Deion Sanders’ postgame comments after Colorado’s 24–21 home setback to BYU carried a mix of respect, frustration, and urgency.
“Utmost respect for the coaching staff over there, especially head coach (Kalani Sitake) and this wonderful father that I’ve had the pleasure to meet twice now,” Sanders opened. “Disciplined team, fundamentally sound, fundamentally sound team. Played their butts off. Young quarterback is phenomenal. Proud of him. He did what he had to do to win the game. He made the plays that he was supposed to make to win the game.”
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Still, the loss stung. “Sometimes when it seems like you had more talent, but you didn’t quite win the game, it makes it feel somewhat awkward. We had opportunities, tremendous amount of opportunities, but nevertheless, we didn’t cash in on it. And sometimes it felt like the moment was just too big for some of our athletes and they got to do something about that.”
Sanders said the fourth-quarter woes came down to execution, not scheme: “We had opportunities. We just didn’t make it happen…It’s the same defense. It’s not like you were tricked or anything. It was there. We just didn’t make it happen.”
On the six penalties Colorado committed, Sanders tried to keep perspective: “Yeah, we had six penalties. Is that a total? Yeah, I think it’s better than last year. I’m trying to find light, man, in a dark tunnel. Penalties will happen. It’s the timing of some of the penalties. That’s the problem. The timing.”
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