Coach Prime slanted for extreme lack of self-awareness
Deseret News’ Doug Robinson wrote a scathing op-ed about Coach Prime being hypocritical in what he says about recruiting, and how he handles bringing talent to the Colorado football program. Robinson’s harshest accusation was that Deion Sanders has an “extreme lack of self-awareness.”
“Besides bad grammar, Sanders has selective memory and an extreme lack of self-awareness (and let’s hope you already picked up on the irony or hypocrisy or whatever you want to call it),” Robinson wrote.
“Sanders had no problem when 53 players chose to break their commitment to other schools to transfer to Colorado last offseason, half of them joining the team after his existing players had endured spring practice. He had no scruples about them leaving their old schools to come to CU. Nor did he have any qualms about encouraging players to ‘de-commit’ or leave CU. He also had no problem ‘flipping’ recruits a year ago, convincing them to break their commitment to another school so they could sign with Colorado. Nobody has taken advantage of the transfer portal and ‘de-commitments’ more than Sanders.”
Coach Prime must start pulling levers of power for Colorado football instead complaining about those who do elsewhere
Coach Prime called out the NCAA’s current recruiting laws in the wake of CU losing Talan Chandler, Winston Watkins Jr., Antwann Hill Jr., and Danny O’Neil over the span of a few weeks; looking to remove the chance for a player to flip from one program to another.
“What I wish the NCAA would do, if you’re committed somewhere, you can’t go on any other visits,” Sanders prefaced before saying, “If you’re committed, that means you’re committed. You can’t go on no other visits. Why would you be committed but you’re still letting kids go on other visits? That means you just playing.”
Instead of complaining about the portal, Sanders needs to go back to bringing on the nation’s best transfer haul and pull the levers of power he’s currently railing against.
These comments are a bad look considering his past successes using those very methods, and the slew of analysts coming out of the woodwork to call him out have a point here.
And they typically don’t when discussing matters of Coach Prime.