Deion Sanders' latest idea brings level of intrigue that spring period lacks

Deion Sanders isn't shy — never has been. He says what he means, and he means what he says. This forces us to make decisions about accepting his word, or not, almost as soon as the words leave his mouth.

When Sanders said he planned to be in Boulder, Colorado, many of us questioned that, too.

We questioned such a statement because he'd only coached at the major college football level for two years, and he'd flipped a program that won just two games the year before his arrival into one that won nine, finished atop the Big 12 standings and boasted the Heisman Memorial Trophy winner just last year. We questioned such a statement because this will be the first year that he hasn't coached his sons, and in an era of college football that is almost exclusively marked not by tradition, but by change.

But we sometimes fail to remember that Sanders has been one of the architects of that change. He brought new attention to an already popular sport with a program that lacked an identity until he cloaked it in his own. He's perhaps the only FBS coach in the country who looks comfortable in a cowboy hat and sunglasses indoors.

Leave it to Coach Prime to inject not just excitement, but perhaps a tonic to the morose spring offseason where more news has been made by name-brand programs choosing to forgo the tradition of playing a spring football game for fans or a glorified fan appreciation day with a nod toward why we watch the sport.

"I would like to actually play the spring game against another team in the spring," Sanders said on Monday. "That's what I'm trying to do right now."

Any takers? As a matter of fact, yes. 

Mere hours after Prime made his declaration, Syracuse coach Fran Brown sent a tweet — tagging Sanders: "We will come