Deion Sanders ripped for comments about ACC coach

Deion Sanders has responded to another Power Five football coach, who has been critical of Sanders’ activity since becoming head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes.

The team that takes the field for Colorado in the fall of 2023 will look significantly different than the one that finished the season for the Buffaloes in 2022. Sanders has aggressively used the transfer portal to overhaul the team.

Pat Narduzzi, the head coach at Pittsburgh, was recently critical of Sanders.

“That’s not what the rule intended to be It was not to overhaul your roster,” Narduzzi said. “We’ll see how it works out but that, to me, looks bad on college football coaches across the country. The reflection is on one guy right now but when you look at it overall — those kids that have moms and dads and brothers and sisters and goals in life — I don’t know how many of those 70 that left really wanted to leave or they were kicked in the butt to get out.”

Sanders, at least in his public response to Narduzzi’s comments, doesn’t seem too bothered. Because, in his own words, “I don’t know who he (Narduzzi) is; if he walked in here right now, I wouldn’t know him.”

Sanders came under fire for these comments.

Narduzzi’s comments on the transfer portal leave plenty of room for criticism.

That said, while we wouldn’t call Pitt a national championship-contending team, Narduzzi has had only one losing season in seven years with the Panthers and has gone 11-3 and 9-4 over the last two years. He’s not exactly a scrub coach. If Sanders doesn’t know who he is, he should probably learn at some point.

And while Colorado and Pitt aren’t on each other’s schedules this year, a potential bowl game between the two just got a lot more interesting.

[247 Sports]