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BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado football coach Deion Sanders made a series of remarks Saturday that criticized and questioned why the university waited so long to put up a statute in honor of late Colorado coach Bill McCartney.
The school announced Saturday that it was erecting a statue of McCartney to be unveiled before a home football game this year. But McCartney, the winningest coach in CU history, died in January, prompting Sanders to give a searing speech about the best way to honor previous greats.
Sander said he would try “not to get in trouble with what I’m about to say.”
Then he launched into it:
“Why we wait?” Sanders said after his team’s annual intrasquad spring game at Folsom Field. “Wouldn’t we have wanted him to see? To be involved in it? To feel it? To feel the love, the respect the appreciation?
“Why we wait?”
The school noted in its announcement that the statute of McCartney is a project “two full years in the making.” McCartney’s family announced in 2016 that he was diagnosed with late-onset dementia/Alzheimer’s. His condition deteriorated from there before his death at age 84.
When told the statute was two years in the making, Sanders said, “Make it.”
“How we in the making?” he asked. “This is a new generation. Everything y’all want, you want it right now. You go get it right now. You don’t wait for nothing no more, do we? You wanna go, we go. You wanna eat, who we call? UberEats? Everything we get is right…
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Publish date : 2025-04-20 00:32:00
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