BOULDER - Colorado’s rough Week 3 loss at Northwestern has already triggered a roster shake-up.
On Tuesday, Deion Sanders said that “a few guys are not on the team anymore” during his weekly press conference, signaling immediate consequences after Saturday’s 41-7 defeat in Evanston. The specific players were not identified, though Thee Pregame Show said in an Instagram post that three players had been dismissed.
Sanders made it clear he sees the move as a line he had to draw.
"Those guys will tell you I'm the most loving and giving and forgiving man you could ever meet. But when you start being detrimental to the team, that will set us back in things that you're doing," Sanders said Tuesday.
"You don't care about the team. You care about you.
I have a problem with that. A year ago, I didn't put my foot down in it enough.
It lingered a little bit. Now, it is imploding.
I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that anymore."
He also said the decision was his alone.
"I ain't got to consult nobody to do what I know was right," Sanders said. "I don't have to do that.
I got to protect them. I got to protect that whole group, and we got a group of young men that I love to life, which I love all of them.
But they came up to me yesterday, and they said, 'We want to get ahead of anything. Tell us who may be on that list next, so let's get ahead of it.
We want to go and get on them and make sure they're doing the right thing and make sure they're where they're supposed to be and make sure they're not going out of bounds.' I applaud them for that, for coming to me, ready to get ahead of it."
Colorado is now 2-1 after the loss, and Sanders said after the game that he had to reprimand players for laughing afterward.
The Buffs will now turn their attention to Baylor, with three players no longer on the team.
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