Deion Sanders' Colorado program deletes post with player underwater for UCF game after Hurricane Helene deaths

The University of Colorado's shot team, led by caput manager Deion Sanders, volition play the University of Central Florida Saturday successful Orange County, Florida. Hurricane Helene has wreaked havoc successful caller days crossed aggregate states, including Florida, with a decease toll adjacent 40 and an expected $15 cardinal to $26 cardinal successful spot damage.

Despite this destruction, Colorado's societal media squad posted connected societal media Friday a computer-designed graphic showing information Cam'Ron Silmon-Craig lasting connected a Florida beach with h2o up to his knees. 

The station said "24 hours," an evident notation to the countdown to the crippled Saturday. The station was aboriginal deleted from Colorado's societal media account. The representation besides had a motion successful the inheritance that said "Beware of Sharks," an evident notation to Silmon-Craig's nickname, "Shark." 

Colorado's shot programme deleted a station connected X that portrayed information Cam'Ron Silmon-Craig lasting successful knee-high h2o up of a crippled successful Florida aft Hurricane Helene. (Colorado Buffaloes Football connected X)

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Colorado shot programme for remark but had not received a effect earlier the clip of publication. 

Flooding has been 1 of the biggest destructive forces of the hurricane, opening on Florida’s seashore good earlier Hurricane Helene made landfall, with rapidly rising waters reported arsenic acold southbound arsenic Fort Myers connected the state’s Gulf Coast. FOX Weather's Ian Oliver said the surge rapidly flooded streets astir St. Pete Beach Thursday evening, with precocious tide respective hours away.

The hurricane made landfall successful Florida’s Big Bend region, aft intensifying into a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph. The monster hurricane is unleashing a perchance "unsurvivable" 20-foot storm surge, catastrophic hurricane-force winds and flooding.

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Waves from the Gulf of Mexico clang connected enactment arsenic Hurricane Helene churns offshore Sept. 26, 2024, successful St. Pete Beach, Fla.  (Getty Images)

The National Weather Service successful Tallahassee issued a uncommon utmost upwind informing for respective counties successful the Big Bend up of the attack of the eyewall.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said determination is simply a important hazard of a life-threatening tempest surge on the full westbound seashore of the Florida Peninsula, arsenic good arsenic Florida’s Big Bend portion due to the fact that of Hurricane Helene’s monolithic size.

Due to the storm, Saturday's crippled betwixt Colorado and UCF was moved inland to Orlando. 

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Colorado Buffaloes moving backmost Micah Welch (29) celebrates with teammates aft scoring during the 2nd fractional against the Baylor Bears astatine Folsom Field.  (Christopher Hanewinckel/Imagn Images)

Sanders spoke astir the upwind earlier the Baylor game, saying the squad was preparing arsenic if it was not going to rain. Sanders bickered with a newsman who asked astir his plans for the rain.

"I’m 1 of those bully weathermen ... 30% (chance of rain) is 70% (chance) it won’t. Let's bash drills that say, ‘It won’t rain,'" Sanders said astatine a property league this week. 

The crippled volition people the first-ever gathering betwixt Colorado and UCF. The Knights became a Division I programme successful 1996 and joined the Big 12 successful 2023.

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