This is an opinion column.

I’ve heard it. You’ve heard it. You may have said it yourself in the last week as Colorado became the talk of college football, turning the transfer portal into a transport plane while sending old-timers reaching for their smelling salts. The conventional wisdom/sigh of relief went something like this:

Auburn sure got lucky when it didn’t hire Deion Sanders.

Not that Auburn was ever all that interested in enlisting the services of Coach Prime and embracing his coaching profession revolution, which will be televised. A second season of the documentary “Coach Prime,” going behind the scenes to detail his first year at Colorado, is coming to Prime Video.

“There’s a camera everywhere,” Sanders said Wednesday in a lengthy appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show.” He meant that he’s got nothing to hide, that he’s doing exactly what he said he was going to do by flipping the roster of the 1-11 team he inherited, that the method to his madness will be revealed when we see all the “dawgs” headed to Boulder.

Imagine an Auburn head coach showing up to the spring game in a 10-gallon hat with his nickname stitched on the chest of his jacket. The most audacious things we’ve seen Auburn football coaches do is attend a James Taylor concert, give Alabama the fingers (of the number of consecutive wins over the Tide) and toss ballcaps to the media at practice.