How Jackson State’s Deion “Primetime” Sanders caused a college football earthquake

Former TV pundit and Hall-of-Fame cornerback Deion Sanders has been head coach at the rather tranquil Jackson State college since 2020 and recently caused a major earthquake there. SPOX explains what it is all regarding and what the much-cited NIL deals have to do with it.

December 15, 2021 will be remembered for a long time in the college football world. It was the “Early Signing Day”. The earliest date current high school players can send their so-called “Letter of Intent” to the college of their choice, thereby officially binding the player to the respective school.

On that day, Deion Sanders dropped a bombshell that would have a lasting impact on college football. Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Jackson State head coach Sanders shocked everyone by signing the nation’s No. 1 recruit, Travis Hunter. Never before has an FCS team or HBCU (Historic Black College and University) secured the #1 recruit. And this story is remarkable on several levels.

We have to start with Hall-of-Famer Deion “Primetime” Sanders himself, how he ended up and where he didn’t at Jackson State. A longtime TV pundit, Sanders was a well-known and very popular face on the NFL Network. At the same time, he coached his sons in high school in Texas, and when they entered college, Sanders wanted to break into college as a coach.

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