Colorado legend Chad Brown‘s clearly not a fan of his alma mater making the quick dedication to retire Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter‘s jersey numbers … telling TMZ Sports activities actions he finds the choice “odd.”

The varsity revealed earlier this month they’re putting away the Nos. 2 and 12 eternally in honor of the most recent Buffaloes’ efforts on the gridiron … nevertheless Brown instructed us Friday he doesn’t love the switch.

The earlier Buffs linebacker — who left the varsity in 1993 — talked about every guys are positively deserving of the glory … nevertheless so are a bunch of others who’ve been prepared far longer.

“If we’ve been a program which handed these things out regularly,” he talked about, “I imagine myself and a lot of totally different former alumni would check out this via a extremely, very utterly totally different lens.”

“Nevertheless considering how extraordinarily conservative now we’ve been, and now to do it to 2 guys, who’re every on campus nonetheless — their graduating class hasn’t even left campus however — it feels a bit odd.”

Brown simply isn’t alone throughout the sentiment … he talked about he’s spoken to over a dozen former Buffaloes, and “most actually really feel the an identical method that I do.”

In precise reality, the backlash grew so loud … Deion Sanders on Thursday actually addressed it — and ripped it apart.

Brown nonetheless instructed us he would have so much moderately seen his outdated teammate, Deon Figures, score the glory ahead of Coach Prime’s son.

“For a further No. 2 to get in sooner than him,” Brown talked about, “I’m not saying that Shedeur simply isn’t deserving or worthy of that type of dialog — however after I’ll honor a No. 2, it may be Deon Figures first.”