Analyst condemns reporter’s question for star CU transfer: ‘Cannot answer that’

BuffsBeat’s Brian Schaible condemned the reporter who asked Shedeur Sanders which Colorado football play-caller he preferred after the Buffs’ loss to Oregon State on November 4 — claiming that No. 2 “cannot answer that” and ridiculing the question being asked at all.

“On Saturday night, a journalist started asking a fairly innocuous question on offensive tempo of Sean Lewis vs Pat Shurmur’s play calls,” Schaible recalled. “I think Shedeur would have answered this part of the question and it’s one that I think fans would have had some interest in uncovering.

“However, the reporter chose to double dip and tagged on to the end of his inquiry, ‘Who would you like to see, if it were up to you, be the play caller going forward?’ Come on, man. What are you doing? I wasn’t even in the room and I instantly facepalmed myself upon hearing that one. Shedeur cannot answer that question. You’re putting the quarterback in an impossible spot.”

Shedeur Sanders doesn’t have the answers to Colorado football OC question

Putting a 21-year-old on the spot and essentially having him either undermine his father’s play-calling duties switch to long-time coaching veteran Pat Shurmur or throw his former offensive coordinator, Sean Lewis, under the bus is the kind of question you fantasize as a journalist and try to keep to yourself.

These athletes sell plenty of tickets and get plenty of clicks, but they’re human. Trying to stick a wedge between Shedeur and his father is not the kind of thing that should exist in college football journalism.

Sanders doesn’t have any answers to this offensive coordinator question. It’s not his question to address in the first place. Coach Prime is the one making the calls since he’ll be the one who’ll be in Boulder for the long haul; if his incessant assurances, including during the post-Oregon State presser, are to be believed.