Through the first four weeks of the college football season, the Colorado Buffaloes and Deion Sanders have constantly been making headlines.
The Colorado State game brought about some back and forth with Coach Prime and Rams head coach Jay Norvell, and Oregon head coach Dan Lanning had some pregame comments as well.
During an interview, Coach Prime was asked to give his thoughts on why opposing coaches are taking so many jabs at him. While Sanders didn’t exactly give a straightforward answer, it was clear that he knows why (h/t Brent Schrotenboer of USA TODAY Sports).
“You know why that is. Just say it. Don’t try to get me and provoke me to say it. Just say it, man. I mean, some of y’all gotta have some balls sooner or later to just say what it is. You can’t provoke me to say it. I’m not built like that.”
Sanders said this same thing happened to him when he was a player, and now it’s happening again now that he’s a head coach.
“Even when I played, everybody thought I talked. I never talked (negatively about opponents). I just really had a good time with the media, and I talked about me. I never spoke of my opponent. You can’t find one clip of me ever speaking negatively or about my opponent, period. I don’t believe in that. I don’t condone that.”
With the USC Trojans coming to town, it will be worth watching to see if Lincoln Riley says anything about Coach Prime and the Buffs, although he likely won’t. Then again, who saw it coming from Norvell?
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