Some Colorado -Football alumer scrapes the head of the Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter who have their number of retirement.
The dynamic duo that put the university back on the map has their number, 2 and 12 respectively, withdrew this weekend, less than a week before being taken, probably in the top five, in the NFL draft.
The conversation has become polarizing and former CU star Chad Brown weighs in.
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Colorado Buffalos Quarterback Shedeur Sanders (2) with the wide receiver Travis Hunter (12) against Arizona Wildcats at Arizona Stadium. (Mark J. Refilas/Imag images)
“Everything is black or white – either I’m a jealous, old hater who needs to cry in my old man tears, or I’m exactly right in ‘I can’t believe Coach Prime would do this,'” Brown told TMZ Sports.
But he thinks “the truth is a place in the middle there.”
Brown made it clear that both athletes should be considered an all-time program greatness.
“While Travis certainly deserves his flowers and deserves to have his number retired, to forget the greatest era of college football at CU, which I was a part of when we won a national championship, it also feels like a weak,” Brown said. “So two things can be true at once. These guys deserve their flowers, but guys in the past deserve them too.
Skyeseur Sanders and Travis Hunter (IMagn)
“I’m not saying they don’t deserve it. I say there are plenty of other deserved players who were likely to come first.”
Brown also noted that the bar for Colorado is not necessarily low. Only four numbers had previously been retired by the program. The latest was Rashaan Salaam’s No. 19 in 2017. Before that, Bobby Anderson’s No. 11 retired in 1970.
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“If we were a program that distributed these things all the time, I think I and a lot of other past alumens would look at this through a very, very different lens,” Brown said. “But considering how incredibly conservative we have been, and now to do it for two guys who are both on campus still – their graduate class has not even left campus yet – it feels a little weird, a little too early. And not having some kind of wait, not to perform any type of procedure, established norms with this, it just strikes a lot of people as very, very strange.”
Brown added that he thinks “most” former buffalos “feel the same way I do.”
Sanders and Hunter followed Sanders’ father, Deion, from Jackson State, and while their first campaign ended in disappointment, the second season was much better. Late in the season, the buffaloes controlled their own destiny for college -football -ending games, but a loss for Kansas helped kill these hopes.
Shedeur Sanders, Left and Travis Hunter from Colorado Buffaloes talk with the media at Zouk Night Club at Resorts World Las Vegas July 21, 2023 in Las Vegas. (Louis Grasse/Getty Images)
Hunter, the two -way star, won Heisman Trophy, and Hunter and Sanders are in the conversation to be the second and third election of the draft next week.
