- Deion Sanders has been rebuilding his roster after a 3-9 season, securing 42 commitments from transfer players.
- Sanders confirmed his relationship with actress Karrueche Tran on the Season 2 debut of his talk show.
- Sanders uses his streaming talk show as a unique recruiting tool to connect with potential players and their families.
Colorado football coach Deion Sanders has kept a relatively low public profile since his third season in Boulder ended five consecutive losses and a 3-9 record. Unlike last January, after his team finished 9-4, he isn’t rumored to be in the mix to coach an NFL team and didn’t go on television talk shows to promote his reality TV series.
Sanders instead has been building his next roster behind the scenes but finally showed up on camera on Thursday Jan. 22 to share some news about his love life and give a summary of his recruiting efforts in Boulder. Sanders did this during the Season 2 debut of his streaming talk show “We Got Time Today,” co-hosted by Rocsi Diaz.
“This offseason has been treating me really well,” Sanders said. “We’re tearing it up in the (transfer) portal. We’re building something extraordinary, extra ordinary, extraordinary. And I’m feeling so darn good. Rocs, I hadn’t felt this good in quite some time. Like, really, like, like my hands, and I don’t even have a manicure like I usually do, because I got to go get it tomorrow, by the way. But I’m good. I got my hands in and on everything.”
Sanders recently received commitments from 42 incoming transfer players, offsetting more than 35 Colorado players who are transferring out, including star offensive lineman Jordan Seaton. Colorado’s transfer class ranks No. 22 nationally, according to 247Sports.
Deion Sanders opens up about love life
Diaz later prodded Sanders, 58, about his relationship with actress and influencer Karrueche Tran, who has been at his side during his battle back from bladder cancer surgery last year. Sanders previously hasn’t commented much about it publicly after an announced breakup with longtime fiancée Tracey Edmonds in December 2023. Diaz traced Sanders’ new relationship with Tran to her appearance during Season 1 of their Tubi show in November 2024.
“Can we set the record straight?” Diaz asked Sanders. “I did not hook you two up. I had no parts in hooking y’all up. Everybody thinks that, you know, I had my hand in it. But she (Tran) did come to the show for my birthday. And you so slick. You brought her there for my birthday, but you secretly wanted to shoot your shot.”
“First of all, my shot don’t miss,” Sanders replied. “And I didn’t have to bring somebody there to shoot a shot at close range. My shot, you know, I’m pretty darn good.”
“Y’all look very cute together,” Diaz said. “I’m super happy for you guys.”
“You know what?” Sanders said. “Good woman, good person, has added so much to my life and my days and my moments. And I’m smiling.”
Deion Sanders recruiting through talk show?
Season 1 of the show debuted in November 2024, raising questions about how Sanders had time to host a weekly entertainment talk show in the middle of his team’s push to win a Big 12 Conference championship.
Diaz asked him about it then. Sanders responded it part of his recruiting strategy – to reach potential recruits and their families in ways that other coaches can’t.
“Well, this is like a form of recruiting for me, because a lot of the parents are … our viewers with Tubi,” Sanders said then.
Incidentally, the month of January is mostly a “contact” period on the college football recruiting calendar when head coaches can make in-person contact with potential recruits off-campus. Sanders doesn’t do that kind of off-campus recruiting, but his reach through shows like this connect with an audience in the larger culture. His guests on his Season 2 debut were comedian Loni Love and music producer Jermaine Dupri.
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