Colorado coach Deion Sanders criticizes Pac-12’s late kickoff times: ‘Do they even care about ratings?’

Colorado coach Deion Sanders obviously isn’t an enormous fan of late kickoffs. During his coach’s display Wednesday, he used to be closely important of the 8 p.m. native time (10 p.m. ET) get started for Colorado’s Friday recreation towards Stanford. 

“Who makes these 8 o’clock games? They’re the dumbest ever,” Sanders mentioned. “The stupidest thing ever invented in life. Who wants to stay up until 8 o’clock for a darn game? What about the East Coast? Do they even care about ratings or anybody watching it? What are we supposed to do with the kids all day until eight o’clock? So we’re just supposed to wait in the hotel?” 

Colorado is certainly one of 4 Pac-12 faculties leaving for the Big 12 subsequent season, becoming a member of Arizona, Arizona State and Utah. Sanders ended his rant with a shot on the Buffaloes’ lame duck league house.

“Thank God we’re not going to be in this conference,” he mentioned. 

The Buffaloes’ Week 3 showdown towards Colorado State kicked off at 8 p.m. native time. It took Colorado two overtimes to safe a 43-35 win towards its peak in-state rival. Otherwise, Colorado’s newest kick used to be at 4:30 p.m. in remaining week’s win towards Arizona State. 

Colorado is 4-2 in its first season beneath Sanders and 1-0 in video games that get started after sundown. The Buffaloes’ two losses this 12 months have come towards a couple of top-10 groups in Oregon and USC — two warring parties that Colorado will see so much much less of shifting ahead.