Deion Sanders doesn’t want his Jim Thorpe Award anymore.
The Colorado head coach, livid that his star player, Travis Hunter, was not named a finalist for the award that’s given to the best defensive back in the country each season, is going to give it to Hunter instead.
"How is Travis Hunter snubbed by the Jim Thorpe Award?" Sanders said. "You could have my award, you could have it back. Matter of fact, I'm going to give him mine. I ain't using it. It's just sitting up there collecting dust.
"So Travis could have my Thorpe Award because if this ain't the most idiotic thing in college football, that he's not a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, and he is, I would say arguably, but I don't think it's really an argument about this young man being the best defensive back in college football.