Deion Sanders has every right to take the job at Colorado, but columnist Gregg Doyel wants to see him stay at Jackson State.
A no-brainer, by any quantifiable measure. We get it. If you’re coaching in the SWAC, for whatever they’re paying – can’t be much – and you’re offered a job in the Pac-12 for whatever they’re paying , you take it. You don’t even think. You just accept. As I said, a no-brainer.
How about Alcorn State? Or Southern or Prairie View A&M? No way you know the locations and mascots of all three. Look, I don’t know them. I’m thinking the Southern Jaguars are somewhere in Louisiana and the Prairie View A&M Indians are in Natchitoches, Texas. Nicknames? Not one clue. Let’s see … the Southern Jaguars are in Baton Rouge . But the Prairie View A&M Panthers are in Prairie View, Texas.
Don’t read over that sentence. ESPN sent Rece Davis, Desmond Howard, Kirk Herbstreit and Pat McAfee to Jackson State. It was a game-changing moment. Deion Sanders already had one of the top young quarterbacks in the country at Jackson State – his son, Shedeur – and now he’s got that orange ESPN GameDay bus pulling onto campus?
Impossible, you’d have said at this time a few years ago. But that was before Deion showed up at Jackson State and started attracting high-level talent in previously unattainable chunks. Walter Payton played at an HBCU; matter of fact, it was Jackson State. So did
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