Some Colorado soccer students are scratching their heads in Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter who retire their numbers.
The dynamic duo, which put the university again on the map, is having its numbers, 2 and 12, respectively, retired this weekend, less than a week before they are taken, probably among the top five, in the NFL draft.
The conversation has become polarizing, and the former star of Cu Chad Brown intervened.
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The Colorado Campo Marshal Buffalos Shedeur Sanders (2) with the open receptor Travis Hunter (12) against the Arizona Wildcats in the Arizona Stadium. (Mark J. Rebila/images imagn)
“Everything is black or white: or I am an old and jealous enemy who needs to cry with the tears of my old people, or I am right in ‘I cannot believe that the prime coach does this,” Brown told TMZ Sports.
But he believes that “the truth is somewhere in the middle.”
Brown made it clear that both athletes should be considered large of the program of all time.
“While Travis certainly deserves his flowers and deserves to retire to his number, to forget the older era in university football in CU, of what I was part of when we won a national championship, he also feels like a light,” Brown said. “Then, two things can be true at the same time. These guys deserve their flowers, but men in the past also deserve them.
Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter (IMAGN)
“I don’t say they don’t deserve it. I am saying that there are many other deserving players that should probably be the first.”
Brown also pointed out that the Colorado bar is not necessarily low. Only four numbers had been previously removed by the program. The most recent was the number 19 of Rashaan Salam in 2017. Before that, the number 11 of Bobby Anderson was removed in 1970.
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“If we were a program that delivered these things all the time, I think that I and many other students would see this through a very, very different lens,” Brown said. “But considering how incredibly conservative we have been, and now to do so with two types that are still on the campus, their graduation class has not even left the campus, it feels a bit strange, a little premature. And not having some type of waiting period, so as not to do any procedure, norms established with this, only very strangely surprised.”
Brown added that he believes that “most of the” former buffalo “feel the same as me.”
Sanders and Hunter followed the father of Sanders, Deion, from the state of Jackson, and although his first campaign ended in disappointment, the second season was much better. At the end of the season, the buffalos controlled their own destination for university American football playoffs, but a loss for Kansas helped kill those hopes.
Shedeur Sanders, on the left, and Travis Hunter of the Colorado Buffaloes talk to the media at the Zouk nightclub in Resorts World Las Vegas on July 21, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Louis Grasse/Getty Images)
Hunter, the two -way star, won the Heisman Trophy, and Hunter and Sanders are in the conversation to be the second and third selection of the Draft next week.
