C’mon, Deion: tell us how you really feel.
Colorado coach Deion Sanders ripped the Pac-12 Conference on Wednesday in his regular coaches show, leading back to late kickoff times, and referencing the university’s departure for the Big 12 in the future.
“Thank God we’re not gonna be in this conference,” he said Wednesday.
The Buffaloes (4-2) are hosting Stanford (1-4) on Friday night, an odd day to begin with, in a game that won’t start until 8 p.m. Colorado-time: 10 p.m. on the East Coast, and 9 p.m. Central Standard Time.
Sanders called the late kickoff the “dumbest thing ever,” and the “stupidest thing ever invented in life.”
It should be noted that many of the late-kickoff games, whether in the Pac-12 or with other conferences, have done well. Alabama-Mississippi State had a later kickoff two weekends ago, and Colorado-Colorado State, which had all kinds of attention due to the talk between CSU coach Jay Norvell and Sanders, and several players. That game had over 9 million viewers, according to USA Today (Deion Sanders grateful Colorado is leaving Pac-12, rips late TV games).
Sanders noted that his players and coaches stay in a hotel before every game, even home games, which is actually a common practice with several programs. “What you supposed to do in the hotel?,” Sanders asked, rhetorically. “What you supposed to do all day?”
I feel like that, and I’m not even a player.
Next season, when the Buffaloes will join a new Big 12 that won’t include Oklahoma and Texas (on their way to the Southeastern Conference), they’ll play a lot of games in the Central Standard time zone against teams like Baylor, Oklahoma State, Houston, and some in the Eastern Time zone, like Central Florida, West Virginia and Cincinnati.
Sanders didn’t mention it, but his team has also played on Fox’s early-kick game a few times, which is 10 a.m., Colorado-time.
