When Deion Sanders was named the 21st football coach at Jackson State on Sept. 21, 2020, the Pro Football Hall of Famer was very candid and matter of fact in his goals for a program that had not witnessed its historic winning tradition since 2013.
Sanders said he wanted to level the playing field at JSU and historically Black colleges and universities, create a “navigation system” that led players to the NFL, recruit “game changers,” change the game “in the blink of an eye” and celebrate when the program scored. Those were only some of earliest sayings from Sanders.