Deion Sanders needs more face time. Just not the kind on his phone.

“It sure helped CU when he first got the job,” Brandon Huffman, national recruiting editor at 247Sports.com, told me Tuesday . “But reliance on the transfer portal is dangerous.”

And in Boulder, three years into The Coach Prime Era, the Buffs are still living dangerously on the recruiting front. The early prep National Signing Day period opens Wednesday morning. As of late Tuesday afternoon, per Huffman and the 247Sports database, the Buffs had just 10 firm high school commitments lined up for the Class of 2026.

Among the 16 members of the Big 12, only Oklahoma State (four) had secured fewer. And the Cowboys have been without a head coach since Sept. 23, when they fired longtime boss Mike Gundy.

“I’m of the minds

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