Deion Sanders calls out Colorado for not honoring former coach Bill McCartney before his death: ‘Why we wait?’

The Colorado Buffaloes announced this weekend they will be putting a statue of former football coach Bill McCartney outside Folsom Field at the end of the 2025 season. McCartney coached the Buffaloes from 1982-1994, amassing a 93-55-5 record and leading Colorado to its lone football national championship in 1990. 

The news of his statue being unveiled this season came three months after McCartney died in January. When asked about honoring McCartney after Colorado’s spring game, current coach Deion Sanders noted he plans on adopting some of McCartney’s “swag” this year and then hemmed and hawed for a moment over whether to let his real feelings on the situation be known. 

With a preamble of “I’m gonna try not to get in trouble with what I’m about to say,” Sanders then launched into an impassioned speech about giving people their flowers while their still here and questioning why Colorado hasn’t honored its legends while they are still around to be part of the celebration. 

“Why we waiting, man? Why we wait? Wouldn’t we have wanted him to see? To be involved in it. To feel it. To feel the love, the respect, the appreciation,” Sanders said. “Why we wait? See that’s the kind of junk that you gotta run with. Say something about that. He can’t enjoy that right now.”

While it was pointed out that the statue for McCartney was two years in the making, that didn’t satisfy his question as McCartney still would’ve been in his 80s (and in declining condition) when the decision was finally made to create a statue for him — while using Rashaan Salaam as another example of a former Buffalo legend that didn’t get honored until after his death. 

“Making? How we in the making? This is the new generation. Everything y’all want, you want it right now….

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Author : Robby Kalland

Publish date : 2025-04-21 14:59:00

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