‘Toughest Stretch of Probably My Life’

“This is the toughest stretch of probably my life,” Sanders added as his workforce misplaced its fifth sport in a row.

His son, Shedeur, additionally had a foul sport, as he walked off within the center of the primary half with a number of accidents. It has not been reported if he will probably be nicely sufficient to play in subsequent week’s closing sport of his father’s first yr at Colorado.

Head coach Deion Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes walks on the sphere as gamers heat up earlier than a sport towards the Colorado State Rams at Folsom Field on September 16, 2023, in Boulder, Colorado. (Dustin Bradford/Getty Images)

Sanders informed the media that Shedeur had “numbness in his hand,” and that’s the reason he was sidelined.

“He got hit in the forearm, and he couldn’t really grip the ball. He couldn’t really feel the ball. Then the second time he got injured was, I think, we had an errant snap, and I think they rolled up his ankle, and that was it,” Sanders added.

“Couldn’t grip the ball and his ankle, so that took him out of the game, and the rest is history,” he mentioned.

He was quite unhappy with how his workforce performed the primary half.

“I’m very saddened of how we played,” Sanders informed the press after the sport. “We practiced hard this past week. We prepared like no other, and to go display a performance like that it’s not indicative of who we are, what we are, how we are. And I’ve been boasting since the beginning of the season; I have not seen us quit.”

Still, he felt higher concerning the second half.

“What do you say? I said what I said at halftime, and I challenged them to go out there and stand up for themselves, for their family, for the name on the front and the name on the back (of their jerseys). I challenged them to stand up for that, and they responded. They didn’t lay down. They went out there and fought, so I’m proud of them. I really am,” he insisted.

Still, Sanders insisted that the loss to Washington State was not illustrative of his workforce.

Head coach Deion Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes seems on from the sideline within the third quarter towards the Colorado State Rams at Folsom Field on September 16, 2023, in Boulder, Colorado. (Dustin Bradford/Getty Images)

“[The loss is] not indicative of who we are, what are, how we are,” Sanders exclaimed. “I’ve been boasting since the beginning of the season: I have not seen us quit.”

Sanders got here on robust because the season began and was hailed as the subsequent nice coach by many admirers and was hailed because the savior for “black coaches” within the NCAA.

Many left-wing commentators, such because the far-left race baiter Jemele Hill, insisted that any criticism of Sanders was “coded racism.”

But even inside the workforce, recriminations have ramped up because the Buffaloes endure loss after loss.

Sanders himself additionally blasted the gamers and threatened to can his defensive lineup.

The tumultuous yr has seen Sanders, and the Buffaloes go from being essentially the most celebrated workforce in faculty soccer to not even profitable sufficient video games to make the bowl video games.

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