Deion Sanders bars player interviews after Colorado’s latest embarrassment: ‘Come at me’

Colorado’s disastrous football season hit a new low with Saturday’s blowout loss to Arizona at home and their second straight lopsided defeat.

Head coach Deion Sanders, in his third year in Boulder, took the unusual step of not letting any of his players or assistant coaches speak to the media following the rout by Arizona, saying that since he was at fault for the result, only he would talk.

“Don’t attack the coordinators,’’ Sanders said after the game. “Come at me. Don’t attack the players. Come at me.”

The loss dropped Colorado to 3-6 overall and 1-5 in the Big 12 after the Buffaloes went 9-4 a year ago and 7-2 in the conference in a season that ended with a loss in the Alamo Bowl.

But the program has taken a significant step back this year and they’ve won just one of their last five games. 

Still, Sanders insisted his team had not given up on the season.

“I know a quitter when I see one,’’ Sanders said of his team. “I haven’t seen that.”

And he added he would be able to get Colorado back to success.

“I don’t doubt me,’’ Sanders said. “Let’s get that straight: I don’t doubt me.”

Whether anyone else in his program has any doubts isn’t known, since they were kept silent, but it’s been a rough year all around for Sanders and his program.

Sanders, 58, has dealt with bladder cancer and blood clots, but insisted in an interview last week with the Associated Press that his “health is wonderful.”

“I’m a one day at a time type of guy,’’ Sanders said in advance of the game against Arizona. “We’ve got to win. That’s the only thing I’m worried about. My health is wonderful. I’m good. I’m not thinking about anything but winning.”