On Monday, Keyshawn Johnson said on Undisputed that his source's source was told by an Oregon coach that the amount of intel the Ducks' staff received ahead of their 42-6 blowout of Colorado was unprecedented.
"I spoke to somebody in the coaching fraternity right after the game, and they know some people that coach at Oregon," Johnson said. "And they said, 'I've never heard from another assistant coach of how much information was being given to that staff."
On Tuesday, Deion Sanders was asked about Johnson's claim.
“That’s ordinary,” Sanders said. “That happens every week. That’s not the Oregon game. That’s life. I want our coaches to understand that we’re not just playing against a team, we’re playing against all of college football. It ain’t too many people lined up to see us dominate and see us win.”
While I can't speak for the college football coaching community, I can say with absolute certainty that lots of people are lined up to see Colorado dominate and win.
Sanders has brought in an entirely new audience to college football, which has in turn driven record interest to the sport. The audience has grown for all four Colorado games thus far, topping 10 million for Saturday's game. In fact, according to ESPN Saturday was the most-watched non-rivalry Saturday in college football history, in terms of total minutes consumed.
The Coach Prime story isn't the entire reason for that, but it's the biggest individual reason. And the reason why interest in Colorado has endured and grown the way it has is because the Buffaloes are exceeding expectations -- they're winning. The story would simply not be as interesting if Colorado were 1-3 instead of 3-1.
It remains to be seen if and when interest in CU plateaus, but it's a fact that the audience will grow even larger if the Buffaloes manage to remain in the Pac-12 championship hunt into November.
And, sure, in turn that would drive a large group of people -- many of them undoubtedly FBS coaches -- even harder against Coach Prime and his merry band of disruptors.
But the group rooting for Colorado, the group who can't peel their eyes away from the circus, would be much, much larger.
“You’ve got to understand: David’s got to have a Goliath,” he said. “If David don’t have a Goliath, he don’t get to use his stones.”