two different things," he continued. "Winning is something you do that affects the other men. Because success