Deion Sanders seems to respond to anonymous Pac-12 coach
One anonymous Pac-12 football coach expressed his feelings about what's going on at Colorado this week. While it's rare to hear about off-season squabbles between coaches, it's even more uncommon with a first-year head coach.
"It feels like a lose-lose for Colorado with Prime," the coach told On3. "Either he's gonna be really good really fast and leave for another gig, which, looking at that roster doesn't seem possible. The alternative is that they're gonna be bad, and they'll end up firing him in a big circus."
"Jackson State was so good because they could get FBS-level guys and beat on FCS rosters. That won't happen here. They're not a good roster right now. How does he handle losing big? We haven't seen that."
It's not hard to see how the hate for Sanders is real. He's reviving a nearly-dead league and bringing a national spotlight to Colorado for the first time in over 25 years. Who would want to discourage his progress? Especially when that means more attention to other Pac-12 teams. It's either jealousy or hated. Either way, Prime is flipping the script on the conventional ways of traditional college football.
Sanders seemed to issue an indirect response to his Pac-12 peer on Sunday morning.
"The Change I speak of ain't about me, it's about y'all. I'm a change agent. My calling is to bring people together that necessarily wouldn't be together, to give a opportunity to the whosoever-wills,to speak Truth when a lie has been the normalcy, to stand in the midst of the storms for what God has shown & told me and to build young men into real responsible men with Character & Reason.
"This is why they are mad because when they look closely, they really understand it ain't about me it's about the multitudes and that what they're afraid of. 1 man building like minded men & and women into a nation of equality, love, consistency & and understanding. That's why we call out to Smart, Tough, Fast, Discipline young men with Character. God said start right there.
You can't stop me from loving my team, and you can't stop them from loving me back. I love them like they are all my Sons!"
Sanders and the program welcome the attention. We're weeks away from his Power Five debut and seeing how him and the new-look Buffaloes fare in the Pac-12. It will be interesting to watch it all unfold.
