Watch Jason Whitlock of Blaze TV’s Fearless call Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes ‘fools gold’, as Jason says Deion’s ballyhooed ‘turnaround’ at Colorado is vastly overrated.
Check out the segment above as Whitlock details how Deion is simply winning because the Big 12 is an inferior conference compared to what the Pac-12 was last year when Colorado finished in last place, and says Deion didn’t legitimately ‘rebuild’ a program like coaches have done for generations, he just exploited a new N.I.L. and transfer portal system where you can essentially bring in a brand new team overnight by buying star players and getting rid of existing ones on command.
Jason Whitlock: “Everyone is celebrating: ‘OH, MY GOD, DEION SANDERS IS BACK! THIS INCREDIBLE!’... I’m not buying it. Deion Sanders is fools gold, and what Colorado is doing is fools gold. Yes, they may win six, seven, or eight games this year, and they may even win nine, but this is not one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen. It’s not that impressive to me given the way college football has changed. This is a reflection of the transfer portal and being able to just buy up talent. You don’t have to recruit talent, you don’t have to develop talent, you have to buy talent. And yes, everybody is playing by those rules, and everybody can buy talent, but let’s judge everybody on this new standard. Is what Deion is doing as impressive as what Curt Cignetti is doing at Indiana? [8-0] They just beat the brakes off Nebraska, 56-7. Nebraska is the same team who ran the ball down Colorado’s throat and beat them 28-7.
Deion and Colorado are benefiting from playing in a very suspect and weak Big 12. If you watch SEC or Big Ten football you can see the gap between the Big 12, SEC, and the Big Ten. The gap is enormous. BYU is the best team in the Big 12, and hats off to them, but what’s going on in the Big 12 isn’t the same as what’s going in the Big Ten or SEC. It’s not the same as what was going on in the Pac-12 last year.
Colorado’s defense is improved, I will give them that. Colorado’s five-wide, throw it around the field offense has improved, but the biggest improvement in Colorado is their schedule, and moving into the Big 12. I know I sound like a hater, and maybe I am a hater, but this is what I authentically believe. This is fools gold, this isn’t some great turnaround. Comparing what Deion did to Karl Dorrell, or any other coaches that took over Colorado before you could just buy players, before you could just kick players off the team – this isn’t the same rebuilding job.
I was in Kansas when Bill Synder took over a really horrible football program at Kansas State, and I watched the man take players that weren’t his and turn them into great players, and guys who could win. I’ve seen other coaches take someone else’s garbage and turn it into something respectable. That’s not what Deion has done, so let’s not compare this to the turnarounds of the past. Cignetti is having more success in a tougher conference than Deion Sanders. Deion Sanders is in a conference that is down and weak, and he’s been able to rush out and dump all these players where other coaches had to actually go through the process of developing players they didn’t recruit, replacing them with players they did recruit, and winning at the same time. This isn’t some historic turnaround.
Arizona is not any good, Colorado State is not any good, UCF is not any good... There are easier paths to a respectable record, and that’s what Deion is benefiting from. Great timing.
I don’t want Deion’s style of coaching rewarded. What he did by booting all those players off his team, and treating them in the fashion he did – I just don’t respect it. I don’t respect all the rap music, and injection of hip-hop culture into the locker room while you’re claiming a relationship with Christianity and Jesus Christ. I just don’t like it and I don’t want to see it rewarded.”
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