Deion Sanders didn’t mince words after Colorado’s 16-point loss at Houston. The Buffaloes’ head coach walked into the postgame press conference stunned, frustrated, and brutally honest.
“For words I just spoke to the team…several thoughts that came to mind is no one could have told me that this game is going to turn out like this with the week of preparation that we had, with the the meetings that we had, with the film study and the preparation that we had. No one could have told me that it was going to turn out like this,” Sanders said.
The defeat pushed Colorado to 14-14 overall since Sanders took over in Boulder, a sobering mark for a program that opened with so much promise. On Friday night, Sanders admitted his emotions nearly got the best of him. “Oh Lord, thank you…Thanking God for not allowing me to say what I wanted to say. Wasn’t good. Wasn’t good at all.”
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Sanders didn’t hesitate to hold himself accountable. “I take full responsibility of the foolishness that went on out there that we tried to name football. We were not struggling, we were getting [our] butt kicked…you don’t have to be polite with me. You don’t have to sugarcoat it. I come from a mama who kept it a buck with me. So, let’s keep it a buck. We got our butts kicked.”
The Buffaloes, who struggled in all phases, were outplayed and outmuscled in the second half by Houston. “We we’re not successful on either side of the ball as we would wish to be. What you see, I see. Sometimes what you see, I probably saw it a few seconds early and I kind of heard it going down and I knew what was going to transpire.”
As Sanders closed, he challenged his team to respond. “We we got to do better, man. We we a much better team. We got to do better. Nobody could have told me that was going to go down like that.”
The Buffaloes return home for back-to-back Saturday late-night kickoffs against Wyoming and BYU. Both games will begin at 10:15 p.m. ET.
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