The Colorado football program set a record for most roster turnover in one year in major college football history after Deion Sanders took over at the turn of the new year.

The program faced backlash for their tactics in bringing in dozens of new scholarship players, and watching dozens of others hit the road for greener pastures. Internally, they are not worried about the public opinion, but instead about the job they have to do with the new roster that was constructed by Sanders and his staff.

“The reason it caught a lot of negativity is because he did it,” CU athletic director Rick George told USA TODAY Sports, when asked about why it is such a polarizing topic.

Sanders used a very blunt explanation for describing his overhaul, just eight months after arriving from Jackson State to turn around a struggling Pac-12 bottom feeder.

“Just change the coaches and come in and win? Nah, it don’t work like that,” Sanders said. “So if you’re going to change the coaches, don’t you think you need to change the players? There are people who don’t look at it logically like that. But you don’t take over a business and don’t change the personnel.”

Deion certainly did plenty of personnel changing, as he brought in his two sons, Shedeur and Shilo Sanders, to play QB and safety. They were part of the nine Jackson State transfers, in addition to 25 transfers from Power Five schools that made up the 47 total new arrivals.

The Buffs will see if the transfer changeover can make a difference when they visit 17th ranked TCU on Saturday afternoon as 21-point underdogs. Anything will look like an improvement after the horrendous 1-11 season they had last year, and Deion is not likely to change his tactics anytime soon.