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Deion Sanders Talks Colorado's Struggles & Julian Lewis' First Start w/ Champ Bailey | CFB on TNT · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: What's up, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Timp Bailey and I'm here in Boulder to sit
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  Speaker 2: down with one of the biggest names in college football,
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  Speaker 2: coach Prime.
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  Speaker 3: This is the day. We've been talking about it all week.
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  Speaker 3: It's time to put up.
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  Speaker 2: This is about leadership and what it.
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  Speaker 3: Takes the same time.
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  Speaker 4: Should keep the same during the distance.
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  Speaker 3: To build something real in today's game.
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  Speaker 2: School, make our dream come true. As a former athlete
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  Speaker 2: a young kid growing up, you were my idol, I appreciator.
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  Speaker 3: Make me cry already, man, Oh yes I am.
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  Speaker 2: There's a different level of attention here anywhere in the country.
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  Speaker 2: You seem like you welcome it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I welcome in. I love it. But sometimes my staff,
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  Speaker 3: coaching staff, and the kids ain't Bill pull got you
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  Speaker 3: come in me shooting me I can have.
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  Speaker 2: Things aren't working right now at Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: Boff's struggling here at Dion Sanders and his Colorado teams trying.
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  Speaker 2: To get with it. Let's talk about the state of
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  Speaker 2: the team now. Things have not panned out like you.
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  Speaker 3: We miss this because we missed on several plays. But
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  Speaker 3: being on this side, I understand the nature and the
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  Speaker 3: process of major college football and everybody wants somebody to blame,
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  Speaker 3: so you gotta say, hey man, it's me. So we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna take it, and I'm gonna take that responsibility. And
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  Speaker 3: I gotta do better. I gotta do better in making
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  Speaker 3: sure these kids are prepared for each game, each play,
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  Speaker 3: each moment. And it's not too big for.
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  Speaker 2: Juju the youngster. The four Star steps to the forefront.
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  Speaker 2: One freshman in particular, I've been watching since his freshman
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  Speaker 2: year in high school, Julian Lewis. Yeah, Juju, it's his
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  Speaker 2: first start in his collegiate career. How crazy is that? Though?
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy? Yeah, yeah, Sometimes in life you're forced into
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  Speaker 3: doing what you should have done. He still got some
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  Speaker 3: hiccups because he's young. I'm still on his butt about
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  Speaker 3: preparation and understanding down and this is just little things.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of leadership qualities that he has to
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  Speaker 3: develop to be that guy that you saw in high school.
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  Speaker 3: But this is a different game. We're gonna winness game.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna win this game bout ten points, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go do it.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing you try to do with these kids
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  Speaker 2: here is turn these boys into men, and the men, right,
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  Speaker 2: what is this consistent thing that people will say about
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  Speaker 2: their experience as the elite come to.
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  Speaker 3: Colorado and lead the standard and the expectation. We do
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  Speaker 3: things in a certain way. We're gonna be professionals. The discipline
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  Speaker 3: is vital here. We talked about love last week, but
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  Speaker 3: how can you develop love in the football? Well, anything
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  Speaker 3: you love you give to you don't give it to me.
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  Speaker 3: Spec the THELM time, practice habits, you know, going hard
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  Speaker 3: to practice, going everyday, and everything you got in the game,
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  Speaker 3: you don't love this. You're looking for cats who love this,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm trying to teach them how to be men. Simultaneous.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna give them everything I got because they've given
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  Speaker 3: me everything they bade. You gonna want this game like
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  Speaker 3: you never wanted to before. You gotta dominate the god in
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  Speaker 3: front of you. Do not give them nothing, make him
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  Speaker 3: take it from them.
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  Speaker 1: Ur Chad. We haven't really seen Dion out there talking
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  Speaker 1: to too many people. What was it like for you
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  Speaker 1: being across.
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  Speaker 2: From you know, he was very candid. I mean whether
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  Speaker 2: we were on camera or off camera. One thing people
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  Speaker 2: have to realize is Prime is about preparation and people
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  Speaker 2: just see the finished product. The confidence, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: aura that comes off as arrogance, but people don't really
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  Speaker 2: see how much he works and prepares and how he
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  Speaker 2: loves on these kids. You know, we have to put
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  Speaker 2: in perspective what he's dealing with. There's about eight plus
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  Speaker 2: players that were on his team last year that are
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  Speaker 2: playing in the NFL. Right now, you lost a lot
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  Speaker 2: of talent at a place like Colorado. How do you
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  Speaker 2: turn that back over and continue to win? Now they
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  Speaker 2: enter the Big Twelve, that gauntlet, and we all know
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  Speaker 2: how tough the Big Twelve is top to bottom. They
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  Speaker 2: probably have one of the toughest schedules in the country
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  Speaker 2: up to this point. I'm telling you it's not the same.
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  Speaker 2: So for him, now he think about the decision to
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  Speaker 2: play Juju's. He's been trying to protect this kid and
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  Speaker 2: his intro into college sports or on this team. But
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  Speaker 2: now you go into this game a mons when you
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  Speaker 2: got two of your tackles out and it almost feels
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  Speaker 2: like it's still premature. But Prime knows he has to
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  Speaker 2: do it. He had, this kid's probably ready to do it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's see if they can go out there and get
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  Speaker 2: it done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm rooting for.
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  Speaker 2: Prime because I know how hardy works, it's just at
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  Speaker 2: a place like Colorado, how do you get the talent?
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  Speaker 2: And as a former player, Prime knows, it's all about
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  Speaker 2: the players. You don't have talent, you're not gonna win games.
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  Speaker 1: To your point, they have faced the second toughest schedule
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  Speaker 1: in the nation thus far through Week ten. The only
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  Speaker 1: team with a harder schedule Florida. So it's not just puff,
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  Speaker 1: it is actuality, and it's a pivotal moment for them
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think every team in every program has down years,
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  Speaker 5: right only difference is primes down years get a bigger
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  Speaker 5: microscope put on them because of who he is, because
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  Speaker 5: of how he arrived in Colorado, and because of the
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  Speaker 5: early successes that he's had. So I think that's what
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  Speaker 5: we're facing here. But if I'm a young kid sitting
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  Speaker 5: at home watching Prime hearing that conversation with Champ, how
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  Speaker 5: could you not want to go play for him? How
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  Speaker 5: could you not want to be a part of that
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  Speaker 5: special organization and that special team and that special thing
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  Speaker 5: that he's built there that is only going to get
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  Speaker 5: better year in the year out.
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  Speaker 4: The biggest thing that I took away from their conversation
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  Speaker 4: is a couple of guys that they brought in they
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  Speaker 4: missed on, And he didn't say that, but he said
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  Speaker 4: that in a roundabout way, you got thirty eight seniors
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  Speaker 4: on this team and a big majority of them or
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  Speaker 4: guys you brought in from the portal, and when you
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  Speaker 4: miss on those, which is equivalent to missing as an
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  Speaker 4: NFL team as a free agent, it really sets you back.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm sure he said that we're going to get
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  Speaker 4: it straight, and so I'm curious to see what will
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  Speaker 4: be the method of building something sustainable moving forward. At
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  Speaker 4: some point, you got to go in and get younger
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  Speaker 4: players to be able to develop them.
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  Speaker 2: One thing he did mention is he knows he can't
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  Speaker 2: go get thirty freshmen and think he's gonna compete. So
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  Speaker 2: when you talk about missing on players, yeah, those transfer
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  Speaker 2: guys have to compete right now and be productive because
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  Speaker 2: you can't develop. You can't afford to risk developing players
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  Speaker 2: and think they're going to stick around. It's just not
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  Speaker 2: the nature of the game.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to see the development of juju today.