Deion Sanders concedes talking point after hearing Nick Saban take
Deion Sanders was asked about improvements being made from Week 1 to 2 and even making big jumps. Before realizing it was Nick Saban who said the biggest jumps are made from that week to the next, Sanders was baffled at that notion.
But during his Tuesday presser, Sanders was told it was his friend Saban who said it. He certainly changed his tune real quick!
“I ain’t ever heard anybody say that,” Sanders said initially. “Coach Saban ain’t coaching right now. He’s the greatest of all time. He can say whatever he want to say … If coach Saban says it, I’m with it.”
Sanders was posed a question about the lack of preseason in college football so it’s a tougher evaluation. Coach Prime threw that one out the window.
“It don’t matter. You see what you got, man, pretty much the first game, the first few games, you kind of see what you got,” Sanders said. “You got to see who’s who. You got to understand when you flipping rosters like all colleges are now, except for quarterbacks, you know, teams that have the most ability are the ones that had quarterbacks in house, and, you know, they matured, and they’re running the same system.
“But others, you got to figure out what you got on the offensive side, the defensive side, as well as special teams. Special teams, you know, we had two new guys in place, and what did they do? They dominated … So we just got to get everybody on board in that same philosophy and thought process and dominating standard that they had.”
As far improvements are concerned, ESPN’s Paul Finebaum is confident in Sanders to keep it rolling this year, despite a Week 1 loss. Colorado takes on Delaware Saturday.
“It’s hard to look at that program without a heavy heart, because I think everybody watching this right now is pulling for Coach Prime and really thrilled that he’s overcome what he has,” Finebaum said on The Matt Barrie Show. “But they looked like a promising football team, and I saw in Prime after the game, a guy who liked what he saw.
“Yeah, mistakes across the board, the inability to take advantage of gifts that they should have had in the first half. But Georgia Tech is well coached, and I didn’t read a whole lot into it negatively. I still think, right now, the goal, I think all along, has been maybe to grab seven, possibly eight wins. They still can do that, and I feel pretty good about where they are.”
