Deion Sanders compares himself to Jesus, gets sharp media rebuke

Deion Sanders said something way out of line in the week following Colorado's 28-10 loss to Nebraska in Week 2. Sacrilege. And he was subsequently flamed by the media.

“When you lose, you're going to be ridiculed, you're going to be prosecuted and persecuted and I'm good," Sanders said on September 10 (h/t OutKick). "I've been on the cross for a long time and I'm still hanging.”

Maybe it wasn't an intentional showing of sacrilege behavior, but Sanders veered into a territory he does not want to be as someone who professes his faith publicly.

Coach Prime got several arrows slung his way from the media afterwards.

"This problem isn't about two or three players," ESPN's Tom Luginbill said on September 11. "It's about the entirety of the roster. They're not good enough."

"Deion Sanders is the new fake ID of college football," Colin Cowherd said on the September 11 edition of The Herd.

Paul Finebaum chimed in, though he likely did it to keep up with his weekly click-inspired attacks on Coach Prime.

"He's really brilliant with the media," Finebaum said of Sanders (h/t The Arizona Republic). "I'm not so sure he is brilliant as a head coach. I don't see any improvement from this team. Instead of talking about the (College Football Playoff), which we were talking about a couple of weeks ago, now we're trying to figure out a way on whether Colorado can get to a bowl game."

Deion Sanders letting cult of personality get out of control

Sanders mis-stepped here. Badly.

In this 24-hour news cycle world, it'll mostly be out of the headlines quickly. Some fans will bookmark this and meme it incessantly on social media, but this won't stick with the CU head coach for long.

But it's emblematic of a big problem: Coach Prime's cult of personality is getting a little out of hand.

We know Sanders has full autonomy at the University of Colorado Boulder. He's certainly taking advantage of the carte blanche culture he's able to set.