With a bowl videogame and perhaps more still ahead, head coach Deion Sanders closed his 2nd routine season leading the Colorado Buffaloes with a 52-0 shellacking of the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Friday.
Colorado enhanced to 9-3 (6-2 Big 12) and stays alive in the Big 12 champion videogame hunt, which must be chose late Saturday night. Coach Prime stated he won’t be scoreboard-watching, however the Buffs will requirement substantial assistance throughout the Big 12 to reach the title videogame.
In his postgame press conference, Coach Prime showed on his 2nd season leading the Buffs and provided his ideas on an psychological senior day at Folsom Field.
Below are Coach Prime’s finest pricesquote following Colorado’s routine season ending:
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“We definitely desired to take that one additional action last week, and we fell brief. But appearance how we rebounded. Look how we cleaned our tears and got back up, got on the horse and shouted, ‘Giddy up.’ I’m proud of our young guys.”
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“That was a extraordinary surface defensively. That’s asign of who we are and how we play the videogame of football. Both planners, (defensive planner) Rob (Livingston) and (offensive organizer) Pat (Shurmur), my God, these guys are so darn excellent. I understand you guys concern a plethora of things from them, however they’re so excellent, and they’ve been so constant through the year. They’ve surpassed all expectations. We’ve surpassed all expectations, and I’m actually delighted where we are.”
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“I think Travis clinched the Heisman with his efficiency. I believe he made a lot of individuals conscious of how oblivious they were, his efficiency today, 3 goals, 100 lawns, an interception and 2 passes damaged up.”
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“They’re the ones who altered the videogame for us. They’re the ones that affected this terrific knowing organization. They’re the ones that are accountable for the hires that you’re seeing dedicate. They’re the ones that are accountable for the method that videogame was played, the method it panned out. They’re the ones who put us on the map.”
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“I wear’t desire to believe about it too much because I get psychological. But I puton’t simply coach these young guys. I love these young males like their household, and I desire them to skyrocket, not simply from the football element, however as young guys in life.”
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“That’s what the strategy was last week, to dive on them early, to shot to make them comprehend who we are and who they are. It didn’t takeplace that method. We made note of that, and we focused on all of that through the conferences, as well as all through practice sessions and our pregame speech, as well as our day-before speech.”
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“Peggy is number one. We did what we stated we were going to do. Number 2 is when you win, more of your young guys get chances to go to the next level. Nobody desires losers. But when you win, everybody looks the part. And we have numerous young males in the East-West Shrine videogame. We’re mostlikely going to have numerous more in the Hula Bowl. Our kids are going to play in our bowl videogame duetothefactthat that’s what we signed up to do. And we’re going to surface. We’re not going to tap out since that tosses off the structure of next season.”
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“I think we have one of the finest fan bases in the nation. They revealed up and revealed out today. They’re loud, they’re lively, they’re encouraging and I love them. I definitely love them since I’ve seen it go from absolutelynothing to something, and I believe we had a lot to do with it.”
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“Jimmy is like my kid. I love him that much. We’ve talked about some individual things throughout his couple of seasons. I desire to go with him Sunday to see his dad as well, however he simply turned around and asked me (about walking with him), so that’s how that takenplace. I stated, ‘You wear’t have to ask me twotimes.’”
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“It indicates a lot, specifically rebounding from getting our butt kicked last week. It indicates a lot that they comprehend that they understand how to flush things in life. They understand how to rebound. They understand how to simply put it behind them and keep on going and appearance straight ahead. I’m proud of them for that element of things. Rob (Livingston) called a significant videogame. He called a significant videogame last week, however this week, we reacted.”
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“Travis Hunter showed today, and he’s showed every week, that he is the finest gamer in college football. I believe he’s up for finest offensive gamer and protective gamer. I puton’t waste my time talking about other professionalathletes that are up for the award as well. That’s not reasonable to them for me to voice my vibrant viewpoint on who needto win the award and downgrade them.”
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“This kid is incredible. I have a label for him, he’ll have to inform you what it is. This kid works tough every day, makes excellent grades, neverever late. You puton’t have to call him twotimes for anything. He keepsinmind his projects, offensively, defensively, as well as unique groups. And he doesn’t missouton… He’s remarkable, and he’s constantly smiling. He enjoys the videogame and understands the kind of young guys we like to hire. Those are the kind of young guys that we love.”