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Deion Sanders Is SI’s 2023 Sportsperson of the Year
SI.com ^

Posted on 11/30/2023 10:00:42 AM PST by bigdaddy45

There are numbers that define the Prime Effect upon the University of Colorado in Boulder, a place that hasn’t always had a chummy relationship with football. First-year applications are up 26.4% year over year; Black or African American applications are up 80.6%; nonresident applications are up 29.8%; and international applications are up 38.4% from 97 countries, including 16 that didn’t have any applications last year. While those numbers cannot be definitively linked to Sanders, others can be: September sales at the school’s online team store were up 2,544% over the same month in 2022. Every home game in 50,183-seat Folsom Field was sold out for the first time in school history.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: deion; sanders
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1 posted on 11/30/2023 10:00:42 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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Losing record. Butt kissing somewhere.


2 posted on 11/30/2023 10:03:21 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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Sportsperson of the year...more clicks on ESPN and si website than anyone else.
What a dumb accolade. If UC had gone 9-1....maybe.


3 posted on 11/30/2023 10:07:36 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: bigdaddy45

They must have voted in September.


4 posted on 11/30/2023 10:09:47 AM PST by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither. Democrats are the party of sore losers and pedophiles.)
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Yup- except for last year CU has won 4 or more games every season since 2015 and none of those coaches won any type of award


5 posted on 11/30/2023 10:11:43 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: bigdaddy45
4 - 8 record qualifies for Sportsman of the Year????? LOL!

I'd nominate Harbaugh for bringing electronic surveillance to college football.

6 posted on 11/30/2023 10:12:07 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Don’t see it for what he’s done this year. Ok, Colorado went from 1 win in 2022 to 4 wins in 2023, that’s an improvement, but not what you’d call great.

He had 47 Colorado football players transfer to other schools after the 2023 Spring Game, literally lost half the team before the season started. If he is successful in recruiting and the portal for the upcoming year, then 6 or 7 wins would be a good season. Maybe give some awards then.


7 posted on 11/30/2023 10:12:43 AM PST by Roadrunner383 (m)
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To: bigdaddy45

1-8 in conference and 4-8 overall. Laughable. He should lose his job.


8 posted on 11/30/2023 10:15:51 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: bigdaddy45

Truly AMAZING!
In the year of the TRANNY a straight Christian family man is SI’s sportsperson of the YEAR?


9 posted on 11/30/2023 10:16:53 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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LOL. If Deion Sanders was white he would be fighting to keep his job.

Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations.

10 posted on 11/30/2023 10:21:56 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: gop4lyf
They must have voted in September.

Kinda like they way the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Obeyme.

11 posted on 11/30/2023 10:23:59 AM PST by Living Free in NH (now in Florida and loving life)
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He did bring a lot of attention and excitement to Colorado. But I’d expect he’ll leave as soon as his sons are drafted by NFL teams, so there’s definitely a time limit.


12 posted on 11/30/2023 10:25:41 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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Amen! I like your post.Deion brings more than the three wins. He brings a great workman-like attitude and a huge infusion of spirit. And so far, despite the hoopla, I don’t see an egomaniac pounding his chest about how great he is.


13 posted on 11/30/2023 10:27:45 AM PST by EliRoom8
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To: bigdaddy45

I am in agreement with the award. Prime has brought tremendous interest into NCAA FB.

I am amazed at the disdain shown in previous posts.


14 posted on 11/30/2023 10:28:05 AM PST by Migraine
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To: bigdaddy45

...because everyone gets a trophy - especially those the Left wants to exploit.


15 posted on 11/30/2023 10:30:24 AM PST by simpson96
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To: bigdaddy45

Media like SI touted Sanders as the Second Coming for several weeks, and now he is the Man of the Year despite a mediocre record, so there is a circularity about the whole thing. This is an insult to people far more deserving. It is more a testament to the power of the media to distort reality for their own purposes.


16 posted on 11/30/2023 10:38:37 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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For what! Being a black man in sports?


17 posted on 11/30/2023 10:40:29 AM PST by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: bigdaddy45

Well he did manage to win last place in the Pac 12. Did they give him coach of the year too?


18 posted on 11/30/2023 10:45:58 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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Wait, whoa, what?

1-8 in the Pac-12. LMAO!
19 posted on 11/30/2023 11:23:49 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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Love him or hate him, he brings excitement.

Watched him play at Doak Campbell a few times. Did not disappoint.


20 posted on 11/30/2023 11:31:00 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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