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Deion Sanders delivers hard truth about American society
The Comeback ^ | Sep 18, 2023 | DJ Byrnes

Posted on 09/18/2023 9:41:26 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Colorado Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders is one of the hottest coaches in football at the moment. The Buffaloes are currently 3-0 and ranked No. 19 in the Associated Press poll with a huge game at Oregon coming this weekend.

But it wasn’t always clear that Sanders was headed for success in Boulder. He took plenty of criticism from posting his first meeting with his team. In no uncertain terms, he told the team that he was bringing his “Louis Vitton luggage” with him from Jackson and any player that didn’t like it should hit the portal.

Over 40 players took up Sanders on that offer. But so far, Sanders’ tough love has paid dividends for a program that won one game in the season prior to his arrival.

Sanders didn’t apologize for his method of operation in a recent interview with 60 Minutes.

“I think truth is good for the kids. We’re so busy lying we don’t even recognize the truth no more in society. We want everybody to feel good. That’s not the way life is,” he said, according to Fox News. “Now, it is my job to make sure I have what we need to win. That makes a lot of people feel good – winning does.”

Sanders said anyone who let words run them off wasn’t fit for his program anyway.

“If you went for that, if you were able to let words run you off, you ain’t for us because we’re an old-school staff. We coach hard. We coach tough. We’re disciplined. If you’re allowing verbiage to run you off because you don’t feel secure with your ability – you ain’t for us,” he said.

So far, it’s hard to argue with the results.


TOPICS: Education; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: collegefootball; colorado; coloradobuffaloes; deion; deioninterview; deionsanders; football; primetime; toughlove
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To: TexasGator

I know, that’s my point. He will be successful. People here thinking he’s to be admired are “my problem”.


81 posted on 09/18/2023 11:13:12 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ColoCdn

I didn’t grow up in the South.

Keep mentally fellating negroes cuck.


82 posted on 09/18/2023 11:14:21 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Hard to judge the quality of Dion's 3-0 season...

TCU was a Top Four team in 2022, but lost its last three games in 2022 to highly ranked teams, including a crushing defeat by #1 Georgia in the Championship Game.

Nebraska has had just one winning season in the last seven years, so, no telling how strong they were.

Colorado State was an intra-state rivalry, which can often be unpredictable, but CSU has had five straight losing seasons.

I understand Dion has stressed the importance of endorsement money for new players, which might have attracted some elite players to Boulder.

So far, Dion's son at QB might be the most important reason that Colorado is 3-0.

83 posted on 09/18/2023 11:14:42 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: EEGator

You didn’t grow up there, Jersey boy, you just swallowed their racist beliefs.
You should have spit them out.


84 posted on 09/18/2023 11:17:32 AM PDT by ColoCdn (Nihil, sine deo)
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To: ColoCdn

I don’t live in NJ either cuck.


85 posted on 09/18/2023 11:21:29 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

“People here thinking he’s to be admired are “my problem”.”


Then comes Sanders, who talked about rebuilding the JSU brand, bringing in recruits and amplifying HBCUs to the mainstream.

“He sold the big dream. Now if you paid any attention, you knew the dream he was selling wasn’t possible – it was not an achievable one that he had – but he sold it and he got people to believe it, then he chucked the deuce and left,” Jones, the sports journalist, told CNN’s Don Lemon.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/10/us/deion-sanders-hbcus-colorado-reaj/index.html#:~:text=Then%20comes%20Sanders,CNN%E2%80%99s%20Don%20Lemon.


86 posted on 09/18/2023 11:25:23 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

There’s no memory here, only today’s posts.

Thank you for the link.


87 posted on 09/18/2023 11:27:34 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

23.5 point favorites and escaped with a double-OT win against a team with almost 200 yds in penalties and 4 turnovers.

Out passed and out rushed by a BOTTOM-10 team!


88 posted on 09/18/2023 11:35:35 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: EEGator

Oh, sure. Of course not.
But, did you enjoy the Outer Islands when you were there?


89 posted on 09/18/2023 11:36:15 AM PDT by ColoCdn (Nihil, sine deo)
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To: cherry

Go Ducks!


90 posted on 09/18/2023 11:39:01 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: TexasGator

In other news, the state of Texas is represented in the Top 25 by exactly one team.


91 posted on 09/18/2023 11:40:41 AM PDT by ColoCdn (Nihil, sine deo)
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To: for-q-clinton

my way or the hi way... i’ve got the expensive luggage to prove i am worth listening to

that’s how i read it... and i would have stayed to play... if i made the team.


92 posted on 09/18/2023 11:44:11 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: TexasGator

And your analysis is exactly right.
Guess we should have scheduled Bethune-Cookman or Boston College instead, eh?


93 posted on 09/18/2023 11:44:56 AM PDT by ColoCdn (Nihil, sine deo)
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To: ColoCdn

“In other news, the state of Texas is represented in the Top 25 by exactly one team.”

Where do you think Colorado will be ranked next week?


94 posted on 09/18/2023 11:47:13 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: for-q-clinton

It was your second observation. A smart coach doesn’t hang on to anyone from a 1-11 team. Players and coaches included.


95 posted on 09/18/2023 11:47:37 AM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: TexasGator

Did you notice what #8 had just done?


96 posted on 09/18/2023 11:49:00 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ßuddaßudd

my story is similar but deion asked me if i knew a buddabudd... and i said yes i do.


97 posted on 09/18/2023 11:52:33 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: ColoCdn

The “Outer Islands”, what is that?


98 posted on 09/18/2023 11:53:09 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: TexasGator

Kamara was jacking his jaw and pushing folks, who were already on the ground, in the back of the head. He had already slapped another player across the helmet AND had already been flagged twice for USLC BEFORE the QB tuned him up. Kamara was subsequently booted for a cheap shot on Sanders in OT AFTER another CSU player absolutely leveled Hunter (who Sanders considers a blood brother since they were four years old), on one of the most blatant cheap shots I’ve ever seen. Those two players had a BOUNTY on them. I don’t begrudge Sanders poking that a$$hole in the eye one damn bit!!


99 posted on 09/18/2023 11:54:54 AM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: Semper Vigilantis

There’s been a culture of anti-bullying bullying which has turned the concept on its head, and make people feel so entitled to bully others about inane stuff that they have psychotic breaks when *anyone* around them fails to pander to them.


100 posted on 09/18/2023 11:57:19 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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