Eoghan Kerry: "I went to shake Deion's hand [after being cut from the team] and said 'thank, you Coach', and he said 'yeah, buddy, you got it', and pointed at the door. He wouldn't even look me in the eye. Leading up to that [being cut from the Colorado football team], there were a couple instances that made me think ‘I don’t think he’s going to keep any of us’ [players who were brought in by previous Colorado head coach Karl Dorrell]. We had been told by coaches that there were going to be cuts and choices were going to be made about who was allowed to stay with the team and who was not allowed to stay with the team. I had four interactions with Deion leading up to that exit meeting that made me think ‘I don’t think he cares how hard we work, I think he’s just going to get rid of us.’ These four interactions were all in the same place, they were all in the elevator going up from the locker room. These times I was alone in that elevator with him [Deion Sanders], just two men. The first three times just trying to make myself known, let him know ‘hey, coach, I respect you, I want to to be here’, so I'd say ‘hey Coach Prime, it’s good to see you’ and he was on his phone typing. I don’t know if it was a message or a tweet, he would just look up at me and go back to his phone. Not even a nod, no acknowledgement that I was even there, just flat-out ignored me. Then the fourth time I did the same thing ‘hey, Coach Prime, how are you doing? It’s good to see you’, and he looked up from his phone and said ‘hey, buddy, press five’, so I pressed the fifth floor and just shut up because that was the fourth time I tried to speak with him when we were alone, not even in front of the cameras -- tough guy act, I was just trying to talk to him man-to-man and he wouldn’t acknowledge me. Considering he wouldn’t even nod in my direction I thought ‘I’m not sure how much of a chance I have to stay here’, because like I said, we’ve been told that they were making cuts. My initial thought was ‘he’s testing me, he wants to see if I’m going to quit, if I’m going to drop out because I think he doesn’t like me.’ I didn’t [drop out], I just kept working. I had that exact same interaction four times, if I was going to quit I would have stopped saying ‘hi’ to him, but he wasn’t going to break me and I fought till the end until he told me I wasn’t allowed to fight anymore. The reason I’m still at Colorado is because even though they can cut you from the team, that contract you sign is a four-year contract. You said [to Jason Whitlock] that back when you played it was a single year [scholarship], nowadays the way they format it is you sign for four years. It’s four years of athletic aid unless you murder someone like you said. They can remove you from the team but they cannot cancel your full-ride academic aid, and they didn’t tell us this. They just told us ‘you need to leave, you don’t go here anymore.’ So, myself and two others knew that we were allowed to stay. We were cut on a Sunday, the portal closed on a Friday, and it takes the school two days to put you in the portal, and I wasn’t prepared to make a $200,000 decision in three days so I decided to stay and keep my scholarship for the time being and so did those two other gentlemen. But no one on the team was told we were allowed to keep our scholarship, so most guys freaked out and that’s how you had 50 dudes enter the portal on the same day... I'm sure you know that the world was told that I, along with my 50 teammates 'quit the team', which didn't happen. I'm happy for the guys that are getting to go out there and play, but my experience wasn't positive and I'm going to have a hard time rooting for them this year. The few people that I did tell what happened between Deion and I, they would say 'OH, YOU'RE JUST MAKING THAT UP, HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT, HE'S A MAN OF GOD, HE'S A GOOD MAN, HE'S A LEADER, YOU'RE JUST BITTER BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO PLAY, SO YOU'RE MAKING THIS UP.' I do think there was some knowledge about what had happened and some people just didn't care." (Full Segment Above)
Watch two former Colorado football players under Deion Sanders, Eoghan Kerry and Caiden Robertson, join Jason Whitlock on Blaze TV’s Fearless to chronicle their short time with the Colorado program before being cut, and reveal Coach Prime’s lack of leadership in his first few months with the Buffaloes.
Kerry, a sophomore scholarship player who played as a freshman with the previous regime under ex-Colorado head coach Karl Dorrell, said Sanders was an unannounced no-show the first three weeks of scheduled team meetings at the beginning of spring football despite players filing into meeting rooms and waiting around for an absentee Coach Prime for almost a full hour.
Kerry says that he had four interactions with Sanders before he was cut from the program, saying Sanders outright ignored him while they were alone in an elevator three times of the four times. Kerry says he would try to greet Sanders and Deion would just look up from his phone and then look back down without even nodding or acknowledging Kerry’s presence. Then their fourth encounter, after Kerry once again greeted Sanders, Coach Prime finally muttered his first and only line of dialogue in the form of ‘hey, buddy, press 5', before walking out of the elevator.
Kerry said that when he was cut from the team, Deion made an assistant coach do all the talking when they were breaking the news to Kerry that he was being released from the football program, and then said that Sanders didn’t even look him in the eye when he shook his hand, but instead just pointed to the door for Kerry to exit his office.
Robertson, a sophomore walk-on, says Deion was nearly unapproachable to his players, stating that Sanders’ office door was always closed with a red floor mat outside that read ‘DON’T STEP ON THIS MAT UNLESS YOUR SHOES ARE OFF, DON’T COME IN UNLESS INVITED.’
Kerry said that Sanders refused to meet with the parents of players during the week of the spring game, something that the previous regime had prided itself in, and said his mother thought that was a ‘red flag’ for Sanders being the right coach for her son.
Check out the full segment above as Kerry and Robertson shed light on their negative experience with Sanders, who would go on to finish up a 4-8 first season at Boulder, and one that saw the team lose eight of their final nine games and finish in dead last of the Pac-12 standings.
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