Why Colorado is going crazy this weekend for new coach Deion Sanders

BOULDER, Colo. – Kavosiey Smoke spent five years as a running back at Kentucky after growing up in the Deep South and receiving scholarship offers from several football programs in the Southeastern Conference, including South Carolina and Florida.

His hometown is Wetumpka, Alabama. His sports hero is Bo Jackson, the two-sport icon from Auburn.

But this week he’s changing direction and heading west – to Folsom Field at Colorado to watch the first spring football game under new head coach Deion Sanders.

“I’ve got to get around my boys,” said Smoke, who graduated from Kentucky and is joining Sanders’ team in Boulder this summer as a graduate transfer. “I wish I was playing, man. I would have…