Former NFL star Deion Sanders had never coached a college team when he agreed to try and rescue Jackson State from football irrelevance two years ago. Yet, Jackson State might be the hottest program in America.
His personality as flamboyant as his football talent, Deion Sanders had two nicknames during his hall of fame NFL career: he was"Neon Deion" and"Prime Time." But for his latest gig, Sanders high stepped it to Mississippi and, at age 55, he is now the head football coach at Jackson State, a historically Black university or HBCU. Sanders' salary of $500,000 is less than 5% of what, one state over, Alabama pays its coach, Nick Saban.
Deion Sanders: It was relevant because a lotta folks sit back on them, with Twitter fingers and talk about what they gonna do. And, and I wanted to go do it. Deion Sanders: Change lives. Change the perspective of, of HBCU football. Make everyone step up to the plate and do what's right by these kids.
Also unfathomable to Sanders: how the city of Jackson hasn't been able to provide clean water consistently or sometimes any water at all. At one point, a documentary team caught him bathing out of necessity in a hotel swimming pool near the stadium. Deion Sanders: Shoot, you, you know darn well there's a parallel with HBCUs and resources. Underserved and overlooked.As if the water crisis weren't enough, last season Sanders was hospitalized with life-threatening blood clots that had formed in his leg.Deion Sanders: No, none whatsoever.
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