Deion Sanders clarifies his feud with CBS after refusing to answer question from Colorado Buffaloes reporter

COLORADO Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders clarified his feud with CBS during his press conference last Friday.

Sanders , 57, flat out refused to take a question from CBS Colorado’s Eric Christensen during the presser.

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No sooner had Christensen introduced himself as being from CBS , did Sanders cut him off.

“I’m not doing nothing with CBS,” the Buffalo coach said as he waved his hand.

“Next question. It ain’t got nothing to do with you. It’s above that. It ain’t got nothing to do with you.

“I got love for you. I appreciate you. I respect you. It ain’t got nothing to do with you. They know what they did.”

Not yet giving up, Christensen pointed out that he works for CBS at a local level, not national.

But Sanders was unmoved.

“You are who you are,” he went on. “CBS is CBS. It ain’t got nothing to do with you.

“I respect you. That’s why I told you that, I’m looking you in the eye as a man.

“I respect you. I got love for you, but what they did was foul.”

While Sanders made his stance clear, he did not reveal exactly why he was upset with CBS.

It soon emerged that CBS Sports had ranked him as the second-worst coach in the Big 12 – only ahead of Arizona State’s Kenny Dillingham.

But on Monday, On3 Sports ‘ Phillip Dukes trashed suggestions that Sanders’ issue stemmed from where he was ranked as a coach.

Dukes, who knows the two-time Super Bowl winner personally, instead claimed that a project had fallen through between Sanders and CBS.

“Deion Sanders ain’t upset because somebody ranked him second-to-last in the Big 12,” Dukes claimed.

‘YOU’RE GONNA FEEL UPSET ABOUT THAT’

“That’s something that he can control because these rankings don’t get you into the playoffs. He ain’t mad about that. That’s his goal.

“I’ll say this. There was a project between [Sanders and CBS] that one person did their part and was vulnerable enough to say ‘Hey, you know what, I’m gonna share this with you.’

“The other faction, without notice or without saying anything, after all of this time and effort was put into something, basically said, “Nah, this ain’t a good look for us right now.’

“So imagine you’re working on a group project and you say ‘Okay, I’m gonna do my part’ and then your partner says ‘Alright well I got my part too.’

“And then when you get up in front of the class and get ready to present, you get a 50, which is a failing grade, or the class doesn’t see it because the guy doesn’t show up. Your partner doesn’t do their part. You’re gonna feel upset about that.

“If you wanna know why Deion Sanders reacted the way he did, there was an abuse of trust between the two, and I’m sure that will be expanded upon later on.

“But as far as what I can say, it was way deeper than a ranking.”

Sanders, who worked on CBS’ The NFL Today programme between 2002 and 2004, reposted Dukes’ video to his own X account.

He added, “Thank u my brother for keeping some things unspoken.

“We love it when they ASSume… The insanity is better than Sanford & Son at times.”