After their verbal spats turned their college football game Saturday night into a fight, Colorado’s Deion Sanders and Colorado State’s Jay Norvell are moving on.
Sanders and Norvell had a brief, cordial meeting on the court, and both coaches were subdued in their final comments, following Colorado’s 43-36 victory over Colorado State in a double-overtime thriller.
“I’m happy for the brother, I really am, and I’m happy that they think they played a good game,” Sanders told reporters during his postgame press conference.
“I’m happy he’s a head coach. I’m really happy for any brother who does it successfully – I really am. I don’t know where all this comes from, but I have to answer. You’re not going to just attack me and I’m going to stand by and say nothing – but I’m happy for this guy.”
Despite all the talk and hype leading up to Colorado’s game against Colorado State on Saturday night, the dust appears to have settled.
“I mean, I don’t know him but I’m happy for him. I wish him the best. My success has nothing to do with his success, so why wouldn’t I want him to succeed? I don’t I have nothing to do with him. I don’t know how people can get so depressed. My blessings have nothing to do with his blessings.
What led to the hype between Colorado and Colorado State?
Earlier in the week, Norvell said “when I talk to adults, I take off my hat and my glasses,” referring to Sanders.
And that was all the ammunition Sanders needed to make it “personal.”
Sanders even gave his entire team new sunglasses to wear before the big game.
What did Jay Norvell say after Colorado’s victory?
Norvell did not disclose what was said during the postgame handshake with Sanders.
“You can ask him,” Norvell told reporters.
But of his midweek comments regarding Sanders’ label, Norvell said:
“I was talking to my own team and really reinforcing what we’re doing. That’s why those comments were made. This rivalry was going on long before I got here and it will continue long after I leave. There’s always some bad blood, that’s the way it is. It doesn’t matter what me or Deion says. It’s going to be bad blood. You’ve got to get your team playing. That’s the key and so, yeah, those comments were for my kids.”
How did Coach Prime really feel during the game against Colorado State?
Fortunately for Colorado, both of Sanders’ sons had strong moments to help them secure the victory.
Outside of Colorado’s 7-0 lead, where safety Shilo Sanders returned an interception 80 yards for a touchdown, Colorado State led much of this game.
Colorado State nearly got an upset until Shedeur Sanders threw a 45-yard touchdown pass to Jimmy Horn Jr. with 36 seconds left to tie the game at 28 and force overtime.
After trading touchdowns in the first overtime, Shedeur Sanders threw an 18-yard touchdown to tight end Michael Harrison and completed the two-point conversion to receiver Xavier Weaver to clinch the victory.
And luckily for Coach Prime, he didn’t have to eat crow after the game.
“Truthfully, at one point in the game I said ‘we can’t let this guy (Norvell) win. There’s no way we’re going to let this guy win,'” Deion Sanders said.
“The press conference is going to be unbearable if we let this guy win now.”
USA Today
