If only Bobby Bowden were still here then maybe he could talk some sense into Deion Sanders.
Better yet, maybe Bobby could talk some charm, warmth and class into the man who calls himself Coach Prime.
As a college football Hall-of-Famer at FSU and a pro football Hall-of-Famer who played for several NFL teams, Sanders certainly lived up to his self-chosen nickname of “Prime Time,” but as a bigtime college football coach it’s becoming increasingly clear that he is not ready for prime time.
And I’m not even necessarily talking about his ability to win games. It’s much too soon to determine whether Sanders has the coaching chops to turn around a moribund Colorado program that was 1-11 the year before he arrived and went 4-8 during his first season in 2023.
I’m mostly talking about his ability to recruit and relate to players, deal with the media and fans, charm the socks off of recruits and their parents and all of the other intangibles his college coach, Bobby Bowden, was so good at. I’ve often said that Bobby was the greatest ambassador in college football history — a kind, gracious and funny man who made everybody around him feel important. Deion is proving to be the exact opposite as a conceited, condescending, paranoid man who makes everybody around him feel like dirt.
The latest example came a few days ago at his preseason press conference in which Deion spent most of his time sparring with the media and making an absolute fool of himself.
He refused to answer questions, publicly insulted reporters who cover the team, even arrogantly and errantly tried to correct the verbiage of a reporter who was trying to ask him a softball question about his “bolstered” offensive line.
“What does ‘bolstered’ mean?” Sanders interrupted, suggesting “improved” was a better term “because I don’t know…
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Author : Orlando Sentinel
Publish date : 2024-08-17 20:00:00
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