Matt Rhule responds to claims of disrespect from Shedeur Sanders
Matt Rhule is addressing Shedeur Sanders’ comments after the Week 2 matchup between Nebraska and Colorado.
In that game, Sanders and the Buffs rolled to a 36-14 win in Deion Sanders’ home debut for Colorado. After the game, Shedeur claimed Nebraska’s head coach disrespected the Buffs logo prior to kickoff.
At his Monday press conference, Rhule reacted to that claim by Sanders. He claimed Nebraska takes a moment in every stadium to gather at midfield and pray for blessings. Rhule even said he asked Sanders if they wanted to join in when Colorado players filtered onto the field.
“We do it at every stadium. We go (to the middle of the field), we pray for blessings. They came in, I asked them if they wanted — I asked Shedeur if they wanted to pray with us,” said Rhule with a shrug. “I pray over every field — I’m a public official, but I can have my faith. I say pray, it’s nondenominational. We have muslim guys, non-believeers. We just take a moment as a team, I want the field to be safe for everybody.”
Rhule also said at the end of the game he was told Nebraska would run off the field right at the end. He said he would not do that, emphasizing the importance of running across the field to shake hands with the head coach.
“At the end of the game, they told me ‘Hey we’re gonna run right off, they’re gonna storm the field.’ I said absolutely not, absolutely not,” Rhule said. “I don’t care if I get beaten up by a mob, I’m running across that field and shaking Coach Sanders’ hand.
“When you’re losing, people are going to say stuff about you, I know exactly who I am. And I’m coaching this team with class and I’m not changing, and I went over there and shook that man’s hand and whispered in his ear. I’ve never disrespected an opponent a day in my life and I never will.”
Both Sanders are human debris.
Agreed, I don’t care if Deion wins ten championships at Colorado…he was a horrible choice by that administration. I say this while fully accepting/acknowledging that I was originally a huge proponent of Auburn bringing him in as the head coach early in our search. That dude could make a bajillion dollars and still be the classless bozo he’s always been. He makes it incredibly easy to hate Colorado and to hope they get trounced multiple times this season. And believe you and me, a butt-whipping is in their near future. It’ll be interesting to see how Deion handles a team kicking their tails. Something tells me he won’t have the same classy response as Coach Rhule…and I hope the HC of the team that demolishes them runs his @$$ down as he’s tucking his tail and sprinting for the locker room.
A Theismann redux for his punk kid seems appropriate.
Sshhh.
We can’t have this narrative out there…
Somebody needs to beat the brakes outta those clowns and shut all the bs down..
The Sanders love playing the disrespect card, even when they have to invent it. That’s pretty pathetic. Major props to Rhule.