LAS VEGAS – Colorado football coach Deion Sanders and his player son Shilo both downplayed Shilo’s pending bankruptcy case Wednesday and promised the truth would come out about what led Shilo to file for bankruptcy last October with about $12 million in debt.
It was their first public comments about it since then, and both came in response to separate questions from reporters at the Big 12 Conference football media days event here at Allegiant Stadium.
“Honestly, that kind of stuff, like, you can’t, you’re not gonna win a court case on social media,” Shilo Sanders told reporters. “At the end of the day everybody is gonna know the truth about everything, you know? So there’s no point in just going out of my way to do that. So everything’s good.”
USA TODAY Sports likewise asked Shilo’s father how his son was handling the potential distraction.
“What distraction?” Deion Sanders asked. “Shilo’s good. You know what I want you to do? I want you to do this for me: I want you to do your homework and do a whole investigation on that and then write that. I mean the whole complete investigation on what truly happened.”
Colorado safety Shilo Sanders speaks to the media Wednesday during Big 12 media days at Allegiant Stadium.
What’s the backstory?
Shilo Sanders, Colorado’s leading tackler last year, fell into bankruptcy after a court in Texas issued a $11.89 million civil default judgment against him in 2022. That judgment is owed to a security guard at Shilo’s former school in Dallas – John Darjean, who said Shilo assaulted him with a roundhouse elbow in 2015, severely damaging Darjean’s spine and causing permanent injuries.
Shilo and Deion Sanders have disputed Darjean’s version of the incident and said the security guard was the aggressor, not Shilo, who was only 15 years old back then.
But the…
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Publish date : 2024-07-11 15:25:44
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