By Scott Salomon
Jason Whitlock stated on Tuesday that there is a circus-like atmosphere in Boulder, Colorado and that Coach Prime is to blame.
“When Little Wayne is leading you out of the locker room, when your sideline is filled up with Offset and every other rapper and every other celebrity you can think of, you wonder why your team is distracted,” Whitlock said on Fearless with Jason Whitlock. “You wonder why they lead the country in penalties, wonder why they have no focus, and there is no consistent effort.”
Whitlock believes that Prime created an atmosphere early on in the season that was reminiscent of Deion as a player. He brought out the stars, the flash, and the bling. In doing so, he took the essence of team discipline and threw it out of the proverbial window.
“You’ve invited the circus to your sidelines and your locker room,” Whitlock ranted. “You got rappers giving pregame speeches and rapping in the locker room and you wonder why your team is a hot mess when it comes to discipline?”
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Whitlock, who was blocked on Twitter earlier in the season by Deion after he criticized Coach Prime, said he wants to bury the hatchet and wants Prime to learn from what he is saying and take it to heart.
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“I don’t want war with Deion Sanders. I would prefer that Deion unblock me from Twitter and watch this show. Instead of crawling up like a little baby, I would prefer him to take this constructive criticism and apply it to what he is doing as a coach.
But he has no interest in that, like most people have no interest in that because he doesn’t want to do what’s difficult.”
— Jason Whitlock
Whitlock went on to say that Deion has no interest in that because he was so talented as an athlete when he played that he cannot identify with mere mortals.
“He thinks he has been brainwashed by his success as an athlete and thinks that all of that applies to the coaching world, and it doesn’t,” Whitlock said. “Deion was blessed in the womb with remarkable talent, and it made the details of football, baseball, and basketball. Irrelevant. Completely irrelevant.”
Whitlock continued and said that Deion couldn’t teach the game because he was such a superior athlete. He cannot break down the fundamentals that are so far beneath the superstar such as he was.
Everything came so naturally to Deion the football player. He had talents that could not be coached. He was coached by some of the best minds in the game when he was at Florida State. Bobby Bowden will go down as one of the greatest college coaches of all time.
Bowden had defensive coaches like Chuck Amato and Mickey Andrews on his staff when Deion was playing in Tallahassee, and they brought out the full potential that everyone saw in Deion and maximized his game, something that he cannot do for his own players.
“He doesn’t know how to share the details that allow someone less talented than himself, which is 99.999 of all football players produced,” Whitlock said. “He doesn’t know how to share with them or create an environment where they can grow and develop and become the best versions of themselves.
“That’s what’s going on in Colorado.”
