Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders was said to be “exasperated” following his team’s 24-21 loss to the BYU Cougars on Saturday night at Folsom Field. USA Today’s Brent Schrotenboer believes he wasn’t bothered.
Just “exasperated.”
“Colorado football coach Deion Sanders didn’t get too hot or bothered about what happened to his team late Saturday night against No. 24 BYU,” Schrotenboer wrote.
“After blowing an early lead and losing the game, 24-21, he expressed gratitude for the air conditioning at the postgame news conference and even said he wasn’t ‘highly upset’ about the way things went for his Buffaloes.
“He sounded exasperated. His team is now 2-3 overall and 0-2 in the Big 12 Conference. But he insisted it wasn’t that bad.”
Certainly, Sanders sounded exasperated when he claimed that “sometimes it felt like the moment was just too big for some of our athletes,” and that “they gotta do something about that.” But at whom?
Probably the quarterback who threw an interception on the final drive with 59 seconds left on the clock in the fourth quarter and a chance to march down the field and tie or win the game. Kaidon Salter, come on down. You’ve been called out by Coach Prime.
Salter didn’t help his own case when he claimed, “Having to sit a game kind of messed up my head a lil bit,” postgame, while referring to his benching during a 31-7 win over the Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens and for the team’s 36-20 loss to the Houston Cougars. Ryan Staub took the reins for those games.
At this point, it feels like Coach Prime prefers Staub, but he can’t keep going back and forth at the position – unless proving a point that the team is worse off without his son, Shedeur, under center was the reason he came back for a third year without his son.