Deion Sanders and Colorado football deemed lucky regarding one key detail in Athlon Sports' report
Deion Sanders and his Colorado football program got lucky that their reported locker room issues were brought to light by Athlon Sports as opposed to a bigger outlet -- this, at least, according to Awful Announcing's Brendon Kleen.
"Perhaps Athlon being a smaller outlet is working in Colorado’s favor in more ways than one," Kleen prefaced before saying, "While they can threaten legal action and potentially scare the company, the school is likely also benefitting from the lack of attention it’s getting versus a story like this in The Athletic or the local newspaper."
The report was ripped as clickbait by 247Sports' Adam Munsterteiger. While there are things reported in the story that have been floating topics in media circles, many of the stories don't hold up if there's no one willing to put their name behind it or provide more evidence than word of mouth of departed transfers.
The reporter who spread the bombshell rumor, Athlon Sports' Steve Corder, had an appearance on the Dan Le Batard Show that didn't inspire much confidence. Corder brazenly declared himself ready for any potential legal action.
“There’s no reason to worry. I vetted my sources. I checked, I double-checked. I have multiple people that I trust,” Corder said. “Once you talk to more than two, three, four people, I have to go with my gut and I believe these guys.”
Deion Sanders threatened legal action from Colorado football
Coach Prime is not playing around with this report. He addressed it in front of Well Off Media cameras and mentioned the words "penalty" and "ramification" in a threat to Athlon Sports for the report.
"That's when they know you are doing well, when they start lying," Sanders said while enjoying a meal at CU's facilities. "Shouldn't there be some kind of penalty or ramification? But nevertheless we have the highest GPA in the history of the school. Wonder how they do that?"
The next moves from Colorado's brain trust will say the most about this report of anything.