Deion Sanders is losing more than he commits following his disastrous second half of the 2023 season with the Colorado Buffaloes. Per multiple reports, Sanders lost his offensive coordinator to a school offering a head coaching promotion.
After Colorado’s eighth game of the season, Sanders demoted Sean Lewis from the Buffaloes’ playcalling duties. According to Brett McMurphy with Action Network HQ, Sean Lewis is taking the head coaching job at San Diego State University.
Deion Sanders loses Sean Lewis to SDSU
Lewis was Kent State’s head coach before accepting the Buffaloes offensive coordinator gig from Sanders.
Sean Lewis will be San Diego State's coach, sources told @ActionNetworkHQ. Lewis was Kent State's coach from 2018-22 before joining Colorado as OC this season. Lewis was stripped of his play-calling duties after 8 games by Deion Sanders
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) November 28, 2023
Lewis’ hire by SDSU to become their head coach represents poorly on Sanders after he demoted Lewis earlier this season. Given how Colorado performed after he demoted Lewis, Sanders looks like a coach who makes impulsive decisions when trying to shift blame.
Sanders has now lost two members of his staff this season in three days. Tim Brewster, who was demoted from tight ends coach to analyst midseason, announced his resignation from Sanders’ staff on Sunday.
Sanders lost three recruits in 24 hours this week, including two quarterbacks. He will be busy assembling a staff while adding new blood to his declining roster.
Sounds like a repeat of Sanders’ first offseason as Colorado’s coach. Will the result next season be better?
11/29/2023 Update:
Per The Athletic, coaches are saying Sanders will struggle to hire top assistants this offseason because of Lewis’ demotion this season.
Pac-12 coaches who spoke to The Athletic predicted Deion Sanders would have a hard time recruiting top assistants this offseason after demoting Sean Lewis.
What else did the coaches say about Sanders and the future of Colorado?
More insight: https://t.co/bjD5Y6P8te pic.twitter.com/QlFA0KJM4f
— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) November 29, 2023
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3 Comments
Looks to me like a kid got an opportunity and took advantage of it.
Mr. Siler, while not defending everything egomaniac “Prime” does, I think I succumbed to your irrational hyperbolic click bait. I’ve been following college football longer than you’ve been alive. And the changes going on at Colorado are not that unusual in today’s annual money driven coaching carousel, “amateur” player renumeration schemes and the transfer portal madness. Lighten up…
Good. I questioned why Lewis would leave Kent to become an assistant to such an egomaniac. I quess it was worth it NOW. But in hindsight, I wonder if he regrets leaving KSU. Im sure some good kids went there to play for him. Hopefully he’ll be able to transfer some of those kids. He got screwed over in his college career and I hope he remembers that his priority is coaching good kids to become good men