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Deion Sanders does things different. That’s what rubs people wrong about the Colorado football coach. Or rubs them right; Deion has his proponents as well as his detractors. The detractors are a little less noisy these days. They were well-armed a year ago, when the Buffaloes lost their final six games to finish 4-8. Never mind that 4-8 was a three-game improvement three-game improvement over the derelict team Deion inherited. Now, of course, Colorado is 8-3 and still in the thick of the Big 12 title race, hosting OSU on Friday at Folsom Field, which is hopping again after nearly two decades as a mausoleum. The Buffalo herd is rumbling again courtesy of Deion and his strange ways. He’s brash and flash. He’s outspoken about his players, both in praise and in criticism. He embraced extreme roster makeovers before the transfer portal was cool among coaches. People are also reading... 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A look at possible TU coaching candidates Bill Haisten: ‘Hungrier than ever’ Mike Gundy says, ‘I ain’t going out this way’ McAlester football coach Forrest Mazey faces criminal misdemeanor charges Police, sheriff talk about what Trump's mass deportation plan could mean for Tulsa Video: Stephen Colbert counts Ryan Walters among 'far-right weirdos' Trump could hire Deion Sanders is counter-culture, and counter-culture never is popular on the college gridiron. Not among coaches, not among traditionalists, not among anyone who likes the way things were way back in the olden days of 1947 and 2019. But too much focus is placed on Deion’s counter-culture gold chains and media company and self-promotion. Not enough focus is placed on Deion’s counter-culture view of how to win football games in the Year of our Lord 2024. Starting with this. Travis Hunter playing both flanker and cornerback full-time for the Buffaloes, averaging more than 120 snaps per game. Boldly going where no college football player has gone before. At least not in the 60 years of two-platoon football. Hunter is a phenom, of course. He’s a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award, which goes to the nation’s best receiver; the Bednarik Award, which goes to the nation’s best defensive player; the Maxwell Award (best all-around player); and Walter Camp Trophy (most outstanding player). Hunter is not a finalist for the Oklahoma-based Thorpe Award (nation’s best defensive back), much to Deion’s chagrin. Deion himself won the Thorpe Award way back in 1988 and Tuesday told Thorpe voters “you can have it back; in fact, I’m gonna give him (Hunter) mine.” No matter. The Thorpe’s loss, since Hunter is the runaway favorite for the Heisman Trophy. Deion and Broadway is a match made in marketing heaven. But beyond the flash and the brash, beyond the attraction to Deion that makes traditionalists squirm, give Deion credit on the Travis Hunter front. Deion doesn’t say why. Deion says why not. Why not let a talent like Hunter try something unheard of on autumn Saturdays? Why not let Hunter go all Shohei Ohtani; pitch and hit; catch and cover? Hunter is not doing things that no other human can do. He’s doing things that no other coach has ALLOWED a player to do. Deion didn’t have to scrape the crust off his imagination to let Hunter play this much. Other coaches do. All of them. Literally all of them. Mike Gundy even admitted Monday that OSU has had players that were capable of playing extreme amounts of snaps at high levels. Justin Blackmon definitely. Tylan Wallace probably. Both were all-American receivers who could have been excellent safeties, Gundy said. R.W. McQuarters did play both ways, during his 1995-97 Cowboy days, but only in spot duty at receiver. Just like Chris Canty at Kansas State and Charles Woodson at Michigan and other select supreme athletes. But Deion is the first coach in forever who said, why not more? “This is unbelievable,” Gundy said of Hunter. In the McQuarters days, “we were 58 plays a game, and he (McQuarters) would play 10 plays on offense. I mean, this guy’s playing a bunch. “We’ve had guys in this organization that could do it. Those guys that are really, really skilled athletically, if they have enough of the physical part of it — you can get away being a wideout and be soft, but not on defense. But there’s guys that can do it. I’m gonna go back to what I said earlier, his ability to have the energy capacity, the oxygen to do that is what’s impressive.” What’s impressive is that Deion was willing to give Hunter the chance. To structure practice schedules around a two-way player. To trust an exceptional athlete who knows his body better than any coach or medicine man could. Deion even says the National Football League would be crazy not to use Hunter both ways. “The thing about Travis is, if he plays cornerback, and he's being dominant out there, and you sit up there and you can't move the ball at the next level, you're gonna say, 'Well, my best receiver's on the sidelines, somebody come on,’” Deion said. The NFL occasionally has used two-way players. Troy Brown and Mike Vrabel and Adoree’ Jackson; a few others in the 21st century. The great Roy Green for the old St. Louis Cardinals 40 years ago. And a fellow named Deion Sanders, who is one of the NFL’s greatest corners ever but also had 60 pro catches, including 36 for the 1996 Dallas Cowboys, coached by Barry Switzer. Same for Deion as for Hunter. “Travis is a football player, and you can't have a football player on the sidelines," Deion said. Go back and read that sentence. It’s nothing but common sense. We don’t associate Deion with common sense, and that has a lot more to do with us than him. Deion recruited Hunter, realized he was a supreme athlete, a supremely- conditioned athlete and also a sharp football player. “The first thing I said was the guy's got a high football IQ,” Gundy said “When I watch him play, I see a high football IQ, so I'm guessing that helps him play on both sides of the ball." There are a million things to say about Deion Sanders as a Colorado football coach. I’d start with this. Colorado football was in a pit for almost 20 years, and the Buffaloes quickly left the pit upon Deion’s arrival and now are soaring. One reason is this. Deion is willing to try things that other coaches have shown no willingness to do, in order to win football games within the rules. Someone please explain why that’s a bad thing.Title: Brazilian Defender Retires at 34 After 7 Years at Manchester United: Twin Brother Hangs Up Boots Just 3 Days Earlier
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The International Criminal Court's decision on Thursday to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant – along with a similar warrant for the presumed-dead Hamas leader Mohammed Deif – marks a significant legal, diplomatic and political turning point for Israel.Gamified investing apps are becoming more popular—but can be risky for young investors
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