Colorado Buffaloes’ head coach Deion Sanders didn’t hold back in expressing his honest feelings regarding the late start times for Pac-12 games.
The Buffaloes (4-2) will try to move to three games above .500 when they host the Stanford Cardinal at 10 p.m. EST (8 p.m. local time). Indeed, it’s an awfully late start for a team that opened its season with several 12/12:30 p.m. EST starts.
Speaking on his “Buffs PrimeTime” weekly radio program (h/t Pat Graham of the Associated Press), the Pro Football Hall of Famer went off on the college football schedule makers, calling the 8 p.m. start times “the dumbest” and “stupidest thing ever” created:
“Who makes these 8 o’clock games? Dumbest thing ever. Stupidest thing ever invented in life. Who wants to stay up until 8 o’clock for a darn game?What about the East Coast — do they even care about ratings? Is anyone watching it? What are we supposed to do with the kids all day until 8 o’clock? What are we supposed to do in the hotel?..Thank God we’re not going to be in this conference.”
Sanders’ last comment there about “not” remaining in the Pac-12 is obviously a reference to the school’s looming move to the Big-12 for the 2024-25 season.
After a successful three-year stint with the Jackson State Tigers, where he compiled a 27-6 record, Sanders agreed to a lucrative deal to take over Colorado’s football program. The Buffaloes won just a single game in 2022, but they’ve already quadrupled that win total under Coach Prime.
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Colorado opened its season with wins over the TCU Horned Frogs, longtime rival Nebraska Cornhuskers and Colorado State Rams. They dropped two in a row to a pair of ranked teams in the Oregon Ducks and USC Trojans, before bouncing back with a close win in Arizona State last week.
