Malachi Coleman cancels visit

Oregon should out recruit him and Utah will definitely have better coaching.  It will be interesting.  I'm not rooting against him but not really for him either.  Could he bounce to Mississippi State next year or the next if Leach's replacement flames out?  Yep. Not sure that is coaching up though.

I wouldn’t go that far.  He will attract talent - but, the playoff - that’s a top 12 team.  Will the PAC-12 place three teams in the expanded playoff?  It’s not something I would bet on.

Oregon (Nike), Utah, and Washington are three clear hurdles in the PAC-12.

The SEC, B1G, and Clemson aren’t going too far away.  FSU is entering the competition in the ACC.  The Big 12 will offer a team - possibly two.

It will be interesting to watch.  I don’t have a horse in the race.

Agreed. Starting in 2024 with USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, there is the potential to have an easy road to the playoff from the Pac-12 IF you win the conference. Sanders has the potential to outrecruit the rest of the remaining Pac-12 except for maybe Oregon.

Denard, Jackson State had FBS talent, playing an FCS schedule / conference.  I don’t know if Jackson State even played a single FBS school while he was their head coach.

(added) - Jackson State did play at UL Monroe in 2021.  ULM is an FBS school in the Sun Belt conference.  Jackson State lost to ULM.

And, the 247 Team Talent is also interesting.  Though the ‘21 Jackson State team had less “overall talent” than ULM - the average “rating” for Jackson State was 86 points, whereas ULM’s rating was 80.

I think Sanders can coach a bit; he was apparently on the short list for the TCU spot until they settled on Dykes.  

But the thing is his success thus far has really been based on talent acquisition and in the HBCU that's significant.  But in the Pac-12 it's going to be tough to accumulate enough talent, and have that talent gel enough, to make that leap in a year or two.  Yes they'll be better than Stanford and Cal but after that who knows.  Arizona St. and Arizona both have some talent, Wazzou had some injury issues but seem to have a foundation, and I'm more of a believer in Oregon St. than some because they've been slowly building to this level for some years now.  UCLA honestly feels like a team that might take a step back; they were really senior-heavy and relied on the portal a fair bit to fill holes.  Doesn't take a lot for those holes to burst with new players coming in.

The thing with Sanders is that when stuff goes wrong he tends to bail.  He ran that shady prep school and bolted when the state started investigating it, leaving players and families in a lurch.  He apparently strangled and kicked multiple business partners over disagreements.  It sounds like some JSU players were find with him leaving and if so that's good, but there have been other reports that players didn't really know what was happening until they saw it on ESPN or online.  He's trying to make a splash in Boulder and that's good but CU isn't a place that invests a ton in their football program (Mel Tucker said as much when he left) and even if there's renewed focus with money it takes some time for that to ramp up to the degree Sanders probably wants it to be.  So is he ready to really build a program up and deal with multi-year rebuilds and struggles?  Maybe, but until he shows that I think there's some real skepticism about how he's going to handle those struggles.  

I'm not saying he would--people like Tom Brady and Deion Sanders almost never sign up for coaching, especially in college. The work is so much more than what someone at that level usually needs to do at that point in their life. I don't see Tom Brady walking away from his 10-year $375 million deal at FOX Sports to talk on TV. That is what makes Deion Sanders at Colorado so unique.

very fair take.  i'm sure he can coach some, but i agree with you SS33, most likely lots more sizzle than steak.