It didn’t have an impact on the game, but it certainly had an impact on Colorado coach Deion Sanders.

On Friday night, Sanders coached at CU for the first time without his two sons, Shedeur and Shilo, who have graduated. That meant it was the first time Coach Prime couldn’t do his traditional pre-game walk with Shedeur, but sophomore receiver Isaiah Hardge stepped in.

Prior to the Buffs’ 27-20 loss to Georgia Tech at Folsom Field, Hardge went up to his coach and said, “Let’s take a walk.”

“I was in tears taking the walk with Hardge, because he has that much love, that much compassion for me,” Coach Prime said. “He said, ‘Let’s take this walk.’ That was a wonderful moment, man. It’s a moment that I would never forget, never, because it’s not like I initiated. He came to me and said, Let’

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