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.”
Deion Sanders does not care about Pat Narduzzi's criticism! https://t.co/iuXoU0cLlZ pic.twitter.com/9UNzlKFm5K
— 247Sports (@247Sports) June 8, 2023
Sanders came under fire for these comments.
Yet he’s 10x a better coach so there’s that https://t.co/gLo3lZnF9U
— Mike Farrell (@mfarrellsports) June 9, 2023
Deion needs to win a FBS game before talking like this lol https://t.co/9i1NogS60l
— Oakland Zoo (@OaklandZoo) June 9, 2023
This attempt at a burn by Deion is so bad. If you are a legit coach you would have known about Narduzzi when he was a DC. I guarantee Deion fails. He’s a 🤡 https://t.co/ZUiF3dogC3
— Tony (@twsports7) June 9, 2023
When you look at the entire context behind the quote he makes some fair points BUT Deion's attempt at a dig on Duzz falls very flat when you consider that everything he said before the dig contradicts his whole
"I don't know who he is" line lol.
That line is just him being hurt https://t.co/7tG7R9QEvC pic.twitter.com/k63yKiPfcQ
— Pitt Panthers Fanatics (@PittFanaticsFB) June 9, 2023
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.
