Coming off a big road win over UCF on Saturday, Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffalos are one of the hottest teams in college football. Yet, the compliments the team has been paid by ESPN have been backhanded. Analyst David Hale , who questioned the Buffs’ validity , is one example of that.
Hale compared the Buffs to a “bank heist” and criticized “Coach Prime” for prioritizing his A-list friends over Sanders’ own players while “praising” the polarizing head coach. “The Buffaloes are basically what it would look like if Deion Sanders planned a bank heist by hiring a getaway driver in a Ferrari, dressing a bag man in a tuxedo and assuming the rest would work itself out,” Hale wrote , “And somehow, it’s all working out. The Buffs demolished UCF 48-21 behind three touchdowns from Shedeur Sanders and another do-it-all performance from Travis Hunter.
Colorado doesn’t run the ball, doesn’t play great defense, doesn’t protect the QB.” Sanders has done things his way, while ditching the norms of college football like “cutting 20 players to make room for DJ Khaled’s entourage on the sidelines,” Hale wrote, tongue in cheek, overstating Sanders’ ties to the famous DJ, record executive and producer. Meanwhile, few have been as critical of Sanders as Paul Finebaum, the network’s controversial college football analyst, who needled his nemesis while confessing Sanders has the Buffs humming.
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