Despite denials, rep damage already done to Nebraska football rival
As we get closer and closer to the regular season, Nebraska football fans should enjoy the circus that is the Deion Sanders show at Colorado. While there’s plenty of time for the Buffaloes to right the ship, it’s never a bad thing for the coaches and players to have to focus on anything other than what they’re doing on the field.
And the circus that Husker fans are watching going on in Boulder is one heck of a show. Last week, a report surfaced that Sanders was forcing his players to go a Lil Wayne concert because his son Shedeur was the opener.
Earlier this week, Sanders and several members of the team tried to push back on those rumors. But the fact of the matter is that most people simply don’t believe the Nebraska football rival’s claims. And that’s because “Coach Prime and company have worked very hard to be untrustworthy. They’ve gone full heel. And once you do that, it’s hard to reverse course.
Nebraska football trying damage control in the worst possible way
In a YouTube video produced by Deion Sanders Jr.'s Well Off Media company, dubbed "Another Day, Another Lie Told About the CU Buffs," the coach’s son talks to a member of the staff about the allegations.
"You got a hard job," Sanders Jr. says to Colorado strength guru Maurice Sims, before adding the key element. "How many people you had to punish for not going to the concert?"
"How many people you had to run for not going to the concert," Sanders Jr. again asked Sims.
"It was not mandatory to go to the concert," Sims said. "Guys just wanted to be good teammates.
"Did they even know that he was performing?” Sanders Jr then asks. “I didn't know."
It’s plenty hard to believe, first of all that the young man didn’t know his brother was performing. That was the first reason why this video didn’t do the job he thought it would.
It’s also hard to take the Buffs seriously when they act like the victims after spending the last two years making it clear that they have no problem sending guys packing for no reason at all other than they don’t fit their view fo what makes a Colorado player.
"I seen that," wideout Omarion Miller (a former Nebraska commit) said on video. "They crazy for that. He ain't force us to go to that.”
And again, you have to wonder just how much they expect us to believe it. This is definitely a he-said, he-said situation. But CU doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt.
The football season can’t get here fast enough and as I’ve said before, one reason is that the Nebraska football team, and really everyone else, needs to beat them. And beat them badly.