Sanders won the Eddie Robinson Award, given to the best coach in the FCS his son, Shedeur, won the Jerry Rice Award, given to the best freshman in the FCS. They went undefeated against other teams in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), and they’ll take part in Saturday’s Celebration Bowl, the de facto national championship game for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). With a roster full of prized talent, the Tigers went 11-1 and won their conference championship for the first time since 2007. (For starters, Deion knows how to hit a baseball.) In 2021, Sanders signed the highest-ranked recruiting class that Jackson State or any school remotely like it has ever landed. Sanders had only previously coached in high school with … unusual results.Ī year later, we can safely say that Coach Prime is not Tim Tebow. After all, most Division I college football head coaches have coached college football before. You know the type: Some team at the lower levels of a sport brings in a famous and questionably qualified former athlete, generates publicity that helps sell a bunch of tickets, and doesn’t particularly care about the results.

When Jackson State hired Deion Sanders to be its head football coach in September 2020, I thought it was a Tim Tebow plays minor league baseball kind of deal.

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