ESPN’s Marcus Spears wasn’t exactly thrilled about Colorado football coach Deion Sanders’s controversial comments about his recruiting style during a recent appearance on The Rich Eisen Show.
The Pro Football Hall of Famer shared that when he looks for quarterbacks, he looks for athletes with a “3.5 GPA and up” as well as “dual-parent” households. “[The quarterback] has to be a leader of men,” Sanders said.
However, when it comes to Sanders’s perspective on defensive linemen, things are different. Sanders said that his D-linemen should come from single-parent homes and receive “free lunch.” “I’m talking about just trying to make it,” Sanders said. “He’s trying to rescue momma. Like, momma barely made the flight.”
Those comments struck a nerve with many observers across social media including Spears, who did not find Sanders’s comments entertaining at all.
“This s— ain’t funny,” Spears tweeted Sunday night in response to Sanders’s comments.
While Spears now works as an NFL analyst for the network, he was once a defensive end in the league who was selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL draft by the Cowboys.
Spears clearly did not agree with Sanders’s comments. However, he later shared that all of his interactions with the NFL legend had “been cool.”
“I ain’t judging the man [Sanders]. I just ain’t rocking with what he said right here,” Spears wrote Monday on Twitter. “Ion know him well enough to claim he one way or the other but this wasn’t it.”
Sanders enters his first year as the Buffaloes head coach after spending three seasons at Jackson State, where he won two SWAC titles, including the program’s first undefeated regular season, and clinched two appearances in the Celebration Bowl.
