Coach Prime isn’t worried about a contract extension with Colorado
Mar 18, 2025, 11:04 AM
A hot topic surrounding the Colorado Buffaloes all offseason has been whether or not Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders will sign a contract extension with the university. There have been rumors about number disparities and how much NIL money Prime wants for the football program, but nothing has been confirmed.
On Monday, Prime spoke to the media for the first time this spring, and quickly answered the question about his potential contract extension to stay in Boulder.
“I don’t know. I ain’t worried about me,” Sanders said. “Let’s get everyone else straight first, then I’m good.”
Is he talking about paying his assistants more? Or the players? Or someone else?
However, on “The Morning Run” last week, Prime hinted at what he wants from the university to get the deal done.
The man who revived Colorado Football is heading into the third year of the five-year contract he signed when he was hired back in 2022. In 2025, he will make $5.9 million, with a potential for more with performance-based incentives. This offseason, many questions were in the air if Prime would stay in Boulder when his name was tied to the Dallas Cowboys’ head coaching job before they went in a different direction.
One aspect that could potentially be holding Sanders’ contract extension is how Colorado chooses to allocate its funds from the new House Settlement, which paves the way for universities to directly pay their student athletes. The settlement, pending final approval in April, would set a cap just north of $20 million for schools to use to pay athletes from all sports, not just football.
Could Prime want more money to be spent on the football program while other higher-ups at the university want to spread the wealth in a different way? It’s definitely a possibility.
For now, Sanders is focused on getting his team ready for spring ball, as the team is just over a month away from the 2025 Black & Gold Spring Football Game. Sanders mentioned the possibility of revamping the game by bringing another team into town to compete against, similar to the NFL and how the league has joint practices in the summer.
