Former Texas Longhorns running back and college football legend Ricky Williams claimed in an appearance on the Momentum Podcast that he would be a better coach than Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders.
Ricky Williams’ sole experience as a coach comes from being a running back coach at the University of Incarnate Word, where he claims the running backs he coached “broke records.”
Ricky Williams says he evaluates players in a different way than Deion Sanders
Former Texas Longhorns star running back Ricky Williams claimed he will be the reason for a “bigger Deion effect” because of his ability to evaluate the players on a deeper level in an article from The Spun.
“I had good coaches, but the best coach I ever had was me,” Williams said. “Coaching myself. And I just use the same general techniques that I used to use to get the best out of myself in order to get the best out of the kids that I coached.”
“It’d be bigger than a Deion effect,” Williams said.
“Even if a smaller school offered me. When I say ‘better than Deion,’ or ‘different than Deion,’ it’s because I’m an astrologer. So when I’m coaching these kids, I’m not just looking at what I see with my eyes, I’m looking at something deeper.”
Wiliams also said that he would take the job with the Texas Longhorns in an instant should it ever be offered to him.
Williams was known for his eccentric ways during the time he played football in college and the NFL. His ability to adapt and thrive in different situations is what he claims would help him be a good role model, he said in an Indy Star article.
“Everyone deals with some kind of adversity and some kind of difficulty whether it’s self-imposed or not,” he said. “To me, the mark of a role model or a good influence is someone who can make it through anything. And not just make it through anything but who can thrive in any situation, and that’s one thing that I think I have shown to the world is that nothing I do or was done is ever going to stop me. I’m always going to keep going.”
Williams, a Heisman Trophy winner, certainly has the ability and football knowledge as a player at the college level. He is still third all-time in career rushing yards at the collegiate level with 6,279 yards from 1995 to 1998. Williams also played under Nick Saban with the Miami Dolphins, who is widely considered to be the greatest coach in the history of college football.
#TBT Ricky Williams runs through Texas A&M and into the record books.#ThisIsTexas #HookEm @Rickthelaureate pic.twitter.com/JfuLQJcYrj
— Texas Football (@TexasFootball) May 16, 2019
Williams explained that he loved playing under Saban, even though his laid-back ideology doesn’t seem to mix with Saban’s hard-nosed disciplinary ways, Williams said in the same Indy Star article.
“he demanded a lot of us, but he didn’t demand us to be what he wanted us to be, he just demanded us to be more of what we were.”
Deion Sanders’ first year as a Division I head coach is not a high bar for Ricky Williams to surpass
Despite starting 3-0 and becoming one of the hottest teams in the college football landscape, head coach Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes were unable to keep it together for the rest of the year. They finished out the season with just one more win.
To start, Sanders and the Buffaloes beat the defending national runner-ups in the TCU Horned Frogs and followed that up with a dominant win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers. These two Power-Five wins were enough for the national media to latch on to the Buffaloes for the rest of the season.
They then proceeded to get dominated by the Oregon Ducks, who were playing with a lot of extra motivation after feeling disrespected by Deion Sanders and his team.
Colorado players was caught on camera talking a ton of trash to Oregon pre-game
Sanders: “I’ll beat the s–t out of every one of y’all and your coach!”
“We finna run through y’all’s a**”
“Why y’all so little?”
Colorado lost 35-0 at half, finished 42-6pic.twitter.com/a6ux0osjEc https://t.co/lz9p28WLSW
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) September 26, 2023
Sanders and the Buffaloes went on to give up a massive comeback to the Stanford Cardinal on a Friday night when they were one of the only games on television. They were up 29-0 at halftime before blowing the lead to a Pac-12 team that finished 3-9.
Deion Sanders on Colorado’s defeat vs Stanford pic.twitter.com/zU4SfJXjYM
— EU MEDIA (@EVERYUNITED21) October 14, 2023
Sanders has had no issue creating a media frenzy, and therefore nabbing some of the best recruits in the country. He has only had one year to show what he can do as a college coach, and after one of the best recruiting offseasons in the nation, they will be trying to prove everyone wrong in 2024.
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