On SI’s Josh Sanchez explained succinctly why Deion Sanders won’t be leaving the Colorado football program for the Dallas Cowboys: Coach Prime doesn’t do well with institutional intervention, and Jerry Jones would give him far more of that in a day than he’d get in Boulder over his career.

Not to mention, Sanders is already a legend in Colorado. He’ll always get adulation for what he’s done to the Buffs off, and now on, the field.

“Coach Prime has taken the Buffs from a 1-11 team before he arrived to an 8-2 program in the mix for the College Football Playoff. He is already a Colorado legend, so why leave for a job where an unpredictable owner will hover over you and the pressure to make an immediate impact could hurt your coaching reputation? No smart man would take the job,” Sanchez wrote.

Sanders was linked to the Cowboys on November 15 when Michael Irvin said, with Jones next to him, that he’d have a talk with Dallas’s ownership group during a live interview on the Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight broadcast.

“Everybody loves Mike [Tyson], but everybody loves and respects Jake [Paul] also for what he’s done here. To have an ability to not go the normal route and still end up right here. You give him respect. I give him respect like I give my great guy Deion Sanders, who didn’t go the normal route. Who I’m gonna be in Jerry’s ear about later. That’s just something else we’re talking about,” Irvin said.

Either Michael Irvin went rogue, or Jerry Jones put Deion Sanders, Colorado football over amidst Cowboys rumors

Irvin saying that on the broadcast was shocking and put some doubt on Coach Prime’s future in Boulder into Buffs fans everywhere. Was he given the OK to do so by Jones? Who knows.

But if he was, then Jones may have been looking to put Coach Prime and his Colorado program over. Because Jones and Sanders are very likely on the same page that a union is not happening.