WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:07.120 It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:24.359 Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee. 3 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:30.839 All right, ladies and gents, five o'clock on a Friday. 4 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:34.079 The weekend has started for many of you. Feels like 5 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:36.039 the weekend has started for me. But you know, I 6 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:38.719 got another hour of work to do. It's hard work. 7 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:38.920 Here. 8 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:42.640 There's a Fox sports radio host who I believe has 9 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:45.759 since retired, but he used to used to start each 10 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:50.000 hour start his show with slaving over a hot microphone, 11 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:53.439 which I always thought sounded so cringe, and as I 12 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:55.759 said it, I feel like it was even more cringe 13 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:58.479 coming from me. But you know, believe it or not, folks, 14 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:01.439 this is work, but it's not bad work. It's a 15 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:03.960 lot of fun. And it's even more fun whenever we 16 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:05.879 have college football, and ladies and gentlemen. 17 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:06.439 It is here. 18 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:08.319 I mean, it's been here. Week zero is in the 19 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:11.120 books last night. You know, the first Thursday is always 20 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:13.200 kind of felt like when it really gets started, because 21 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:18.200 you know, you usually have some better games and I 22 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:20.680 don't know, Week zero's weird, man, Like I'm not anti 23 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:23.599 Week zero, Like I'm find that they have it, but 24 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:25.560 we all know that it's real, but it just doesn't 25 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:29.159 feel real because nobody else is playing. I think, you know, 26 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:32.319 if you triple the amount of games that you have 27 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:34.319 typically in week zero would be a little bit different. 28 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.280 But anyways, last night I watched I was going back 29 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.439 and forth with a lot of games. I mean, I 30 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.760 watched a good chunk of NC State in Western Carolina, 31 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.319 because Western Carolina had them on the ropes early on. 32 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:49.120 That NC State team did not look like one of 33 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:52.560 the better teams in the ACC, and they did end 34 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:56.280 up finishing strong and whatnot, But I mean, like, you 35 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:58.079 don't want to have that kind of game against an 36 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:00.959 FCS opponent. And here's what's crazy say that is those 37 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:03.760 words just came out of my mouth, like NC State 38 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:05.439 could have just done what a lot of teams do 39 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:07.680 here and there when they play those games like just not. 40 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:10.479 I mean, it's it's hard to get up for a 41 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:14.360 game like that when you know you could probably you know, 42 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:16.520 mail it in and still win by a lot. Now, 43 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:18.159 they learned the hard way because they were I mean, 44 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:20.400 that game was in doubt in the third quarter until 45 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:22.560 they kind of scored that touchdown midway through the third 46 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:24.199 and kind of you know, I wouldn't say ran away 47 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:27.840 with it, but you know, kind of did. But the 48 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:30.479 other games I watched, I didn't. I didn't watch a 49 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:33.479 ton of the North Carolina Minnesota game until the second half. 50 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:35.520 And of course, you know, just never I had Minnesota 51 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:37.240 money line. John and I both did, and I never 52 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:39.759 really felt good about it at any point in the game. 53 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:44.400 But that fumble whenever Minnesota's driving in the second half 54 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:47.360 and they got a fumble that, you know, it was 55 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:49.280 just random. I don't even think the guy got hit. 56 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:52.400 And then it bounces and there's another receiver that was 57 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:54.199 right next to the receiver who fumbled it, and it 58 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:56.840 just popped right up right in his hands and he. 59 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:58.199 Kept you know what play I'm talking about. 60 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:00.599 God, Yes, you're talking like I'm just thinking, okay with 61 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:04.560 that kind of stuff, like you you got, you've got 62 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:06.240 too many good breaks that have already come your way. 63 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:07.599 There's no way you're gonna be able to finish and 64 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:09.759 win this. But that's just how I'm how I'm you know, 65 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.719 I was criticizing John earlier for being not positive enough 66 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:15.800 about our bets. But when it's actually going on and 67 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.360 there's a game like I always just assume no matter, 68 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.000 like something's gonna happen to where I'm not gonna get this. 69 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:23.479 But sure enough, they put themselves in a position to 70 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:25.159 kick that field goal to win it. What was that 71 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:26.520 like forty six yards or something like that. 72 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:28.680 Yeah, and that that was his second miss of the night, 73 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:30.800 And yeah, was a big ten kicker of the year last. 74 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:31.000 Oh was he? 75 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:32.159 I don't think I knew that. 76 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:35.080 Wow. Yeah, that was a toughaon by the way. 77 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:37.400 That's that's a tough That's a tough night for a 78 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:39.080 guy who's proven to be a good kicker. And then 79 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:41.400 in the opener, you got a chance to beat a 80 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:43.800 Power five team and your Power four team and you 81 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:44.919 just like, I mean. 82 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:45.560 You choke. 83 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:48.400 Yeah, clearly there were other things that could have put 84 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:50.680 them in a better situation where they needed that, But like, 85 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:52.159 you got one job to do make kicks and. 86 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:55.080 He missed two that you know, one would have been 87 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:55.520 the difference. 88 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:59.199 It's right, that's right. And then I didn't I do 89 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:02.240 I can't watch call Dolrado John. I watched a little 90 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:04.520 bit and I kept having to change the channel because 91 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:10.000 Mark Jones, who you know is is an announcer for ESPN. 92 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:13.240 You know, he's he's good at what he does. I'm 93 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:15.599 not a huge fan of him, but like that doesn't 94 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:17.439 mean he's not good. Everybody's got their own taste when 95 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.720 it comes to announcers that they prefer. He's just not 96 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:23.560 really my cup of tea. But good god, I mean, 97 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:27.519 he just I can't say what I want to say. 98 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.279 But the whole broadcast was kind of a big promo 99 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:32.839 for Colorado and coach Prime, was it not? 100 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:33.800 It was? 101 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:40.319 And I don't know why they're they had, like why. 102 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:39.399 They were talking. 103 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:41.639 And this is not not to say that you shouldn't 104 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:43.920 mention these things, but they kept mentioning like, oh, oh, 105 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.839 the all the town loves them. You brought in so 106 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:49.920 many different like like they have the enrollment and stuff. 107 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.079 It's like fifty percent up and you selled out tickets 108 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:54.639 for the entire season. All that stuff is good. But 109 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.279 when you make the entire broadcast about that and they 110 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:59.680 don't have anything to show for on the field just yet, 111 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.720 it seems like you're promoting something that doesn't have any 112 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:04.040 substance behind it just yet. 113 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:07.360 Yeah, and that's what I understand how this works, right, 114 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:11.560 Like you could be the TMZ of college football, like 115 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:15.319 Colorado is and win four games five games. But if 116 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:20.680 you are still generating, you know a lot of viewership, 117 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:24.839 and you command a lot of attention, which Deon Sanders does. 118 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.720 Those that work in broadcasting programming, they're gonna play the hits. 119 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.920 That's how this works. So if Colorado continues to stay like, 120 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:38.920 for example, Kentucky basketball, if Kentucky basketball was a team 121 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:43.160 that for four or five years was you know, five 122 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.720 hundred at best, which would never happen, I don't think. 123 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:49.000 But if it did, there's still enough people that care 124 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:52.360 about Kentucky basketball to where they would still get primetime games. 125 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:53.879 You know what I'm saying. 126 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:58.319 Colorado, I mean, they've not been relevant in college football, 127 00:05:58.759 --> 00:05:59.759 like I mean. 128 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:03.720 I think they may have. They have champions they do. 129 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:05.839 They do have a national championship, but it's like one 130 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:07.839 of the most random championships of all time, and I 131 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.000 think it's one where there were multiple teams that could 132 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.279 claim they won a championship. And like, Deon Sanders is 133 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:18.879 an interesting character. He's flashy, he's prime elite football player, 134 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:21.040 a guy who was good enough to play both professional 135 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:24.000 baseball and professional football at the same time. Like he's 136 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:27.360 a walking promo. But now he's coaching football, and he 137 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:30.879 hasn't done anything that shows he's good at that at 138 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:34.759 this level. And yet none of that matters because again, 139 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:38.360 if they continue to have this much attention surrounding them, 140 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:41.759 he continues to, you know, be the way he is, 141 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:44.720 but yet they still have little success. I just think 142 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:46.480 this is always going to be how it is, and 143 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:48.439 I hate it. I'm such a hater, I guess. 144 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:50.639 I mean, it almost feels like they're milking it because 145 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:52.480 they know it's not going to last much longer. 146 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:55.160 That may be part of it, too, Yeah, I mean, because. 147 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:56.480 If they if they suck, what if they take a 148 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:59.720 step back, you think he gets fired. I don't know, man, 149 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:01.839 An they're selling tickets, maybe it doesn't matter. But at 150 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:04.360 the same time, if you take a step backward, there's 151 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:06.720 no way you sell out as many games next year 152 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:08.199 before the season even starts. 153 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:10.959 I mean, I don't know a single Colorado fan. I'm 154 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:14.079 gona assume you don't either, right, correct, So it's hard 155 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:15.879 to like check the pulse of their fan base in 156 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:17.519 any way. But I did see last night on the 157 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.839 message boards. Well I wasn't on the message boards, but 158 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:23.639 what is it message board genius that Twitter accounts. That's great, 159 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.600 they'll go out in real because people I guess people 160 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:28.519 go to the message boards like during games, and like 161 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:30.160 that's how they do. Like I guess their game threads 162 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.120 where everybody's communicating with each other within the message board 163 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.680 while the game's going on, and you know, they they 164 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:38.480 were showing I saw some posts during the game in 165 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.199 after to where their fans were critical of Dion and 166 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:42.720 the staff, like because they were I mean, they could 167 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:44.360 have lost that game. It came under the last play, 168 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:47.519 and yes, that's probably a game they would have lost 169 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:50.720 last year, Like I saw somebody say that. But when 170 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:52.879 you carry yourself the way that he does, and he 171 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:55.360 has such an arrogance about himself as a coach to 172 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:58.079 where he's deciding who can and can't ask questions at 173 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:01.399 his press conferences, he's live about stuff that you shouldn't 174 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:03.319 be able to lie about. Well, I can't prove that 175 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:05.560 he's lying about it, but I don't believe him. But 176 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:07.839 like to do all that and then be, you know, 177 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:12.160 maybe six and six this year, like I just anybody 178 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:15.680 else who carries themselves that way and doesn't succeed would 179 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:17.920 be ridiculed in a major way. I just don't think 180 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:21.680 that's ever happening with Deon Sanders. It will by like random, 181 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:23.519 because again I could feel it last night, man, I 182 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:25.600 could feel it as we were watching, and I had 183 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:29.199 to change. I just I couldn't hear Mark what's his name, 184 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:34.320 Mark Jones gargled Deon Sanders privates anymore. I couldn't hear, 185 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:39.120 I couldn't listen to it. It's just, you know, over nothing. 186 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.279 So I was going back and forth. But if if 187 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:44.279 you had your phone out and you were on Twitter, 188 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:45.960 which I know a lot of you people aren't. In God, 189 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:47.720 your life's probably a lot better than ours because there's 190 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:50.440 a toxic place to be. But everybody was wanting to 191 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.519 see Dion Sanders lose to North Dakota States in his 192 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:56.039 first game of year, number two, And at that point, 193 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:58.120 you know, the app itself might have melted to the 194 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:00.440 you know, and no longer existed because it would have 195 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:03.799 been insane. But I don't know, man, And he's got 196 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:06.639 his another thing. He's got really special players. His son's 197 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.919 a great quarterback. I mean, Hunter is the best player 198 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:12.480 in college football according to a lot of people. So like, 199 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:15.559 why are you needing to sweat out against North Dakota State, 200 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.440 and yes, I know North Kota State is good, but 201 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:19.879 if you're prime and you're talking the way you're talking 202 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:23.039 about being in a playoff this year, I don't care 203 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:26.679 where they are as far as being an FCS team. 204 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:29.360 They could have won ten straight national championships. As an 205 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:32.279 FCS team, you shouldn't be in that situation where it's 206 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:33.159 that close. 207 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:37.399 And like there's no universe where Georgia struggles in. 208 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:41.200 This no well, and like somebody's at Like somebody asked 209 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:44.480 me earlier when we were talking Dean Sanders this week 210 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:46.960 on the text line, and I never answered it, but 211 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:50.360 it was if they're good and like they back up 212 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.720 the stuff like what's going to be your stance, well, 213 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:54.879 then at that point they will have earned it, and 214 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:57.039 let's be I mean, not that anybody would remember, or 215 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:00.519 maybe some people do. Last year, I wasn't like on 216 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.600 the Dion Sanders hype train, but when they came out 217 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:08.000 and dominated TCU, remember that, and we didn't know TCU stunk, 218 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:09.759 but they dominated him. Then they then they took it 219 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:12.759 to Nebraska and there was somebody else they beat pretty bad. 220 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:13.799 The first two or three weeks. 221 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:15.960 I think I might have been three weeks they were 222 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.960 delivering great viewership because you know, people wanted to see 223 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:20.960 what can Deon Sanders do now that he's in the 224 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:24.360 Power five. And they were winning and it looked like 225 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.679 they were legit, and I was a believer, not to 226 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:27.879 say that he was going to go on and win 227 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:30.159 the national championship, but like he kept acting the same 228 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:32.960 whenever they started losing, and like there's no there's there's 229 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:36.200 no humility in any way because they could be three 230 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.399 and nine this year and he will still have no 231 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:42.519 humility and carry himself as if he's accomplished something special 232 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:44.679 and that people need to bow down to him and 233 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.440 treat him with a level of respect that you don't 234 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:49.200 even treat the best coaches in the game. 235 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:50.159 Like I just I don't know. 236 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:54.639 I feel like an old curmudgeon, get off my lawn 237 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:56.399 guy when it comes to this stuff. And maybe this 238 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:58.080 is like the turning point for me where I am 239 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:01.000 becoming the traditionalist that you know doesn't like arrogant people 240 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.480 that are over the top, Like it's one thing to 241 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:06.159 do all that and back it up as a coach. 242 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.679 He's never done that. Now again, he's only coached thirteen 243 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:10.960 games at this level. And I know what he did 244 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.720 at Jackson State was cool, but it's not the same 245 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.759 at all. That's a rare situation where that guy, a 246 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.039 larger than life figure within sports, who would have the 247 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.559 ability to recruit because he's primed but anything, the guy 248 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:26.519 is a great salesman. So like him going and putting 249 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:29.480 together a freakishly good team for the FCS level and 250 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:33.480 winning at Jackson State, that's impressive. Credit to him, But 251 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:37.440 that's not like I mean, that isn't that surprising And 252 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:39.279 it really wouldn't have been that surprising if he got 253 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.840 to Colorado and you know, they won six games last 254 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.399 year and this year they won eight. But like again, 255 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:47.399 he's carrying himself in a way that I just, you know, 256 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:50.840 I can't fathom. And then again, I can't relate to 257 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.120 him because he's Dean Sanders and I'm not, you know 258 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:55.720 what I mean, So like the transition for him to 259 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.600 go from this larger than life I'm an elite, all 260 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:01.480 time great athlete, one of the few people on planet 261 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.639 Earth they can say they were that successful to be good, 262 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:05.960 if not great, in both sports. I don't know enough 263 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:07.559 about his baseball career, but I know he wasn't just 264 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:09.919 some guy that ended up on the team like Michael 265 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:12.399 Jordan did at the Triple A. Prime was playing for 266 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:16.080 the Braves. So like he has justification to have that 267 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:20.600 inflated sense of worth as an athlete. He's not an athlete, 268 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:25.039 he's not playing, he's coaching, and it's it's not like 269 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:27.440 he should have a different PERSONA don't be a B 270 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:30.519 be you. But also I guess what it comes down 271 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:35.000 to is that there's a level of humility that he's 272 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:38.480 never had to deal with as an athlete that you 273 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:41.240 know now that he's coaching. It's clear it's not gonna 274 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.440 there's not a compatibility there, right, Like he doesn't know 275 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.240 how to be humble. Even if he loses every game 276 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:48.120 he coaches, he still knows who he is as a 277 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:49.960 player and what he's accomplished to where he's just gonna 278 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:51.960 be he's gonna be arrogant about it. 279 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:52.799 I don't know. 280 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:55.120 I hate that I get this worked up about it, 281 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:57.519 but here we are, at least I'm honest about it. 282 00:12:58.320 --> 00:12:59.559 You're not as bad as me, but I get the 283 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:01.519 sense that you you are, like you wanted him to 284 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.720 lose last night, right, Yeah, And it's I think what 285 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:04.039 it is. 286 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:05.720 I think why it bothers us is that it just 287 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:08.080 seems like there's so much it's like a lack of 288 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:10.559 self awareness, and I think it kind of reminds us 289 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:12.840 of what we've really what you've dealt with and louisll 290 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:14.679 fans have dealt with Kenny Payne over the last couple 291 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:17.799 of years because and obviously the success level is a 292 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.879 little bit different. But when you have somebody who refuses 293 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:23.799 to be humble and you can make that comparison with Louisville, 294 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:25.600 maybe that's why you it bothers you so much. And 295 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:27.200 it does bother me too for that matter. 296 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:29.440 And one thing that does irritate me is that he's 297 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:32.120 at a point where he could say anything and nobody 298 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:34.799 would call him on it, and that's just not what 299 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:37.639 coaches can typically do with the platform like this is 300 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:38.720 from last night's game. 301 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:40.399 Twenty five yard twenty five yard line. 302 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:44.440 DURA has been a swirl of noise and activity around 303 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:46.000 this Colorado program for. 304 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:47.200 The last couple of weeks. 305 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:54.120 Let's listen to it and coach Prime's works. Eric Kristensen 306 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:56.480 with CBS Sports Colorado see. 307 00:13:56.440 --> 00:14:02.159 Tyler, I'm not doing none with CBA's next question with you. 308 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:04.279 It's above that you got none to do with you. 309 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:06.440 I got love for you, I appreciate respect you, and 310 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:07.360 got none to do with you. 311 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:08.399 They know what they did. 312 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:11.080 Coach John Ye of the Denver Post. 313 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:12.919 You don't let us man, why do you do this 314 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:13.519 to yourself? 315 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:13.879 Come on? 316 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:16.440 Like it would be hard for me to really engage 317 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:18.720 in someone I don't like or something I don't like. 318 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:23.039 I'm just asking why and why. 319 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.159 Jimmy Horn picking up the first down on that opening play, 320 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:30.559 first down in ten and Coach Prime in meeting with 321 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.960 him yesterday, he felt that you see, you know at 322 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.320 four and eighth, three and nine news conference, this is 323 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:40.000 one of the parts from the Denver Post story. 324 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:41.639 But it wasn't that. Coach Prime told us he felt 325 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:45.600 that a reporter in question questioned and attacked his faith 326 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:49.320 and subsequently went over the line and thus his actions 327 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:50.320 as a result. 328 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:51.799 That's what he told. 329 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:57.759 Us, So I thought Mark Jones and ESPN bringing that 330 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:03.240 to the broadcast a private conversation with Dion Sanders. If 331 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:07.840 you're claiming that this reporter from the Denver Post, Sean Keeler, 332 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:11.679 if you're reporting that the reason you don't want him around, 333 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:14.519 asking questions is because you feel as if he's personally 334 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:18.200 attacked your faith. Shouldn't you have to back that up? 335 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:21.039 Because people who work for the Denver Post are were 336 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:26.200 outraged last night, including colleagues of that writer Sean Keeler, 337 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.919 who says that that never happened and it's not worth 338 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:31.600 repeating in a national broadcast, which I like, again, like, 339 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:34.679 you can't just say things without having any basis. I mean, 340 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:38.279 I guess you can, but like your university, your employers 341 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:40.639 shouldn't shouldn't allow that to happen, Like it reminds me 342 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:43.720 of Jim McIlwain. Jim mcawaine was a pretty good coach 343 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.759 at Florida. They hit a rough stretch during I believe 344 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:49.399 his third season, and if you remember, there was that 345 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:54.000 naked guy on a shark on a boat and everybody 346 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:54.960 thought it looked like him. 347 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:56.879 You don't know what I'm talking about. I don't. I'm 348 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:58.559 not recalling him. Maybe I have a son and I don't 349 00:15:58.559 --> 00:15:59.279 know that. I want to. 350 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.120 Google Jim Mackailwayne boat and you'll see the picture and 351 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:04.879 if you tell me you've never seen that before, that 352 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:06.799 will surprise me. But then again, I guess it was 353 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:08.879 like six years ago, now that I'll think about it. 354 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:14.240 But anyways, he was dealing with media, dealing with fans upset, 355 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:19.759 and in a press conference he made the insinuation. I mean, 356 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:21.600 in fact, he did more than just insinuate. He said 357 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:25.639 that his family's receiving death threats because of the struggling 358 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:30.639 Florida program. Well, you know that's different than somebody attacking 359 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:35.799 your faith. But you've accused a writer for the Denver 360 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:38.240 Post of something that like, they should have the ability 361 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:41.200 to defend themselves. And now that it's out there, according 362 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:44.120 to Mark Jones, that Dion says, that's why this guy 363 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:47.240 should be able to go to Deon Sanders' Deon Sanders 364 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:50.559 employer and say that didn't happen. I would love to 365 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.240 see proof, because now I know why you're claiming. I 366 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:56.320 can't ask questions. But anyways, back to Macawayne, when he 367 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:58.480 said that like that, I don't think anybody at that 368 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:00.480 time felt that that was like a lie. 369 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:03.039 By the way, I've never seen that picture. Are you 370 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:03.879 mad that you looked at it? 371 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:04.240 No? 372 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:06.519 Thankfully it was censored. You know that's not him, but 373 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:07.559 it looks exactly like him. 374 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:10.119 Okay, Yeah, and like it got shared and he he 375 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:12.200 had to address it at a press conference like. 376 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:16.400 It ain't me, it ain't me, which is very awkward. 377 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:20.160 But anyways, Florida the university looked into his allegation, his 378 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:23.400 allegations that his family had received death threats, because you 379 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:26.240 can't just say that, So they looked into it and 380 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:28.720 determined he made it up, and he got fired, like 381 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:32.039 you know, like not to say that that's the same 382 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:36.680 exact thing here, but like Deon Sanders can block the 383 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:39.839 entire Denver media from coming and he could just make 384 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:42.160 up something and nobody would actually call him on it 385 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:44.599 because he thinks he can do things that nobody else 386 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:46.920 can because he's Deon Sanders, and look, he clearly can. 387 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:50.799 Colorado's letting him do it. I mean, I know how 388 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:55.759 the SID business works, and I know that whoever is 389 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:59.200 in charge of being the sports information director probably you know, 390 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:01.720 lost a lot of sleep knowing they were about to 391 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:04.400 put out the release stating that the Denver Posts beat 392 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:06.680 writer is not allowed to ask questions because that's like 393 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:09.440 who does that? That's I mean, there are coaches who've 394 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:12.440 actually handled like deal. Sanders doesn't get enough criticism for 395 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.799 being allowsy coach and yet he's blocking somebody from asking 396 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:17.599 a question who may in fact have the stones to 397 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:21.279 call him on some things. So again to answer the question, 398 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:23.799 like if he is successful this year, I'm not going 399 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:26.359 to turn into a Colorado fan, know, but like at 400 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:29.240 that point, like he should be able to be like 401 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.920