Greg McElroy on Deion Sanders trashing former players: 'That's never a good look'
Greg McElroy chimed in on Deion Sanders’ social media escapades regarding players who transferred out of the Colorado program.
Publicly trashing them or getting in on the trash talk set by his son Shedeur Sanders is not a good look, so says McElroy. In the general sense, he’s right.
The public won’t look at the coach the same way. At least, the majority won’t when it comes to Sanders.
“I’m still rooting for him,” McElroy said on Always College Football. “I want it to be successful. I’m good with people doing it a different way, I really am. But I think when you start, you know, loudmouth, trashing guys that left the program, that’s never a good look. And it’s never going to be beneficial to how you’re perceived in the court of public opinion.”
Considering Deion and Shedeur were criticized more often than not, the critique of players who were part of an exodus brought negativity to Boulder.
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McElroy brought on ESPN’s Matt Barrie to the show and he gave his take regarding Sanders and his recent use of social media.
“Here’s what he’s doing: (he) is creating me against the world, us against the world,” Barrie said. “So look at Kenny Dillingham’s doing it at Arizona State. When he loses two of his best players, he’s quote tweeting their decision saying ‘he’s the best kid ever. Congratulations. I can’t wait to see what you do with the future and who’s lucky enough to get you’ That’s one approach.
“And then there’s the Deion approach which is like ‘To hell with you. You weren’t that good anyway, if you’re not in, you’re out.’ Do you think it’s because it’s public that we think there’s a little bit of dysfunction going on there? Some of the coordinators, the whole situation last year with Coach Lewis, like, do you think it’s a little bit dysfunctional inside?”
McElroy wouldn’t go as far as to say Sanders’ program is dysfunctional at this point.
“I would like to think no,” McElroy said. “I don’t know for certain, I mean, there’s no way of knowing, right? Granted, 4-8 will make you feel like there’s dysfunction, even if t dysfunction doesn’t exist ever. The personnel was 4-8 last year. It’s just the way it was. But I do think that just I feel like he was someone that was all about positivity, all about opportunity, all about being able to secure this opportunity to run with it.
“Now, people have turned on him with the way he’s handled it. So he had everyone kind of on his side to an extent not everyone But (he had) lot of people on his side and now he’s lost some of those people with how he’s handled the departures from his program.”