USC coach Lincoln Riley voiced his support for Colorado’s Deion Sanders on Friday amid an offseason where the first-year Buffaloes coach faced backlash over his extensive roster overhaul in Boulder.
Speaking to reporters during Pac-12 Media Day, Riley addressed Sanders’s ability to rebuild and fortify his roster within the guidelines of the NCAA’s rules. Over the last eight months, CU has retained just 10 scholarship holdovers while adding 75 new players, including 50-plus transfers, and losing over 40 players to the transfer portal since Sanders was hired on Dec. 3.
“I give [Sanders] credit,” Riley said, according to FanNation’s Buffs Beat. “We all know what the rules are. We all know what the parameters are. And our job is to build the best teams that we can for the universities that give us the opportunity to do it. No excuses.”
