Watch: Coach Prime Calls Out Player For Breaking Rule

Originally posted on Mike Farrell Sports
By Mark Pszonak | Last updated Mar 4, 2025 10:32 AM ET

Every college football head coach has his own rules and standards. Some make sense, some may not, but either way these are the rules that players have to live by if they hope to stay out of a doghouse. At Colorado, one rule that Deion Sanders enforces is no earrings while in uniform or during team meetings. One player recently found out what happens if you try to circumvent that rule:

The player may have thought that putting band-aids over an earring was a creative way around the rule, but Coach Sanders did not agree.

“We got one cat out here with Band-Aids over his ears,” said Coach Sanders. “What that mean? That means 'I’m gonna wear my earrings, but I’m gonna put a Band-Aid over them, because I ain’t gonna listen to y’all because I ain’t got no discipline.' Does that mean that? What that mean? What that mean? That mean you gonna do you right? Forget us. Anybody else out here with earrings in? Anybody else besides one dude?”

He later added a bit more to his argument.

“Come out here like that again, please,” Sanders added. “I promise you you’ll be on the first thing smoking. You got that?”

Coach Sanders made his point clear. If every other player follows the rule, why does one player feel special enough to do differently? Aside from being disrespectful to Coach Sanders, it is also disrespectful to his teammates, which in the end may become an even bigger issue.

This article first appeared on Mike Farrell Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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