Everyone’s watching the Colorado Buffaloes, including the legendary Nick Saban. Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, one of the greatest football players ever, has led a thunderous steam of energy through Boulder the last two seasons. While the team’s lackluster record has prevented them from growing on the field, they are the ‘main event’ so to speak. They get a lot of attention.
Saban joined The Pat McAfee Show on Friday ahead of College GameDay on Saturday, live from Tuscaloosa. Saban discussed Sanders and the Buffaloes. CU will play UCF in its second Big 12 game of the season, the program’s first road Big 12 game since the 2010 college football season.
During that discussion, the legendary head coach called out a recent change that Deion made.
Sanders called out his team during practice earlier in the week. Sanders grew disappointed with the effort he saw and, in a candid video, ordered his team to restart practice.
Saban responded to that video with candid comments of his own.
“What I used to do is, not start practice over, but I would start the period over. Like, we’d be doing a good-on-good team run or whatever, and one side of the ball was just not responding, or the offense was getting stuffed, or the defense was getting gashed, I’d let them run eight, 10, 12 plays and I’d say, ‘This is not what we need,'” Saban explained via On3. “And start the period over. That usually got their attention, because they’d knew that we’d start the next period over, but I was always afraid to start practice over, like practice would be too long or something.”
Saban explained that he believes Sanders is trying to install a change in mindset within his Buffaloes team.
“It’s the same thing I said before about the Coach Prime situation, play poorly and win, that’s like the kiss of death, because guys don’t always want to respond,” he explained. “They look at you like, ‘Hey coach, we won the game, why are you all upset and making us practice and all that?’ If you lose, they’re saying, ‘When are we going to practice?’ Not, ‘Why are we practicing?'”
Sounds like Saban understands where Deion is coming from. We’ll see if the restart allows for a better performance out of the Buffaloes against the Knights this weekend.
[On3]
