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Coach Prime is one of the most beloved college coaches in the country as long as you do not take any time to think critically about his motives, words or actions.
When Sanders arrived in Colorado, after lying to Jackson State about how god told him to save the HBCUs or some shit, Coach Prime pointed to the door, telling kids to leave if they weren’t ready for the transformation and revolution he was leading, probably also sponsored by god.
The Athletic profiled Sanders’s early days in Colorado, including direct quotes from players on the team who felt like Deion didn’t care about them. Safety, Xavier Smith, ended up in the crosshairs of the Sanders family after giving his honest recollection of his year with them.
Smith assumed Sanders would dump older players and embrace the young talent he inherited. During the team meeting, he told himself: He’s not talking about me. I ain’t leaving.
During the spring, Smith felt more like an extra in the background of the reality show. He tried to make the most of second-team reps and made plays in the spring game but struggled to get Sanders’ attention. So as he sat on that couch and listened to [DC Charles Kelly] encourage him to leave, sure, there was frustration.
“He was destroying guys’ confidence and belief in themselves,” Smith said. “The way he did it, it could’ve been done with a little more compassion.”
This sounds like a strange environment for a 19-year-old to navigate.
You have coaches telling you to quit but you want to impress them and prove you belong all while the head coach has his back to you, showing all his teeth to the cameras he invited in, when all you want to do is play football at a high level.
But Shedeur Sanders didn’t like Xavier Smith talking about his dad so he went to Twitter to make things worse.
Ion even remember him tbh. Bro had to be very mid at best. https://t.co/qwK48Ys0Et
— Shedeur Sanders (@ShedeurSanders) April 30, 2024
For a guy who won 4 games last season, Deion Sanders and his lame son, Shedeur, are moving like they’re the defending champions.
Deion himself would jump in with Tweets I won’t share here because they’re another 4-win season from Coach Prime deleting his Twitter entirely but he made fun of a player and bragged about how great his son is. You know, the same way an absolute loser would.
Nothing but respect for Coach Prime. He so clearly took the Jacksonville job to get his son in the NFL. When he feared Shedeur wouldn’t be treated the same as the other top QBs because of the competition he was against, Sanders jumped to Colorado. He’s now tricked two separate fanbases into believing he’s different and he cares.
Coach Prime spent more time scrolling through his contacts, searching for celebrities to invite to the sidelines than he did getting to know his players.
And it’s working.
Shedeur Sanders will be a first-round pick next year and Coach Prime will pull an Urban Meyer, suddenly retiring with health issues.
And people who love being manipulated—like, garages full of snake oil they purchased from charming wanderers—will move the goalposts and celebrate Coach Prime as the epitome of black fatherhood or whatever.
And kids like Xavier Smith, who were collateral in Coach Prime’s bullshit, will have to re-plan their lives after being caught in his orbit and spit back into the depths of space and nothingness.
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