Deion Sanders wasn’t allowing anyone to question his clock management or his coaching staff days after Colorado lost to Georgia Tech 27-20 on Friday night.
Sanders made the decision to save his two timeouts on the Buffaloes’ final drive with 1:07 left in the game, which proved to be costly, with the first play eating up a good chunk of time and ending up in a loss of two yards.
Colorado made it to the 50-yard line with the clock down to three seconds after receiver Isaiah Hardge ran out of bounds after making a catch.
Starting quarterback Kaidon Salter heaved the ball toward the end zone on the final play, but the ball was swatted down.
“Do you call a timeout there? No, you’re right there. You don’t call a timeout there. You’ve got to go. You’ve got to go. You’re running tempo,” Sanders said on Tuesday. “Everything has its purpose, sometimes it just doesn’t go like it’s supposed to go. We pray to god it goes well this week.”
“We’re trying to fix what was broken last week and we’re on to this week,” Sanders continued. “I was there a few days ago but I’m gone now. I’m into this week now.”
The 0-1 start to the season for Colorado marks the first time that Sanders has begun a college football season as head coach — at Colorado or Jackson State — with a first-game loss.
Sanders also shifted any blame away from offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur and defensive coordinator Robert Livingston.
“We didn’t lose the game because of coach Shurmur, coach Livingston, or one specific thing,” Sanders said. “I’ve got to do a better job.”
The NFL legend ultimately said that if his team had “hit the darn plays, we wouldn’t be asking these questions.”
Source link
