When the Colorado Buffaloes hired coach Deion Sanders, most expected a flurry of NFL alumni to follow suit and join his staff. They got a blizzard. Now, Sanders

He now has to prepare to coach a team for the first time in his career without his children in uniform. That personal tie of his family keeping Deion in Boulder is now gone, and perhaps a jump to a more prominent blueblood or even the NFL could be tantalizing.