Coach Prime, kid belittle CU transfer, FCS player

Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterMay 1, 2024, 04:34 PM ET

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• Covers the Pac-12.
• Signed up with ESPN in 2014.
• Participated In Washington State University.Colorado coach Deion Sanders and his child

, quarterback Shedeur Sanders, have actually gone on the offensive on social media after a story ran about how previous Buffaloes players fared after many were run following the arrival of” Coach Prime. “Previous Colorado safety Xavier Smith informed the Athletic in a story released Monday that Deion Sanders”never even tried to be familiar with me, “which he” was ruining guys’self-confidence and belief in themselves.”Shedeur Sanders posted to X, previously

Twitter, that he didn’t remember who Smith was.”Bro needed to be very mid at best,”Shedeur Sanders published, insinuating Smith was only a typical player.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated Smith, who had injury trouble in

his short time at Colorado, made freshman All-America honors at FCS Austin Peay in 2023 and has since followed coach Scotty Walden to UTEP.After Shedeur Sanders ‘tweet, things intensified into a series of back-and-forth trash talk.Colorado receiver Kaleb Mathis published a video of himself getting the better of

Smith in a practice last spring, to which Smith’s Austin Peay colleague, Jaheim Ward, kept in mind that Mathis had simply 38 getting lawns last season.That tweet resulted in Ward’s profession statistics at the FCS school (36 tackles over the previous 3 seasons )getting published, prompting Coach Sanders to weigh in Wednesday, mentioning”Lawd Jesus”above a screenshot of Ward’s stats.Deion Sanders’tweet taking objective at the reasonably anonymous FCS player was viewed more than 12 million times because it was published. He also clapped back at another X user who differed with Shedeur’s social networks habits and explained Colorado’s 4-8 record last year.” He will be a top 5 choice, “Deion Sanders stated of his child.”Where yo child going? Lololol I got time today. Lololol.”