Current:Home > reviewsColorado coach Deion Sanders explains social media remarks: 'I was bored' -Lighthouse Finance Hub
Colorado coach Deion Sanders explains social media remarks: 'I was bored'
View
Date:2025-04-25 11:01:49
Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders explained his controversial remarks on social media last week, saying he needs to do better but was bored, didn’t mean any harm and was misinterpreted in one case.
Sanders made two remarks last week on social media that gained more than 37 million views combined on X, formerly Twitter, while also triggering commentaries on ESPN’s "SportsCenter" and "Undisputed" on Fox Sports about whether his conduct was appropriate.
“I gotta do better on that and not ride with it, but I was bored,” Sanders said in an interview published over the weekend on Thee Pregame Show, one of Sanders’ favored YouTube channels. “I was bored, and I didn’t say nothing hurtful. I don’t attack people.”
What was Deion Sanders' explanation?
In one case, Sanders said he was coming to the defense of his quarterback son Shedeur. A person on X with fewer than 300 followers had instructed Deion Sanders to “Tell yo son stop act like he the coldest out here then put up a 4-8 season.”
Sanders responded to that Wednesday in front of his 1.8 million followers.
“He will be a top 5 pick,” wrote Sanders, whose team finished with a 4-8 record in his first year last year. “Where yo son going ? Lololol I got time today. Lololol.”
Deion Sanders didn’t apologize for that remark, saying “that was real” in the interview published over the weekend. Shedeur Sanders is expected to be a first-round NFL draft pick in 2025.
What did he say was misinterpreted?
In the other case, Sanders appeared to express amusement with a put-down remark made by somebody else (not Deion Sanders) to a player at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee named Jaheim Ward.
“Lawd Jesus,” Sanders wrote in response on Wednesday.
Sanders said he didn't mean to ridicule Ward, but was following the verbal exchange on social media after Ward had mocked the statistical production of Colorado walk-on receiver Kaleb Mathis.
“Bruh you had 38 yards last year stop trying to down play somebody,” Ward wrote to Mathis on X.
Another party then jumped in to defend Mathis and posted Ward’s own stats from 2023, which included only eight solo tackles.
“Man go take a seat,” the Colorado supporter wrote as he posted Ward’s stats.
That’s when Sanders jumped in and responded to the latter remark with “Lawd Jesus.”
He explained this in the recent interview.
“I try my best to refrain, but like when you posted like stats, I said, `Lawd Jesus,’ like dang, he really went at him, like he really shot him," Deion Sanders said in the interview. "That’s really what I meant, and I think that was taken wrong. I think that was taken sideways or something else.”
What triggered all of this?
An article in The Athletic last week revisited how Sanders overhauled his roster last year after he inherited a 1-11 team from 2022. One of the many Colorado players Sanders effectively ran off was Xavier Smith, who transferred to Austin Peay and was quoted in the article criticizing how Sanders handled the situation. He said Sanders was “destroying guys’ confidence and belief in themselves.”
Shedeur Sanders than came to his dad’s defense on X, saying he didn’t remember Smith and that “Bro had to be very mid (average) at best.”
Mathis also jabbed at Smith on X, leading Ward of Austin Peay to defend his own teammate.
Deion Sanders said he didn’t understand why the article was revisiting this a year later with Smith, whom he said he barely remembered.
“You go find somebody to badmouth us that ain’t there with us − why you ain’t talking abot the team you with or getting ready to go to?” Deion Sanders asked in the intrfview. “Why us?”
Sanders said he never trash-talked on the field as a player. "But every once in a while I want to play, you know, and then, I get petty, you know, every once I a while," Deion Sanders said.
He said he’s used to the outside noise.
“I don’t lose no sleep over it,’ he said in the interview. “I could have a tumultuous day in the eyes of others but to me it was a good day. Because you know why? They talking. They talking. They talking.”
Follow reporter Brent Schrotenboer @Schrotenboer. Email: [email protected]
veryGood! (3)
Related
- Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow owns a $3 million Batmobile Tumbler
- Boy George reveals he's on Mounjaro for weight loss in new memoir: 'Isn't everyone?'
- Franz Beckenbauer, World Cup winner for Germany as both player and coach, dies at 78
- Massachusetts family killed as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, police say
- Chief beer officer for Yard House: A side gig that comes with a daily swig.
- 'This is goodbye': YouTuber Brian Barczyk enters hospice for pancreatic cancer
- In stunning decision, Tennessee Titans fire coach Mike Vrabel after six seasons
- Olympic skater under investigation for alleged sexual assault missing Canadian nationals
- The Best Stocking Stuffers Under $25
- UN to vote on a resolution demanding a halt to attacks on vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s rebels
Ranking
- Connie Chiume, Black Panther Actress, Dead at 72: Lupita Nyong'o and More Pay Tribute
- Northeast seeing heavy rain and winds as storms that walloped much of US roll through region
- CBS announces exclusive weeklong residency in Las Vegas for Super Bowl LVIII
- Northeast seeing heavy rain and winds as storms that walloped much of US roll through region
- US Open player compensation rises to a record $65 million, with singles champs getting $3.6 million
- Starting his final year in office, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee stresses he isn’t finished yet
- A judge has temporarily halted enforcement of an Ohio law limiting kids’ use of social media
- Shanna Moakler Accuses Ex Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian of Parenting Alienation
Recommendation
Skins Game to make return to Thanksgiving week with a modern look
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu pledges to make it easier for homeowners to create accessory housing units
In Falcons' coaching search, it's time to break the model. A major move is needed.
Kim calls South Korea a principal enemy as his rhetoric sharpens in a US election year
A Mississippi company is sentenced for mislabeling cheap seafood as premium local fish
AI-powered misinformation is the world’s biggest short-term threat, Davos report says
US defends its veto of call for Gaza ceasefire while Palestinians and others demand halt to fighting
Preserving our humanity in the age of robots