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Deion Sanders doubles down on future at Colorado: “I’m not going anywhere”
Many people keep wondering if Deion Sanders will make a jump to the NFL after his sons leave Colorado next year. The topic has been brought up numerous times since the end of last season, but the answer hasn’t changed over time. The Colorado Buffaloes coach is content being in Boulder and wants to be there for the long haul.
It’s been no secret and Sanders wants people to take him for his word. The Hall-of-Famer went on the record about his future with All The Smoke with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. He didn’t adjust anything and reiterated his love being at the base of the Flatirons (16:00 mark).
“My kids, man, they’ve been there every bit of the way, Sanders said. “And most people ask me, “what are you going to do when they’re out ? You know y’all going to Pros together?” I said you know what, a real father leads his sons, right? He doesn’t follow them. So, I’m good. I’ll be him. I ain’t going nowhere. I’m straight. I love Boulder, Colorado. And I cannot wait until they go into the NFL and do their thing. But I’m not following my kids anywhere. I lead my kids places.”
Sanders was asked about his vision in the foreseeable future with a five-to-ten year window. Again, nothing changes with a summed up response. “The kids will be in the pros and I’ll be here. You see those mountains behind us? You’ll see my head up there,” Sanders said.
Deion Sanders’ sons buy him a new home in Colorado
It seems more or less that Coach Prime wants to follow in the footsteps of his late mentor Bobby Bowden. Establish roots with a program and stay there to impact the lives and future careers of his players. It was a quality that made the former FSU legend successful. He was still involved in an unofficial capacity with the Seminoles program up until his final months.
Sanders has said one of his dreams was to be the first black head coach to win a national championship. If you build it, that might come.
A sculpture that currently sits inside a now-closed Aurora recreation center may get a new lease on life if the Aurora City Council approves a move.
The Beck Recreation Center closed last summer, and part of the building is scheduled for demolition. The remaining portion will serve as a golf shop for the nearby SpringHill Golf Course. That means a huge glass and metal sculpture installed in 2014 needs to be moved.
On Monday, Aurora’s city council will vote on a proposal to move it to Tallyn’s Reach Library. The artist, Reven Marie Swanson, has art installations across the country, and even some overseas.
“Without sounding like I’m bragging, my artwork is in 26 states, 38 municipalities in Colorado and in three countries, ” said Swanson.
She’s a sculptor who combines metalwork and glasswork to create unique pieces, like the one that currently sits inside the shuttered Beck Recreation Center.
“It’s called ‘Under the Swimming Pool,’ and it’s the idea about when you walk into the vestibule. It felt like I could create something that you could actually be under the water and looking up through the surface of the water as if you’re walking on the bottom of the pool,” said Swanson.
In the summer of 2025, structural issues shut the doors at Beck for good, and since then, Swanson’s sculpture has been stuck there.
“I was a little nervous because city governments are very quick to do what they call ‘de-access’ artwork. And I was really hoping that this piece wouldn’t get de-accessed,” said Swanson.
Luckily, the City of Aurora has other plans. They want to move the piece from Beck to Tallyn’s Reach Library.
Swanson says it should be a simple move, but the sculpture, which hangs from the ceiling, will have to be attached to the library’s ceiling in a new way, using new materials. But Swanson says she likes the new location.
“It’s a really beautiful building. It’s got wonderful light, which is going to interact really nicely with the glass,” said Swanson.
And she is glad it will live on, continuing to inspire and enchant Aurorans.
“When I walked into the library, the librarian, she was like, ‘I am so excited to get this art!’ And it makes an artist feel good. Like you accomplished something,” said Swanson.
The proposal, which will be heard at Monday’s city council meeting, is estimated by the city to cost between $15,000 and $25,000, primarily because of the cost of materials needed to suspend it at the new location. The initial cost to install it at Beck Recreation Center in 2014 was nearly $35,000 dollars.
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