ESPN's Dan Orlovsky Defends Deion Sanders Amid Media Controversy

Deion Sanders and controversy has been mixing together quite a lot recently.

This was especially the case when Sanders announced that the university banned Denver Post columnist Sean Keeler has been banned from asking him or any of the football team's players questions.

“You don’t care really because it don’t influence you. I’ve never read an article or a comment and said ‘Oh that’s gonna make me go harder,’” Sanders said Saturday at his news conference previewing Colorado’s season opener against North Dakota State, set for Thursday night. “I’m gonna go hard regardless. But that comment just allows me to know where you stand.”

Sanders' contract reportedly stipulates that he is only required to speak with media entities that are "mutually agreed upon," a term not found in the contracts of other revenue sports coaches at Colorado and absent from former football coach Karl Dorrell's contract, whom Sanders succeeded.

This sent sports media in a frenzy, as presented by ESPN's Get Up show on Monday morning. Opinion was divided, to say the least.

While Paul Finebaum was on the negative side, calling Sanders a "bully" and "hypocrite," Dan Orlovsky took the other side of the argument.

"At some point, some of these people are allowed to stand up for themselves and not just constantly get dragged... not everybody should get a seat when it comes to having the opportunity to cover a program or their head coach... to say that he's being a bully and hypocritical, that's extreme."

It's apparent that Orlovsky thought that Finebaum was being unfair towards Sanders, believing that the head coach has the right to defend himself from personal attacks as it strays from the football topic.

Nonetheless, Sanders will hope to move on from the controversy when Colorado plays their season opener against North Dakota State on Aug. 29 at 8 p.m. ET.

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